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UberFN:
see
Ubre.
UbertFN:
see
Ubre.
UbreFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Dommartin, Picardie,
Frankreich with
a
Krefeld
wife fromUC
Kirchhalt.
Pleve thought
this might be
spelled
Uber.
Gary Ubert
says it is
Ubert!
Gary's
and his brothers's
DNA tests show that
the family
Y-Chromosome
DNA belongs to the
quite rare K2
Haplogroup.
In
France
and in
Moersch, Baden-Baden, perhaps as early as 1655, the
name was spelled
Houbre.
The 1777
Katharinenstadt
census says that a
son had been born
about 1761 in
Niederburg Meyitz. One
of the Dommartin
Houbre men
married a
Poullet woman
UccleGL:
see
Ukkel.
UchnitzGL,
Stuhm Amt: is
now Usnice,
Poland,
and was some 8.5
miles N of
Stuhm town. Said
by the
Rosenort FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Borm{Peter}
family.
Also spelled
Uschnitz and
Usnitz.
UckersdorfGL,
Nassau-Dillenburg:
is some 3 miles SSW
of
Dillenburg town,
and said by the
Bangert FSL to
homeUC to
a
Siebert family.
UdeFN:
said by the
LauweFSL to be
fromUC
Anahlt-Bernburg
(no locality
mentioned).
In 1798 the
family name was
given as
Ute (Mai1798:Lw36).
Uder, Thueringen:
see
Audra.
UebeleFN:
see
Ibele.
Ueberau-bei-ReinheimGL,
[Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate?]:
is 1 mile SE of
Reinheim and
was home to the
Stukert who
settled and died in
Schwab (Gieg1).
UeberlingenGL:
is some 7 miles N of
Konstanz,
Switzerland, and
said by the
Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Berger family.
UeckermuendeGL,
Preussisch Pommern:
is some 89 miles NNE
of Berlin, in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
and said by the
Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Kratzke family.
UelsFN:
see
Ils.
UendveisenGL,
Hesse-Darmstadt:
an unidentified
place, said by the
Walter FSL to be
homeUC to
a
_eman family.
The
Walter Research Project suggested that this might be
Unterweissenborn,
Hessen, but that
seems too far N and
E to have been
Hessen-Darmstadt
…
Uffhofen,
Kurpfalz: is 7 km NW of Alzey
city and was said by
the
Straub FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Frieck family.
Ufoborn?,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Straub FSL to be homeUC to a Zahn family.
UhlFN:
said by the
Boregard FSL to
be fromUC
Hoegen.
UhlFN{Friedrich}:
said by the
Warenburg FSL
(#78) to be fromUC
Pansenheim?,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Wr53 and 56.
Uhl{Joseph}:
KS:82 and nnn say this party of 3 fromUC
Winterberg
(which Stumpp noted
was in
Westfalen) in
1764 was sent on to
the
Saratov area as
part of
the group of
colonists
transported under
the command of
Captain
Paykul and Cornet
Rehbinder.
I have not
found them in any
published FSL.
UhlFN:
also see
Ohl.
Uhlemann{Johanna
Christina}:
in
Rosslau 8 April
1766
married
Gorioce{Samuel}.
(Mai&Marquardt#915).
KS131 says he
was 23and she was
24, and the year was
1765 (sic).
I did not
find them in any
published FSL.
Uhlebuell: is 38
km due W of Flensburg.
UhlmanFN,
see
Uhlmann.
UhlmannFN:
said by the
Preuss FSL to be
fromUC
Baerenbach,
Kurmainz.
Later may
have been spelled
Uhlman.
UhlmannFN:
said by the
Preuss FSL to be
fromUC
Dernbach, Kurmainz.
UhrFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Kirburg marriage
records 1762-1767;
see
Flegel trip.
UhrichFN:
said by the
Volmer FSL to be
fromUC
Zweibruechen.
UhrichFN:
also see
Urich and
Uhrig.
Uhrig/UhrichFN:
said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to
be fromUC Mannheim,
Kurpfalz.
Uhlsbuell in
Eiderstedt: this
must be
Uhlebuell, which
see.
Also see
Eiderstedte.
UhrslebenGL:
see
Uphersleben.
Uhyst-am-Taucher,
[Kur-]Sachsen: is 14 km W
of
Bautzen city and was said by the
Urbach FSL to be
homeUC
to a
Stengler family.
Ukkel?GL,
[Brabant
Duchy]: aka
Uccle,
is just S of Brussels
city, and said by
the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Thai family.
UlbergFN:
see
Ilberg.
UldenGS:
an unidentified
German state; see
Muenster, Ulden.
UldrenFN:
said by the Rosenheim
FSL to be the maiden
name of frau
Schmerbeck.
UlfaGL,
Nidda Amt, Hessen-Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
is 12 miles
NNE of
Buedingen and 3 miles N of
Nidda,
Hesse.
