When Rosa Clémentine Spelle was born on 15 April 1906, in Roubaix, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, her father, Georges Jean Louis Spelle, was 27 and her mother, Hortense Francois, was 23. She married Robert Auguste Jonckheere on 20 July 1926, in Marne, Süderdithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany. She died on 28 October 1985, in Sint-Niklaas, East Flanders, Belgium, at the age of 79.
Some characteristic forenames: German Erwin.
North German: metonymic occupational name for a spindle maker, from Middle Low German spinele, spille ‘spindle’. In some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname for a very thin person or someone with spindly legs.
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