American Historical Society of Germans From Russia

German 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.

 

 
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BabenhausenGL, Darmstadt: is some 14 miles NE of Darmstadt city and said by the Mueller FSL to be homeUC a Keil family.

BabkeGL, Mecklenburg: is some 26 miles SSE of Malchin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Foos family.

BachFN: said by the Cheisol FSL to be fromUC Saarlouis, Lothringen, Frankreich. For 1798 see Mai1798:Gf25, Ls28, 38.

BachFN: wife of Holtner, said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Riche, Eisenach.  See Buch.

BachFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  The maiden name of the wife is later said to be Foerster (Mai1798:Nr62).

BachFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Saargemuend, Lothringen. 

BachGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to  Blank and Lochmann families, and possibly to a Schwarz family.  Kuhlberg said this place was in Darmstadt.  There were many Bach in the Germanies, but I can find none in lands that had belonged to Hessen-Darmstadt in the 1760’s.

BacharachGL: 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. After 1813 it became part of the Prussian Rheinland province.  The town was 20 miles W of Wiesbaden city.

BachertsFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Hanneberg Sula, Kurpfalz.

BachmanFN: included with the Bachmann.

BachmannFN: the maiden name of frau Stecker? and the family name of a stepdaughter listed by the Boregard FSL in the Stecker? household.

BachmannFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Muehlhausen.

BachmannFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.

BachmanFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen.  His wife’s maiden name is later given as Kel? and his family name is later spelled Bachmann (Mai1798:Nr67).

Bachmann FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Blauenthal, Kotteritz.  In 1798 the family name was also spelled Buxmann (Mai1798:Pl08).

BachmannFN: see Eckler of Pfeiffer.

BachmannFN: this family name was found recorded in Tann marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

BackeFN: according to a Rosslau ML a Backe woman (no place of origin given) married an Eckart man in 1765; by 1767 this couple may have been in Krasnoyar (Mai&Marquardt#874).

Backenheim(?)GL, Wuerttemberg: said by the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.  This may be Brackenheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, some 8 miles SW of Heilbronn city.

BackerFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Branfelzer.  Later spelled Becker (Mai1798: Nr22).

BackerFN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be the maiden name of frau Doring.

Backmann?FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be a step-son in the Schroeder{Johann} household.

BacknangGL, Wuerttemberg: is some 15 miles NW of Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg.  Said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Hort and possibly to a  Schachewer? family.

Backnang [Amt]GL, Wuerttemberg: the city just mentioned was also a District administrative center.

Bacqueville, Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Legague family.  There were at least 2 Bacquevilles in France: one is 23 miles NNW of Rouen, the other is 15 miles Seof Rouen.

Bad BergzabernGL: formerly Bergzabern.

Bad BrueckenauGL, Bavaria is 51 miles ENE of Frankfurt-am-Main; formerly it must have been known as just Brueckenau.

Bad CambergGL: see Kamberg, Nassau.

Bad DuerkheimGL, Rhineland-Palatinate: see Dirkheim.

Bad EmsGL: see Ems.

BaderFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:672, 677, 211) to be from Heutingsheim, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL(1,056,787), the GCRA verified this origin; they also found using FHL(1,056,750-1) that the family was in Markgroeningen, Ludwigsburg [Amt], just before leaving for the east.  See the GCRA book for more details.

Bad Hersfeld, Hessen, is some 22 miles N of Fulda city, and, as Hersfeld, was the seat of Hersfeld County.

Bad Kreuznach[Amt]GL: this was an administrative center some 22 miles SW of Wiesbaden city.

Bad KreutznachGL: also see Krentznach.

Bad LangensalzaGL: see Langensalza.

Bad LiebenzellGL, Bad Liebenzell [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 20 miles W of Stuttgart, and was proven by GCRA to be home to ScharerFN{Magdalena} and to the Reinschmid family that went to Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more details.

Bad NauheimGL: is some 16 miles NNE of Frankfurt-am-Main.

Bad Neustadt-an-der-SaaleGL: see Neustadt, Wuerzburg.

Bad OrbGL: see Orb.

Bad SalzschlirfGL:  see  Salzschlirf.

