Annsweiler/Annweiler,
Bergzabern [Amt], Rheinpfalz: now
called Annweiler-am-Trifels, some 6.5 miles N of Bad Bergzabern, and was proven by GCRA
to be home to the Hertle and Krieger families that went to Glueckstal
and to the Knoll and Kraft
families that settled Kassel.
See the GCRA book for more.
Ansbach
[Margraviate]GS: held very extensive territories; its
capital city was Ansbach,
sometimes rendered Anspach, now
in Bavaria 103 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main
and 24 miles SW of Nuernberg.
In the 1760’s its ruling Margrave was of a minor branch of the
Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg.
So Ansbach could refer to the city or, more likely in the FSL, to the
Margraviate. Said (no
locality mentioned) by the Pleve version of the Balzer
FSL to be homeUC to a Ditmer?
family (later spelled Dittmer).
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Bettinger
FSL to be homeUC to a Rosemann
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Kraft FSL to be
homeUC to a Mack
family. Said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to a Markert family. Said (no
locality mentioned) by the Mariental FSL
to be homeUC to Stoeckel
and Thalmeimer families.
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Messer
FSL to be homeUC to an Emert
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a
Soltner man. Said (no
locality mentioned) by the Orlovskaya
FSL to be homeUC to an Eckslein
and a Schelhler?, and possibly a Weber
family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Geld
family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to a Widemann family. Said
(no locality mentioned) by Stahl-am-Karaman
FSL to be homeUC of a Gaurshtein
family.
AnschutzFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Waldau with a Mueller{Gottlieb} step-son in the household.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
AnshuetzFN:
said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to
be fromUC Mehlis, [Kursachsen]. . For 1770
see Mai1798:Mv2293.
AnshuetzFN:
also see Anchuetz.
AnshutzFN:
see Anchuetz.
AnspachFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned)
with Sorberger step-children in
the household. Bonner says that frau Anspach
(the widow Sorberger) was born an
Armbruster.
AnspachGL:
an unidentified place which the GRCA believes
may have been homeUC to the Schaible
family that went to Glueckstal.
See their book for more detail.
AnspachGL
is 26 miles due W of Buedingen,
however Anspach can also refer to the Ansbach
Margraviate.
Anspach might be the homeUC of the
Stahl-am-Karaman Gaurshtein family.
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Belowescher
Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to a Wunderlich
family; the Buedingen ML says the
man was fromUC Waldstaedten.
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Hoelzel
FSL to be homeUC to a Bender/Beneder
family. Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to the Mack man who married in 1766 a Dietz
woman; the couple later moved to Kraft;
Stumpp said this Anspach was near Usingen
(Mai&Marquardt#670).
Said by the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC to a Danner family. Also see Ansbach.
AnspachGL,
Trier: said by the Bangert
FSL to homeUC to a Weirich
family.
AntenkirchGL,
Nassau-Weilburg: said by the Roth
family chart to be homeUC to a Roth
family that settled in Straub.
This probably was a bad transliteration of Altenkirchen, some 3 miles S of Braunfels town.
AnthonyFN:
said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC
Busendorf.
AntonVV:
(aka Antonow, Antonowka, Sebastinovka,
Sebastjanowka, Sebastyanovka, Sevastinovka, Sewastjanowka) is a German
village of the Lutheran faith on the western side of the Volga.
Its FSL has been published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I,
pp.51-69. According to it, the
first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown
here in parens. A number following the family name is their household number
from the FSL:
from Alzey
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Kletter19);
from Boxberg
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Wasserer31,34);
from Bremm:
(Tripper45);
from Detmold,
Lippe: (Kraut18);
from Erbach:
(Guterich?12, Hahn32,33);
from the French
Army: (Baum?47);
from Gruensfeld
Oberamt, Wuerzburg: (Haeppner36);
from Hanau:
(Achtung53, Lauch46,
Oxt51, Stork50,57,60A);
from Heidelberg
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Albrecht10, Arnhold26, Baer3,39,
Baumgaertner21, Eichner22, Engelhardt11,
Erder?9, Ewig25,42,43, Focht13,62,
Fuchs38, Ganshorn23, Kunzmann35,
Metzger40, Mueller8, Paul5,
Reuter29, Wenzerich?17);
from Heppenheim
Oberamt, Kurmainz: (Keil28);
from Hirschfelde,
Hessen: (Feller55, Maler56);
from Isenburg:
(Deckmann58, Frank60, Nazarenus19A);
from Lindenfels
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Johann1, Kraemer14,15, Oxt2,
Reth7, Rotharmel/Rothermel6,16,24);
from Maulbronn,
Kurpfalz: (Redler35A);
from Mosbach
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Metzger41, Rothe27,
Werfel20);
from Neustadt
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Dewald49, Ordner59);
from Schotten
Oberamt, Darmstadt: (Usinger61);
from Spangenberg,
Hessen-Kassel: (Bremer52);
from Stapen,
Preussen: (Hardt44);
from Trarbach:
(Baumgardt54);
from Utzberg
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Retger?4,48);
from Zweibruecken,
Kurpfalz: (Decker30, Wohlschleier?63);
from Zwingenberg
Oberamt, Kurpfalz: (Hall37).
