Germanic Origins
Project
Legend:
BV=a German village
near the Black Sea . FN= German family name.
FSL= First Settlers’
List.
GL= a locality in
the Germanies.
GS= one of the
German states.
ML= Marriage List.
RN= the name of a
researcher who has
verified one or more
German origins.
UC= unconfirmed.
VV= a German Volga
village.
Names in bold are an
entry or a
cross-reference to
an entry.
Red text calls
attention to
information for
which verification
is completed or well
underway.
Push the back button on your
browser to return to
the German Origins
Project home page
La-Ldz
LaaberFN:
said by the
Graf FSL to be
fromUC
Damice, Osesterrich.
Later spelled
Labere and Labert (Mai1798:Gf9).
LaasFN:
see
Lass.
LaasGL, Sachsen: is some 32 miles E of Leipzig,
Saxony,
and said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Merk family.
LabereFN:
see
LaaberFN.
LabertFN:
see
LaaberFN.
LabiszynGL,
Szubin [Kreis], Prussia:
8 miles SE of
Szubin and 12
miles SSW of
Bromberg,
Prussia.
Said by
KS:368 to have
been (1785) homeUC
to the
Mauch{Christian} who went to
Kassel.
Labor,
Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Barat family.
LachFN:
see
Loch.
Lachen,
Kurbayern: is 25 miles SW of Muchich city centre, and was said by
the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Greich? family
and possibly to
Schmidt
step-children.
LachertFN:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
fromUC Mannheim,
Kurpfalz.
According to
the
Woehrd ML this man fromUC
Manheim
married in 1766 a
Schnabel woman
(Mai&Marquardt#787).
I could not find
this family in the
1798
Volga
censuses.
LackendorffGL,
Danzig Amt: is
now Solnica, Poland,
and was some 4 miles
SE of Tiegenhoff
city.
Said by the
Rosenort FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Tiessen/Thiessen
{Peter} family.
Also spelled
Lakendorf.
LackendorffGL,
Elbing Amt: Said
by the
Tiege FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Fast family.
Same place as
the preceding entry.
LackmannFN:
see
Lakmann.
Lackot?GL,
Dafin?: an
unidentified place
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Boullion family.
Lacorom?,
Elsass: an unidentified place said by the Seelmann FSL to be homeUC to a Daechler family.
LadenburgGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Mariental FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Kantitlin
family.
Ladenburg?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be homeUC
to the
Meier{Leonhard}
family.
Ladenburg, Kurpfalz:
10 km ESE of Mannheim
city and
proven that
Ditmer{J.Jakob}’s
first wife,
Pries{M.Barbara},
died here
and his 2nd
wife,
Ritter{A.Maria},
was born here
in 1716.
LadenbergGL,
Darmstadt:
This was a mistake
for the next entry.
Ladenburg, [Kurpfalz]: is 10 km E of
Mannheim
city center and was
said by the
Schuck FSL to be
homeUC to
Bauer and
Berkenstock
families.
In his first
translation Pleve
had this place as
both
Ladenberg,
Darmstadt
and
Lauterburg, France.
LadenburgGL,
Kurpfalz: said
by the
Mariental FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Erlenbach
family.
This is the
same place as the
previous entry.
LadnerFN:
said by the
Galka FSL to be
fromUC
Ischenroth?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt[?]
with the single
Wenzel brother
of the
Wenzel wife in
one of the two
households.
According
to the
Buedingen ML
marriages in 1766
included one
Latmer brother
married a
Christ woman
(Mai&Marquardt#401)
and one
Lattmer brother
marriage a
Wentzel woman
(#407).
In 1798, for
{J.Peter} see
Mai1798:Gk20,
and for {Konrad} see
Gk51 and Sb22.
Ladner FN:
also see
Lotner.
Ladonerbach(?)GL,
Kurpfalz: see
Laudenbach.
LaechlerFN:
see
Laesler.
LaeherFN:
see
Lecher.
LaehrFN:
see
Lehr.
LaemleinFN:
listed by the 1816
Kassel census (#71) without origin.
Not treated
in the
GCRA book.
LaemmerhirtFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Tann marriage
records 1762-1767;
see
Flegel trip.
LaemmermannFN:
see
Lemmermann.
LaemmleFN:
said by the
Bergdorf 1816
census (KS:660,
351) to have been
Bahnbruecken,
Bruchsal [Amt], Baden.
This origin was
verified by the
GCRA using
FHL(1,238,477-8).
See their
book for more
detail.
LaemmleFN:
Curt Renz
has found the church
records for this
Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in
Winnenden,
Waiblingen Oberamt,
Wuerttemberg.
Stumpp,
p.523, says they
arrived in
Russia
in 1827.
LaerGL:
see
Leer.
LaeslerFN:
said by the 1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:672, 351) to be from
Asperg,
Ludwigsburg
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg. Using
FHL(1,056,991),
the GCRA verified this origin.
See the
GCRA book for
more details.
Also
spelled
Laechler and
Laessle.
LaessleFN:
see
Laesler.
LaetterleFN:
said by
KS:351 to have
leftUC
Hohenstein,
Besigheim [Amt],
Wuerttemberg forUC
Glueckstal; the
GCRA found no evidence of this family in the Glueckstal colonies;
see their book.
Lagdanburg?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be homeUC
to the
Stripper family.
LageGL/GS:
an unidentified
place said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Ordnung family.
There are
several Lage in Germany.
LaglerFN:
see
Legler.
Lagnitz?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Kano FSL to be homeUC to a
Baschka/Pashka family, and possibly to their Mattis step-son. This
place probably was
in
Kursachsen, some
23 miles SW of
Leipzig city.
Lahner{Katharina}FN:
this widow of
Khristak?{Erdmann}
is listed in
Rosenheim in 1798 (Rm2) but I cannot find
her family in any
FSL.
LahnertFN:
said by the Stumpp
and Pleve versions
of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be fromUC
Erbach (now in
the state of
Hessen).
The Kromm
version says frau
Lahnert was a
Hergert and says
Lahnert may have
been fromUC
either
Erbach or
Offenbach.
Lahnstein, Nassau[sic]:
said by the
Straub FSL to be
homeUC to
Diel{J.Philipp}and
{Peter},
Metzler and
families.
Lahnstein is
11 km W of
Nassau
town, but actually
was in and belonged
to
Kurmainz;
the rulers of
Kurmainz (Archbishop-Electors) maintained a home there.
Laib[?]{Juliana}FN:
listed in
the 1772
Pobochnaya first settlers’ list as the wife of Schlegel{Franz} (pb16).
Laibaroes,
Bamberg
[Bishopric]:
is 10 miles E of Bamberg
city, and was said
by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Herbst family.
Laibstadt?GL,
Nuernberg: is
some 24 miles SSE of
Nuernberg city and
must have been in a
very tiny isolated
Nuernbergen
territory.
Said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Heckel family.
LaierFN:
said by
KS:219 to have
come from
Kirchberg,
Backnang [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
Also spelled
Layher.
Using
FHL#1,187,173,
the
GCRA proved
origin in
Kirchberg,
Marbach
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
LaisFN:
see
Leis.
LaisaGL, Frankenberg Amt, [Hessen-Kassel]: is 9.5 miles SW of
Frankenberg
town, and said by
the
Auerebach index
to be home to the
frau
Beckel [who went
to
Walter].
Laitenberger:
listed in the
Bergdorf census
with no origin, but
origin in
Neckarwesthiem
[formerly
Kaltenwesten], Heilbronn
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg proved by the
GCRA,
using
FHL 1,184,925.
See their
book for detail.
Also spelled
Leitenberger.
Lakendorf
GL: see
Lackendorff.
LakmannFN:
said by the Stumpp
supplement to the
Dietel FSL to be
fromUC
Elmen(?), Hannover.
