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aurora
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 Posted - 08/07/2002 : 23:21:23
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Hi
I am a new member on this website and I discovered it looking for Norwegian genealogy websites. I just discovered that my last name does not have a meaning in other languages but that in Norwegian it makes perfectly sense.
Does the name SKUTESE means FLEET in English (or is it the plural of Skute?) ????
And if so, is it a common last name in Norway?
And if it is Norwegian, where can I find records of Norwegians migrating from their homeland to Southern Europe?
Aurora
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Borge
Veteran Moderator
Norway
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Posted - 08/07/2002 : 23:45:36
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There are no farms or peolpe bearing that surname in Norway as far as I can see. Could it be an Americanized version of some other name? Plural of "skute" (ship) is "skuter".
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ninakarls
Senior member
Norway
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Posted - 09/07/2002 : 08:43:19
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A list of names from the 1900-census starting with Skude- or Skute-:
Skude Skudegjerd Skudehaugen Skudenæs Skudesanden Skudestrand Skudevigen Skudnes Skute Skutelandet Skuten Skutenæsteigen Skuterud Skutes Skutesæter Skuteverven Skuteviken. The word can also mean "annex" in Norwegian.
As there was no organised emigration from Norway to Southern Europe, only the parish registers might contain information about such migration.
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aurora
Starting member
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Posted - 09/07/2002 : 18:03:32
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Thank You Borge and Ninakarls for your help.
I don't speak Norwegian but I can see the differences between the Nynorsk and the Bokmal but anyway I didn't know that Skutese could have meant "many ships" or "fleet". I know it can't be the Americanized version of the name because it comes from Italy (Southern Italy), from an area that was one of the first Norman settlements (probably during the time following the first two Crusades). The name must have been changed according to the Italian alphabet, because we don't have the letters J K W X Y, so the letter K becomes C because it is pronounced the same when it precedes A O U. My name is very uncommon in Italy.
You mentioned parish registers, you mean the parish registers in Norway right?
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aurora
Starting member
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Posted - 09/07/2002 : 18:11:02
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I have been doing genealogical research for years now and when it comes to that name I have always hit a wall. It is an unique name that has no other meaning in other languages, it is uncommon in Italy and discovering the origin of that name would answer lots of questions for me.
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Borge
Veteran Moderator
Norway
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Posted - 09/07/2002 : 22:38:44
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Aurora
Are you actually saying that your ancestors arrived to Italy as far back as the time following the first two Crusades?
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aurora
Starting member
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Posted - 10/07/2002 : 15:29:16
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No, what I am saying is that my grandpa's hometown can be from that time period. I know that this website covers only a specific time frame but I posted my messages here in order to know the meaning of the word and to know if this last name is common in Norway.
Can you suggest any links to me (even written in Norwegian) where I can post messages (if they accept messages written in English), which cover different periods of time?
Thank You
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aurora
Starting member
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Posted - 10/07/2002 : 15:40:43
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I hadn't noticed you have also a link to the Digitalarkivet on the Norway Heritage website which shows the 1801 census.
I'll start from here since I don't have any data for Italy before 1820, so if they migrated after 1801 there is a good chance the name appears in Norway.
As Ninakarls showed me, there are plenty of names that sound similar , but it is sad that being no organised emigration to Southern Europe, it could be an isolated case of a single traveler, and I already know that in Italy it is hard to view church records from before 1820.
Aurora
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aurora
Starting member
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Posted - 12/08/2002 : 16:20:51
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-Books about Norwegian dialects ?
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Skude
New on board
USA
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Posted - 13/08/2005 : 03:56:11
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My family is from Oppland county or "Hadeland" county of Norway. Our last name is Skude and is pronounced "Scoot-ee" or "Scoo-Dee" in English.
My family has done genealogy research and we have a few letters and refrences of where in Norway our family came from and what life was like in Amerika after they had arrived. My great, great, great grandfather came to Amerika supposedly by a ship he was a stowaway on. They set him to work at the age of 12 and he worked on the ship until he was 21 years old.
He got off in New York in 1852 ca and made his way to North Dakota where there was land offerd by the U.S. goverment. He met his wife in North Dakota and they had children (my great great grand parents.)
They lived in a sod house for many years and it was very primitive. There is a story of the children living in a very small sod house (basically dirt) with nothing seperating one single living space but curtains. The children shared one bed. When the civil war came about my great great great grandfather and his brother served on the union side. One brother died in Andersonville prison.
After the war my family with another family by the name of Austin moved west to Washington state where our family lives now. Our surname in Norway was supposedly Christophersen and once in Amerika our family used the farm name which is Skude.
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kaare n
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Norway
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 13/08/2005 : 16:55:30
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Just north of the Hadeland area of Oppland is an area called Land - now divided into Nordre and Søndre Land. The 1865 Norweigan census shows two or three farms in Land which have names beginning with Skud... and two of those show families with the name Kristian ... which would have been used as a patronymic name by some.
You seem to indicate that your unnamed great-great-great grandfather would have left Norway long before the 1865 census - if you have some information which gives you his name, year of birth you could check the parish records for a birth/baptism for a child of that name on a farm with a similar sounding name to 'Skude'. The parish church records have been copied to microfilm which you can order and use at the closest LDS Family History Center.
It was of interest that I could not find ANY households using the surname Skude before 1900 in the US census indexes. Of those - only one 44 year old head of household was living in ND in 1900. That certainly was no match for the information you provided. If your family has done some genealogy research - can they provide more information? |
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Skude
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Posted - 20/08/2005 : 01:34:21
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My great great great grandfathers name was Anders Christoper Skude he married a woman originally from Nannestad and her name was Karen Gulbrandsdatter. I have an old old wall picture of them. My great great great grandfather was very tall and had peircing eyes and Karen was tall for a woman with it seems light blue or greyish eyes, I cannot tell becuase the photo is black and white. I would assume the picture was taken around the late 1860's or so.
Anyway! they had many children their names were: Christian, Maria, Anton, Gustav M., Anna, Samuel, Dena, Clara, Charles and Hanna.
Samuel C. Skude was my great great grandfather and father of my great grandmother Velma Skude and her sister Ide Mae Skude and Albert Skude. I also have a local newspaper clipping of our local Vancouver, Washington newspaper of Albert L. Skudes obituary. It States:
Albert L. Skude, a former business agent and financial secretary for the Carpenter's Union Local 1715, died here Tuesday at the age of 80 on January 30, 1973. A resident of Vancouver for over 52 years, he lived at 3109 NE 59th St. and was born Oct. 1 1892, in Chippewa Falls ,Wisconsin. He was survived by two sisters, Mrs. Ida Bancel and Mrs. Velma Lair, both of Vancouver.
I have alot of other newspaper clipps of our local newspaper which talk about other family members such as a Carrie May Skude which was married to Albert I believe. She was born January 30, 1998 in Dayton, Wyoming and she died January 16, 1970 in Vancouver, Washington. There is a picture of her and Al (Albert Skude) dressed up as cow boy and cow girl and albert has a hunting rifle in one hand and she is tipping her hat while they hold eachother with thee other arm. Carrie had a sister which lived in Portland , Oregon by the name of Emma Ziegenhagen. That last name sounds Dutch or Danish I am not sure.
I have more stuff, things like letters from relatives or family friends. There is one letter which is about 5 pages long by a Nora (unkown lastname) which she writes to her cousins ? and she is from New England, North Dakota.
Thank you guys for your responses to my post. :)
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It sounds Norwegian!!
