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Quote from the Related Link: "The name Renzema was taken by Harmen Martens Renzema at the village of Anjum in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands in 1811, when Napoleon (who occupied the country) ordered all people in the Netherlands to take a familyname, something most people didn't have before. Before the new mr. Renzema was called Harmen Martens, meaning Harmen, the son of his father Marten. Many people took the father's or father in law's name for a familyname. In this case Harmen honored his father in law, his wife being called Trijntje Renzes. In such a case the ending -ma is always added."

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