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The Drustrup Website - Per Drustrup Larsen, Buurholtvej 47, DK-9700 Broenderslev, Denmark - per@drustrup.com
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The Drustrup NameAll Drustrups are member of the same family, because the name and the family comes from a farm called Drustrup. The map of Denmark shows with a red spot the location of the area, where the Drustrups come from. The map below shows the situation of both the Drustrup farm and other places connected to the family in that area. Drustrups in Denmark today are basically located in two parts of Denmark: a smaller group near the capital, Copenhagen, and the major part are still living within 50 kilometres from the farm that gave name to the family! |
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| A detailed map of the area marked with red on the larger map (above) showing the localization of the farms: Drustrup, Myrtue and Mellergaard. | |||||||||
| The name of the farm - Drustrup - has been found in records dating back to 1552 and 1599 where íts area was described. As all smaller danish farms it was at that time owned by varying large landowners over the years. In 1611 it was recorded, that there was a mill at the farm, and in 1636 it is said to be unable to give any income to its owner.
A researcher on danish names of places and people has estimated the origin of the name to be: Drøsis Torp where Drøsis is the name of a person and Torp beeing a common suffix in names meaning a small area or place. With that interpretation the name means: A small place owned by a man called Drøsis - or a similar name. The first to take the Drustrup name was Jens Jørgen Nielsen (March 13th 1848 - March 10th 1904) who was married to Maren Poulsen (May 28th 1850 - February 18th 1935). Jens Jørgen Nielsen owned the farm 'Drustrup' and was the first to use Drustrup as a family name due to change of law app. 1900 allowing people to use names in another way than it had been common since the Viking age or so. ( Jens Jørgen's surname means Niels's son=Nielsen, and Jens Joergens sons should have had the surname Jens's son = Jensen if he had not taken Drustrup as the family's official surname in 1902). Although Jens Jørgen sold the farm Drustrup in 1877 and bought the farm Mellgaard in Ejersted nearby, he was locally known under the Drustrup name, and got it officially. All Marens and Jens Jørgens children wore the middle name Jensen too, so their name in the birth register is Niels Jensen Drustrup and so on. |
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