Said by
the
Frank FSL, to be
homeUC to
a
Luft family.
Said by
the Pleve and Kromm
versions of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Kles family, although the Pleve version does not mention
Nidda and
indicates Ulfa was
near
Buedingen.
Said by the
Stumpp version of
the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Koch family.
Ulff GL,
[Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate]:
now called
Ulfa, is 5 km N
of
Nidda town and
was said by the
Buedingen ML to
be homeUC
to
the
Rohn woman who
in 1766 married
Schmidt{Christian}
in
Buedingen
(Mai&Marquardt#542).
They may have
settled in
Brabander.
Ulitz?FN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
Berlin.
I could not
find this man in the
1798 censuses.
UllrichFN:
said by the
Messer FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned).
). In 1798 the
family name was
spelled
Ulrich (Mai1798:Ms20).
UlmFN:
see
Ilig.
UlmGL, Bavaria (after
1803), then
Wuerttemberg
(after 1810): the
city is now in
Baden-Wuerttemberg
some 44 miles SE of
Stuttgart
Stuttgart at the
junction of the Blau
and
Danube Rivers.
According to
Remmick: “Many uber schachtel [wood boats] carried German emigrants
on the Danube to the
frontiers of
Austria-Hungary
and later to
Russia....
[including] the
Pfaff family who
migrated to Torschau
/
Batschka in Austria-Hungary and later to
Worms,
Odessa,
S. Russia with Duc de Richelieu. ...”
Ulm(?)GL,
[Solms-]Braunfels [Principality]
is some 6 miles NW
of
Braunfels city,
and said by the
Kukkus FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Weber family.
Ulm
near
Wetzlar: Christ{Peter} was said by KS124
to have left fromUC
here.
This must
have been the same
place as in the
preceding entry.
I could not
find him in any
published FSL or in
Mai1798.
Ulm [Imperial
City?]:
Said by the the
Rohleder FSL to
be homeUC
to an
Ertel family and
to frau
Frank.
There is
always the
possiblity this was
one of the other two
Ulm
countries.
UlmGS
(Schwaben): was the short name of three different countries in the
Swabian area in
the 1760’s:
Ulm Barony, Ulm
Imperial
City, and the
von Ulm Barony.
I do not see
any way to identify
which is which in
the FSL although
most references are
probably to the
lands of the Imperial City.
None of the
following references
mention any
locality.
Said by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Pemsel family;
Kuhlberg said this
was in
Schwaben.
Said by the
Caesarsfeld FSL to be homeUC to the Bozenhardt family. Said
by the
Graf FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Schmidt family.
Said by the
Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Schakin? family.
Said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Geld family.
Said by the
Jost FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Moehring family.
Said by the
Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Scheibele family. Said
by the
Merkel FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Gel family.
Said by the
Messer FSL to be homeUC to an Emert family. Said
by the
Schwed FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Raspen family.
Said by the
Urbach FSL to be homeUC
to frau
Hanisch, the
former widow
Faust.
Said
by the
Volmer FSL to be
home to a
Dreher family.
Ulm BaronyGS: was a very small barony due W of
Tuebingen city
and due N of
Rottenburg town
with a tiny outpost
on Lake Constance,
half-way between
Constance
city and
Schaffhausen
city.
Ulm Imperial CityGS:
starting in 1155 it
was the only large
Ulm state with broad
lands around the
city proper
stretching NE beyond
Langenau and more
than 20 miles NW to
beyond Geislingen,
encompassing many
villages and towns.
UlmstadtGL:
sic for
Umstadt.
Ulo(?)GL,
Finnland: said
by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Asplew? family.
This might be Oulu,
Finland,
some 378 miles NW of
St. Petersburg,
Russia.
UlrichFN:
said by the
Balzer FSC to be
a widowed
mother-in-law in the
Becker{Weil}
household .
She surely
died prior to the
1798 census.
UlrichFN:
said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC
the
Pfalz (no
locality mentioned).
UlrichFN:
said by the
Doenhof FSL to
be fromUC
Wuerttemberg (no
locality mentioned).
UlrichFN:
said by the
Goebel FSL to be
fromUC
Fischbach, Mainz.
UlrichFN
{J.Melchior}: said
by Kuhlberg4868 and
the
Huck FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality or country
indicated).
UlrichFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Orb, Mainz. Sean
McGinnis has traced
this
Prasch family in
Orb back to the
1600’s in the
Fulda archives.
UlrichFN:
said by the
Keller FSL to be
fromUC
Kolheim?,
Kurmainz.
UlrichFN:
Herr
Ulrich was said
by the
Koehler FSL to
be fromUC
Lohr, and his
frau’s maiden name
was given as
Hoffmann (no
origin given).
UlrichFN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
Spielberg.
Spelled both
Ulrich and
Urlich in 1798 (Mai1798:Nm01 and Nm55).