Later spelled
Lackmann and Lockmann (Mai1798:Mv393,
399, Wt98, 53, Dt53.
At least some
descendants believe
that this family was
of Jewish origin
having converted to
Christianity.
Lalb[?]FN:
listed in the
Pobochnaya FSL
so may have been
from Darmstadt
state.
LamackFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL (#308) to be
fromUC
Luettich.
Lamak/La Marque{Pierre+w):
Kulberg78 said
they were Catholics
fromUC
Messiere who
settled in
St. Petersburg.
Not found in
T or in any published FSL.
LambFN:
see
Lamp.
LambelFN:
see
Lampel.
LambertFN:
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be fromUC
Bensheim,
Bergstrasse, Kurmainz.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Bn63.
Lambert FN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
Fenn.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 censuses.
LambrechtFN:
said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be fromUC
Arnstein.
Kuhlberg
gives the state as
Wuerzburg.
Lambsheim(?)GL, Darmstadt:
Said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Mueller family.
If Lambsheim
is correct, Darmstadt is not, and this is the same place
as the next entry.
Lambsheim,
Kurpfalz: is 8 miles WNW of
Mannheim
city center, and
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Seitz family.
Lamgolf FN:
possible early
settlers of
Zuerich said to
be fromUC
Rimbach (Lk140). Spelled
Langolf in 1798
(Mai1798:Zr6, 13 and 53).
Spelled
Langolff in 1767
(T1235-1242).
Lamig? FN:
was the maiden name
given for frau
Baum of
Anton in 1798 (Mai1798:An32).
Lamm FN:
said by the
Ernestinendorf
FSL to be fromUC
Burg Gemuenden,
[Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate].
For 1769 see
Mai1798:Mv556.
LammFN{Johannes}:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned).
In 1798 the
maiden name of the
wife was given as
Schaat (Mai1798:Nr214). For
other family members
in 1792 and 1798 see
Mai1798:Mv1973,
Pb9, 13 and Yp34.
LammFN{Michael}:
said by the
Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Nr216.
Lamm{J.Nikolaus}FN:
listed with
his
Schneider wife in the 1772
Pobochnaya first
settlers’ list
(pb18) with no
origin mentioned ;
for 1798 see
Mai1798:Pb16.
Lamm: see
Lemm.
LammerFN:
said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be fromUC
Einbach.
Spelled
Limmer in 1786 (Mai1798:Mv2079).
LampFN:
said by the
Dinkel FSL to be
fromUC Rieben,
Brandenburg.
Later may
have been spelled
Lamb.
LampeFN:
said by the
Merkel FSL to be
fromUC Hamburg.
LampeFN:
said by the
Orlovskaya FSL
to be a step-son
living with the
Fischer family
which would indicate
that frau
Fischer was
previously frau
Lampe. The
family name was
spelled
Lempe in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2169).
LampeFN:
said by the
Stahl-am-Tarlyk
FSL to be fromUC
Kiel,
Holstein[-Gottorp
Duchy].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:St12.
LampelFN:
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
fromUC
Bruck, Erlangen.
In 1798 the
family name was
given as
Lambel (Mai1798:Mo54,Jo30).
According to a
Woehrd ML this
man fromUC
Bruck
married in 1766 a
Voitling woman
also fromUC
Bruck (Mai&Marquardt#790).
LamperhelmGL:
see
Lampertheim.
Lampertheim, [Worms Bishopric]: is some 5.6 miles SE of
Worms and is about 12 km N of
Mannheim
city centre.
Gerhard Lang
found that
Groesser{A.Margaretha}
was born here in
1726 and married
Barthuly{Balzer}
here in 1756, later
settling in
Balzer.
Said by the
Rothammel FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Stork family.
Said by the
Schuck FSL to be homeUC to a Gruenewald family; in his first translation Pleve spelled this
Lamperhelm.Said
by the
Seewald FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Berg family.
See also
Lambsheim.
Landau,
Elsass: said by the Seelmann
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Wolffanger{Jacob}
family.
There are 8
Landaus in the
German-speaking
lands, but the only
Landau I could find
on Alsace lands is
Petit-Landau 14 km
SE of
Mulhouse.
Landshut,
[Kurbayern?]:
said by the
Seelmann FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Beuschinger
family.
There are 3
Landshuts in Germany but this
one, 53 km S of
Regensberg city
seems most likely.
Laudenberg, [Kurmainz?]: said by the
Seelmann FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Rittenheer
family.
The only
Laudenberg I found
in the
German-speaking
lands is 16 km ENE
of
Eberbach city
right where
Kurpfalz,
Kurmainz and
some unnamed
Barony came
together;
I am guessing
it was in
Kurmainz.
Landau-in-der-PfalzGL:
is some 16 miles SW
of
Speyer,
Rhineland-Palatinate.
This place
was the seat of the
following Amt.
Landau [Amt]GL, Rheinpfalz:
is at
Landau-in-der-Pfalz
some 18 miles NW of
Karlsruhe
city and was a
District
administrative
center.
The
GCRA found an
indication that this
area may have been
homeUC to
the
Schatz man who settled in
Kassel.
LandaukGL,
Frants: said by
the
Walter FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Wittenberger
family.
Identified by
the
Walter Research Project as
Landau-in-der-Pfalz.
LandbergerFN:
said by the
Schaefer FSL to
be a single young
man in the
Pauly household.
I could not
find him in
Mai1798.
LandenbergerFN:
listed by the 1816
Neudorf census
(#90, 92) without
origin and
mistakenly said by
KS:352 to be
fromUC
Neuweiler,
Boeblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using
FHL#717,097,
the
GCRA proved
their origin in
Hunspach,
Sulz [Amt], Elsass.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
LandenhausenGL:
see
Lanhausen.
Landgraf:
Landgrave in
English; a German
ruler equivalent in
status to a Duke.
Landgraviate: a
country or territory
ruled by a
Landgraf
(Landgrave in
English).
Landmann{Christoph}FN:
said by the
Reinwald FSL to
be fromUC
Stolberg-Gedern
[County].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Rw49. Also
spelled
Lindmann in 1798
(Mv2424).
Landmann{Johannes}FN:
said by the
Reinwald FSL to
be fromUC
Stolberg-Gedern
[County].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Rw6.
Landmann{Gottfried}FN:
said by the
Urbach FSL to be
fromUC
Doeberlub?, [Kur-]Sachsen.
Spelled
Langmann in 1788
and 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2403,Ur5).
Landmann{Johanna
Barbara}FN:
was the wife of
Schwarz in the
Vollmer FSL and
was
the daughter
([sic for sister] of
Landmann{Gottfried}
and still the wife
of
Schwartz in 1798
(Mai1798:Ur5).
LandsbergGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Bethke/Bethge?
family.
LandsbergerFN:
listed by the
1816
Glueckstal census (KS:671,
352) as frau
Schrieber
without origin; but
the
GCRA believes
her to be fromUC
Kirchheim-am-Neckar,
Heilbronn or
Besigheim [Amt], [Ludwigsburg Oberamt],
Wuerttemberg,
using
FHL 1,189,099;
see their book for
detail.
LandsendorfGL,
Braunfels: an
unidentified place
said by the
Kolb FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Scheuermann
family.
Landshut,
Kurbayern: is 53
km S of Regensburg.
LangFN{Georg
Adam}:
this family
settled in
Bergdorf and moved very soon to Glueckstal.
KS:352 said they
were
from
Altbach, Esslingen
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg. The
GCRA verified
this origin
using
FHL 1,056,991.
LangFN{Johann
Fried.}:
his widow is
listed in the
Bergdorf 1858
census (KS:665,
352) without origin.
The
GCRA has proven
they came from
Neuhausen-ob-Eck,
Tuttlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg;
see their book for
detail.