AntoniusFN:
said by the Leichtling FSL to be
fromUC Seligenstadt (no
locality mentioned).
AntonowVV:
a variation of the village name for AntonVV:
AntonowkaVV:
a variation of the village name for AntonVV:
AntorFN:
this orphan was said by the Laub
FSL to be in the Gerwelheim?
household.
AnthesFN, see Andes.
AnweilerFN:
listed by the 1816 Kassel census
(#105) without origin and said by KS:208
to be fromUC Nussloch,
Heidelberg [Amt],
Baden. Using FHL#1,189,099,
the GCRA
verified this origin. See
their book for more.
Anzhein?GL:
this probably was Atzenhain and
was said by the Ernestinendorf
FSL to be homeUC to a Kappes/Kippes
family, and possibly to Figelnus?
and Hahn families.
ApfelFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Mainz (no
locality mentioned).
ApfelFN:
said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC
Strassburg.
ApfelFN said by the Roethling
FSL to come fromUC Bieber,
Gelnhausen, Hessen.
AponheimerFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
AppelFN:
the Dinkel FSL says this
step-daughter was living in a Stallmann
household from Glueckstadt, Holstein.
AppelFN:
According to a Luebeck ML an
Appel woman from the area of Darmstadt
married in 1766 a Fischer man
from the area of Hanau; the
couple later moved to Jagodnaja
Poljana (Mai&Marquardt#278).
AppelFN:
said, by the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL,
to be fromUC
Ober Lais within the region of
Nidda in the state of Hesse.
AppelFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be
fromUC Gruenberg,
Darmstadt. The Buedingen
ML says this Happel man married
in 1766 a Denes woman (Mai&Marquardt#447).
AppelFN:
listed in the Pobochnaya FSL so
may have been from Darmstadt
state.
AppelFN:
said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL
to be fromUC Gening;
fromUC the village of “Heiligencreutz
in the district of Thuengen”
per Buedingen ML as found by David
Schmidt. See also Mai&Marquardt#529.
This ML also says Appel married a Keil
woman from Buedingen in 1766.
Appelbrun?,
Hanau: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Waechter family.
Appelhanz
FN: members of this family were living
in a Kres household from Dirkheim,
Kurpfalz in the Rothammel FSL,
however Dr. and Mrs. Timothy
Kloberdanz identified Bechtheim,
Rheinhessen as the place of origin of this Appelhanz family.
Then Steve Drescher
confirmed the origin by finding and extracting the relevant birth records
and published them in his Church Records 1676-1798, St. Lambertus,
Bechtheim, Rheinhessen.
AppenrodGL,
Darmstadt: is some 9 miles W of Alsfeld
and said by the Laub FSL to be
homeUC to a Wiederkehr
family.
Appfelhofen,
Billigheim [parish], Rheinpfalz:
it was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Nus/Nuss family that settled in Kassel.
AppoldFN:
this family name was found recorded in Winterhausen
marriage records 1760-1769; see Flegel
trip.
AptFN:
see Op.
AptsFN:
see Op.
AquaFN see Acqua.
ArbFN:
see Arp.
ArcisBV,
Bessarabia: aka Arzis, a German Lutheran colony founded in 1816-17.
Are,
Frankreich: an unidentified place and said by the Franzosen
FSL to be homeUC to
Baterie, Legrand, and Mounie{Fransois}
families.
Aremind?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt{Joseph}
family and possibly a Stupart/Stuppert{Johannes}
family.