UlrichFN:
said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be fromUC
Orb.
UlrichFN:
said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be fromUC
Wuerzburg no
locality indicated.
UlrichFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Schotten parish
records for many
generations prior to
1767; see
Flegel trip.
UlrichFN:
also see
Uhrich and
Ullrich.
UlrichsteinGL,
[Darmstadt]:
was some 9 miles SW
of
Lauterbach city,
and was the seat of
an Amt [district] of
the same name in
Hessen-Darmstadt.
Said by the
Stumpp version of
the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be homeUC
of a
Rausch family.
Said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to a Funk family.
The
Buedingen ML
says this was homeUC
to
an
Eberlein man who
in 1766 married a
Stein woman;
by 1767 this couple
was in
Walter (Mai&Marquardt#637).
UmetVV:
a Russian name for
RosenbergVV.
Umet IlovlinskaVV:
a Russian name for
RosenbergVV.
Umkirchen?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Ditrich family.
UmsFN:
said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC
Schwaben (no
locality mentioned).
UmstadtGL,
Darmstadt: said
by the
Kraft FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Tempel family.
This surely
is
Umstadt/Gross-Umstadt in the following.
UmstadtGL,
Erbach: see Umstadt/Gross Umstadt.
Umstadt/Gross-UmstadtGL,
Breuberg Condomium:
is 12.5 miles E
of
Darmstadt, 15
miles N of
Erbach, and 21 miles SE of Frankfort
in
Hesse.
Some
FSL place it in
the
Hessen-Darmstadt
duchy and some
in the
Erbach county,
but contemporary
maps seem to agree
with Pastor Kromm
that it was in
Breuberg Condomium.
According to
the
Frank FSL, it was homeUC to a Gras family.
According
to the Stumpp
version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL it was in
Buedingen [i.e.
Isenburg which surely was not true] and was
homeUC
to
Lust and Schmidt
families, but
according to the
Pleve version these
families were fromUC
Umstadt, Erbach, and according to the Kromm version the Lust family was from
elsewhere and the
Schmidt family was
fromUC
Ulmstadt[sic], Breuberg County.
UmstandGL,
Pfalz: an
unidentified place
said by the
Kraft FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Tempel family.
My guess is
that this should be
Umstadt, Darmstadt.
UndeitGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Bettinger FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Sitz/Seiss?
family.
There is an
Ahndeich, Lower Saxony,
some 10 miles WSW of
Bremerhaven city.
UndenheimGL/GS?:
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Rein family.
There is an
Undenheim which
probably would have
been in the
Pfalz, some 6
miles W of
Oppenheim.
UndingenGL,
Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
7.5 miles S of
Reutlingen city,
and was
verified by the
GCRA as the home of the Gugel
family that lived
for a time in
Bergdorf;
see their book for
detail.
Unefuch?FN{Georg}:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
fromUC
Igersheim.
According to
the
Schlitz ML this man was father to the
Unkefug of
Eichenhayn who married there in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#739). Spelled Ungefugt in 1798 (Mai1798:Mn6,13,37).
UnefuchFN:
also see
Ungefug.
Ungarn[ia]: is the country of Hungary.
Ungarn: Said (no
locality mentioned)
by Kuhlberg to be
homeUC to
a
Berer? family
that went to
Brabander.
UngefugFN{Andreas}:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
fromUC
Eichenhayn.
According to the
Schlitz ML
this
Unkefug man
married a
Kayser woman
of UC
Thirrlaunm
in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#739).
Also spelled
Unefuch (Mai&Marquart#739)
and
Ungefugt (Mai1798: Mn15,19).
UngefugtFN:
see
Ungefug and
Unefuch.
UngeheuerFN:
said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be fromUC
Etzenheim?,
Kurtrier. I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
UngelbachN:
said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC
Hanau (no
locality mentioned)
whose wife died in
Oranienbaum
whereupon he married
a
Lecher woman.
UngerFN:
mistakenly said by
both the 1816
Neudorf census
(#117) and
KS:467 to have
come fromUC
Eppingen,
Sinsheim [Amt],
Baden. Using
FHL#1,051,483, the GCRA proved their origin in
Odenheim,
Bruchsal
[Amt],
Baden.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
UngerFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Winterhausen
marriage records
1760-1769; see
Flegel trip.
UnggenriedGL,
Bavaria: see
Gorderig.
UngsteinGL,
Leiningen: is
some 12 miles W of
Mannheim, some
1.7 miles SE of
Leistadt, Leiningen,
and is said by the
Kautz FSL to be
the homeUC
of a
Kauz/Kautz
family.
United Netherlands
GS: was an
independent a
republic 1581-1795,
aka the
Dutch Republic, or United
Provinces.
United Provinces
GS: see
United Netherlands.
UnkefugFN:
this woman
fromUC
Eichenhayn married in Schlitz in 1766 a
Winterholder man;
by 1767 this couple
was in
Boaro
(Mai&Marquardt#745).
