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in reply to a message by elbowin
It’s a surname in my family tree. Supposedly, the first Rivinius from eastern Bavaria owner the local
Paper and latinized his name to sound more scholarly. He was a Christian. It was originally Rivinovich or Rivenich. It supposedly means river valley. The area they came from in Bavaria was a big valley with river so....
7 Rivinius males left Germany. The Christian Rivinius went to Russia under Catherine the great and were murdered door to door during the Russian Revolution and ethnic cleansing.
The 2 Catholic Rivinius families moved to America at the same time as the others left for Russia and again split between catholic and Christian.
That’s all I have. Odds are if your last name is riviniu S you are directly related to other Rivinius as it was a purposeful alteration of another name.
Paper and latinized his name to sound more scholarly. He was a Christian. It was originally Rivinovich or Rivenich. It supposedly means river valley. The area they came from in Bavaria was a big valley with river so....
7 Rivinius males left Germany. The Christian Rivinius went to Russia under Catherine the great and were murdered door to door during the Russian Revolution and ethnic cleansing.
The 2 Catholic Rivinius families moved to America at the same time as the others left for Russia and again split between catholic and Christian.
That’s all I have. Odds are if your last name is riviniu S you are directly related to other Rivinius as it was a purposeful alteration of another name.
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