Wedding Bells?
Engaged in July of 2006, Jereme Claussen and Amy Antonio will be wed on Sauvie Island near Portland, Oregon. For more information, check out their wedding website.
A Claussen is born!
On Friday the 13th, Shiloh Rae Claussen was born unto the world.
Welcome to ClaussenFamily.com
What’s in a name? I found this while search for our coat of arms. I’m hoping that a coat of arms can somehow inspire me to make a nice web design for our family site.
“The roots of the claussen family are found in the ancient German state of Bavaria. claussen is one of the most common styles of German surname, that of patronymics and metronymics - names derived from the given names of the father or mother of their original bearers. claussen is derived from the medieval given name Klaus, which is a shortened form of the personal name Niklaus or Nicholas.The given name Nicholas, which means people’s victory, was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
Spelling variations include: Klaus, Klauss, Claus, Clauss, Klauhs, Clauhs, Klausing (Westphalia), Klauser (Switzerland), Clausing, Clauser, Klausen, Klaussen, Clausen and many more.
First found in Bavaria, where the family contributed greatly to the development of an emerging nation and would later play a large role in the political conflicts of the area.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Bernhart Klaus, who came to New York City in 1709 with his wife and four children. Henrich Klaus left the Palatinate for England with his wife and two daughters in 1709.”