UnkefugFN:
also see
Ungefug and
Unefuch.
UnkelbachFN:
according to the
Goebel FSL
Viet’s wife’s maiden name was
Unkelbach.
UnkelbachFN:
according to the
Goebel FSL this
was the maiden name
of
Wunderlich (fromUC
Johannesberg,
Kurmainz)’s
wife.
The name is
given as
Mankerbach in 1798 (Mai1798:Gb63).
UnratFN:
said by the 1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:676, 467) to be from
Schwieberdingen,
Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using
FHL(1,056,754),
the
GCRA verified
this origin;
see their book for
more detail.
Also spelled
Unrath.
UnrathFN:
see
Unrat.
UnreinFN:
said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be fromUC
Buesendorf.
For 1798
Mai1798:Om28,
29, 36, 49, Sn 14,
and possibly Om1.
UnreinFN:
said by the
Orlovskaya FSL
to be the maiden
name of frau
Frachtel (Mai1798: Sn14).
UnruhFN:
said by the 1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:676, 467) to be fromUC Unterjesingen, Tuebingen
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg. Using
FHL(1,189,236),
the
GCRA proved he moved to
Mosbach, Mosbach
Amt, Baden to
marry before going
to
Glueckstal.
UnruhRN:
in his book Die
neiderlaendisch-niederdeutschchen
Hintergruende der
mennonitischen
Oswanderungen im 16.
18. Und 19.
Jahrhundert,
Benjamin H. Unruh
gathered an
incredible wealth of
information about
the origins of
German Mennonite
colonists, including
most of their First
Settlers’ Lists (FSL).
UnstadtGL,
is an
unidentified
locality which,
according to the
Frank FSL, was
in the state of
Hessen-Darmstadt
and was homeUC
to a
Urich family.
This
probably is
Umstadt.
Unteralba,
Fulda [Bishopric]: 21
miles NE of Fulda
city, and said by
the
Dehler FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Ritter family.
UnterbergFN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Herzhausen.
Unterfranken: Lower
Franconia is
today the part of
Bavaria north of
the Main River plus
the area just south
of that river.
UntergneusGL:
see
Unterhens.
UntergroeningenGL,
Jagstkries,
Wuerttemberg: is some 9.5 miles SW of Ellwangen city, and the GCRA
thinks this may be
homeUC to
the
Weimer who went to Glueckstal.
UntergruppenbachGL,
Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
4.5 miles SE of
Heilbronn city,
and
the
GCRA proved this
origin for the
Kolb family that
lived for a time in
Glueckstal;
see their book for
detail.
Unter-Hambach:
is 2 km N of
Heppenheim-an-der-Bergstrasse.
KS129 said this
was near
Heppenheim,
and
KS129 and
Mai&Marquardt#813
said that it was
homeUC to
Flachsmann{M.Barbara}
ev. daughter of
{Christoph(er)} and
bride of
Fuhrmann{J.Georg}.
Unterhens(?)GL:
Said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Krep? family.
This might be
Untergneus some 7 miles SE of
Jena, Thueringen.
Unteriflingen parishGL,
Freudenstadt [Oberamt], Wuerttemberg:
was some 6 miles SE
of
Freudenstadt
city.
UnterjesingenGL,
Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 3 miles W of
Tuebingen city
and said by the
Bergdorf 1858
census to be homeUC
to the
Goehring family;
but
GCRA has proven
that origin wrong.
Proven by the
GCRA to be home
to
Huber{Christian},
Schnaidt, and
Unruh
who went to
Glueckstal,
and
the
GCRA proved this
the birthplace of
the
Schnaidt who
settled in
Kassel.
UnterkoferFN:
said by the 1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:670,
672, 467) to be
from
Boennigheim,
Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using
FHL(1,184,904),
the
GCRA verified
this origin.
See the
GCRA book for
more detail.
Also
spelled
Unterkofler.
UnterkoflerFN:
see
Unterkofer.
Unter Lays/LaisGL,
[Stolberg-Gedern
County?]: is 4
miles E of
Nidda and said
by
the
Buedingen ML
to be homeUC
to
a
Siebert woman who married in 1766 a Stang man; later the couple went to Jagodnaja Poljana (Mai&Marquardt#718).
Said by the
Kromm version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to possibly be
homeUC to
Appel, Luft and
Scheuermann
families.
Said by
the
Buedingen ML
to be homeUC
to
Appel{Heinrich}
deceased father of
{A.Elisabeth} who
married
Rueppel{J.Kaspar}
in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#713,
KS:118 and 143),
identified in no
FSL.
Unterleichtersbach: is 9 km E of Zeitlofs,
then in the
Tuengen Barony.
KS124 says it
was homeUC
to
Ceyer{Anton} and
was near
Wuerzburg. It
was not near
Wuerzburg city
nor was it in the
Wuerzburg Bishopric.
