LL-L "Names" 2004.05.10 (04) [A/E]

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From: ezinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.05.10 (03) [A]

Dag almal,

Mark en Hugo Zweep, ek is nie so seker van die herkoms van die familienaam
Gou(w)s uit Geus nie.

Volgens Cor Pama in  _Die groot Afrikaanse familienaamboek_  is die herkoms
van Gouws uit Gauch (stamvader: André Gauch van Le Pont-de-Montvert), wat
'vrolike man' sou beteken. Pama verwys ook na die Franse dorpie (Corrèze) as
moontlike herkoms.

Groete,
Elsie Zinsser

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2004.05.10 (03) [E]

Geagte Hugo Zweep:
    In skaamte onderneem ek om hierna by die Engels te bly, want ek vertrou
nie my Hollands nie, en ek wil liewers nie aanstoot gee nie.
    Nog net een ding: Wil u a.u.b. met my 'n paar woorde in u huistaal
wissel, dat ek dalk 'n smaaksel daarvan kan vang? Ek sal dit hoog op prys
stel.
    Hugo, take note that the surname here closes with the 's' pronounced -
GouwS. I did make the point that the attribution of the name to the
political body is a 'folk' etymology (which is as much as to say I am
unwilling to defend it on those grounds). My interest in this remains,
though, the issue you raised, that this family claims with pride a 'van' the
first users accorded in contempt.
    On the other matter, the later application of the term to Gomarists
doesn't seem to have been retained, perhaps because they deemed that battle
already won? The VOC did not - officially - recruit Papists into its ranks.
    But we all remember over here, some with an ardent pride, what the 'Sea
Beggers' did to Phillip of Spain, & the Duke of Alva.
    Groete van 'n Afrikaner.
Mark Dreyer.

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