<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 24 June 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Travels"
2007.06.24 (02) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><br>Subject: Travels<br><br>.. Generally
speaking, I find it interesting that in Germany mention of historic
emigration tends to mention only the USA. It is true that it was the
main destination (and a very large percentage of US citizens today are
of at least part German descent), but there was also a lot of
emigration to Canada, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and New
Zealand. <br><br>Reinhard/Ron</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>Just
a couple of weeks ago I was in Hahndorf, just outside Adelaide, South
Australia. Is Hahn a particularly Northern surname or is common
throughout Germany? Or does it just mean what it seems to mean?</div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">This
was just one of several centres of German settlement, which were
particularly common in South Australia. SA was never part of the
greater New South Wales colony (which once included all of the Eastern
states,and present Northern Territory). I gather this made it easier
for non-British settlers in the 19th C.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul</div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sasisch@yahoo.com">sasisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Travel<br><br>Hi, Paul!<br><br>I hope you had a great time in Australia (even though you went there in the cool season).<br><br>The surname Hahn does not mean what it seems to ("cock," "rooster"). It is a contracted form of Hagen, which survives in many German dialects. The English equivalent is the fairly rare name Hawn (as in Goldie Hawn). The names go back to
<span style="font-style: italic;">hag</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">haag</span>) > English "haw", namely 'grove', 'thicket', etc., surviving in "hawthorn" for instance.
<span style="font-style: italic;">Hagen</span> was the setter in or by the <span style="font-style: italic;">hag</span>. Hahn and Haan (the latter spelling being predominant in the Netherlands, often extended to de Haan) appears to be of Saxon origin, although it is now found over most of Germany and the Netherlands.
<br><br>South Australia's Hahndorf is named after the sea captain Dirk Hahn who took the settlers from Altona (near Hamburg) to South Australia's Port Misery (sounding very inviting) on the ship Zebra in 1838. He was not keen on it because his previous voyage with 140 emigrants to New York had been anything but enjoyable. It turned out all right, though, and the new arrivals became instrumental in new ventures and founded new settlements in Barossa Valley. They appear to have had great respect and gratitude for Hahn, for they named their main settlement after him, even though he returned to his home country. He was born and died in Westerland (
</span><i style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Wäästerlön)</i><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> on the North Frisian Island of Sylt (<span style="font-style: italic;">Söl'</span>). (I'm not sure if this was under Danish rule then.)
<br><br>As a part of wide anti-German expressions, the colonial government changed the name Hahndorf to Ambleside in 1917, but in 1935 it reverted to Hahndorf.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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