ArendholtzFN:
see Arnhold.
ArensFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
[Anhalt-]Zerbst [Principality] (no
locality mentioned). I could not
find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
ArentFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Danzig, Free Republic.
Arfurt,[Kurtrier]: is 6 miles E of Limburg-an-der-Lahn,
and was said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Kuntz
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in [Kur-]Trier.
ArlonGL,
Luxembourg: now Arlon, Belgium,
some 14.5 miles WNW of Luxembourg
city, and said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Kraemer
family. Said by the Preuss FSL to
be home to a Siebert family.
ArmbrechtFN:
see Arnbrecht.
ArmbruesterFN:
two men said by the Krasnoyar FSL
to be fromUC Homburg,
Darmstadt. According to the Buedingen ML one of these men who was from Saulburg married a Schipp
woman from Reibach; according to
Stumpp both the bride and groom were from Raibach
near Dieburg, Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#569).
ArmbruesterFN:
see Armbruster.
ArmbrusterFN:
said by Bonner to be the maiden
name of frau Anspach (the widow Sorberger) of Norka.
ArmbrusterFN:
said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC
Roshta(?), Kurpfalz. Later spelled Armbruester.
ArnbrechtFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
In 1798 the family name was spelled Armbrecht
(Mai1798:Ms73).
ArnbrechtFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be a
step-son living in the Lehr
household.
ArndtFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Marienburg.
ArndtFN:
said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be fromUC Klausthal
at Hanover later than the
first settlers (p.137).
ArndtFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Ziegeser?, Brandenburg
ArndtFN:
this family name was found recorded in Kroppach
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel
trip.
ArndzFN:
see Arnst.
ArneFN:
see Arni.
ArnemannFN:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
fromUC Nordheim.
I could not find this man in the 1798 Volga censuses.
ArnheimGL,
Holland: is some 34 miles SE of Utrecht,
and said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Koch
family.
ArnholdFN:
said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC
Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz.
ArnholdFN:
said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to
be fromUC Herzhausen,
[Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate], with an Eberhardt orphan in the household.
Probably spelled Arnold in
1798 (Mai1798:Ps5) and 1769 (Mv565).
ArnholdFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Berlin and there was Ries?
step-son living in their household. According
to a Rosslau ML this Arendholtz man married in 1766 a Stegemann woman (Mai&Marquardt#961).
ArnholdFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Friedersdorf.
ArnholdFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
fromUC Aschaffenburg.
ArnholdFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
fromUC Orb.
Later spelled Arnold (Mai1798:Mv2273).
ArnholdFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Saalfelden, Salzburg.
Later spelled Arnhold.
Arnholt?FN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Dessau (no locality mentioned).
Also was spelled Avenholt (Mai&Marquardt:
#1049). I could not find this
family in the 1798 Volga censuses. Could
it have been Arnold?
ArniFN:
said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC
Kebring?, Brandendorf. Spelled
Arne in 1798 (Mai1798:Gk24,
42).
ArnoldFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Erbach (no
locality mentioned). Joe
Arnold, a direct descendant has traced in church records this family back to
1609 in Muemling-Grumbach, then
in Erbach County, now in Hesse,
in the Odenwald, just S of Hoechst.
ArnoldFN:
listed by the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:667)
without origin. Origin in Neckarwestheim, Heilbronn [Amt],
Wuerttemberg was proven by the GCRA
using FHL(1,184,925).
See their book for more details.
ArnoldFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Klarenthal.
ArnoldFN: also see Arnhold and Arnholt.
ArnstFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Gonna, Mecklenburg.
For 1798 references see Mai1798: Bx10, Bx16.
ArnstFN:
the Herzog FSL says this
stepson was living in Pfundner
household with his mother who apparently had been an Arnst widow and who was
said to be fromUC Pilsheim-bei-Schmidmuehlen,
Bayern. Later spelled Arndz
(Mai1798:Mv830, En19).
ArnstFN:
said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC
Heckeberg(?), Hanau.
ArnstFN:
said by the Warenburg FSL to be
fromUC Lickstadt, Brandenburg.
ArnsteinGL/S:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
homeUC to a Kahler
family. Said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Dresser family This might have been the town in Wuerzburg
Bishopric some 12 miles N of Wuerzburg
city, or possibly the small country of Arnstein
Abbey about 1 mile E of Nassau
town on the Lahn River.
