[jacquesm]

Hehe, to be completely fair with you the first time I came across your name I thought you were pulling a very long prank. But you don't get to choose your name.

An architect in the Netherlands had 'Rothuizen' as his last name, which translates to 'Rotten houses', not the best name for an architect so he changed it to 'Rotshuizen', which translates as 'Houses built like rocks'. Much better :)

In your case I wouldn't change a thing.

[jgrahamc]

Graham-Cumming: Graham and Cumming are both Scottish clan names.

Clan Cumming (or Comyn): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Cumming

Clan Graham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Graham

[schoen]

Do you suppose the original etymology of "Rothuizen" could have been an older Germanic name that might have been rendered as "Rodehuizen" in modern Dutch? (I'm thinking of modern German "rot" corresponding to modern Dutch "rood".)

Wiktionary seems to believe in a Middle Dutch "*rōt (in placenames)" referring to the color red.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic...

[jacquesm]

Yes, that is very well possible. But that is not how an average Dutch person would read it.

Your reading makes excellent sense though, since a lot of the houses here are made of red brick.

Maybe he did not want to be limited in his choices of brick colors :)