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[Facts] Re: What does my last name mean?
Yup it's Dutch..originally it would've been Van Slambrouck (with the space between it) but many people who move to English speaking countries change it and write it all together.
Now 'Van' means 'of', 'Slam' may come from Slem, meaning a blow or slap, but i'm not sure about that!!...Brouck comes from 'broek' meaning "low and marshy/swampy land" (very sure about that, as my hometown ends in "-broek" too)...so it could've been a village in holland, because lots of villages that were swampy, got the name 'broek' behind it..so Van Slambrouck would be someone that comes from a swampy land/place...Hope that helped?!
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