LangFN:
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be fromUC
Branzel?,
Sachsen. For 1798 see
Mai1798:Bn47,
55).
LangFN:
Herr
Lang was said by
the
Fischer FSL to
be fromUC
Filis?,
Polen; his frau was said to come fromUC
Preussen but not
to have been born
there.
LangFN:
a Lang woman from
Laubach married
a
Bastron man – the couple was in Frank by 1767.
LangFN{Jakob
Fried.}: said by the
1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:670,
673, 352) to be from
Endersbach,
Waiblingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
Using
FHL(1,056,991),
the
GCRA verified
this origin.
See the
GCRA book for
more details.
LangFN:
said by the
Hoelzel FSL to
be fromUC
Reichenbach, Bamberg
[Bishopric].
According to a
Rosslau ML this
man married in 1766
a
Hehnlein woman
(Mai&Marquardt#1024).
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Ps56).
LangFN:
said by the
Hildmann FSL to
be fromUC
Neuburg-an-der-Ohm.
Lang{Elizabeth}FN:
a widow said by the
Kano
FSL to be fromUC
Halle.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Zg04.
Lang{Friedrich}FN:
said by the
Kano
FSL to be fromUC
Hannover [i.e.
Kurbraunschweig]
(no locality
mentioned).
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Kn06
which gives the
wife’s maiden name
as
Stoll.
Lang{Andreas)FN:
listed by both the
1816
Kassel census (#39, 70) and
KS:352 without
origin. Using
FHL#1,184,602
the
GCRA proved
origin in
Ochsenbach,
Brackenheim [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
See their
book for more.
Lang{Christoph}:
KS:352 listed him without origin, but the 1816 Kassel
census (#88)
mistakenly said this
family came fromUC
Dornhan,
Horb[Amt],
Wuerttembeg.
The GCRA did
not find them in the
Dornhan records;
see their book for
more.
Lang{David}95,
208, 215, {Paul}91,
208, 215) FN:
listed by the 1816
Kassel
census (#95, 91)
wihout origin, but
KS:352 said they
came fromUC
Polen (no
locality indicated).
The
GCRA found
claims that Paul had
been born in
Algruen,
Prussia,
and that various of
their children had
been born in
Prussia:
in
Schetschilnik; and
others in Poland:
in Geschorki,
Koloschgef, and
Kuschedole – all
unidentifed
villages.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
Lang{Friedrich}FN:
listed by the 1858
Kassel census (#233) without origin.
The
GCRA thinks this
might be the man
mentioned in
KS:352 as being
fromUC
Neipperg,
Brackenheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
See their
book for more.
Lang{J.Erdmann}FN:
listed by the 1816
Kassel census (#40) without origin.
The
GCRA suggests
that he might be the
son of
Lang{Andreas}
but found no
documentation.
See their
book for more.
LangFN:
Herr
Lang was said by
the
Koehler FSL to
be fromUC
Olmuetz?,
Oesterreich, and his frau’s maiden name was given as
Egner (no origin
given).
LangFN:
said by the
Leichtling FSL
to be fromUC
Seligenstadt (no
locality mentioned).
LangFN:
she, no
origin given,
married in
Buedingen 11
March 1766 a
Kaemmerer man;
later this couple
went to
Leichtling (Mai&Marquardt#411).
LangFN:
said by the
Louis FSL to be
fromUC
Algesheim, Kurmainz.
LangFN:
said by the
Messer FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned),
and a
Meisinger orphan
is living in the
household.
Bonner
proved the maiden
name of this wife as
Meissinger, who like her orphaned brother was from
Aulendiebach.
LangFN:
said by the Rosenheim
FSL to be fromUC
Dunnigen?.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Rm22.
LangFN:
said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be fromUC
Momart,
Erbach [County].
For 1796 and
1798 see
Mai1798:Mv2790, Ml29, Sv34, 35(the wife’s maiden name is given as
Taub) and 36.
The Buedingen ML
said
this man married in
1766 a
Burger woman (Mai&Marquardt#625).
LangFN:
said by the
Volmer FSL to be
fromUC
Hertzheim, Kurmainz.
LangFN:
said by the
Warenburg FSL to
be fromUC
Bladernheim, Hanau
[County]. For
1798 see
Mai1798:Wr91.
This man married an
Ekhart woman in
1766 in
Luebeck;
other sources spell
it
Eckart
(Mai&Marquardt#142).
Lang{Georg}: he
was in
Zug in 1798
(Zg29), but they are
listed in no FSL nor
in
T, nor is there
any indication they
moved to
Zug from another
colony, so they are
possible
Zug first
settlers.
LangFN{Johann}:
he married in
Buedingen on 8
March 1766
Bergmann{A.
Maria} (Mai&Marquardt#386,
KS121, 142).
I could not
find them in no
published FSL.
LangFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Herborn marriage
records 1762-1767,
and in
Schotten parish
records for many
generations prior to
1767; see
Flegel trip.
LangFN:
also see
Lange.
Lang, GerhardRN:
has spent years
tracking German
settlers through
Denmark into Russia.
His research
shows that the
Doenhof Leglers stopped in Havetoft, and
Flensburg,
Schleswig Holstein
in the early 1760s
before going on to
Russia.
LangdGL,
[Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate]:
is 4 miles NE
of
Nidda and 14 miles SE of
Giessen, Hessen,
and said by the
Buedingen ML to
be homeUC
to
the
Gruen woman who married in 1766 a
Franck man;
later the couple
went to
Roethling;
Stumpp says it is
near
Giessen (Mai&Marquardt#720). It
also said by the
Buedingen ML to
be homeUC
to
Schmidt{Christian}
who in 1766 married
a
Rohn woman in
Buedingen
(Mai&Marquardt#542); they may have settled in
Brabander.
Langdorf?,
Lothringen: an unidentifed place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to an Allerborn/Ahlerborn
family.
LangeFN:
according to the
Doenhof FSL he
was a step-son in a
Kestle household
from
Wuerttemberg (no
locality mentioned).
LangeFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL (#33) to be fromUC
Nieder-Ramstadt, Darmstadt.
LangeFN:
his wife is said by
the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Westfalen (no
locality mentioned).
LangeFN:
said by the
Kratzke FSL
(#25) to be fromUC
Kiel,
Holstein.
Lange{Friedrich+w}:
Kulberg138 said
they were of
the Reformed
faith
fromUC
Witterau.
Not found in
T or in any published FSL.
LangeFN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Salzberg.
In 1798 the
family name was
spelled
Lang (Mai1798:Zg4,29).
Lange FN:
said by the
Schaefer FSL to
be fromUC
Schoenberg.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Rh4 and Sf22.
Lange?,
Kurtrier: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Dink family.
Langebach?FN:
said by the 1798
census to be the
maiden name of frau
Buechner of
Dehler (Mai1798:Dl11).
Langebranich(?)GL,
was an unidentified
locality which
according to the
Frank FSL was in the state of
Erbach and was
homeUC to
a
Hoffmann family.
There is
a Lauerbach just S
of the city of
Erbach.
LangenGL,
is some 8 miles N of
Darmstadt city
and said by the
Frank FSL to be
in the state of
Hessen-Darmstadt
and homeUC
to a
Hof family.
It is also
some 8 miles SW of
Offenbach, and
is said by the
Roethling FSL to
be in the
Offenbach region
of
Hessen and to be
homeUC to
a
Grein family.
Said by the
Mueller FSL to be homeUC to a Both family; Kuhlberg gives the state as Darmstadt.
Langenalb,
Baden-Durlach: is 11 miles SE of Karlsruhe city, and was said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to Dalinger/Dahlinger
{Christoph} and
{Maria} families.