ArnsteinGL:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
homeUC to Keberlein, Konrad, Lambrecht, and Ziegler
families. Kuhlberg gives the
state as Wuerzburg.
ArnsteinGL,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place
said by the Pleve Kisling family
(Warenburg colony) chart to be
homeUC to a Kaiser
family. I can find no Arnstein
in Kurpfalz; there was one in the
Wurzburg Bishopric and there was
the independent country of Arstein
Abbey, near Nassau, Hessen.
ArnsteinGL,
Wuerzburg: is 13 miles N of the city of Wuerzburg
and said by the Preuss FSL to be
home to an Preis/Preuss? family.
Arnstein
AbbeyGS: was a
tiny state a couple miles E of Nassau
town on the Lahn River. It may
have been under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Mainz.
ArnstenGL:
an unidentifed place said by the Orlovskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Kahn
family. Could this have been an Arstein?
ArntFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Hessen.
ArntFN:
also see Sperling.
ArpFN:
said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC
Kilrastof(?), Holstein. Later spelled Arb.
Arsalen?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to the Gra?
family. This may have been Arolsen,
Waldeck-Pyrmont Principality.
ArtburgGL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Berger
family. Kuhlberg said this was in Sachsen.
ArtzerFN:
said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC
Tilsit, Prussia.
ArtzerFN:
said by the Seewald FSL to be
fromUC Stambach,
Zweibruechen. Darrell
Brungardt reports that a transcription of
Wiesbach church records says this
man came from Volkersweiler while
his first marriage and children’s births were in Winterbach. Winterbach
is some 3 miles N, Wiesbach some
5 miles N and Volkerswiler some
21 miles ESE of Stambach.
Darrell says that more records should be in Homburg
which his some 5 miles NNWof Stambach.
His guess is that this family earlier originated in Switzerland.
ArzdorfGL,
Kurpfalz: is some 9 miles S of Bonn
and said by the Mariental FSL to
be homeUC to a Semle
family.
ArzisFN:
see Arcis.
ArztFN:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
fromUC Ronneburg.
For 1798 see Mai1798:Om45, 51.
Arzweiler,
Saarburg [Amt], Elsass-Lothringen: is 4 miles ESE of Saarburg
(nka Sarrebourg) town, and was said by KS:321
to have been homeUC to the Jung
family, while the 1816 Neudorf
census (#23) said this was a possible originUC.
AsbachGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Martz
family. There were at least 27
Asbachs in the Germanies!
AschaffenburgGL,
[Kurmainz]:
is some 23 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main. At
the time of the migrations to Russia this city may have been the seat of the
nearby territories held by the Archbishop of Mainz
as Imperial Elector (therefore Kurmainz).
Said by the Boregard FSL to be
homeUC to the Ludwig{Simon}
family. Said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to Hepp, frau Remus and Wagner
families. Said by the Hildmann
FSL to be homeUC to Amrhein/Amrein/Amkein,
Gottfried, Haas, Markus/Markrus/Malchus, Reiss{Adam}/Resch,
Reiss{Wilhelm}/Reis/Reiser,
and possibly Hahn, Kern, Mueller{Christian},
Neff/Neffe/Neffl, and
Weslauer/Neslauer
families. Said by the Husaren FSL to be homeUC to Wetzel/Wetze/Wentzer and Winter
families. Said by the Kamenka
FSL to be homeUC to Bahl/Bal/Ball?, Bachmann, Braun,
Meder, and Stadler
families. Said by the Koehler FSL
to be homeUC to Baumann,
Frick, Heiss, Thomae families,
and possibly Heick, Hubert
and Litz families. Said by
the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC
to Bauer, Bernhard, Daumreich, Ewald,
Gan/Hahn, Pressmer, and
Sildenbach families. Said by the Leitsinger
FSL to be homeUC to Leitsinger
and Lorenz families.
Said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to Amrhein, Arnhold, Essler,
Happel, Kuehn, Mallad,
Phillip, Pietz, Roth, Samer,
Schwind, Stegmann, Stricker,
Stumpfnagel, and Weigel
families.
AschaffenburgGL,
Kurmainz: said by the Volmer
FSL to be home to a Ril/Riel/Roehl? family.
Same as the preceding
entry.
Aschalwitz?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger
FSL to be homeUC to a Meolder
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Boehmen.
