Re: MULHOLLAND in Ontario
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Re: MULHOLLAND in Ontario
Mark Putnam 4/11/01
I've been looking at the word Mull and other resently. My 2n great grandmother seems to have been a Mulford, Sarah Mulford who married John Putman of New Jersey.(Potman).The Potman's seems to have been associated with New Brunswick, NJ, which in German means New Put.
David Potman, 1684 to about 1761, seems to have possbilily owned property on which Rutgers University was established.David seems to have been associated with the Iron Mill in that location.Words that come from Mul as Mull in German meaning "garden peat."Also, Ammunition, and munitions, comes from mulch, or manure.
You take manure and put lime on it and the result is saltpeter, from which gund powder was made.
David Potman married second, it seems, Elizabeth Beekman, who father was a Blacksmith, who may have made guns, cannons, and other exploding devices.
Rudgers seems to mean "Place to study Rocketery."David's father, Johannes Pootman witnessed, or executed a will, for a Vortman in Schenectday.The notation with the deceased was Boomtame.Boom means explosion and tame in German means "botched blunder, or mishap."
So, the evidence piles up as a manure pile.
Mulhollands, may have been Manure Handers, which in the 1600's and 1700's may have given you the title of Doctor, because of the medicines and physics involved.