One of my wife’s ancestral surnames is Schollmeyer. Not the most common last name in Davenport, Iowa. In the village in Germany where they were from, the parish register of births contained numerous entries for that last name. In fact, in some years 1/3 of the entries had the father with the last name of Schollmeyer or the mother with that maiden name.
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So true. The maiden name of one of my mother’s grandmothers was Pieplow. Not at all common in the United States. But in the area of Mecklenburg-Schwerin that she came from there was a multitude of them. Sometimes Pieplows even married Pieplows. Talk about confusing!
My g-g-grandfather was a Schuchardt, and although I don’t know of anyone else with that last name, they are plentiful in the Cincinnati area and in Texas. Just a side note, the spelling doesn’t make it any easier to find on records, I’ve found it spelled multiple different ways throughout my years of research. It was even spelled “Shoeheart” in one of the Federal US Censuses!