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The name explained :
- Kalishoek place in 's Heerenhoek,Zeeland, The Netherlands
- Also a place near Chaam (Kaam) Noord Brabant,The Netherlands
1913 Calishoek Name Statement
The name is a combination of angle "remote habitation 'and kalis' person with no fixed abode and income, poor man." In the 17th century and vagrants calissen often bracketed together in police regulations. In the literature of that time was Kalishoek a mocking and playful shaped place name for a place where people without means of subsistence belong or come from. Or as Jacob Cats put it: "You quaemt Uyt Calis corner soo naeckt gelijck a pier." To explain it ties in with a common word in Spanish gypsy language kalo 'black'. Association with bald 'destitute' and Kalis, the Dutch name of Calais, will certainly have contributed to the spread. Meant to come home so Kalis 'bare and destitute of a return trip "and go to Calles' on the road to poverty". In Andrea's Vierlingh 'Tractaet of Dyckagie "of 1576 is of dike workers said that" although most are poor calissen. Today we know mainly as Kalis surname. Kalishoek was also the name of a neighborhood in Zevenbergen and 's-Heerenhoek (ZL) was named according to Van der Aa (1) used to be. A striking early prevention concerns in 1125-1127 recorded cortical area, that if it is not going Bald (compare Kalis Area), the earliest mention of kalis would contain. Source http://www.plaatsengids.nl/kalishoek
- Toponiem (meaning the person is called after the town they came from)
- De Kalishoek name in the Netherlands :
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Source : Meertens Institute, The Netherlands
- Kalishoek name mentioned in CBG ( Central Institute for Dutch Genealogy) :
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- Name pre 1630 : Calishouck and later became Calishoek
- Name early 1800 : Calishoek and Kalishoek
- Kaleshoek is believed to be a mispelling of the name but often found in official records of the Kalishoek/Calishoek family.
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