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Second Family name  ("Beiname")

There were in Steinschönau many families having name either ‘Pallme’ or ‘Palme’: all these families were members of the Pallme Family.
For this reason, they used to have a second family-name (König, Mühl, Gott, Mahl, Tausch, etc.) as distinction (Clan). But in the documents, it was not always added to ‘Pallme’ as Family name. /2/

Also my family had a second family-name: it was ‘Tausch’ (Bartel/Trade). /2/ 
It seems that it origins from Matteus (Mattausch in the local dialect), the name of one of my ancestors who lived earlier than the 17th century.

Among the different clans, it seems that only the Pallme-König clan has officially united the addition-name (Beiname) to the surname as new Family name in order to differentiate from all the other Pallme.

For other clans it remained only an addition-name. /2/, /6/

 

Different addition-names 

The following table attempts to explain the origin and meaning of some of the different addition-names:

Clan

origin of addition name

reason/explanation of the addition-name

Pallme-Tausch

Mattausch

Mattausch is the dialectal form Matteus, the name of one of the ancestors

Palme-Mühl

Mühl

It seems that they used to live in a mill

Palme-Mahl

Mahl

They are linked to the former clan.
Palme-Got Gottfried Gottfried was the name of one of their ancestors.
Pallme-König König König is the German word for King (*)
Pallme-Edel Edel Edel is a German adjective for noble (*)
Pallme-Edelmann Edelmann Edelmann is the German word for nobleman (*)
Pallme-Nobel Nobel Nobel is a German adjective for noble (*)
Pallme-Nobilis Nobilis Nobilis is a Latin word for nobleman  (*)
Pallme-Gott Gottfried Gottfried was the name of one of their ancestors.

Notes

(*) These clans have got similar addition-names

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