Bad Sol-SalmuensterGL, Hessen is about 8.6 miles SW of Schluechtern, 11 miles ESE of Buedingen.

Bad WimpfenGL: see Wimpfen.

BadenFN: in the Katharinenstadt FSL with no place of origin given.

BadenGS: in the 1760’s there were two countries called Baden in the Germanies: Baden-Baden Margraviate (Cath.) and Baden-Durlach Margraviate (Luth.).   They were united as Baden-Durlach in 1771. Each was rulled by a Margrave (Marquis).  Other than that Baden-Baden tended to be more southern and the other more northern, I have been unable to find just how they shared the Baden lands.

Baden-Baden: said no locality indicated by KS:304 to have been homeUC to the  Hartle family that settled in Neudorf.

Baden-Baden [Margraviate]GS: the larger of the two Badens was seated in the cities of Baden-Baden (some 18 miles SW of Karlsruhe on the edge of the Black Forest) and nearby Rastadt; its lands extended W and S of Ettlingen city.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Balzer FSL to be homeUC of Borell and Klein families.

Baden-Durlach [Margraviate]GS, the smaller of the two Badens was seated in the city of Karlsruhe; its territory was mostly N and SE of Karlsruhe city extending beyond Pforzheim city.   It was often refered to simply as Durlach.  It may have been the home principalityUC of the Resh family of Stahl-am-Karaman. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Doenhof FSL to be homeUC to Boltz and Lichtenwald families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to Aman and Zwinger families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Moor FSL to be homeUC to a Braun family

Baden-TuchanGS, may be an attempt to transliterate Baden-Durlach?

Baden-WuerttembergGS a modern German state on the eastern side of the Rhine River.

BaeckerFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Stollberg (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Becker.

BaeckerFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach.

BaeckerFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Salmuenster, Fulda.

BaeckerFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Alten, Holstein.

BaeckerFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Brandenburg (no locality mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Becker (Mai1798:Ms35).

BaeckerFN{Johannes}: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Bassenheim [Barony].

BaeckerFN{J.Friedrich}:  said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Tordorf?.    Spelled Becker in 1798 (Mai1798:Nb32).

Baecker: also see Beker.

BaeckerdorfVV:  another name for ErnestinendorfVV.

BaehrFN: see Baer and Berer.

BaehrVV: another name for KamenkaVV.

BaekerFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Becker.

BaeckerFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Nieder Modau? with a Leschorn step-daughter in the household.

Baeker: also see Becker and Beker.

BaerFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz.  Volz indicated Hessen origins for this family.

BaerFN: said by one or both versions of the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Hessen-Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).

BaerFN: this mother-in-law was said by the Dobrinka FSL to be living in a Dozert? household fromUC Schoenhausen(?)[evidently a mistake for Stockhausen],  Riedesel.

BaerFN: said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC both Isenburg (no locality mentioned) and Nidda, and by the Stumpp version fromUC either Hessen (no locality given), or Neu-Isenburg, or Offenbach, Hessen.  Ber is an alternate spelling in the Kromm version (p.33).

BaerFN: said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned) and by the Stumpp to be fromUC Nidda, Buedingen, Hessen.  Ber is an alternate spelling in the Kromm version, and the family is said to be fromUC Rainrod near Nidda (p.32).

Baer/Beer/Baehr/Bayer?FN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Bamberg.

Baer/Beer/Baehr/Bayer?FN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Kirburg(?)/Kurbburg(?).

BaerFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Seigendorf, Bamberg [Bishopric].  For 1798 see Mai1798:Nk7, Sm45.

BaerFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Magdeburg (no locality mentioned). The family name was spelled Baehr in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2125,Ka101).

BaerFN: no place of origin is given for this couple in the Pfeiffer FSL.  The family name is later spelled Bahrwirt?. 

BaerFN: this family name was found recorded in Schotten parish records for many years prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.

BaerenbachGL: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Berg family.  This might be the same place as the following entry, or there are 4 such in Baden-Palatinate and one Baerembach in Bas-Alsace.

BaerenbachGL, Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to an Uhlmann family.  There are two Baerenbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, one some 34 miles W and one some 40 miles SW of Mainz city center.

