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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> > >
> Perhaps related to this tree is a hilarious sounding
> last name: Quackenbush, which I'd guess is an
> Americanization of some Dutch or German name based on
> that tree
>
Quackenbush
Americanized spelling of Dutch Quackenbosch, a topographic name from
Dutch quaak `swamp' (cognate with the English word quagmire) + bosch
`woodland', `wilderness'.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN
0-19-508137-4