Using a report from
the Evangelischer
Oberkirchenrat,
Landeskirchliches
Archiv, abstracting
from
Langenalb church
records, Dick Kraus
proved this origin:
the widow Maria (nee
Wackenhut) had
married her
Dalinger husband
in 1735 in
Langenalb – the
record provides
birthdates for both
bride and groom and
the names of each of
their fathers.
LangenbachGL,
Isenburg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Kolb FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Mai family.
Isenburg
surely is a mistake
and this place must
actually be the next
entry.
Langenbach, [Nassau-Usingen Principality]: said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Graf{Heinrich} family.
Said by Kuhlberg to
be in
Nassau.
Langenbeutingen,
[Hohenlohe Principality] (now in
Baden-Wuerttemberg):
is 7.5 km WNW of
Oehringen city.
Gerhard Lang
evidently found the
Frank{J.Heinrich} family here before they moved on to
Denmark and to
Doenhof in Russia.
LangenbrandGL,
Bieselberg [parish], Calw [Amt],
Wuerttemberg: the GCRA
thinks this the most
likely origin of the
Raschez/Rometsch/Rumetz family that went, probably via South Prussia, to Kassel.
Langenbrombach,
Breuberg Condominium,
was the place
Hoffmann{J.Heinrich}
lived just before
immigrating to
Frank (Gieg1).
LangendorfGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Fleischmann
family.
There are 9
places of this name
in Germany and 5 in
Poland and the Czech
Republic.
LangendorfGL,
Wuerzburg [Bishopric]: is 13 miles NW of
Schweinfurt
city, and said by
the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Glitsch family.
LangenfeldGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Graf FSL to be
homeUC to
Stollmann’s
wife.
There were
many such place
names in the
Germanies.
Langenhain, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
is 11 km ENE of
Wiesbaden city
centre and was said
by the
Laub FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Schmidt family.
Said by the
Warenburg FSL to be homeUC to Fuehrer and
Mueller{J.Georg}
families.
LangenkandelGL:
is
Kandel.
LangenprozeltenGL,
Gelnhausen/Gemuenden
(Main), Hessen
is now in
Bavaria some 23
miles SE of
Gelnhausen, Hessen,
and 2 miles E of
Gemuenden, Bavaria,
and is said by the
Roethling FSL to
be homeUC
to
Ellang and Gobert/Gobel families.
LangenprozeltenGL,
Kurmainz: is
said by the
Roethling FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Rebart family
This surely
is the same place as
the preceding entry
… the area being
within
Kurmainz in
those days.
Langenreuth: is
4.4 km NNE of
Pegnitz city.
LangensalzGL,
Tomsk: an
unidentified place
said by the Kromm
version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be near
Hamburg and to
be homeUC
to a
Schumacher man
who came here later
than the first
settlers (p.35).
LangensalzaGL,
[Kur-]Sachsen:
is now
Bad Langensalza, Thueringen,
some 56 miles NE of
Fulda, Hessen,
and 19 miles NW of
Erfurt. Said by
the
Jost FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Hagen family.
Said by the
Kolb FSL to be homeUC to a Reuber family.
The
Buedingen ML
says this
Reiber man
married in 1766 a
Ringel woman
(Mai&Marquardt#371);
however he shows up
in
Kolb in 1767
with a
Roth wife. Said
by the
Stahl-am-Karaman
FSL (#18) to be homeUC
to
Wenzel/Vitzel{J.Gottfried}.
LangensalzbergGL,
Isenburg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Kolb FSL to be
homeUC to
Thiel families.
LangenschwartzGL:
is some 16 miles ESE
of
Alsfeld, and
said by the
Buedingen ML to
have been homeUC
to both a
Ruhl man and his
Lutz bride who
may have gone to
Kraft (Mai&Marquardt#648). :
Said by the
Buedingen ML to
be home to a
Bapst man who
married a
Schneider woman
in 1766; by 1767
this couple was in
Krasnoyar;
Stumpp says that
Langenschwarz is
near
Huenfeld, Hessen
(Mai&Marquardt#645).
Said by the
Buedingen ML to be home to a
Schaeffer woman
who married a
Peter man in
1766; by 1767 this
couple was in
Walter (Mai&Marquardt#690).
LangenschwarzGL,
Freie Adelprovinz
der alten Ritter:
is some 11 miles NNW
of
Fulda city, and
said by the
Walter FSL to be
homeUC to
Ils,
Schaefer and Schissler
families.
Same place as
the prior entry.
Langenstadt?GL,
Nuernberg: said
by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Weiss family.
There is a
Langenstadt some 5
miles S of
Kulmbach city,
but it lay in
territory that
surely belonged
either to Bayreuth
Margraviate or the
Thurnau barony, not
to Nuernberg
Imperial City.
LangensteinGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Rickes? family.
There were at
least 4 Langenstein
in the Germanies.
LangensteinGL,
[Kur-]Sachsen: an unidentified place said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Meder family. There is a
Langenstein in
Sachsen-Anhalt
some 3 miles SW of
Halberstadt but
it was not in
Kursachsen.
LangensteinbachGL,
Karlsruhe [Amt], Baden: is some 7.5
miles SE of
Karlsruhe city
and based on
FHL(1,189,472)
the
GCRA believes
that this was homeUC
to the
Brandner family
that went to
Glueckstal.
See their
book for more
information.
LangensulzbachGL,
Weissenburg Kreis,
Elsass: is now
called
Langensoultzbach, is
some 10 miles SW of
Wissembourg, Alsace, France, and was home to
an
Eider family
that settled in
Hoffnungstal,
Bessarabia.
Langeraltar(?):an
unidentified place
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Vollmer family.
This might be
either Langenargen,
Baden-Wuerttemberg
(18 miles SE of
Konstanz), or
perhaps
Langensalza,
Thuengen.
LanggoensGL,
[Hessen-Darmstadt]:
is some 6 miles S of
Geiessen city, and
was the home of the
Wagner man who
settled in
Frank, and to
his ancestors back
to 1620 as well.
LangolfFN:
see
Lamgolf.
LangolffFN:
see
Lamgolf.
Langhaas FN:
said by the
Seelmann FSL to
be fromUC
Enheim,
Bamberg [Bishopric][sic?].
I did not
locate them or any
descendants in
Mai1798.
LangheimGL,
Ansbach [Margraviate]: an unidentified place said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Riedel family.
LanghoferFN:
said by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be fromUC
Oldorf(?),
Mecklenburg. Later
spelled
Langholf (Mai1798:Db39).
LangholfFN:
see
Langhofer.
LanglitzFN:
said by thePleve
version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be fromUC
Nidda and by the
Kromm version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be either
fromUC
Eichelsdorf, Nidda
(p.32), [Amt,
Hessen-Darmstadt], or from
Ober Seemen, Gedern
Amt, Stollberg
near
Nidda (p.34).
Langmacher
FN: said by
the
Stahl-am-Tarlyk
FSL to be fromUC
Heist, [Schleswig-Holstein Royal
Duchy].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:St17).
This man married a
Janssen/Jansen
woman in 1766 in
Luebeck (Mai&Marquardt#96).
Langmann FN:
see
Landmann.
LangsdorfGL,
[Solms-Hungen]:
confirmed home of
the
Trupps who are
said to have gone to
Frank.
LanguedocGL:
the area of southern
France around the
Gulf of Lion on the
Mediterranian.
Said (no
locality indicated)
by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to
Obert{Renard}
and {Georg}
families.
Kuhlberg said
this was in
Frankreich.
Langweiler?FN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Leusel.
Lanhausen: an
unidentified place
said by the
Stephan FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Helfenbein
family.
The only
Lanhausen I can
find is 9 km SSW of
Bremerhaven city
centre and then
apparently was in
Bremen Duchy,
Kurbraunschweig.