UnterlenningenGL,
Kirchheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 6
miles S of
Kirchheim-unter-Teck,
and was
proven by the
GCRA as origin
for
Wolf{J.Fried.}
who married in
Glueckstal.
UntermannFN:
said by the
Kano FSL to be
fromUC
Rosinbrin?.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
Untermbach?GL:
an
unidentified place
said by the
Shcherbakovka
FSL to be homeUC
to the
Winter family.
UntermockstadtGL,
[Isenburg
County]:
now
NiederMockstadt,
7 miles NW of
Buedingen city,
and said by the
Auerbach index
to be the hometownUC
of a
Beck man who
went from
Hanau County to
Russia.
UnternaubelGL:
an unidentified
place which
according to
the
Buedingen ML
this was homeUC
to
a
Heil
woman
who married in 1766
a
Wiederholt man
fromUC
Niedergruendau;
by 1767 they were in
Messer; (Mai&Marquardt#707).
UnterreichenbachGL,
[Isenburg-Birstein
County]: is some
10 miles NE of
Buedingen city,
and
said by
the
Buedingen ML
to be homeUC
of
a
Wagner woman who
married a
Ruth man in 1766
and then went to
Balzer (Mai&Marquart#417).
UnterschlechtbachGL,
Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
Schlechtbach was
some 10 miles ENE of
Waiblingen town
and 4.5 miles W of
Welzheim town.
Said by
KS:396 to have been homeUC to the Pressler{J.Georg} family.
UnterschmidtGL
bei Nidda: is
some 1.3 miles NE of
Nidda, and said
by
the
Buedingen ML
to be the homeUC
of
a
Ludwig woman who married Conrad Beutel who went to Jagodnaja
Poljana (Mai&Marquardt#715).
Unter SchmittenGL:
was about 1 mile NE
of Nidda and said by
the Kromm version of
the
Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC toa
Ludwig family
(p.134), as well as
a
Riklen family
(p.135).
Unter-SchwarzGL:
is some 13 miles E
of
Alsferd, Hessen,
and said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Guteberg?
family.
UntersielmingenGL,
Stuttgart Oberamt,
Wuerttemberg:
probably a
suburb of
Stuttgart, but as yet unidentified, and was
home to a
Schaefer family
that settled in
Gueldendorf, Odessa.
Untersteinbach,
Bamberg [Bishopric]:
apparently was 15
miles W of
Bamberg city,
and said by the
Hoelzel FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Lauchner/Leichner
family.
But this
Untersteinbach looks
on the map as if it
was part of the
Wuerzburg Bishopric.
UnterumbachGL,
Bavaria: is some
12 miles WNW of
Augsburg, Bavaria,
and is said by the
Preuss FSL to be
home to a
Kaspar family.
UnterwaldGL:
see
Unterweld.
UnterwaldenVV:
another name for
MeinhardVV.
UnterweissenbornGL,
Hesse-Darmstadt:
see
Uendveisen.
UnterweldGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Boregard FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Homann family.
There were at
least 3
Unterwalds in
Austria.
UntitzGL:
said by the
Kano FSL to be
homeUC to
a
von Wipler
family.
This place
was probably near
the border between
Reuss-Gera County
and the
Neustaedter Kreis
of
Kursachsen, some
3.5 miles S of
Gera city.
Uphersleben: an
unidentified place
said by the
Susannental FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Fischer family. This
probably was
Uhrsleben 26 km
NW of
Magdeburg city
centre and then in
Magdeburg Duchy,
Kurbrandenburg.
Uphersleben: an
unidentified place
said to be home to
Fischer{J.Andreas}
who married
Oszwald{Magdalena
Euphrosine} of
Nuernberg.
This
might be
Udersleben 212
km N of
Nuernberg city
or the place
mentioned in the
foregoing entery.
Upoch(?),
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Roethling FSL to be homeUC to a Tihl/Thiel family.
Urach,
Fuerstenberg Principality: is 30 KM E of Freiburg city.
Urach,
Reutlingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg:
was
proven by the
GCRA to be home
to the
Notz family that
settled in
Neudorf.
Same place as
the next entry, but
40 years later.
UrachGL,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy]: now
Bad Urach some
8.5 miles E of
Reutlingen city,
and said by the
Brabander FSL
FSL to be homeUC
to an
Altersroh
family.
Said by the
Stahl-am-Tarlyk FSL to be homeUC to the
Fisher family.
Urban{Johann}:
Kulberg25 said
he was single fromUC
Erbach.
I did not
find him in
T or in any published FSL.
UrbachFN{J.Jacob}:
said by the
Urbach FSL (#1)
to be fromUC
Muehlhausen.
David Schmidt
says the original
Russian version of
the FSL said the
origin was
Muehlhausen
Imperial City.
For 1786 and
1798 see
Mai1798: Mv2899 and Sl40.
