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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BieberFN{Diebold}: proved by the GCRA born in Zollingen, Zabern [Amt], Elsass with Eyeiler records (FHL 1,143,961 and 749,356) but this family did not go to Glueckstal; see the GCRA book for detail.

BieberFN{Peter}: said by a later Glueckstal census to have come from Bulkess, Batschka, Hungary, and proved, using FHL 1,143,961 and 749,356,  by the GCRA to have previously come from Eyeiler, Drulingen [Amt], Elsass.  Also spelled Biber and Bueber.  See the GCRA book for detail.

BieberFN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Sim(?), Baden.

BieberFN: is 6.6 miles SE of Gelnhausen; said by the Roethling FSL to be in or near Gelnhausen, Hessen:, and to be the homeUC of the Apfel family.

Bieber(?)GL:an unidentified place said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Geiser family.  This may be Beiber-bei-Gelnhausen.

BiebersteinFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Zens.

BiebesheimGL, Darmstadt: is some 10 miles SW of Darmstadt and said by the Kautz FSL to be the homeUC of a Riehl/Ril/Riel family.  This apparently was right on the border between Hesse-Darmstadt and Kurmainz.

BiebelsheimGL, Kurpfalz: is some 17 miles Swof Mainz city, and said by the Bauer FSL to be homeUC to a Buechner family.

BiedenkopfGL, Hesse: see Biedenov.

Biedesheim, Kurmainz: said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Werner family.  This probably is Biebesheim some 10 miles SW of Darmstadt city.

BiedenovGL, Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Schwed FSL to be homeUC to a Kraemer family.  There is a Biedenkopf, Hesse, some 24 miles NNW of Giessen.  In the 1760’s it might have been under the control of Hesse-Darmstadt.

BiegFN: see Buege.

BiehlFN: see Bisl.

BiehnFN: see Bem, Bien, and Bihu.

BielFN: see Bisl.

Bielefeld GL, [Ravensburg County, Brandenburg Duchy?]: said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Hiltermann family.  This probably is Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, some 30 miles NW of Paderborn city.

BielmannFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Schoenburg.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BienFN: said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Fulda (no locality given). ).    The family name was spelled Biehn in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv1316).

BienemannFN: see Binemann.

BierFN: arrived in South Russia in 1819, later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Bockschaft, Sinsheim Amt, Baden.

BierFN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Damehteberg, Pfalz-Zweibrucken.

BierdFN: this orphan was said by the Boaro FSL to be living in a Mann family that was fromUC Penzlin, Mecklenburg.  I did not identify her 1798 whereabouts.

BiererFN: see Buehrer.

Bierman(n)FN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Friedberg (no locality mentioned).

BiersackFN see Birsack.

BierstadtGL, Mainz, an unidentified place said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC to a Gota family.  Said by the Seewald FSL to be the homeUC of a Treitz family; a later spelling was Dreitz.  Today there is a Bierstadt neighborhood in Wiesbaden across the Rhine from Mainz.

BieselbergGL: earlier? spelled Bieselsberg.

BieselsbergGL, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg: aka Bieselberg is some 5 miles NNW of Calw city, said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659, 303) to be homeUC to the Hermann family and by the 1858 census (KS:661, 665, 429) to be homeUC to the Schmid(t) family.  It was verified by the GCRA as the home of the Koehler family that went to Bergdorf.

BietigheimGL: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Goering family.  There are 3 places with this name in Germany.

Bietigheim, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: proved by the GCRA to be home to the Maeule family that went to Bergdorf.

Bietlingen(?)GL:said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Peil family.  This might be Buettlingen some 18 miles ESE of Luebeck city.

BigeFN: see Buege.

Bigens(?)GL, was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in Isenburg County and was homeUC to a Bastron family.  This was Buedingen, Isenburg.

Biget?FN: see Bichert.

BihuFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Biehn in the 1775 Norka census.  Probably spelled Pan in 1798 with the wife’s maiden name given as Waidain which could be Weigand? (Mai1798:Nr120).

BilenskyFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Gorsei(?), Daenemark with a Schaul wife fromUC Amsterdam.  Later spelled Belenski and his wife’s (2nd wife?) maiden name is listed as Scheidt (Mai1798:Ka109).

Bild(?)GL:an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Lechner family.

Bilertann(?)GL, Swabia: An unidentified locality said by the Leichtling FSL to be homeUC to a Berger family.  This probably is Buehlertann, Baden-Wuerttemberg, some 44 miles NNW of Ulm.

Biller?FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Portich?.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BilligheimGL, Landau [Amt], Bergzabern [Oberamt], Rheinpfalz: is some 4.5 miles NE of Bad Bergzabern, and may have been homeUC to the Stock who went to Glueckstal. It was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Frei/Frey{Jakob} family that settled in Kassel. And was proven by the GCRA to be birthplace of the first Reuter/Reuther/Reiter settler in Neudorf. It also was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Raich wife of Ehresmann who settled in Neudorf.  See the GCRA book for more.

BillingerFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC Staubing, Bayern.

BilzackFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Lausitz.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BinachesGL: Bonner found that their Bueches marriage record said that frau Kaiser{Peter} came fromUC here.  Bonner wonders if this could be Bindsachen?

