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About THE RANDRUP FAMILY
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When my father died, I found he had been doing research on his Danish  background. He had been helped in this task by the efforts of the son of his  cousin Henriette, John Bruel, in Denmark. John had uncovered a great deal of  information in the time he was able to devote to this task, a lot of it from  church records, limited in this area by that great destroyer of church  archives, fire.
 My efforts in continuing this work have been aided by the advent of the  computer, enabling me to record everything collected to date, and to continue  searching the vast reaches of the internet for more information about the  Randrup family, hopefully for the benefit of present and future Randrups who  may be interested in Genealogy, or even in just learning details of events  which helped shape the lives of their forebears.
 If you can add information (of course you can) or amend any errors (I hope you  do) I welcome your e-mail.

Name legistation/ navnelovgivning  (Danish)

The year 1526            
 The aristocracy is to use fixed family names.

The year 1771
 “The Schlewiger(was once Danish) are going to use fixed Surname.” It was, among other things, the twists about inheritance cases, and the conscription  register. It was some times, a big detective work to find the young boys to do  military service

The year 1828
 The Kingdom (Denmark) gets a christening statutory (statute?). “Every child is going to have a Christian name and a surname”.

If the family does not have a surname -
 “The father will decide the surname of the child.”

“The father can choose between
 1.His own Surname.
 2.His own Christian name with a sen after(Niels + sen = Nielsen) patronym 3.A place name the family is attached to.”(example: our  own Randrup surname) All the children will get the same surname, and the female patronymes disappear.”

Until 1904 it was very difficult to change a Surname, it could only happen with a  royal permission.

After 1904 was it decided that anyone could change his Surname and get a name  certificate

Announcement about reserved names. 
 Surnames in Denmark, which are carried of (by) less than 2000 persons are protected  and cannot be taken of (by) other people.
 It means that the names
 Randrup, Randrup-Hvilsom, Randrup-Larsen, Randrup-Thomsen are protected.

A Torp is an old word for Husmandslod or smallholding. 
 The word means ; a THORP City occurred on the way to a crowd of men came out of an old town ...  So torp or -rup, -trup or -strup. They mean something with relocation, a (small) clearing in the  woods, usually named after a person or place, and that was exactly what happened then. People  moved from the old villages which had become too small, to a new, cleared space.  The population in Denmark had increased during the Viking Age.  Many then sailed over the North Sea and settled in England.  About the year 1100 this development was however stopped, instead settled the larger population in  space by clearing forests.

Aarup farms, is a farmhouse in a clearing by a stream (Lerkenfeldt å, Lerkenfeldt stream) 

Randrup, (1386 Randrup, the rand edge, boundary 'or male name Rane and torp, manor at Skibsted 23  km SE of Aalborg, probably created in the first half of 1500-t. of farms from the village of  Randrup. The oldest part of the triptych's main building is now partly timbered brick wing with  vaulted cellars in the west from approx. 1550; a low tower to the courtyard from approx. 1570  flanked by bay windows with sweeping gables from before the 1735th Around 1840 added a two-story  wing to the south, rebuilt after a fire in 1976, while the single-storey wings to the north and  south were built 1865-69.

Randrup is an old country manor, which was first mentioned in 1490 The farm lies in Skibsted Sogn,  in the former District Hellum, Aalborg County Skørping Municipality, now Rebild Municipality. The  main building was constructed in 1550-1570-1735, added in 1840 and rebuilt in 1865-1869, burned in  1976 and rebuilt in 1978 by architect John Smith 
 Randrup Manor is 200 acres.

There is also a Randrup Hovedgaard south-east of Viborg, a large estate also established  approximately 300 years ago

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:49:55 +1200, Niel Randrup wrote:
 >
 > >... All over Denmark there are place names ending in "drup" or > >"rup". Is there any special meaning or significance attached to this suffix.
 >
 > There are at least four places named Randrup in Denmark. > "Ran" originates from the personal name "Rani" or "Hrani", > "drup" originates from "thorp".
 >
 > "thorp" is a westnordic word which is known from the Viking > age before year 900. It is found not only in Denmark and > Sweden but also in England (Danelagen) and France
 > (Normandi).
 > It is not known for sure what the exact meaning of the word > is, maybe it means 'gaard'.
 > Places ending in "thorp" were new sites placed away from the > former main area of population (udflytterbyer).
 > The termination "thorp" changed into "torp" and then later > into "trup","strup","drup" or "rup". >
 > Erik.

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