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Van Loon family N.A.


Surname Van Loon
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John Vl (bufflojohn)
Date submitted Dec 14, 2007

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Ours is the VanLoon Family USA;-333 years in N.A. Those formerly related continue to dwell on the Old Continent. Others like us live south of Asia.

The name reverts twelve hundred years to the dawn of … HRE, aka the First Reich ('neither Holy, Romic nor empiric'). Back to the establishment of the margraviate and County of LOON, land of 'reward' for generations of supporters of Roman influence.

From the Fifth Century we were all LOOZ 'gangers', subjects of CLOVIS I; cLoVis, possibly spoken to sound like “Lois” or “Lewis”, the wily, cunning and crafty; a wooly & whacky Merovingian with his sainted missus.

Before the 5th Century we would have been denizens of a land between rivers flowing to the North Sea, BETUWE, pronounced, “BAY-2-veh”, Batavorum or Batavii in Latin. There they stood the ground for Rome and sustained themselves on fruit,‘fish and the eggs of sea fowl’.

Before that we'd have sought the provender of salt economies in Paleolithic times. Within those earliest times, those of us who were anteBetuwe, Frankish, PRE-BRITON Saxons traced an ancestry back to NOAH!
"...He made'em all play ball...
Old Man Noah (knew-a-thing-or-two)
HE WAS A GRAND OLD MAN!"


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