. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . of surnames by the THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. 101 Jews in Germany began in the six-teenth century, but could only be ob-tained by legal methods. The early Eussians and Servianstook a baptismal and the name of thesaint of the birthday or eight days be-fore or after if the saint of the day onthe calendar was not satisfactory. TheEussians added the Christian nameof the father with the ending vitch,masculine, owna, feminine, as Pavlo-vitch, son of Paul, Pavlowna, Paulsdaughter. The Northmen took fitz fromfilms, son of. The Scotch iisecl the
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . of surnames by the THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. 101 Jews in Germany began in the six-teenth century, but could only be ob-tained by legal methods. The early Eussians and Servianstook a baptismal and the name of thesaint of the birthday or eight days be-fore or after if the saint of the day onthe calendar was not satisfactory. TheEussians added the Christian nameof the father with the ending vitch,masculine, owna, feminine, as Pavlo-vitch, son of Paul, Pavlowna, Paulsdaughter. The Northmen took fitz fromfilms, son of. The Scotch iisecl the family nameof the father with Mac or Erish 0 for son of. In England and America there isa practice of taking the mothers as theChristian name. The Swedes affix Erricson; Danes sen, as Martensen;the Spaniards ez, Hernandez. In the latter country noblemen jointhe name of the mother with y (and)as Hernandez y Garcia. The Arabiansuse Abou-Bekir for the first born. Among poets names were often as-sumed to suit their own tastes.* (To be Thomas Beverley Keim and Family, of St. Paul, Minnesota. THOMAS BEVERLEY AND ELIZABETH MORRIS (COX) KEIM. ^fl* HE intermarriage of Thomas^Lr Beverley Keim and ElizabethMorris Cox, united in the sacra-mental tie and parental blood four families conspicuous in the foremosteras of American colonial and nationallife. The progenitor of the American fam- •Meyers Conversations, Lexikon, 3 E, 1S9S. 102 THE KEIM AND ALLIED FAMILIES. ily of Keim of the line with which, inthis instance, we have to do, broughtfrom the fatherland after centuries ofparticipation in European affairs,chiefly military, the pioneer spiritand practice of Evangelical religion,civil liberty and industrial activitysubsequently exemplified in conspicu-ous identification with the material,agricultural, manufacturing, mercan-tile and financial development of East-ern Pennsylvania, besides participationin State and national, civic and mili-tary affairs. Not to know of the
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