Seekamp is a surname of German origin.
The Seekamp name dates back to November 25, 1481. That Friday, Heinrich Clüver sold a piece of land near Bollen known as the Seekampswerder to the church, who in turn leased the land to two brothers: Hinrich and Brüne. They didn’t have a surname yet. But thanks to the lease, they became known as Hinrich Seekamp and Brüne Seekamp.
Werder are small, cultivated pieces of land, on a river, which become rich and fertile over time through the ebb and flow of river floods. The Seekamp name is formed from German ''See'' meaning 'lake', and ''kamp'', a
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word meaning 'enclosed, fenced, or hedged piece of land', which in turn comes from the Latin word ''campus'' meaning 'plain'. So a Seekamp, in the literal meaning of the word, is a lake-field.
By the early 1700s, descendants of Hinrich Seekamp and his brother had become established families in the surrounding villages: Bollen, Uphusen, Bierden, Mahndorf, Embsen, and the towns of Achim and Arbergen. The Seekamp name had become one of the more common family names in the area.
Notable people with the surname include:
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Clara Seekamp
Clara Maria Seekamp (born Clara Maria Lodge 1819–1908) was the first female editor of ''The Ballarat Times'', an Australian newspaper.
Early life
She was born Clara Lodge in Ireland, in 1819 to Francis Lodge. She married her dancing teacher, ...
(1819–1908), Australian journalist
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Frederick Francis Seekamp (born c. 1795), English merchant, mayor of Ipswich 1836–7
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Henry Seekamp
Henry Erle Seekamp (1829 - 19 January 1864) was a journalist, owner and editor of the ''Ballarat Times'' during the 1854 Eureka Rebellion in Victoria, Australia. The newspaper was fiercely pro-miner, and he was responsible for a series of articl ...
(1829–1864), Australian journalist
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Nicole Seekamp (born 1992), Australian basketball player
References
Surnames of German origin
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