Thanks, Henning. It is one of several very suspect details about that
particular family. In another language, heidut was a word for a brigand.
Anyway, I can find no connection with my man.
Doug.
Henning Boettcher wrote:
> I don't know a word or name Heidut.
>
> In 2001 there were
> 5 Heidu
> 2099 Heid
> 320 Heit
> 1354 Heidt
> etc.
> in the German phone directory.
>
> --
> Kind regards
> Henning Boettcher (German citizen)
> Switzerland
> http://homepage.sunrise.ch/homepage/boettche/
> (universally applicable hints/German language only/ last
> review:Mar.2008)
>
>
> "Doug Laidlaw" <doug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:rg1vc5-m2e.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I am researching the descendants of Thomas HEBBERT Boykett born
> 1805 in
>> London, England. Hebbert was his mother's maiden name. A
> Canadian claims
>> descent from a Thomas HEIDUT Boykett, undo***ented, but supposedly
> born
>> about 1810 in London. The word HEIDUT appears to be of Germanic
> origin
>> (e.g. "Heidut 4u" http://www.heidut.ch.tf/,)
but Babelfish has no
> knowledge
>> of it. I suspect that it is an (incorrect) reference to my
> Thomas.
>>
>> Does the word Heidut mean anything? Is it a likely family name in
> England
>> in 1810?
>>
>> Doug Laidlaw,
>> http://www.douglaidlaw.net/boykett/
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