Familie Greve

Rudy Werlingshoff schrieb:<br>My family name goes back to 1611 in Holland WERLING (von WERLING). Can somebody inform me if this name has someting to do with Weferlingen in Germany, as on different internet sites I found the name Christoph von Werling but also Christoph von Weferling which is the same person (married with Sidonia, daugther of Eva von Trott).

German: patronymic from Werle, from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with any of several verbs, for instance Middle High German weren ‘to defend’, warnen ‘to warn’, or waren ‘to protect’.

Werle: German: from a pet form of the personal name Werner.

Werner: German: from a personal name composed of the Germanic elements war(in) ‘guard’ + heri, hari ‘army’.