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Joey37
My father (and uncles') surname at birth was Sellers, so I always thought we were English (I still am genetically English, as my mother is 3/4 English) but my grandmother told me that no, the family is German in origin. My male line great-great-great-grandfather was Peter Seller, born in the Palatinate on June 29, 1838 (today would be his 181st birthday), and the last name is a dialectical version of the standard German Seiler, which means a person who made rope.
My maternal grandmother is a Dengler. While I wondered if this could be a name based on a trade, I couldn’t imagine dengling and making a living at it. However a German man told me that the appropriate trade was denglen, that is a blade sharpener.