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Yes it is true, I have Scottish ancestors, but it’s a long time ago. Let’s tell you a story of how I found the information.

My grandmother on father’s side has Mudde as a surname. I wanted to trace her ancestry beyond what I could find on paper (as my grandfather had done some limited genealogy in the war to prove he had non-Jewish ancestry) and what I could find on some online resources like http://genlias.nl and http://familysearch.org . So I used google to search a bit for Mudde in combination with genealogie (Dutch spelling of genealogy).

I found a bulletin board-entry of a person who was seeking information on Muddes because of an inheritance issue. The post was years old, but I tried to contact him and was successful. He answered my E-mail. As it turned out, he lives in Canada and the case was resolved years ago. A Dutch notary had done a lot of research on Mudde and he still had a copy of the complete data and – more importantly – was willing to send it to me. As it turned out, that was a very valuable resource for me. Let’s look into some facts i found in there.

First of all, my grandmother was listed and the information was completely in line with what I had already. Secondly, this other person was in there as well, so we in fact are related. Thirdly, this notary had done his homework and traced the origin of the Mudde ancestry all the way to about 1500 in Scotland.

Robert Mudie, born about 1510, married to Catherin Mudy, had at least one son, Thomas Mudie, born about 1535 in Masterton, Fife, Scotland. There you have it. This is actually information you can find on http://familysearch.org as well. One son of Thomas Mudie and his wife Beatrix Lun was also called Robert Mudie, born about 1556 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, died in Masterton, Schotland on 13-08-1640 (note that I use the Dutch way of writing down dates….). He has a grandson (I’m not going to manually type out the complete genealogy, have a search yourself if you want more…) Thomas Mudie (the naming is indeed very original…), baptized on 28-01-1621 in Dunfermline, married Elizabeth Steven who was actually born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands… They married on 06-10-1664 in Rotterdam and started their family there. His job was Sailor. I would guess that his work brought him to Rotterdam, a city with a harbour (and today the largest harbour in Europe…)

Gradually the name changed in Muddi, then Mudde. Leendert Mudde, born 07-04-1751 in Lekkerkerk was my first ancestor with Mudde as his surname. Lekkerkerk still has a lot of Mudde-people and I would say it’s the Dutch Center for this name. Gouderak is a town close by and that’s where my great grandfather Simon Mudde  was born in 10-10-1860. He was married twice. My grandmother was born from his second marriage, as was Jacob Antonie Mudde (see my previous post). 

I guess that I own a lot to the Notary, who’s name I don’t know, that found this information originally. So a great THANK YOU to him!

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