UrbachGL,
Kurmainz: an
unidentified place
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Gossmann family.
UrbachGL,
Saargmuend [Amt], [Pfalz]: an
unidentified place
near current-day
Sarreguemines, said
incorrectly by the
1816
Glueckstal
census to be homeUC
to the
Klein{Nikolaus,
Peter} family that
went to
Glueckstal. See
the
GCRA book for
more detail.
UrbachGL,
Thueringen: is
4.6 miles ESE of
Nordhausen and
is said by the
Roethling FSL
possibly to be homeUC
to a
Schlert family.
Urbach-KirchdorfGL,
Westerwald: is
13 miles N of
Koblenz, and is
said by the
Roethling FSL
possibly to be homeUC
to a
Schlert family.
UrbachVV
(aka
Alt-Urbach,
Lipov-Kut, Lipovkut,
Lipow-Kut, Lipowkutt)
is a Lutheran
German village on
the eastern side of
the Volga River.
Its FSL is
published in Pleve,
Einwanderung …,
vol.IV, pp. 269-283.
According to
this, the first
settlers were from
the following places
with the family
names shown here in
parens.
Verified
information is in
red.
The number
with the name is
their household
number in the FSL:
from
Althausen: (Spindler47);
from
Alzey, Kurpfalz: (frau Kretzer/widow
Tress?17, frau
Schaff/widow Wengert15,
and possibly
Tress?17 and
Wengert15);
from
Anhalt-Koethen [Principality]: (Schlitter25);
from
Anhalt-Zerbst [Principality]: (Hershleben26,
Preger?/Praeger/Berger33);
from
Ansbach [Margraviate]: (Schmidt{Georg}37,
Schramm44);
from
Apolda?, [Sachsen-]Weimar [Duchy]:
(Meier/Maier16);
from
Baerstadt: (frau
Weinert/the widow Pflaum14
and possibly
Pflaum14);
from
Barby, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Enike8);
from
Berlin, [Kurbrandenburg]: (frau
Wodischal28);
from [Kur-]Brandenburg: (Rehfeld7);
from
Breslau,
Schlesien: (frau Leonhard35);
from [Isenburg-]Buedingen [County]: (frau
Kelhorn23);
from
Busecker Tal, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
(frau
Enike8,
Goebel42,
Mengel9,
Wagner{Philipp}41);
from
Calbe?, [Magdeburg Duchy, Kur-]Brandenburg:
(Goldmann/Holtmann32);
from [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
(Pauly38);
from
Debreczin,
Ungarn: (Totei4);
from
Delitzsch, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Balde/Falde13);
from
Doeberlub?, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Landmann/Langmann2 and possibly
Herrfurt2);
from
Dessow[sic?],
Mecklenburg: (Kufeldt29);
from
Dresden, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Hanisch/Ganish10);
from
Erbstadt, [Hanau County,] Hessen[-Kassel
Landgraviate]:
(frau
Spindler/widow
Weber{Ernst} and perhaps
Weber{Ernst};
from
Frankenberg,
Hessen[-Kassel Landgraviate]:(frau
Roeder/widow
Ost6 and perhaps Ost6);
from
Geidigem?,
Mecklenburg: (Mertz52);
from
Giebenhausen-bei-Retzau, [Anhalt-Dessau Principality]:
(frau
Kermigk49);
from
Goerlitz, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Richter18);
from
Halle, [Kur-]Brandenburg: (Eberling11,
fraulein
Herting50,
Holz43, and perhaps a
Hannemann family
as well as Herr
Herting50);
from
Hettstedt,
Mansfield[sic?]: (Kelhorn23);
from
Hochhausen,
Darmstadt[sic?]: (frau
Makroth39);
from
Kana?,
Wuerzenburg?: (Pister/Piester27);
from
Kiel,
Holstein[-Gottorp Duchy]:
(Kahlmann24);
from
Kirdorf, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
(frau
Meier{Friedrich}16);
from
Kolberg[Colberg], Preussich
Pommern: (frau
Herbst/widow Lehmann5);
from
Kurpfalz: (frau
Schulz{ChristianF.};
from
Luckenwalde?, [Kur-]Brandenburg: (Schaff15
and possibly
Wengert/Wingert15a);
from
Luedershausen-bei-Artlenburg: (Wagner{Sigmund}3);
from
Mansfield [County]: (Graef/Gref?22);
from
Merschlem?,
[Kur-]Brandenburg:
(Schmidt{Gottfried}31;
from
Muehlhausen
Imperial City: (Urbach1);
from
Muehlried,
Wuerrtemberg[sic?]: (Balzer46);
from
Narva,
Livland, [Russia]: (frau
Totei4);
from
Neuem?,
Anhalt[?]: (Kretzer17 and
possibly
Tress?/Drez?17a);
from
Nordhausen [Imperial City]: (frau
Eberling/widow
Hannemann11,
frau
Engelmann19,
Ute20);
from
Norwegen, [Daenemark Kingdom?]: (Michelsen40);
from
Prenzlau, [Kur-]Brandenburg: (Wodischal28);
from
