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Some people do have squire as a given name.There is a woman who is a realtor in San Antonio named Sister Narcisco Reed. I always thought she was a nun,but no. Sister is not a title but her real name,it's something that her parents gave her. Don't know that much about my mom's side in Hungary.On my dad's side in Germany they come from Bavaria mainly though I have cousins in BadenWurttemberg who live in the BlackForest and are hereditary foresters.
Any how, two of my cousins in Himmelstadt, were burgermeisters,father and son. Clement and Clemens Hilpert.
The were named for St.Clement,Clemens just being a variation of the name.All the men,even the women have saints names as is proper in a good katholisher family. Burgermeister ,forester, etc. was just the title of their position,it never became a family first name.I have heard of people using Colonel even as a first name.
As far as a royalty connection,one of the Garmisch relatives was a burgermeister and also served as a steward to the grand Duke,Prince, or whoever was ruling Bavaria back in the 1690s according to parish records my dad consulted there years ago.Daddy had gone in 1958 or 59 to England and Germany when he was TDy for Security Service(US AirForce).He was told that a relative in Nuremberg kept the family history book and was the family historian,but he did not have enough time to go there.
Know the family is entitled to use von in their name,and has a coat of arms,but they didn't seem to use von much. Grandpa's cousin,Generaloberst Carl Hilpert,Commander of Army Group Kurland(in english Courland) never used it.
Reads in part: "English: status name from Middle English squyer ‘esquire’, ‘a man belonging to the feudal rank immediately below that of knight’ (from Old French esquier ‘shield bearer’)."
Later came to me landed gentry. We have this as a surname. Someone way back there was doing all right for themselves.
Yes, it looks like my g-grandparents owned a lot of land in VA-WV, once-upon-a-time. It appears the title went to the oldest, or first-born son. I inherited some of that land, no one severed the mineral rights
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