Leiweke Family History & Genealogy

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Name Origin

The surname "Leiweke" is a word from Low German, which is not a dialect but a language of its own, that was once spoken by large parts of the population in northern Germany, but is now only spoken in a few rural regions. There a different dialects, which are hardly spoken anymore except by elder people.
In German the name is pronounced like "Llighwhacke" with the e in the end like the e in the word " bed". Translated into English, "Leiwe" means "Love", but rather in the meaning of "dear", for example: "My dear" (noun) or "my dear boy" (adjective),
The final syllable "ke", or "ken" is a diminitive. "Leiweke" can therefore be translated as "my little darling, sweetheart, honey" or other terms of endearment with a comparable meaning.

In a story about life in a southern Lower Saxony forester's lodge, the remote place was given the literary name "Leiwekenborn", which can be translated as "Sweatheart´s well".

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Early Leiwekes

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