Re: Help..no clue where to start

Actually, Knickerbocker is the name that evolved after Washington Irving's satire about Diedrich Knickerbocker. The name had been spelled KNICKERBACKER and other forms, descending from Harmen Janssen Knyckerbache, formerly van Wye, a Dutchman who coined the name, meaning "marblemaker." Whereas all old Dutchmen may have been called Knickerbockers, there is definitely a surname, and all such people named Knickerbocker descend from Harmon Janssen.