What is the origin of this German last name?

The name: Kammermeier





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What is the origin of this German last name?
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the New York Passenger Lists.


from the website, http://www.genealogytoday.com/surname/fi...


Then you can break the name down. Here is what is said of "Kammer":


In my research I have found many different ways to spell surnames.


In trying to find the original spelling of a surname, you will find that the way your family spells it and the original spelling is different. I use Petermann (my biological father's surname) and von der Kammer (my biological mother's surname). Top





Take the name von der Kammer for instance. Some Kammerer families have dropped the er and became Kammer. Others use the name Kaemmerer, Kaemmer, Kammerherr, K'ammerer, Kammer, Cammerer, Cammer, Camerarius etc.





The meaning of these names is however a bit confusing. Such as: K'ammerer, meaning finance manager, apparently each German town had a finance manager.





The Kammerer family also does not necessarily lead to Charlemagne, it is a famous family with Bishops, Earls and mighty Lords. Sometimes they got the title of the finance managers of the bishop of Worms and therefore they took the name K'ammerer v. Worms. Top





Other branches acquired the county Dahlberg and therefore they were sometimes called v. Dahlberg. Now, because of this mixture, it became usage to append both parts together and speak of the K'ammerer v. Worms called v. Dahlberg.





Kammer can also mean Chamber, which is in political terms. However, if a Kammer has a castle named after him, then it becomes a family name.





Kammerer's where also Chamberlains in Worms; gen. or gennant (simply means "also known as"). In countries like Germany, Italy and France, these have become republics and the governments want nothing to do with titles.





Royalty is a class to which your parents have to belong for you to be a part of it as well. Royalty is a very exclusive group. Aristocracy has many Dukes, Counts and Barons belonging to the Aristocracy, but not to Royalty. Top





It is all much easier than people think. Titles used to be names of political functions and when these functions became hereditary they became titles as we know it. If you are a descendant from a family that ruled an area, the "von der" would also be your title.





The Royalty family is a family that came with a castle. The first recorded mention of my family name was 1090. In 1130-1152 Giselbertus I, then in 1229 vicedominus of the Bishop of Worms. His sons called themselves Camerarius. A grandson called himself Johann (Hennichen) Kammerer von Worms gennant von Dahlberg. Kammerer dropped the er and became Kammer and the von der title was assigned to him and he became known as von der Kammer.





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Reply:Kammer can mean chamber or comb maker.


Meier can mean reaper (Danish) or from the German and Dutch denotes a tenant farmer, when used as the second part of a compound name.