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Overview As my thus far research results have shown according to various source materials, the FIDER families have appeared in Hungary for the first time approximately 50-70 years after the expulsion of the Ottomans (1686). The parish priests and preachers of that time were generally obliged to use the Latin language in official business, and they probably wrote the family name in the church books as they heard or understood it, spelled as “FIDER”. Later, in the years after 1810, the form “FIEDER” may also be found, which corresponds to the German spelling of the name. As of the years after 1750, several families with this name lived in Soroksar for several decades, and thereupon through 130 years in the village of Vecsés (Wetschesch). This line also settled in Ceglédbercel. Even today, the majority of the descendants of these families live in the county [Komitat] of Pest, including Budapest. The expulsion of ethnic Germans after World War II has caused a disastrous interruption of continuity in the history of these families. This circumstance, as well as the Magyarization of family names have contributed fundamentally to the fact, that nowadays no FIEDER - families can be found in Vecsés. As of the year 1790, the surname FIDER may be provably be found in the county of Abaúj, as well in the Reformed church books of Hernádbud (on the river Hernád), as well as in the Protestant registers of Abaújszántó, where they were registered as being of Protestant faith. These families are probably descendants of another FIDER - family from the German language area. Today, the descendants of these families mostly live in the Hernád valley, then in the county of Abaúj, in Miskolc or in Budapest; aside of several exceptions, the surname is today spelled as “FIEDER”. In Transdanubia, the name FIDER may already be found in 1767 in the registers of Gross-Sitke (Nagy-Sitke), where Emericus FIDER and Julianna BARÁTH were married in that year (both of them were inhabitants of Klein-Sitke (Kis-Sitke). The descendants of these families lived in Kis- and Nagy-Sitke for several centuries, later also in Simonyi, then in Sárvár and they still live in these places today, as well as in several other settlements in Hungary. Apart from for one or two exceptions, the surname was and is consistently spelled as “FIDER”. Unfortunately, I know hardly anything of the FIEDER - families who have settled in the Bánát region (in former Yugoslavia) and in the southern part of Transdanubia, apart from the information which I have about the existence of some families in the county of Baranya and in Fünfkirchen (Pécs). I would be delighted to at least hear a little about the origin and history of these families. Name references: In the Hungarian language, the following concepts correspond to the general (German) term “FIEDER” (which is equivalent to feathered, plumage et al. in English): (toll = feather, tollak/tollazat = feathered, pehely, = down feather, pihe = fluff, fuzz, pile flake. There is also a type of grass called “Fieder Zwenke” in German (Brachypodium pinnatum), which is referred to as tor-grass in English, growing wide-spread all across Europe, and locally also in Hungary as “tollas-szálkaperlye” (e.g. see Wikipedia, keyword : tor-grass). (grammatically reviewed by Hans Fendt.) | ||
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