The Hagewout family

http://boards.ancestry.ca/localities.weurope.netherlands.drenthe/45...

Thanks for the kink JeanNette, the Hagewouts of Rouveen and Meppel are my people :)
A slight variation that i've read is that the Hagewout name derives from Hoogwoud near Hoorn (but i have lost the reference and cannot find it again).

link, link, thanks for the "link"!

you are welcome, dear 3xA-geni-friend. Have you seen how many variations of the name exists? Quite a puzzle to find them all.

Either i had the wrong village or there are multiple families with varying origins.
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haakswold

Considering Haakswold is only an hours walk from Meppel (where documentary evidence puts my Hagewout family) i think it's a much more likely origin for our family.

never heard of Haakswold before, so even for Dutch people it's a very small dot on the map... Maybe you can find others who originally came from Haakswold. succes.