Querfurt, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Zahn34);
from
Rehsen, [Anhalt-Dessau Principality]: (Pussker53);
from
Retzau, [Anhalt-]Dessau [Principality]:
(Kermigk/Kermin?49);
from [Nassau-]Saarbruecken: (frau
Pister27);
from
Sachsen-Weimar [Duchy]: (Engelmann19);
from
Sangerhausen, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Herbst5);
from
Siebenlehn?, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Schulzen21);
from
Sinsheim,
Kurpfalz: (Kreiner/Kreinert51);
from
Sohlen, [Kur-]Brandenburg: (Schulz12);
from
Steffin,
Brandenburg[sic?]: (Bott36);
from
Suhl, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Kraemer53,
Eichhorn54, Seidenzahl/Saidentsal48,
and possibly
Bettheusen/Pekheisen?54a);
from
Sulzbach: (frau
Schlitter/widow Knorr25);
from
Tessin(?)/Tesil[sic
for
Dessow],
Mecklenburg: (Kuhfeld);
from [Kur-]Trier: (Leonhard/Leonhardt35);
from
Uhyst-am-Taucher,
[Kur-]Sachsen: (Stengler/Stengeler30);
from
Ulm: (frau
Hanisch/widow Faust10);
from unknown: (frau
Kermicke/Kermigk, nee Seidenzahl49);
from
Wegeleben, [Kur-]Brandenburg: (Makroth39);
from
Wernburg, [Neustaedter Kreis, Kursachsen]:
(frau
Richter39);
from
Werne[sic?],
Holstein[sic?]: (frau Goldman32);
from
Wildberg,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy]: (Kaempf/Kempf55);
from
Wittenberg, [Kur-]Sachsen: (Roeder6);
from [Anhalt-]Zerbst [Principality]: (Weinert14,
and possibly
Markert14b and
Pflaum{Georg}14a);
from
Ziegesee?, [Kur-]Brandenburg: (frau
Schulzen21);
from [Pfalz-]Zweibruecken [Duchy]:
(frau
Hershleben26);
from
Zwingenberg, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
(Schaefer45).
UrbanFN:
said by the
Dietel FSL to be
fromUC
Merzwald(?),
Elsass. I could not find
this couple in
Mai1798.
UrbanFN:
said by the
Kamenka FSL to
be fromUC
Marienburg, Polen.
UrberachGL,
Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate: is
some 9 miles NE of
Darmstadt city
center and 9 km ESE
of
Langen town; see
Orberach.
UrdamFN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be a stepson in the
Maurer
household.
UrichFN:
said by the
Dietel FSL to be
fromUC
Kurpfalz (no
locality indicated)
and was an orphan in
the Spreuer
household. Kuhlberg
said he was fromUC
Worms.
Doris Evans
says that research
done by Anneliese
Micheiwski for Rod
Uhrich confirms this
man’s origins: he
was born 1735 in
Hofheim,
grandson of an Urich
or
Urig, also of
Hofheim. For 1788
and 1798 see
Mai1798:Mv390,
Fk26.
UrichFN
said by the
Frank FSL to be
fromUC
Unstadt,
Hessen-Darmstadt.
Doris Evans
says that research
done by Anneliese
Micheiwski for the
Frank Research Fund
confirms this man’s
origins: he was born
about 1748 in
Gross-Umstadt.
His lineage
dates back to an
Uhrich of
Gross-Umstadt
who died about 1669.
Urich?FN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Schwarzbach.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
UrichFN:
said by the
Schwab FSL to be
fromUC
Raibach, [Gross-Umstadt Condominium], with a widow Will{A.Katharina} in the household.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Sb36.
UrigFN:
see
Urich.
UrlichFN:
said by the 1798
Norka census to
be the maiden name
of the wife of one
of the
Albrechts (Mai1798:Nr194).
UrlichFN:
also see
Ulrich.
Urlichstadt?GL,
Darmstadt: an
unidentified place
said by the
Keller FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Muehlhaus, and
possibly to a
Thomas{Konrad}
family.
UrschlauerFN:
said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be fromUC
Seligenstadt.
Usaurea?GL,
Schwaben: an
unidentified place
said by the
Jost FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Kunzhausen
family.
UsbeckFN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
Schmakilwin?.
For 1798 see
Mai1798: Nm24.
UschatschGL,
Polen: an
unidentified place
said by the
Dreispitz FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Sokolowski
family.
This might be
Uchacae some 46
miles SSE of
Warsaw.
UschnitzGL,
Stuhm Amt: Said
by the
Tiege FSL to be
homeUC to
the
Kroecker{Abraham}
family.