BaerenburgGL: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to Ehrlich{Gottlieb}.  There is a Kurort Baerenburg some 17.5 miles S of Dresden city.

BaergFN: said by the Rosenort FSL to be fromUC Stadtfeld, Marienburg Amt.

BaergenFN: said by the Tiege FSL to be a son-in-law living in the Neufelt  household.

BaerwaldeGL: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.  There were at least 3 Beerwalde in Saxony and 2 Baerwalde in Poland.

BaerwaldeGL: also see Berwald.

BaesslerFN: said by the Hoelzel FSL to be fromUC Pettstadt, Bamberg [Bishopric].   According to a Rosslau ML this Besselt man had married in 1766 a Hemlimin woman (Mai&Marquardt#1023).  However, in 1798 the maiden name of frau Bessler was given as Gelwein (Mai1798:Hz14), and his family name was given variously as  Bessler (Hz23), Beuler (Sm2), Boehringer (Nk52), and possibly as Bauser (Dl42).  In 1792 it was given as Besener(?) (Mv942).

BagerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Wiesbaden, Frankfurt-am-Main.

Bagnols, Frankreich: an unidentified place and said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Reon family.  There are at least five Bagnols in France.  This may have been 17 miles NW of Avignon.

BaguFN: said by the Franzosen FSL to be fromUC Bersancon, Frankreich.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BahlFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.

BahltFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Pressburg, Ungarn.

BahnFN: see Baini.

BahnbrueckenGL, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden: is some 8 miles E of Bruchsal city and proven by the GCRA to be home to the Laemmle family which went to Bergdorf; see their book for more details.

BahrwirtFN: see Baer.

BaideckVV: another spelling of BeideckVV.

BaierFN: said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Froschhausen in the Offenbach region of Hessen.  According to the Buedingen church records an unnamed child of this Beyer/Beier couple died on 18 June 1766 in Buedingen (Mai&Marquardt#1231).

BaiersbronnGL, Freudenstadt [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 3 miles NW of Freudenstadt city and said by the KS:263 to be homeUC to Michael Fischer of Berdorf’s widow.

Baigerd FN:see Beichert.

BainiFN: said by the Husaren FSL to be fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main (no locality mentioned)   In 1798 this was spelled Bahn (Mai1798:Hn6), Boni (Km27) and Bani (Mv1040).

BaischFN:  settled, date unknown,  in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Sulz, Neckar/Sulz parish, Wuerttemberg.  Sulz-am-Neckar is some 27 miles WSW of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg.

BaisingenGL: see Braistingen.

BakenbergGL: see Bakenburg.

Bakenburg?GL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Hartmann family.  Therre was a Blankenburg some 7 miles SW of Halberstadt city in Brunswick Duchy and there was a Bakenberg on the NW edge of Arnheim city.

BaklerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be from Maastricht, Holland.  A Luebeck ML says this Berkler woman married in 1765 a Pohl man; by 1766 this couple was in Katharinenstadt (Mai&Marquardt#43).

BakusFN: listed by the 1816 Neudorf census (#33) with no origin. The GCRA found indications that the family came fromUC 1) Muenzesheim, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden which they guessed may have been Meisenheim, Rheinland,  or 2) fromUC Alsenz, Meisenheim [Amt], Rheinpfalz.    The adult second generation used the nameGauch with variations: Hauch and Haug.

BalFN, see Bahl.

Balart?FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Schwerin (no locality mentioned).  Jim Parsonage of Brisbane, Australia says this the Ballart family settled in Schaffhausen, then moved to Bulgulma, and finally in1919 escaped to Manchuria, which they then escaped in 1949 to go to the US and Australia.  They are listed as Pallatte in Schaffhausen in the 1798 census (Mai1798:Sh20).

Baler?FN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Londorf.

BalingenGL, [Wuerttemberg Duchy]: is some 21 miles SW of Reutlingen city, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Koch family.

BalingenGL, Balingen parish, Wuerttemberg.: is some 22 miles SW of Reutlingen, Baden Wuerttemberg, and was home to a Zuern family that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.

BalingerFN: see Bollinger.

Ball?FN: see Bahl.

Ballart FN, see Balart.

BallenheimGS: a unidentified state; see Kloster Leichtstaedte.

