The origin of the Kettwig surname can only be guessed and there are
many contrary interpretations of its meaning and development. Kettwig
families, who live today, have various origins, places, countries and
ancestors. This is the place to share some of this information - either
for Kettwig family members only or the worldwide internet community.
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Written by Jens Kettwig
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Monday, 04 April 2005 17:04 |
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The origin of the Kettwig surname is not certain. It can probably be connected to the names of two towns. The former town of Kettwig, now part of Essen in Germany, could be the town of origin of the Kettwig families. However, there is another town in the Netherlands with the name of Katwijk. Whether one these towns can be connected to the Kettwig surname remains to be proved.
In many families two spelling variants can be found: Kettwig and Kettwich. They are most certainly one and the same name, since in Germany the final "g" is in some areas pronounced like "ch". This explains the different ways of spelling.
Maybe both place names have the people of the Katten in common and mean nothing else than a place where the ''Katten'' settled? |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 02 November 2008 23:00 |
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Distribution of our name in Germany |
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Written by Jens Kettwig
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Tuesday, 02 January 2007 21:27 |
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The name Kettwig and Kettwich is rather rare in the German speaking countries. In Austria there are only two known families (my parents and I). In Germany there are more instances found, according to the telephone directory of the year 2002 (will not be updated due to a decreasing number of fixed line phones) about 123 entries in 37 distinct counties. Projected to the total population in Germany there might be approximately 328 people with that name. The following maps were created with the help of Geogen. More details, such as a map with names of all counties and regions, can be found there as well
Relative distribution
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Absolute distribution
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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 January 2009 16:58 |
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