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Kool Name Study

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Surnames/tags: Cool Cole Kohl
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Meaning and Origin

Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Nikoolaas, Nikolaus, Dutch forms of Nicholas.


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Ward-21154 Stu Ward
Can someone remove the Cole tag from this page? Cole and Kool are clearly different names and Cole is extremely common. Every time someone uses WBE to add an autobio, it defaults here instead of the Cole study.
posted by Stu Ward
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Hi Stu,

Maybe you aren't aware that Cole is an Americanized version of the Dutch name Kool and German name Kohl. Many descendants of the Kohl and Kool name now use Cole. Spelling wise the two are clearly different names but variations need to be accounted for. Surname studies need to use variations tags especially when Dutch names are involved. This seems to be an WBE issue that needs attention. This can't be the only one name study where the same tag exists in another name study. Adding a bio without WBE doesn't default to Kool. The WBE needs to address this issue somehow.

posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
I asked Jamie and Ian how to resolve this.
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Ward-21154 Stu Ward
Thanks, that is the right approach. I'll keep correcting instances where it happens to me.
posted by Stu Ward
Prins-567 Albertina (Prins) Kool
The name Cool can come from the town Cool now named Rotterdam. There are still names in Rotterdam that refer to the town like Coolsingel and Coolhaven.
posted by Albertina (Prins) Kool
Gerard-337 Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
It is likely that the surname Kool/Cool comes from the many place names incorporating the name Cool/Kool within the area of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, such as the Coolsingel. Barent's father Jacob Arentsen (Arentsz) Kool was described as Veerman op Rotterdam (Ferryman at Rotterdam) in the baptismal records of several of his children. In a 1611 map there is Cool Polder, Cool Molens, and de Coolse Wech; in a 1660 map there is Het Ambacht van Schoonderloo en Cool; in a 1740 map however the spelling for the same place appears as Kool and later still becomes Koolsche, and today would roughly correspond to the Cool Wijk or Cool district of the city of Rotterdam.
posted by Michelle (Gerard) Hartley
Prins-567 Albertina (Prins) Kool
Peter Johan Kool his own Koel/Cool/Kool ancestors lived (for as far as I know) entirely in the Netherlands.

Known relatives like Kool-649, Kool-650 (van Kool), Kool-614 and Kool-659 (half and whole great grand uncle(s) with the same father Kool-648) lived and/or emigrated to other countries. There are also three known Kool name relatives (male) who emigrated to Canada. The same lineage holder as in Peter Johan Kool’s tree is Geryt Melisz Koel (1410) son of Melis Melisz, you can find him here by this link in a public tree https://www.genealogieonline.nl/en/stamboom-anceaux-visser-westerveld-van-wingaarden/I644.php and https://gw.geneanet.org/christ43?lang=nl&n=koel&oc=0&p=otto+nikolaasz

posted by Albertina (Prins) Kool
edited by Albertina (Prins) Kool
Prins-567 Albertina (Prins) Kool
A related surname to Kool is also Koel. At least in the family tree of my partner Peter Johan Kool.
posted by Albertina (Prins) Kool
edited by Albertina (Prins) Kool
Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
Interesting! Since your partner's profile is unlisted, I cannot see where his ancestors lived. Is his known Kool/Koel ancestry entirely in the Netherlands?
posted by Ellen Smith

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