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Question:They came to the United States in the late 1800's or early 1900's, and changed their surname to Walbeck.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: They came to the United States in the late 1800's or early 1900's, and changed their surname to Walbeck.

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von Walbach is a minor noble name, probably a Baron or other lesser nobility. Name changes like that were common, my mother's family did the same thing at the time of World War I to look less German. Walbach is a town in Germany. Wikipedia has an article on it.

no i never heard of a the surname Von Walbach

www.ancestry.com/facts/walbeck-name-mean...

Walbeck
German: habitational name from any of various places so named, for example in Saxony-Anhalt and North Rhine-Westphalia.

http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de (a bi-lingual online dictionary)
Von-- German for "born in". I am assuming Walbach is possibly a town, as in "I was born in Walbach." There is or was a railway station in the Alsace region of France with the name Walbach, too.