The clan of Stambler
- Last name translations Stambler
About the family coat-of-arms
Origin of Stambler name
Probably, the surname Stambler is a modification of the surname Stamler.
Stamler is a typical surname which could be given to Jews only in Galicia. In quest of easy money Galician officials imposed a special price list according to which there were expensive surnames, associated with the names of precious metals and flowers, such as Goldberg (golden mountain), Goldstein (golden stone), Rosental (rose valley). The more simple surnames were less expensive, for example, Aisen (metal), Stahl (steel).
Those who didn’t want or couldn’t pay received humiliating surnames, such as Stinker (skunk), Levenfish (lion fish), Taschengreifer (pickpocket), Lagenstrick (gibbet rope), Eselkopf (ass head). Such surnames could be also given to the Jews who kept themselves defiantly and didn’t want to be humiliated by Austrian authorities.
The surname Stamler in German means stammerer. It could be assumed that the one who received it had annoyed Austrian officials hard. A word by word translation in such a case cannot tell us much about qualities of nature of the surname owner. But we could be sure that he was a man of principal, who was able to have his own way.
The surname Stambler was found at city of Kamenetz Podolsky in Ukraina, Vitebsk area in Belarus and at Bialystok area of Poland.
Dear representatives of the Stambler clan
We would like to invite you to help us ressurect the history of your family, to link up the branches of your family tree and to find relatives abroad. Among Jews, due to the manner in which family names were acquired and passed down, there are relatively few people who, although unrelated, bear the same surname as one another. The majority of Jewish people who bear a certain family name can usually trace their roots back to a common ancestor about 5-6 generations back. Further, when two Jewish people bear the same surname, they are usually members of the same broader 'clan', descended of the same extended family.Resurrect your History - for he, who owns the Past also owns the Future.
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