Ballenheim(?)GL, Franken: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Reicholdt family.  This might be Behlenheim, Alsace, some 7 miles NW of Strasbourg city center.

BallenstedtGL, Anhalt-Bernburg:

BallwitzGL: see Bulwitz.

BaltzerFN: see Balzer.

BalzerFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).

BalzerFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Weiler, Pfalz.

BalzerFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be a step-son living with the Hemrisch family which would indicate that frau Hemrisch was previously frau Balzer.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

Balzer FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no locality mentioned) with two Boxhorn orphan boys in the household.  According to a Rosslau ML this Baltzer man married in 1766 an Ebert woman, no origins given (Mai&Marquardt#942).

BalzerVV (aka Goloi Karamysh, Goly Karamysch, Golyj Karamysch) is a German village of the Reformed faith on the western side of the Volga.  An abbreviated translation of the Balzer FSL was first printed in Stumpp, The Emigration, pp.77-78, with the entries and additional information (source not given by Stumpp) interspersed alphabetically pp.117-165.  The FSL is now also published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp.71-104.  According to these works, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens.  Information and spelling sometimes differ between Stumpp and Pleve – information from Stumpp is presented here in standard bold, if it appears the same way in Pleve, it is underlined, if it appears only in Pleve, it is bold italicized. A number following a family name is its FSL number.  Red lettering indicates the origin has been proven:

from Ansbach: (Ditmer?);

from Aulendiebach, Isenburg[-Buedingen County): (Lutz/Lotz68, Mesinger/Messinger62);

from Baden-Baden, Baden: (Klein);

from Baden-Baden, Baden/Baden-Durlach: (Borell29);

from Blanenbach, Hessen: (Dorlosch);

from Bueches/Buches, Isenburg[-Buedingen County]: (Weber98);

from Buedingen, Isenburg-Buedingen County: (Schneider76

from Calbach, Isenburg-Buedingen County: (Rutt/Ruth44, frau Kling43);

from Duedelsheim, Isenburg-[Buedingen County]: (Kling/Klinck43, Raab49, Weisheim/Weissheim57, 58, 87, 88);

from Duedelsheim, Isenburg-Buedingen [County]: (Bender41, Claus/Klaus4, Eurich42, Eurich/Eyring47. Fech/Fecht50, Jaeckel/Jakel55, Magel40);

from Duedelsheim, Isenburg-Buedingen County: (Kleinfelder59, Scheit53, Schneider{Heinrich}51 and frau Schneider(nee Ruehl)51, and frau Weisheim (nee Schwartz57);

from Dudelsheim, Isenburg-Offenbach [County] [sic]: (Scheit53);

from Eckartshausen, Isenburg-Buedingen County: (Kaiser45);

from Essen/Hoffsin?: (Barthuly);

from Gladbach, Rheinprovinz: (Tischler);

from Hessen: (Herbel);

from Huettengesas, Isenburg-Meerholz County: (frau Bender(nee Doerr)41, Doerr41a, Habermann86a, Heimbuch85, 90a, Neugard/Neuhard/Neidhard89, Protzmann/Protsmann79, Roehrig/Rohrich91, Ross97, frau Ross (nee Doerr)97, Roth46, Schaefer66, frau Schaefer(nee Gaert)66, Zieg6);

from Hessen-Darmstadt: (Baer, Berg);

from Isenburg: (Buchner);

from Isenburg: (Becker, Bengel60, Deckmann41a, Dob, Engel, Erth, Faust, Frickel, Gerlach, Gruen67, Habermann86a, Heil, Heimbuch85, Heizenroeder, Idt, Kaehm, Kaiser45, Keller, Klaus, Koehler, Kraeuter81,Lorengel/Lohrengel74, Lutz68, Mai71, Popp61, Protzmann/Protsmann79, Roehrig91, Ross97, Roth46, Schaefer66, Scheibel, Schleigel, Schneider51, 76, Stumpf, Wukert?, Zieg6);

from Isenburg/Kurpfalz: (Heft);

from Isenburg-Offenbach [County]: (Kleinfelder59, Mesinger/Messinger62, Mueller, Neugard/Neuhard, Rutt, Schlegel, Schleuger, Sinner, Tirol);