Stumpp
(p.134) either
misread the record
or took
Lanhausen to be
a mistake for
Landenhausen
which is 6 km SE of
Lauterbach city
and was then in
Reidesel Barony.
LankenGL:
said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be homeUC
to the
Riffel famly. There were
at least 3 Lankens
in the Germanies.
One was 31 km
E of
Hamburg city
centre, in
Lauenburg Duchy,
Kurbraunsweig.
LankiewiezFN:
said by the
Husaren FSL to
be fromUC
Witebsk,
Polen. I could not find
this family in the
1798 Volga censuses.
Lannert FN:
also see
Lappert.
Lans(?)GL,
was an unidentified
locality which
according to the
Frank FSL was in the state of
Hessen-Darmstadt
and was homeUC
to a
Schauermann
family.
LantzenhainGL:
see
Lanzenhayn.
LanzGL, Witteberge: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to frau Gitle? and to a Ming
family.
Lanzberg?GL,
Brandenburg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Fischer FSL to
be homeUC
to frau
Kepp?.
LanzenbachGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Boregard FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hartmann{Philipp}
family.
There is such
a place 8.5 miles W
of
Bonn city.
Lanzenhayn/LantzenhainGL:
is some 14 miles SW
of Schlitz city and
was in the
Riedesel Barony. See
Schlitz.
Laoschburg(?)GL,
[Kur-]Bayern: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a
Ressendorf
family.
Laplen?,
Dofen?: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Chavalier? family;.
Kuhlberg said this
was in
Frankreich.
LappFN:
listed by both the
1816
Kassel census
(#109) and
KS:353 without
origin, but said by
the 1816
Glueckstal
census (#94) to be
from
Diefenbach,
Maulbronn parish,
Vaihingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
Using
FHL(1,187,160),
the
GCRA verified
this origin.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
LappFN
said by the
Frank FSL to be
fromUC
Pferdsbach(?),
Isenburg.
LappFN:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
the orphaned
children of Heinrich
Lapp and
step-children in a
Henkel
household.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Fk71 and
Nr99.
LappFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Schotten parish
records for many
generations prior to
1767; see
Flegel trip.
LappFN: also see Laub.
Lappegan/LateganFN: said (both spellings) by the
Kano FSL to be
fromUC
Werne.
Spelled
Lattigan with
the wife’s maiden
name given as
Trouba in 1798 (Mai1798:Zg06).
Lappert FN:
said by the
Schaefer FSL to be fromUC Weinheim, Kurpfalz.
In 1798
spelled
Lannert (Mai1798:Sf1).
Lardenbach, [Laubach County]: is 5
km SE of
Gruenberg.
KS126 says it
was homeUC
to
Eckert{J.Heinrich},
also see
Laurenbach..
LaroeschFN
(Loresch
in the
Stahl-am-Karaman FSL): fromUC Rosbach, Thuengen Barony
according to the
Buedingen ML.
The bride was a
Schaed
also fromUC
Rosbach (Marquardt#483). For 1798
see
Mai1798:Sk7.
Larressingle(?)GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Letran family.
There is a
Larressingle village
in the Pyrenees in
France!
LarsenFN:
said by the
Schaefer FSL to
be fromUC
Nasku?,
Daenemark [Kingdom], with
a
Manus stepson in
the household.
The Larsens
surely died prior to
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
LarsenFN:
the wife was said
(no locality
mentioned) by the
Schaefer FSL to
be fromUC
[Hessen-]Darmstadt
[Landgraviate].
LarsenFN{Rosemary};
the AHSGR village
coordinator for
Kamenka and Pfeifer
colonies.
LarshGL,
[Kur-]Mainz: see Lorsch, [Kur-]Mainz.
LassFN:
said by the
Laub FSL to be
fromUC
Klauswetz?,
Mecklenburg. In 1798
spelled
Laas (Mai1798:Lb14).
LassFN:
this
woman married in
1765 in
Luebeck married
a
Hansen man;
spelled
elsewhere
Latz (Mai&Marquardt#34).
By 1767 they
were in
Reinhard, not in Dinkel.
LateauFN:
said by the
Seelmann FSL to
be fromUC
Saint-Julien-de
…?,
Dauphin?.
I did not
locate them or any
descendants in
Mai1798.
LateganFN:
see
Lappegan.
LatmerFN:
see
Ladner.
Latoszkowa: aka
Latschanow.
La TourGL,
Frankreich: an
unidentified place
said by the
Degott FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Degenhardt
family.
There are
several La Tours in
France.
Latschanow,
Poland: an unidentified place which the GCRA thinks may have been Latschanow-bei-Kepa near old Warsaw now absorbed within Warsaw city; found by the
GCRA to be
associated with a
Weber family.
LattenbachFN:
said by the
Dehler FSL to be
fromUC
Menning, [Kur-]Bayern.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
LattiganFN:
see
Lappegan.
LattmerFN:
see
Ladner.
LatviaGS:
see Lifland.
LatzFN:
see
Lass.
LaubFN:
said by the
Laub FSL to be
fromUC
Niederhof,
Darmstadt.
LaubFN:
said by the
Reinwald FSL to
be fromUC
Heilbronn,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy].
Spelled
Lapp in 1798 (Mai1798:Rw9,
Sz10).
LaubVV:
(aka
Tarlyk) is a
Lutheran German
village on the
eastern side of the
Volga founded in
1767.
Its
FSL is now
published in Pleve,
Einwanderung …,
vol.III, pp. 19-36.
According to
this, the first
settlers were from
the following places
{italics indicate
information from the
Kuhlberg list} with
the family names
shown here in
parens.
Other
spellings of family
names, usually from
later sources are in
square brackets.
Verified
corrections are in
red.
