Re: [Gramps-users] Experiences entering the adoption of a last name.

[John W. K. <Joh...@xs...>]

Dave, (and all),

I'm re-sending part of an earlier message including several links, among 
others one to a brief discussion in English about the French law that I 
referred to in the earlier message.

On 2017-12-05 17:55, John W. Kitz wrote:

> I noticed there are quite a number of articles on various weblogs
> about this topic, some of which IMHO tend to oversimplify (as did I
> above) the topic of the transition from patronymic to family or last
> names as well as from church to civil registries.
> 
> So I decided to look it up, in a publication dating from 1993, that
> someone at some point referred me to, and include the following here
> for reference, should anyone happen to find this thread in the future.
> 
> According to that publication (ISBN 90-70324-66-0, pages 47, 81, 82
> and others), authored by a professor at the University of Groningen,
> The Netherlands and published by the Dutch Central Bureau for
> Genealogy entitled "First- and Family names in The Netherlands -
> History, Distribution, Form and Use", the legal requirement to adopt
> or legalize and fix one's last name in The Netherlands was a result of
> a French law 'aux prénoms et changement de noms'[3] (or in English on
> first names and changing of (last) names[4]), dating from the 1st of
> April 1803 (or 11 germinal an XI according to the French Republican
> Calendar[1],[2] of the time), that was declared into effect in The
> Netherlands twice, on the 8th of November 1810 and the 6th January
> 1811 respectively, following the annexation of (the remainder of) The
> Netherlands by France in 1810[4].
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_(French_Republican_Calendar)
> [3] http://historien.geographe.free.fr/loi1avril1803.pdf
> [4] https://books.google.nl/books?id=gYt6Kf7DtwgC&pg=PA57
> [5] 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands#Kingdom_of_Holland_to_William_I_(1806%E2%80%931815)

>>>> 
>>>> Dave
>>>> 

Regards, Jk.