Margaret Suran wrote:

> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
> > Sheldon wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Puester wrote:
> >>
> >>> Joseph Littleshoes wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> GRATIS DICTUM ------------------------
> >>>>
> >>>> I really did not think i needed to do this, given the amount
> >>>> of X postings to my favourite little "cooking" group. But
> >>>> here goes.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello rec.food.cooking.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ma nom est, Joseph Littleshoes, which is an English
> >>>> translation of
> >>
> >>>> Joseph Paul Stifel,
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dang, and here I've been thinking for months that you were
> >>> native American.
> >>>
> >>> gloria p.

> > Paul means little and a "stifel" is a type of German boot or shoe,
> > hence Littleshoes.
>
> It is STIEFEL, with a silent "e". You mislaid your "e", but that does
>
> not matter. I never knew that Paul means little. What a pretty name
> you have. I wonder whether others can make such interesting names out
>
> of their names.

It the closest i could come to finding a meaning for the family name,
though one similar spelling has 2 f's in the middle. Couple it with the
original meaning of "Joseph" (he shall give) and its just silly. "He
shall give little shoes".
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Joseph Littleshoes