Also see
Uchnitz.
UschtakFN:
said by the
Schaefer FSL to
be fromUC
Kiel,
Holstein[-Gorttorp Duchy].
I could not
find them in
Mai1798.
UsenbornGL,
[Stollberg-Gedern
County]: is some
4.5 miles N of
Buedingen city.
Usener{Johann}:
the Buedingen ML says this man
fromUC
Eichelhain near
Lauterbach
on 26 May 1766
married
Eifert{A.Eliesabetha} fromUC Rebgeshain near Lauterbach;
they then headed off
toUC
Schaffhausen
(Mai&Marquardt#668).
KS126, &
161(which spells her
name
Seyfert),
repeat much
of that information.
I did not
find this couple in
any published FSL or
in
Mai1798.
UsingenGL:
is some 15 miles NNW
of
Frankfurt-am-Main
and was the seat of
the Duchy of
Nassau-Usingen.
Said by the 1776
Katharinenstadt
census to be home to
a
Zitzer settler
(confirmed by Sally
Zitzer); also
confirmed as the
home of his
Leim wife.
Said (no
locality mentioned)
by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to
Ritzer?,
Wagner, and
possibly
Schnell
families.
Said by
the
Buedingen ML
to be homeUC
to
the
Herrmann woman
who in 1766 married
a
Strack man
; by 1767 this
couple was in
Pfeiffer (Mai&Marquardt:634).
UsingenGL:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Weil family.
Kuhlberg said this
was in
Runkel.
The Runkel
reference surely is
a mistake.
UsingenGS:
was the short name
for the
Nassau-Usingen Duchy.
UsingerFN:
said by the
Anton FSL to be
fromUC
Schotten Oberamt, Darmstadt. Not found in
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
UsingerFN:
said by the
Mueller FSL to
be fromUC
Wallenrod.
UsingerFN:
said by the
Stephan FSL to
be fromUC
Reichenbach.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Ml12.
UsnitzGL:
see
Uchnitz and
Uschnitz.
Ust-Graesnucha:
a version of the
Russian name for
GoebelVV.
Ust-Grajasnucha:
a version of the
Russian name for
GoebelVV.
Ust-Grasnukha: a
version of the
Russian name for
GoebelVV.
Ust-KaramanVV:
the Russian name for
the colony of
Enders.
Ust-KulalinkaVV:
the Russian
name for
GalkaVV.
Ust-SolichaVV:
an alternate
spelling of the
Russian name for
MesserVV.
Ust-SolikhaVV:
an alternate
spelling of the
Russian name for
MesserVV.
Ust-ZolichaVV:
an alternate
spelling of the
Russian name for
MesserVV.
UteFN:
said by the
Urbach FSL to be
fromUC
Nordhausen [Imperial City]. I could
not find them in
Mai1798.
UteFN:
also see
Ude.
Utre?FN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Amsterdam, Holland.
UtrechtGL:
is some 21 miles SE
of
Amsterdam and
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Kohl family.
The reference
may be to the
Province, not to the
city per se.
UtrechtGS:
was one of the
independent
provinces of the
United Provinces of
Holland, covering
much of the same
land as today’s
province of Utrecht.
UtsbergGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Buedingen ML to
have been homeUC
to a
Kayeser woman;
other sources spell
it
Otzberg near
Dieburg,
Hessen, and Gross-Otzberg
near
Umstadt, Hessen.
See
Utzberg.
Uttschmidt{A.Margaretha}:
said by the 1798
census to be “from
Stephan” (Mai1798:Ml33)
but I could not
locate her in any
FSL.
UtzFN:
said by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be fromUC
Schneimet(?),
Schwaben.
UtzFN:
said by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be fromUC
Uwettersbach(?),
Durlach.
UtzbergGL
district,
Kurpfalz: said
by
the
Buedingen ML
to be homeUC
to
a
Horn man who in 1766 married a
Franck woman;
by 1767 this couple
was in
Krasnoyar;
Stumpp says this was
Otzberg near
Dieburg, Hessen
(Mai&Marquardt#583). Same as next entry.
Utzberg OberamtGL,
Kurpfalz:
actually was
Otzberg Oberamt
(Gieg1), the district just E of
Reinheim
covering
Otzberg hamlet
and some nearby
villages, and is
said by the
Anton FSL
(an4,48) to be homeUC
to a
Retger? family.
Utzburg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Recruiter Beauregard
list to have been
homeUC to
the
Ramsauer
(Johann} family (Lk8).
UtzenhofenGL,
Swabia: an
unidentified place
said by the
Preuss FSL to be
home to a
Krieger family.
It probably
is Utzenhofen,
Bavaria, some 29
miles ESE of
Nuernberg.
Uwern?: an
unidentified
country.
See
Sanflet.
UwettersbachGL:
Peter Aifeld of
Germany suggests
this should be
Wettersbach.
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