from Isenburg/Offenbach/Hanau: (Kalbin);

from Isenburg/Offenbach/Kurpfalz: (Blitz);

from Kurpfalz: (Bauer, Blitz72, Busch, Busick/Busiek, Eichner, Geist, Gropp, Haupt?, Heckmann, Herzog, Hoffmann, Huber, Kolb, Ritter, Steinepreis/Steinpreis, and Stoehr);

from Kurpfalz/Schweiz: (Merkel, Scheck);

from Leustadt, Isenburg[-Buedingen County?]: (widow Weber (nee Volckers/Volkers)98);

from Lieblos, Isenburg-Meerholz County: (frau Rohrich (nee Schmick)91);

from Lindheim, [Friedberg Imperial City?]: (Leichner54);

from Lorbach, Isenburg-Buedingen [County]: (Lorengel/Lohrengel74, Reuss/Reis56);

from Neuweidermus, Isenburg[-Meerholz County]: (frau Kraueter/Krauter (nee Schneider)81);

from Oberwidermus, Isenburg[-Meerholz County]: (Kraueter/Krauter81);

from Oehringen, [Hohenlohe County/Principality]: (Tehele/Tebele, Volz13);

from OffenbachGL, Dillkreis, [Nassau-Dillenburg Principality]:: (Buchner);

from Pfalz/Kurpfalz: (Robertus);

from Pfalz/Lowenstein: (Karl);

from Rohrbach, Isenburg[-Buedingen County]: (Grasmick/Grasmueck63, 78, Popp/Bopp61, Weber);

from Runkel, Kurpfalz: (Spaeth);

from Schweiz: (Meier);

from Schweiz: (Moehser);

from Strotzbuesch: (Becker);

from Wittenberg: (Kiselmann);

from Wolf, Isenburg-Buedingen County: (Bengel60, Gruen67, frau Gruen(neeHart)67, frau Lotz (neeHart)68);

from Wolferborn, Isenburg[-Birstein County?]: (Schleigel/Schlegel101);

from Zweibruecken, Kurpfalz: (Decker).

BamarFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Hobeck, Sachsen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Bamberg [Bishopric]GS: seated in Bamberg, Bavaria which lies some 43 miles ENE of Wuerzburg and some100 miles ESE of Frankfurt-am-Main; it was an independent state under its Bishop in the 1760s with extensive territories.  None of the following references mention any locality within the Bishopric.  Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Kleinlein family.  Said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to Diethorn?, Lill, and Seiler families and possibly a Koenig family. Said (no locality indicated) by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to Minterlein and Stark families. Said by the Hildmann FSL to be homeUC to a Rockenschuh family.  Said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Lee family.  Said by Kuhlberg to be homeUC to the Korger and Lee boys of Hoelzel.  Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to Baer/Beer/Baehr/Bayer?, Boehm/Behm, and Siebenhaar families. Said by Kuhlberg to be homeUC to the Rudolph family that went to Kano. Said by the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC to a Krib? family (there is some later indication that this might be a Groh family). Said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to Dehler, Faust, and Sener families.  Said by Kuhlberg to homeUC to Schuster{Michael} listed by the Leitsinger FSL as an orphaned brother-in-law in the Fritzmann household.  Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to a Stuermer family and possibly a Neuf  family.  Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Tuebelein  family. Said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to Brehm{Peter}, Strecklein/Stecklein, and Wenger families.  Said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to an Frankuechen and a Zimmermann family. Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to Bittel, Knecker?, Leidemann, Mener?, and Stadelmann families.  Said by the Volmer FSL to be home to a Sauer family.

BambergerFN: said by the Moor FSL to be a step-son living in the Scherf household.

BammentalGL, Baden: is some 5 miles SE of Heidelberg, Baden Wuerttemberg.

BanatGL, Hungary: the Banat was an area of considerable German settlement across the Danube from Belgrade extending N and E.

BandelFN: said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC Beswara(?).

BangelFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Runkel, Kurfalz.

BangertFN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Niederlauken, Nassau-Usingen.