The number
with the family name
is their household
number in the FSL:
from
Alten, Holstein:
(Baecker48);
from
Appenrod, Darmstadt:
(Wiederkehr[Witterker]18);
from
Augsburg: (Fendel52);
from
Backnang,
Wuerttemberg: (Hort[Horth]47
and possibly
Schwachewer?47a);
from
Birkenfeld: (Kagel59 and possibly
Bernhardt59a);
from
Bradern?,
Ansbach: (Dauer41);
from
Bubenheim?,
Kurpfalz: (Heller8,
Schneider11);
from
Burbach,
Darmstadt: (Blau19);
from
Colmar,
Elsass: (Ganser16 and
possibly
Graf16a);
from
Darmstadt: (Stahlmann36);
from
Dinkelsbuehl,
Schwaben: (Trap[Trapp]49);
from
Eberstadt,
Darmstadt: (Kreutzer17);
from
Ebingen,
Wuerttemberg: (Strasser53);
from
Eichenborn,
Nassau-Weilburg: (Engelmann31
and possibly
Flach31a);
from
Erschten Hellbrunn?,
Holstein: (Schwimle64);
from
Fischbach,
Falkenstein: (Merk[Moerck,Merck]32);
from
Frankfurt-am-Main:
(Reibich[Rossbach??]54);
from
Freiwalde,
Preussisch-Schlesien: (Sommer51);
from
Grebenhain,
Alsfeld: (Kruse20);
from
Grebenhain,
Darmstadt: (Wiel[Will]29);
from
Griesheim,
Frankfurt-am-Main: (Lohmann38);
from
Guestrow,
Mecklenburg: (Sasse46 and
perhaps
Eckardt[Eckhardt]46a);
from
Hasselborn,
Nassau: (Belz[Beltz/Betz]60);
from
Hof,
Bayreuth: (Gerwelheim?50
and possibly
Antor50a);
from
Kiel,
Holstein: (Althausen66,
Stern34);
from
Kirsbach,
Kurpfalz: (Engel63);
from
Klauswetz?,
Mecklenburg: (Lass[Laas]37);
from
Kloster,
Boehmen: (Horn45);
from
Koenigsberg,
Brandenburg: (Bitter30);
from
Koenigsberg,
Darmstadt: (Bruek[Brick]28,
and possibly
Kous?28a);
from
Koenigsberg,
Preussen: (Wikster?[Vigek?]42);
from
Krumbach,
Darmstadt: (Hermann[Herrmann]9);
from
Krusenfeld?,
Mecklenburg(Vorrath[Vorath]67);
from
Kundenschburg?,
Hessen-Kassel: (Kohl55);
from
Langenhain,
Darmstadt: (Schmidt7);
from
Loch,
Kurpfalz: (Ritz23);
from
Merenberg,
Nassau-Weilburg: (Deis2);
from
Nassau-Idstein:
(Schumann26);
from
Niederhof,
Darmstadt: (Laub1);
from
Niederkirchen,
Zweibruecken: Jung44);
from
Ober-Ramstadt,
Darmstadt: (Bichner[Bruechner]3,
Hinkel22, Kuhlmann5,58,
Rothgang[Rottenheiser?]4);
from
Rappoldshofen-bei-Neustadt-an-der-Aisch,
Bayreuth: (Kolb56);
from
Rosenfeld,
Wuerttemberg: (Stuertz[Stuetz]27,
and possibly
Mueller27a);
from
Rossdorf, Darmstadt:
(Busch10,
Franz13, Friedrich14,
Schaefer15,
Simon57);
from
Roth,
Hessen-Kassel: (Kahler21);
from
Saryhausen?,
Wuerttemberg: (Ludwig40);
from
Schmiedeberg?,
Sachsen: (Hermann[Herrmann]43);
from
Schwanheim,
Darmstadt: (Eberlein6);
from
Serapen?,
Kurpfalz: (Seiler39);
from
Sommersdorf,
Ansbach: (Leikam33);
from
Stuttgart?,
Wuerttemberg: (Full?68);
from
Tennig?,
Ansbach: (Weber12, and
possibly
Braun12a);
from
Vollerwiek?,
Holstein: (Benedickt[Benedict]24);
from
Waldgirmes,
Darmstadt: (Zubiks[Zubick]62);
from
Waltz?,
Nassau-Idstein: (Aulmann35);
from
Wetzlar: (Hinkelmann61, Roth25);
from
Zwickau,
Sachsen: (Hepfner65).
LaubachFN{J.Peter}:
according to the
Krasnoyar FSL
orphan living with
an
Armbruester
family that was fromUC
Homburg,
Darmstadt.
LaubachFN:
said by the
Messer FSL to be
a step-son living in
the
Lehr household.
LaubachGL,
Buedingen[sic]:
said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Griesmann
family.
Laubach is
only 18 miles NNW of
Buedingen city,
but it was
the seat of its own
state,
Solms-Laubach
and it did not
belong to
Buedingen or
Isenburg.
LaubachGS:
short for the independent state of
Solms-Laubach County
which was seated
in the town of Laubach, which is some 13 miles ESE of
Giessen city. None of the following
references mentions
a locality:
The
Lang wife of a Bastron man was from Laubach;
the couple went to
Frank.
Said by
the
Grimm FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Worms family,
but the
Buedingen ML
says that this
Wurm man fromUC
Freyenseen
married a
Gruen woman in
1766 (Mai&Marquard#501).
Said by the
Koehler FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Diel family; the
Buedingen ML
said this family was
fromUC
Hoechst in the
Wetterau
(Mai&Marquardt#709);
Hoechst probably
was in
Hanau County,
just S
of Solms-Laubach
County lands.
Said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to Baecker, Diel,
Eckart/Eckardt,
Eusel, Felsinger,
Fischer,
Fritz, Hessler,
Idt,
Jaeger, Keller,
Kins?,
Kraus, Kuenzler,
Lenz,
Meier, Pfeifer,
Pieh, Schad, Schaefer,
Schetz,
Schneider, Schreiner,
Wieser, and
perhaps
Schneider and
Zimmer families. Said by
the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Metzer/Metzler family. Said by
the
Schaefer FSL to
be homeUC
to frau
Lerch{Rudolph}
the widow of
Nicolaus{Johann}.
Said by the
Schulz FSL to be homeUC to a Zitzer family.
LaubeFN:
see
Lauwe.
LaubeVV:
an alternative name
for
LauweVV.
LaubenGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Kano FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Bleier family.
Said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Gruendler family and possibly to Hesslich and Wahl orphans
as well.
There are 3
such places in
Germany and 1 in
Poland.
Laubenheim,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Keller FSL to be homeUC to the Martin and Philipp{Adam}
families.
This might be
either 3 miles S of
Bingen town, or
what is now the
neighborhood on the
southern edge of
Mainz city.
Lauber?FN:
said by the
Reinhard FSL to be step-children in the Rolof household. I could not find them in Mai1798.
Laubhan FN:
said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be fromUC
Nerreth, [Nuernberg Imperial City].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Sv11,
12, 30 and 60.
Laubuseschbach,
[Wied-]Runkel [County]:
is 10 miles E of
Runkel town, and
was said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Neuhof family.
Said by the
Warenburg FSL to be homeUC to a Heil family.
LauchFN:
said by the
Anton FSL to be
fromUC
Hanau (no
locality mentioned).
Spelled
Laut in 1798 (Mai1798:An57).
LauchnerFN:
said by the
Hoelzel FSL to
be fromUC
Untersteinbach,
Bamberg [Bishopric].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Dl22 (where the maiden name of frau Lauchner is given as
Schumann), Hz34;
also spelled
Leichner (Ps15).
According to a
Woehrd ML this
man fromUC
Wolkenstein,
Bamberg,
married in 1766 a
Winter woman
of
Aalen,
Swabia (Stumpp says this is now Aalen, Wuerttemberg) (Mai&Marquardt#818).
LauchnerFN:
see
Winter of
Lauwe.
LauckFN:
said by the
Doenhof FSL to
be fromUC
Gelnhausen (no
locality mentioned).
LauckFN: also see Leik.
LaudaGL,
[Wuerzburg
Bishopric]: is
some 18.5 miles SW
of
Wuerzburg city,
and said by the
Kano FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Nuss family.
LaudenbachGL,
is an
unidentified
locality which,
according to the
Frank FSL, was
in the
Freie Adelprovinz
der alten Ritter(?)
and was homeUC
to a
Schapf(?)
family. There are numerous
Laudenbachs and
Lautenbachs in
Germany.
This may well
have been
Lauterbach, see
below.
LaudenbachGL,
Bergstrassen: an
unidentified place
said by the
Preuss FSL to be
home to an
Bengler family.
This is the
same place as the
next entry.
Laudenbach?,
Kurpfalz: is on the Bergstrasse 19 km NE of Mannheim city centre and was said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC to Berger and
Destein
families.
In his first
translation Pleve
spelled this
Ladonerbach(?).
LaudenbachGL,
Mannheim [Amt], Baden: is some 11
miles NE of
Mannheim city,
and said by the 1816
Glueckstal
census to be homeUC
to the
Schell family.
This is the
same place as the
previous entry,
except 50 years
later.
Laudenberg, [Kurmainz]: is 24 km S of
Miltenberg-am-Main,
and said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be homeUC
to the
Meier{Martin}
family.
See also
Ladenburg.
LauderbachFN:
see
Lauterbach.
Lauenburg DuchyGS->GL:
just E of
Hamburg Imperial
City,
independent to 1705
when absorbed by
Kurbraunswieg
(i.e. Hanover) and
so until 1810-15
when subsumed into
Hanover Kingdom.
Lauenhain: see
Lauenheim.
Lauenheim?: said
by the Recruiter
Beauregard’s list (Lk150)
to have been homeUC
to
Burghardt{Georg}.
