Wuebbens Family History & Genealogy

Summary

Wuebbens is the changed spelling of the name coming from northern Germany in the mid 1850’s. The original spelling was W u(with the umlot -that’s 2 dots over each top end of the ‘u’)bben (no ‘s’)!
This name is quite common off the coast of Germany and Holland in the form of the Friesland Islands.
Hence if one ever does an DNA, one might show some Scandinavian blood. For the Friesland Islands were often a landing spot for the Viking during the 10th and the 11th centuries.
When the first Wu(with the umlot) bben first came to the United States the ‘u’ with the umlot was not recognized in the English vocabulary. The youth the umlot translate then to ‘ue’ and the an ‘s’ was added onto the end of he name. The ue is pronounced like an ‘I’ , because the u with the umlot in German is like a double ‘I’ or ‘II’ with the rounded at the bottom which to us forms a ‘u’.
This all means that the proper way to pronoun Wuebbens should rhyme with RIBBENS.

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Nationality & Ethnicity

When my ancestors arrived here, they mostly spoke German, or north German dialect ‘Platt Deutsch’. My father said that is all they spoke when he was young.

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Early Wuebbenses

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