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I cant find it in any of the websites out there...its VanSlambrouck and to be honest I really dont know the orgins....Dutch I think.
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It is a Flemish (Dutchspeaking part of Belgium) name: (van) Slambrouck, Van Slambroeck, Van Slembroeck, (van) Slembrouck, Slembroeck, Slimbrouck
I found the following online ( http://home.tiscali.be/marcel.vervloet/FpageSe.htm):
Family name derived of the placename Slambroek or Slangebroek (broek = swamp) in several communities (especially in West-Flanders).
Thirza
I found the following online ( http://home.tiscali.be/marcel.vervloet/FpageSe.htm):
Family name derived of the placename Slambroek or Slangebroek (broek = swamp) in several communities (especially in West-Flanders).
Thirza
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Van is the dutch equivelent of Mac, ap, Mc or O' and roughly means "child of". Slambrouck would have been the given (first) name of one of your male ansestors before surnames became heireditory. hope that helps a little towards discovering the meaning.
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No that's not true...Yes, Van is often used as a preposition to verbs "He fell OF the table" with 'of' being the right translation of "Van", so you can say 'that's the child OF him' with "of" referring to "Van", but Van doesn't mean child of...In Holland, when you have child named after you which appears in surnames, it would be Zoon, as in Davidszoon, Scheepszoon, Jongerszoon etc. But it is NOT used by adding Van to a surname...:)
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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?!
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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It looks Dutch to me.
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