Kuhlbereg
said this was in
Bamberg.
This probably
was 37 km NE of
Coburg city, the
in
Bamberg Bishopric,
and is now called
Lauenhain.
LauerFN{Jakob
s/o Elis.}: listed
by the
Bergdorf 1816
census with no
origin (KS:665)
but said by
KS:353) to have
been from
Kayh, Herrenberg [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
However, the
GCRA has proven
their origin in
Ehrstaedt,
Sinsheim [Amt],
Baden using
FHL(1,336,611).
See their
book for more
detail.
LauerFN{Elisabetha}:
the
GCRA proved this
widow came to
Bergdorf from
Neckarzimmern,
Mosbach [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
See the
GCRA book for
detail.
LauerFN{Eva
Rosina}: listed as
frau
Richert in the
1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:670, 673) with no origin.
The
GCRA proved her
origin in
Pfaeffingen,
Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg,
using
FHL 1,457,485;
see their book for
detail.
LauerFN:
said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be fromUC
Pfaffenwiesbach,
[Wallbott
Barony].
I could not
find this man in the
1798 Volga censuses.
LauerFN:
there is some
evidence in the
Rothammel FSL
that a Lauer family
might be fromUC
Springen, Nassau.
LauerFN:
said by the
Schwed FSL to be
fromUC
Breslow?,
Schweden. I could not
identify them or any
likely descendants
in
Mai1798.
LauerFN:
the wife was said by
the
Schwed FSL to be
fromUC
Breslau?,
Holstein.
LaufGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Boregard FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Schneider{Christian}
family.
There are at
least 5 Laufs in
Bavaria and 1 in
Baden-Wuerttemberg.
LaufachGL,
Hessen-Darmstadt:
now in
Bavaria is 6
miles ENE of
Aschaffenburg
city; see
Lofert.
LauferFN:
said by the
Messer FSL to be
fromUC
Hessen (no
locality mentioned).
Lauffen-am-NeckarGL,
Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 5 miles SW of
Heilbronn city,
and was
proven by
GCRA to be home
to the
Rembold and
Schneider{J.Friedrich}families
that went to
Glueckstal.
Also was
proven by the
GCRA to be home
to the
Schaefer family
that settled in
Neudorf.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
LauggenGL,
Wuerttemberg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Graf FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Tak family.
LaumannFN:
said by the
Schuck FSL to be
fromUC
Muenschbach,
Schoenberg. For 1793 and
1798 see
Mai1798:Mv2641,Su15
and Gb55.
Launsdorf: now
Launstroff, France, is 5 miles W of Merzig, Saarland, Germany.
Darrell Brungardt
found it to be home
to the
Allerborn/Ahlerborn
family that settled
in
Hoelzel.
Launstroff,
Lorraine, France: is 5
miles W of
Merzig,
Saarland, Germany.
It is
Launsdorf in German.
LaupFN:
a misprint on
KS:353 for
Laux; see the GCRA book
for detail.
LaurenbachGL,
Laubach County:
said by the
Walter FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Vajas/Foltz
family.
The Walter
Research Group
identified this
place as
Lautenbach, but
I suspect it was
Lardenbach, Hessen.
LaurentFN:
said by the
Louis FSL to be
fromUC
Busendorf,
Lothringen. In 1798 the family name was spelled
Lorang (Mai1798:Ls5,13).
Lausi(?)GL,
see
Lauzes.
LausitzGL:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Bilzack and
possibly a
Rettich family.
There is a
Lausitz in
Brandenburg some 13 miles NE of Laas, Saxony.
LautFN:
according to a
Luebeck ML a
Laut woman married
in 1766 an
Otto man;
the couple was in
Bangert by 1767
(Mai&Marquardt#258).
LautFN:
said
by a 1766
Luebeck church
record to be the
maiden name of the
wife of the
Schwenk who first settled in
Kano [Mai&Marquardt#1305].
Laut FN:
mistakenly named
Laux in the 1858
Kassel census (#222) with no origin given, and in
KS:354
mistakenly
identified as the
Laux family from
Markgroeningen. Using FHL#247,603
the
GCRA proved
their origin in
Goecklingen,
Landau [Amt], Rheinpfalz.
Laut{Elizabeth}FN:
she is listed
in the 1798
Straub census as
the wife of
Dellos (hk74)
and the widow of
Zerr who “lived
in
Kukkus” (Mai1798:Sr34).
I cannot find
her in any FSL.
Laut FN:
also see
Lauch.
LautahlFN:
said by the
Kraft FSL to be
fromUC
Berlin.
Also spelled
Lautal.
LautalFN:
see
Lautahl.
LautenbachGL,
Laubach County:
I do not believe
such a place existed
in
Laubach County;
see
Laurenbach.
LautenbachGS:
an unidentified
German state.
LautenschlaegerFN:
said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC
Mainz (no
locality mentioned).
LautenschlaegerFN:
said by both Pleve
and Stumpp versions
of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be fromUC
Erbach (now
in the state of
Hessen);
according to a
Luebeck ML, this
man fromUC
the
County of
Erbach (no locality given) married in 1766 a
Daumer woman;
later this couple
went to
Jagodnaja Polyana
(Mai&Marquardt#325);
the Kromm
version of the FSL
says the man may
have been from
either
Erbach or
Offenbach.
LauterGL,
is an unidentified
locality which
according to the
Frank FSL was in
the state of
Hessen-Darmstadt
and was homeUC
to 2
Becher families..
There is a
Lautern 11.5 miles
SSE of
Darmstadt.
LauterbachFN:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
fromUC
Si[eg]burg(?),
Kurpfalz. Moved
elsewhere in 1770 (Mai1798:
Mv265).
LauterbachFN:
said by the
Kraft FSL to be
fromUC
Burgsinn.
LauterbachFN:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned).
Spelled booth
Lauterbach (Nr210) and
Lauderbach
(Hk16) in 1798.
LauterbachGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Rabbe/Raab/Raabe family.
Said by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Kahl family.
Said by the
Grimm FSL to be homeUC (no locality mentioned) to a
Schwarz family.
Said by the
Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC to a
Rausch family.
Said by the
Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Dietz woman who married in 1766 a Mack man; the couple later moved to Kraft (Mai&Marquardt#670).
Said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to Schmidt and Weithardt
families;
the
Buedingen ML
said this man was
fromUC
Obern-Ohm (Mai&Marquardt#597).
Said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Suppes family. Said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Mueller family.
Said by the
Reinwald FSL to be homeUC to the Ruppel{Valentin} family.
Said by the
Schwed FSL to be
homeUC to
Eirich,
Jaeger and
Pfeifer families, as well as to Mueller{A.Margaretha}.
Said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be homeUC
to
Aganberg?, and
perhaps
Frankfurt
families.
Said by the
Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be homeUC to
Gauzen{Konrad}26,
Ripsa{Johannes}27 and
Sheeberg/Schnegelberger{Johannes}25a).
Said by the
Stephan FSL to be homeUC to Doering and Alt families.
Almost all of
these families
probably came from
the
Fulda/Riedesel
Lauterbach (see
2nd next
entry below), but
could have come from
one of any of the 39
other Lauterbachs in
the German-speaking
lands.
LauterbachGL,
Austria[sic?]:
said by the
Schwed FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Eurich family. There are at least 4
Lauerbachs in
Austria today.
LauterbachGL,
[Riedesel
Barony]:
This city,
near
Ulrichstein and 26.4 miles NE of Buedingen, Isenburg, occupied an anomalous position in that it was
geographically and
historically a part
of the
Fulda Abbey/later Bishopric,
but by formal
agreement in 1684
between the
Fulda Abbott (Catholic) and and the then Riedesel Baron (Lutheran), it was from 1684-1806
actually
controlled by the
Riedesel (zu
Eisenbach) Barons and served as their main home, even though the
traditional seat of
their Barony was
just to the S in
Eisenbach.