AschbachGL,
Andechser Reid?: said (no
locaility mentioned) by the Jost
FSL to be homeUC to a Zieras?
family. Might this have been
Aschbach some 17 miles SW of Bamberg
city??
AschblefFN:
see Asplew.
AschbohdenGL,
Elbing Amt: is now Szopy, Poland,
and was 3.5 miles SW of Elbing
city. Said by the Tiege FSL to be homeUC to the Kroecker{Gerhard} family. Also
spelled Aschbuden.
AschbudenGL:
see Aschbohden.
Aschen?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Gosselbach?
family. There were at least four
places of this name in the Germanies.
Achenbach,
[Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: is 8 miles NNE of Dillenburg
city, and said by the Ernestinendorf
FSL to be homeUC to a Koenig
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Hessen.
AschenbrennerFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
The maiden name of the wife is later given as Schoen
(Mai1798:Nr144).
AschenbrennerFN:
also see Eschenbrenner.
AschenmacherFN:
see Asemakher.
AscherbotGL:
this probably should be Ascherbude.
AscherbudeGL,
Filehne Kreis, Posen Province, Warsaw
Duchy: now Biernatowo, Poland,
some 6 miles NE of Filehne town
(now Wielen, Poland): the GCRA believes this a secondary origin of the Meske family that went to Glueckstal.
AselbornFN:
see Asselborn.
AsemakherFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Reinbreitbach, Kelheim.
Later spelled Aschenmacher.
AsfeldGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Brahm
family.
AslarGL:
see Asslar.
AsmosFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Walenhausen, Hesse-Darmstadt County.
Confirmed by the Walter
Research Group to be an Asmus
family from Wallernhausen, Hessen.
AsmusFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Digouste (?).
AsmusFN:
said by all versions of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be fromUC Wallernhausen.
According to the Buedingen ML this Asmus
man fromUC Wallernhausen
married in 1766 a Rontaler woman,
her origin not given (Mai&Marquardt#725).
AsmusFN:
according to the Buedingen ML an
Asmus woman (no place of origin given) married a Krueger
man; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar
(Mai&Marquardt#540).
AsmusFN:
confirmed by the Walter Research
Group to be from Wallernhausen,
Hessen.
AsmusFN:
also see Assmus.
AsmussFN:
this family name was found recorded in 1700s Berstadt
parish records; see Flegel trip.
AsmussFN:
also see Asmus.
Asnes?GL,
Brandenburg: an unidentified
place said by the Fischer FSL to
be homeUC to a Paustan?
family.
AspergGL,
Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 2
miles NW of Ludwigsburg city, and
was proven by GCRA
to be home to the Laesler family
that went to Glueckstal.
See the GCRA book for more details.
Asplew?FN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be
fromUC Ulo(?), Finnland. Later spelled Aschblef
(Mai1798:Db17).
AsslarGL, Braunfels: is some 6 miles NNE of Braunfels city, and said by the Kukkus FSL to be homeUC to a Forschauer family. Said
by a Friedberg ML to be homeUC
to Forschauer and Frick
families (Mai&Marquardt#348).
AsselbornFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Merzig, Kurtrier.
The family name was later spelled Aselborn
(Mai1798:Mt21,22,41,58,69).
AsselmannFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Miam(?).
AssmusFN:
also see Asmus.
Asterowskij?FN:
said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC
Tilsit, Preussen. I cannot find
this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
AstianFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Luxembourg.
Ateleng(?),
Kur Trier: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to an Wolf
family.
AtenbachGL,
Hesse-Kalelskogo[Hessen-Kassel?]: an unidentified place, said by the Walter
FSL to be homeUC to a Karl
family. The Walter Research Group suggests this might be an Altenbach or
Altenbuch, but so far I can find no such place within the territories of Hessen-Kassel.
AttachingGL,
Wuerzburg: said by the Goebel
FSL to be the homeUC to a Sachs
family. The only Attaching I can
find is some 2 miles SE of Friesing
city and would have been in the state of Freising,
not Wuerzburg.
AttendornGL,
Kelheim: an unidentified place said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to Schwartz families.
There is an Attendorn, North Rhine-Wesphalia, some 44 miles ENE of Cologne.
