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![Show Contents]() Vicka History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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The surname Vicka and its many variants can be found today in many countries, including England, Holland, and Ireland, but its origins lie in the Saxony region of Germany. The name was first derived as a diminutive of the first name Friedrich, which was itself derived from the Old High German words "Fridu," meaning "peace," and "Rihhi," meaning "power." Early Origins of the Vicka familyThe surname Vicka was first found in cities in the Saxony region, where Vicka was first used as a surname. The use of the diminutive as a personal name was first recorded in Lüneburg, where Ficko de Wesera lived in 1352. Early History of the Vicka familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Vicka research. Another 107 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1066, 1352, 1419, 1560, 1827 and 1896 are included under the topic Early Vicka History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Vicka Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: Fike, Feick, Veick, Fick, Ficko, Ficke, Ficka, Vicka, Feck, Fecke, Fix, Ficks and many more. Early Notables of the Vicka familyProminent bearers of the family name Vicka at this time were - Johannes Vicka, a counselor living in Barth in 1419, David Feck, an artillery captain who fought in the American Revolution, Anton Fecke (b. 1827), a prominent theologian, and Hugo Feck (d. 1896), a c...
Migration of the Vicka familySome of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Peter Feck and his wife Anna Maria, who emigrated from the Palatinate to New York in 1709 with their four children, Peter Feck, one of the German settlers of Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania in 1723.
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