LauterbachGL,
Rietesel(?):
said by a family
chart to be homeUC
to a
Pfeifer
family. Rietesel surely is
Riedesel. Same
place as the
previous entry.
LauterbachFN:
also see
Louterbach.
Lauterbourg, Bas-Rhin, Alsace,
FranceGL:
see
Lauterburg.
Lauterburg,
Elsass: nka Lauterbourg
is 9 miles WSW of
Karlsruhe city,
and was said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Schaber family.
LauterburgGL,
France: nka
Lauterbourg, Bas-Rhin,
Alsace,
France, some 9 miles WSW of
Karlsruhe,
Baden-Wuerttemberg,
and said by the
Schuck FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Berkenstock
family.
This is the
same place as the
previous entry.
LautereckenGL:
in the 1760s and
until 1778 this was
a Kreis i.e.
district
administrative
center for the
country of
Kurpfalz.
After 1778 it
was part of
Bavarian-owned
Rheinpfalz.
The town is
some 16 miles NW of
Kaiserslautern
city.
Lauterecken,
Kusel [Oberamt]GL,
Rheinpfalz: is
11 miles NW of
Kusel town and
the
GCRA believes this may have been home to the Steinhauer family that went to
Kassel.
The
GCRA also
believes the
Ficke/Fuecke
family
that settled
in
Kassel likely came fromUC here.
Lauterecken-an-der-GlanGL:
is some sixteen
miles NW of
Kaiserslautern,
now in the
Rhineland-Palatinate,
and said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be homeUC
to an
Eckler family.
Kuhlburg says the
state is
Pfalz.
The reference
might be either to
the town or the
kreis.
This and the
previous two entries
are the same place,
at different times.
Lautern
Kreis (aka)GL: in the 1760s and until 1778 this was a
Kreis i.e.
administrative
district for the
country of
Kurpfalz. After 1778 it
was part of
Bavarian-owned
Rheinpfalz.
It was seated
in
Kaiserlautern city.
LautertalGL,
Schoenberg?: is
6.5 km NE of
Bensheim town.
Lauterwasser{Franz+w}:
Kulberg112 said
they were Catholic
fromUC
Freiberg.
I did not
find them in
T, any published FSL, or
in
Mai1798.
LauweFN:
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
fromUC
Braunschweig (no
locality mentioned).
In 1798 the
family name was
given as
Laube (Mai1798:St18).
LauweVV:
(aka
Laube, Jablonovka,
Jablonowka, and
Yablonovka) is a
Lutheran German
village founded in
1767 on the eastern
side of the Volga.
Its
FSL is now
published in Pleve,
Einwanderung …,
vol.III, pp. 37-49.
According to
this, the first
settlers were from
the following places
{italics indicate
information from the
Kuhlberg list} with
the family names
shown here in
parens.
Other
spellings of family
names, usually from
later sources are in
square brackets.
Verified
origin information
is in red.
The number
with the family name
is their household
number in the FSL:
from
Allerheiligen,
Darmstadt: (Bitter46,47);
from
Anahlt-Bernburg:
(Drechsler[Drexler]4,
Ude[Ute]12);
from
Aungin?,
Luxembourg: (Belz[Benz]20);
from
Aurach: (Fischer14, and possibly
Raschler14a);
from
Bayreuth: (Meisner3);
from
Beckenau?,
Wittenberg: (Wild36);
from
Braunschweig: (Lauwe[Laube]1);
from
Breternitz,
Sachsen: (Schitzel45);
from
Bruck,
Erlangen: (Lampel[Lambel]42);
from
Burmintz?,
Daenmark: (Weissberg30);
from
Eberbach,
Kurpfalz: (Martin28 and
possibly
Morasch28a);
from
Ecklefstein: (Heyd[Heidt]39):
from
Ehring,
Ansbach: (Kek[Keck]57);
from
Esch,
Schoenborn: (Grefenstein[Greifenstein]41);
from
Eschach?,
Olenburg?: (Winter23);
from
Forth,
Nuernburg: (Prinz18);
from
Freiberg,
Sachsen: (Steinbarth7);
from
Friedland,
Sachsen: (Grasmueck5);
from
Frommenhausen,
Wuerttemberg: (Schuller34);
from
Fuerstenwalde?,
Sachsen: (Knoche2);
from
Fuerth,
Ansbach: (Blem22,
Maerz43);
from
Giessen,
Darmstadt: (Magel49);
from
Goburgon?,
Nuernberg: (Schuster56);
from
Goldberg,
Preussen: (Schulz54);
from
Gorgom?,
Wittenberg: (Barthulyus50);
from
Ilm,
Schwarzburg: (Reinhardt6);
from
Karich?,
Berend?: (Forster[Foerster]19);
from
Kemberg,
Sachsen: (Richter44);
from
Klemintz?,
Sachsen: (Kraemer53);
from
Klesinberg?
Ansbach: (Timler[Dermer?]40;
from
Laibstadt?,
Nuernberg: (Heckel35);
from
Langenstadt?,
Nuernberg: (Weiss16);
from
Leipzig,
Sachsen: (Schindler24);
from
Lueneburg,
Hannover: (Schroeder13);
from
Marbach,
Wuerttemberg: (Jaeger29);
from
Mekerkingen?,
Wittenberg: (Mekler52);
from
Moemlingen,
Kurmainz: (Preuss8);
from
Munningen,
Enslingen: (Rothgang55);
from
Oberaltertheim:
(Schatz21 and possibly Kerner[Koerner/Geringer]21a);
from
Ravensburg?,
Schwaben: (Baude[Baute]9,
Dipolt?10);
from
Sangerhausen,
Sachsen: (Stieglitz51 and
possibly
Mueller51a);
from
Sasa?,
Darmstadt: (Schmidt48 and
possibly
Bohlenger48a);
from
Schkopau: (Kasner58);
from
Sleigouim?,
Fraenkischen Ritterkreis: (Schmidt25);
from
Undenheim: (Rein37);
from
Wiederau,
Sachsen: (Andreas15);
from
Wiesenthau,
Ansbach: (Markus11);
from
Wikansdol?,
Sachsen: (Maiwald27);
from
Wildbach,
Wittenberg: (Ekspel?17);
from
Willmandingen,
Wuerttemberg: (Gaurer?32,
Wagner33,
Wechlein31);
from
Winzenburg: (Mauch[Mauck]26);
from
Wittenberg, Sachsen:
(Goeringen38
and possibly
Schmidt38a).
Laux FN:
members of this
family were some
years in
Glueckstal and
were
proven to originate
in
Markgroeningen, Ludwigsburg
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg by the GCRA
using
FHL 1,056,750-1;
see their book for
much more.
Laux FN:
mistakenly named in
the 1858
Kassel census
(#222) and in
KS:354.
This family
actually was
Laut. See the
GCRA book for
more.
Lauzes/Lausi(?)GL,
Frankreich: an
unidentified
locality
Lauzes, Frankreich:
is 25 km SW of
Gramat city,
France, and said by the
Kamenka FSL
(#82) to be homeUC
to
Legrand/Le
Grand {Jean
Jacques/Jacob}.
Laval,
Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Rucois/Ruquier family.
There are at
least 16 Lavals in
France.
Lavan(?)GL,
Frankreich: an
unidentified place
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Grafar family.
Lawinoj(?)GL,
Wuerttemberg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Strep? family.
Layenberger: see
Haas{Elisabeth} of Kassel.
LayherFN:
see
Laier.
LaznoGL:
probably was
Laznow.
Laznow Amt,
Posen Department, South
Prussia: is 17
miles SE of Lodz,
Poland, and may
have been in
Piotrdow
Kreis.
Updated 10/2012
|
