What type of last name is vradenburg?

Question

I think it used to be vradenburgh way back when but was changed. i'm not really sure. supposedly they have been around in the USA since revolutionary war times. they might have been english? i dont really know. also, what about the last name ansert? is that english too?

Answer 1

It is an altered spelling or Vredenburg (see below)

Vredenburg

habitational name from a place called Vredenburg in Gelderland, Netherlands.

from a Germanic personal name, composed of the elements frithu ‘peace’ + burg ‘stronghold’.

Answer 2

Names ending in "burg" (this means "town" or "village" in the German language) are traditionally German.  Your ancestors may have borne that name, but have also been English - either by moving to England during modern times, or being earlier Angle/Saxon/Jute invaders that settled in present day England.

Your name is pronounced "Fraden" in German, as in "ferry".  If pronounced "Vraden" in German, it likely was originally spelled with a "W", which provides the "v" sound as in "very" in the German alphabet.  

Look for towns with that name on the net - there likely is one, or was one, with that name.

Check houseofnames.com for potential origins of people bearing derivatives of that name/spelling of that name.

Answer 3

In German

Berg : means mountain.

Burg : means castle.

so - Vraden-castle ?

Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Also :

Vredenburg is a major town of the Cape West Coast in the Western Cape province of South Africa. "Vreden" is Afrikaans for peace.

Answer 4

Here's a great website with the history of the family all the way back to when New York belonged to the Dutch and was called New Amsterdam. Your family has been in this country as long as the Roosevelt family has. This is pretty in-depth and well-documented, so I'll bet the author can be of great help to you: http://vredenburgh.org/vredenburgh/

BTW, the meaning of the name is Peace Castle. In German, "burg" means mountain, not town.

Answer 5

Sounds old German