Atzenhain,
[Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: is 13 miles ENE of Giessen
city, and said by the Ernestinendorf
FSL to be homeUC to Gruen{Hermann},
Leisel/Leiser{Conrad}37,{J.Heinrich}38, and Kurscher{Caspar} families. This
is the same place as the next entry.
AtzenhainGL,
Gruenberg Amt, Hessen-Darmstadt: is
17 miles N of Nidda, and said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be near Nidda and homeUC to Lieder
and Schuckart families (pp.31,
34).
AtzenheimGL:
see Atzenhain and Altheim, Darmstadt.
AuFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Bleicherode.
This family name might be Aul?
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
AudincourtVV:
an alternative name for BrabanderVV.
AudraFN,
Eichsfeld: an unidentified place
that was the home of the earliest known Weydemann
ancestor of the Weidemann man who
went to Frank.
There is a village Thueringen
in the Eichsfeld area currently
called Uder which is some
26 miles ENE of Kassel, Hessen.
Audressein?,
Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Manlinger/Mahlinger family, and possibly to a Mueller family. There is
an Audresselles some 17 miles SW
of Calais.
AudressellesGL:
see Audressein.
AueFN:
see Auer.
Aue(?)GL,
Baden-Durlach: an unidentified
place said by the Krasnoyar FSL
to be homeUC to a Kreder family.
There is an Aue some 2.5 miles SE of
Karlsruhe, Baden Wuerttemberg.
AuenheimGL,
Bischweiler [Amt], Elsass: is some 8
miles NE of Bischwiller city, and proven by the GCRA
to be home to Herr Zimmerling and
of his Schneider wife, both of whom went to Bergdorf;
see the GCRA book for more
details.
AuerFN:
said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC
Tirol, Oesterreich. According
to a Rosslau ML this Aue man
married a Schoenberger woman in
1765 (Mai&Marquardt:839). In
1798 his wife’s maiden name
was given as Fais? (Mai1798:Ls23).
AuerachGL:
an unidentified place said by the Buedingen
ML to be homeUC to a Wittwaeger
man who married a Leonhard woman
in 1766; later the couple went to Frank
(Mai&Marquardt#638). This
might be Aurach, Wuerttemberg.
Auerbach
FN: said by the 1798 Kano
census to be the maiden name of frau Quast
(Mai1798:Kn23).
AuerbachGL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Giest?
family and perhaps to a Braun
family. There are 18 Auerbachs
in the Germanies.
AuerbachGL,
[Kur-]Pfalz: is 23 miles E of Heidelberg
city, and said by the Orlovskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Hertel
family.
AuerbachRN,
Inge: Hessische Auswanderer, Index nach Familiennamen, Bd. I, Auswanderer
aus Hanau im 18. Jahrhundert, Marburg, 1987.
This source gives precise references to record location in the Hessen-Kassel archives. Dick
Kraus has a detailed abstract in which he can do lookups.
AufhaussenGL:
an unidentified state; see Kuesel.
Augustow:
is 3 miles ESE of Lodz, Poland.
The GCRA says it was a
later name for Friedrichshagen, Laznow
Amt, Posen Department, South
Prussia.
AugsburgGS:
there were two Augsburg states: one was an independent city state
(called a free imperial city) from 1276 to 1806, is some 157 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main;
the other was a much larger Bishopric
the towns and villages of which lay mostly to the NW and SSW of Augsburg
city; in these references I have found no way to distinguish between the
two. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Hoelzel
FSL to be homeUC to a Hegele
family. Said (no other locality
mentioned) by the Herzog FSL to be home to a Meibeier
family. Said (no other
locality mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Erdiner?
family. Said (no other locality mentioned) by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Fendel family.
AugsburgGS,
Schwaben: by the Jost FSL to be homeUC a Stuler and possibly to a Haas
family. Surely this is one of
the two places in the previous references.
Long, long before, Augsburg had been the capital of an independent
Duchy called Schwaben.
Augustow, Laznow Kreis, South Prussia:
probably is Augustow, Poland, 3
miles SE of Lodz city, and 13
miles NW of Laznow, Poland. The GCRA said it
was near Lodz and had earlier
been called Friedrichshagen –
but I have been unable to substantiate the latter.
AugustusFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Brandenburg.
Auingen,
Muensigen [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is barely NE of Muensigen city,
and was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Hirning/Hiring
family that settled in Neudorf.
AulFN:
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be
fromUC Dienheim.