BangertVV (aka Saumarye, Saumorje, Zaumorje) is a Lutheran German village on the eastern side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 105-113.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. The number with the name is their household number in the FSL:

from Anspach, Trier: (Weirich28);

from Bernhausen, Wuertemberg: (Deibert?20);

from Dorfweil, Nassau-Usingen: (Loob16);

from Esch, Nassau: (Eckert22);

from Frauenstein, Sachsen: (Stehm?4);

from Freiburg: (Heiss14a, Reber14);

from Grimmellfingen, Ulm, Schwaben: (Huber27, possibly Gerhardt27a);

from Hasselborn, Nassau-Usingen: (Boxer8, Reitz9);

from Homburg, Darmstadt: (Beil21);

from Kleeberg, Wetterau, Darmstadt: (Gammel/Hammel?13, Hamel29, Schmidt6,10,30);

from Mittelhausen, Nassau-Usingen: (Otto15);

from Moenstadt, Nassau-Usingen: (Sorg11);

from Moettau, Nassau-Weilburg: (Burg12);

from Neustadt, Kurmainz: (Heiland24);

from Niederlauken, Nassau-Usingen: (Bangert1, Huber18,18a, Sahl23, Schnorr17);

from Oberwetz, Braunfels: (Otto7);

from Philippstein, Nassau-Weilburg: Gath?32);

from Pulheim(?), Darmstadt: (Bonecker3);

from Rod an der Weil, Nassau-Usingen: (Nickel19);

from Roemershausen, Darmstadt: (Schoesser5);

from Steinbach, Darmstadt: (Gossmann?26);

from Uckersdorf, Nassau-Dillenburg: (Siebert25);

from Weilmuenster, Nassau-Weilburg: (Erber2);

from Zuzenhausen, Kurpfalz: (Wirth31).

BaniFN: see Baini.

Banne, Frankreich: is 43 miles NW of Avignon and said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Boquere family.

BannerodGL: is some 30 miles ENE of Friedberg-in-der-Wetterau and was home to the Kissler who went to Frank.  See Penrot.

BapstFN: see Pabst.

BaratFN: said by the Franzosen FSL to be fromUC Labor,Frankreich.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BarataevkaVV: a version of the Russian name for BettingerVV.

BaratajewkaVV: a version of the Russian name for BettingerVV.

BaratayevkaVV: a version of the Russian name for BettingerVV.

BarberichFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Rengshausen(?), Kurmainz.  Later spelled Berberich (Mai1797:Mv695, Se18).

BarbieFN: see Barbier.

BarbierFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Vandelans, Frankreich. Spelled Barbie in 1798 (Mai1798:Om45).

BarbierFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Bitsch, Lothringen. In 1798 the family name was spelled Barbie (Mai1798:Ls24,Mt62).

BareisFN: see Paris.

Barelo or BartoleFN: said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC Behren-Luebchin?.  The family name was spelled Barthuly in 1798 (Mai1798:Mo70).

Barger(?)GL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.

BarmanFN: the 1798 Dobrinka census says this was Seifert’s wife’s maiden name (Mai1798:Db36).

Barmut/BormutFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Schoenberg.

BaronFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Salzburg.

BaronskVV: a Russian name for KatharinenstadtVV.

Baronville(?)GL, Luxembourg: now in Belgium, some 43 miles NW of Luxembourg city, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Charles family.

Barpach? GL, Fetzburg?: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Mader family. 

BarrGL, Strasbourg [Amt], Elsass: is some 18.5 miles SW of Strasbourg city, and was a District administrative center.

BartFN:  listed by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659, 214) without origin.  GCRA thinks they previously may have gone from Hoepfingen, Wuerttemberg to Kolonie Koenigsbach, S. Prussia in 1804.  Also spelled Barth.

BartFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Heimweiler(?), Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter(?).  Later spelled Barth.

BartGL, Grafschaaft Hanau: an unidentified locality said by the Roethling FSL to be homeUC to a Ritt family.

BartelFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Zerbst (no locality mentioned).   Spelled Bartel in 1798 (Mai1798: Mv330, Or25).

BartelFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Befort, Luxembourg with a orphan Roething girl in the household.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Bn46.

BartelFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Liebau, Sachsen.

BartelFN: said by the Pleve version of the Norka FSL to an orphan boy fromUC Buedingen in the Milling household.  Ruth Schultz reports that his death record in Norka church records lists Buedingen as his birth place.

BartelFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Dengkofen.

BartelmeiFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Kerschvelt/Kirschalt/Kirschfelt[Gersfeld]GL, Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.  Also spelled Bartolmei and Bartolomei.by the Russian scribe of the Walter FSL.  According to Doris Evans, this origin was confirmed in parish records in research done by Anneliese Micheiwski for Margo Sherer : a Bartholmess man died in Wuestensachsen before 1690, his son, born in Wuestensachsen married a Richter woman in Gersfeld in 1690.

BartelsFN: according to a Luebeck ML a Bartels woman (no origin given) married a Rosemann man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Bettinger (Mai&Marquardt#113).

BartelsenFN: see Bartels.

BartelsonFN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Abo.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BartensteinGL: see Bautenstein.

BartezanFN:  said by the Ober-Monjou 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Konradi (Mai1798:Om12).

BarthFN:  arrived in South Russia in 1819, later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Glems, Urach Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.  Stumpp, p.598, says a Barth family fromUC Marbach, Wuerttemberg left in 1817 and later settled in Gueldendorf.  Marbach is some 30 miles N of Glems.

BarthFN: a foster son of the Block family given no origin of his own by the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL.

BarthFN: said  (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Kur]-Brandenburg.

BarthFN: also see Bart.

Barth?GL, Schwedisch Pommern: is some 31 miles NE of Rostock city, and said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Schulz family.

BarthollFN: see Barthuly.  a daughter of this family was baptized in 1764 in the St. Petri Lutheran Church in Luebeck (Mai&Marquardt#1335).

BartholomaeusFN: she is said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to have married Wolf in Oranienbaum, but no origin is given for her.

BartholomaeusFN: also see Bartolmei.

BarthulyFN: said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Essen, and by the Pleve version to be from Hoffsin?.  See Bartholl.

BarthulyFN: also see Barelo.

BarthulyusFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Gorgom?, Wittenberg. .  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

BartisFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Besers?.   Spelled Bertus in 1798 (Mai1798:Mt16).

BartoleFN: see Barelo.

BartolmeiFN: according to the Buedingen ML this Bartholomaeus man from Gersfeld married a Heberlin woman in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Walter (Mai&Marquardt#694). Also see Bartelmei.

BartolomaiFN: see Bartelmei.

BartolomeiFN: see Bartelmei.

Baschka/PashkaFN: said by the Kano FSL (it gives both spellings) to be fromUC Lagnitz?, with a Mattis step-son in the household.

BaselGL, Schweiz: is some 70 miles S of Strasbourg, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Kohl family.

BaselVV (aka Gratz, Kratz, Vasilevka, Wasiljewka): a Lutheran colony founded in 1767, moved in 1770, on the eastern side of the Volga river not far from Wittmann.  To the best of my knowledge no copy of its First Settlers’ List has been found and published.  Anyone learning of such a document, please let us know immediately.

BashkakovkaVV: the Russian name for KindVV.

BassGL: an unidentified place, said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to an Egeus? family.

Bassenheim [Barony]GS: the Waldbott familys homebase was this small barony which occupied lands immediately surrounding Bassenheim town, some 5 miles W of Koblenz city; however they held other lands.  Just about the time settlers were leaving for Russia, the Waldbotts acquired small areas around Schmitten in the highest Taunus Mountains; they also held a bit of land just W of Usingen.  Their lands were sometimes called the Waldbott Barony.  The Bassenheim [Barony] (no locality indicated) was said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Peterson family.  Said (no locality indicated) by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by Kuhlberg to be homeUC to the Hamm man who first settled in Kano.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to (Baecker{Johannes}.  Said by the Roethling FSL to be homeUC to a Rupp family.

BastFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Elbing, Preussen.

BastFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Alsfeld, Hessen.

BastianFN: see Paustan.

BastronFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Bigens(?), Isenburg.  Doris Evans says this origin is confirmed as Buedingen in research done by Manfred Steinberger for Virginia West: the original colonist was born in Buedingen and his father had been a stocking weaver in Offenbach.  The colonist’s wife was a Lang from Laubach.  Research done byAnneliese Micheiwski for the Frank Research Fund show