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From: "Leon Stevens" <>
Subject: RE: von Speidel
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:28:31 -0400


> without the 'von' <

Siebmacher lists three armigerous "Burger" (bourgeois or townsman)
Speidel families in Germany proper, but none in the former so-called
"Grand Duchy of Poznan." These would not have been entitled to use the
nominal preposition "von." ("Speidel" means "carpenter's wedge.")


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