Aulendiebach,
Isenburg[-Buedingen County):
is 2.2 miles NW of Buedingen
city, and was proved by Bonner
as the home of a Messinger family
with a Bopp wife, as well as of
the Lutz/Lotz family, all of whom
immigrated to Balzer.
Bonner
also proved this home to four Meissenger
siblings one of whom had married a Lang
husband, another a Herdt husband,
and a third a Geis husband (Messer
FSL #57, 57a, 58, 59). Bonner
found that their Buedingen
marriage record said the Lutz
wife in the Pinecker couple that
went to Moor was fromUC
here, and he proved this home to the Gerlach family, and where the Sorberger
children were baptized, who also went to Moor.
Bonner proved that frau Kaufmann
(nee Meissinger) of Schilling was baptized here like her siblings of Balzer
and Messer.
AulendorfGL,
Bayern: an unidentified place said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Fischer
family. There was an Aulendorf
in Koenigsberg County, some 25
miles W of Memingen city, but I
find none in Bavaria at the time.
AulmannFN:
said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC
Waltz?, Nassau-Idstein
Auma,
[Kur-]Sachsen: is 14 miles
SW of Gera city and was said by
the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC
to a Ludwig family.
Mai&Marquardt#130 spelled this place Ausch [sic?].
AumalFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schlitz
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel
trip.
AumenauGL,
[Wied-Runkel County]: is some 3.5
miles E of Runkel town, and said
by the Kano FSL to be homeUC
to an Axt family.
Kuhlberg said this was in Runkel.
AumuellerFN:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
fromUC Starkstadt?, [Kur-]Mainz.
For 1773 see Mai1798:Mv2039. In 1798
the maiden name of the wife was given as Kuenzler
(Om38). Aslo for 1798 see
(Or45).
Aungin?
GL, Luxembourg: an
unidentified place said by the Lauwe
FSL to be homeUC to a Belz
family.
AurachGL/GS?:
an unidentified place said by the Lauwe
FSL to be homeUC to a
Fischer and possibly a Raschler family. Said by
the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC
to a Kor? family. There is an
Aurach some 7 miles SW of Ansbach
city in lands that then must have been owned by the Eichstaett Bishopric. There
is a Herzogenaurach just W of Elangen
city on lands that must have been owned by the Bamberg Bishopric.
Aurach(?)GL,
Wuerttemberg: was an unidentified
locality which according to the Frank
FSL was homeUC to a Wittwerger
family. It might have been Aurich
which is 14 miles NW of Stuttgart,
or it may have been Auerach.
AurichGL,
Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: was
1.5 miles S of Vaihingen-an-der-Enz,
and said by KS:368 to home to the
Mauch{Emmerich} family, which
according to the GCRA did not go
to Kassel.
Aurich
GL: also see Aurach.
AusbachGL:
was an unidentified place said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to a Schwemmler family.
This might be Ausbach, Hesse some 22 miles NNE of Fulda.
Auschenburg(?)GL,
Hessen: an unidentified place
said by the Bettinger FSL to be
homeUC to a Hoffmann
family.
AutFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Prati?/Prapsi?. For 1798 see Mai1798:
Nm02, 46,
Auxerre(?)/Okser(?)GL, Frankreich:
an unidentified place said by the Kratzke
FSL to be homeUC to a Moor
family. There is an Auxerre in
Burgandy some 201 miles WSW of Strasbourg.
AuzeFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Witzenheim.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
AveliusFN:
see Filius.
AveliussFN:
the Buedingen ML says this woman
(no origin given) married a Chrispens
man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Dobrinka
(Mai&Marquardt#425).
In 1798 her maiden name is given as Offenhaus
(Mai1798:Db65).
Avene?,
Frankreich: an unidentified place and said by the Franzosen
FSL to be homeUC to a
Gautier family. There was an
Avene 118 miles WNW of Marseilles.
AvenholtFN:
see Arnholt.
Avignon, Papstprovinz, Frankreich:
52 miles NW of Marseilles and said by the Franzosen
FSL to be homeUC to an
Oucart family.
AxtFN:
said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC
Schleiz, Sachsen.
AxtFN:
said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC
Saalfeld, Sachsen and there was Fleming
step-son living in their household.
AxtFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Aumenau.
AxtFN:
also see Oxt.
AxthelmFN:
said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC
Wirtheim.
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