BinatelFN: see Binedel.

BinauGS: this is some 16 miles ESE of Heidelberg city, and likely was the seat of a tiny barony of the same name.  Said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to an Siebert family, and possibly to a Staud family.

Bindewald?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Mengers(?).  The Schlitz ML says this Bindewald man from Meiches married a Kenel woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#742).  Also spelled Bindewald in 1798 when his wife's maiden name is given as Rael (Mai1798: Mn33).

Bindsachen, Isenburg-Buedingen County?:: is 4 miles NE of Buedingen city.

Binedel?FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Steinfurt [County].    Spelled Binatel in 1798 and the wife’s maiden name is given as Lumm (Mai1798:Nm57).

BinemannFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Magdeburg, Brandenburg with a Bauk wife fromUC Anahlt-Zerbst.  Later spelled Bienemann (Mai1798:Ka24, 48, 49).

BingelFN: see Bengel.

BingemerFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Bingemer woman fromUC Rendel married a Klein man in 1766; the couple later moved to Frank (Mai&Marquardt#685).

BingenGL, Kurmainz: is some 16 miles W of Mainz city and said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Reichert family and possibly a Schmidt step-daughter.

BingenheimGL, was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Hessen-Darmstadt and homeUC to a Mueller family.  There is a Biebesheim some 10 miles SW of Darmstadt.  Or was this Bingensheim?

BingensheimGL, Hessen-Darmstadt: see Pingensheim.

Bingert, Kreuznach [Amt], Rheinpfalz: is 4.5 miles SW of Kreuznach city, and was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Weber{Heinrich} family that settled in Neudorf.

Binginer?FN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Rinteln, Frieberg(?).

Binningen?GL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Meier family. Kuhlberg said this was in the country of Pfalz.  There were at least 3 Binningen in the Germanies; one of them was geographically in the Pfalz but politically it was in the country of Kurtrier, some 19 miles SW of Koblenz city.

BippusFN: arrived in South Russia in 1817 and later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Sigmarswangen, Sulz Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

BirckelGL, Breuberg: an unidentified place said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a .Dreuth family.  There is a small chance that this might be Buergel, just outside Offenbach city, Hessen.

BirerFN: see Buehrer.

BirgelGL: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Siekart family.  There are at least 3 places with this name in Germany.

Birkenau, Weinheim [Amt], [Heppenheim Kreis], Hesse: is 2 miles ENE of Weinheim city and 7 miles SE of Heppenheim-an-der-Berstrasse.  Was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Fochlinger/Fechlinger/Voellinger family and the home of his Loew wife and the birthplace of the children of Schauer{Friedrich}who settled in Neudorf.

BirkenfeldGL: said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Kagel and possibly to a  Bernhardt family.

BirkenfeldGL, Calw, Wuerttemberg: said, mistakenly, by the Glueckstal 1816 census to be be homeUC to the Dollinger family.

BirkenfeldGL, Zweibruecken: is some 30 miles NNW of Zweibruecken city.

BirkenfeldGS: an unidentified country; see Erstein.

Birkenfeld [Amt]GL, [Rheinpfalz]: is some 31 miles NW of Kaiserlautern city, and was a District administrative center.

BirkenfeldeGL, [Posen Department], South Prussia: was in Rawa county which was seated at Rawa Mazowieka, some 34 miles E of Lodz, Poland, and said by the GCRA to be the place from which the Dollinger who went to Bergdorf and Glueckstal held a passport.  See their book for more detail.

BirkenstockFN: also see Berkenstock

BirkheimGL, Kur Trier: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Gaal? family.  There is a Birkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, some 50 miles NE of Trier.

BirknerFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Hallberg. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BirlFN: a Birl woman from the Darmstadt area married in 1766 in Luebeck a Pfaffenroht man from the same area; the couple later moved to Jagonaja Poljana (Mai&Marquardt#275).

BirlenbachGL, Sulz [Amt], Wissenburg Kreis, Elsass: is some 2 miles N of Sulz town, and proven by the GCRA to be one of the origins of Haas{Georg} who went to Bergdorf, and may have gone onUC to Glueckstal.  Mistakenly said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Opp family.  See the GCRA book for details.  Curt Renz proved it home to the Haas family that went to Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.

Birner? FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Gotha.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BirrerFN: see Buehrer.

BirsackFN{Johannes} , {Philipp}: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Oberursel,, Kurmainz.  Spelled Biersack{Johannes} in 1798 (Mai1798:Nk17).,

Birstadt, Kurmainz: said by the Rothammel FSL to be homeUC to a Haag family.  This probably is Bierstadt, an area within Wiesbaden.

BirsteinGL: said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Kuhl woman who in 1766 married a Juncker man; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar; Stumpp says Birstein was near Waechtersbach (Mai&Marquardt#559).  The Krasnoyar FSL said this man was from Darmstadt.

BirsteinGL, Isenburg: is 9 miles ENE of Buedingen, and said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to Bauer, Krausch, and Traut families.

BisbaumFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Lothringen (no locality mentioned).

BischbergGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Martin family.  This may be Bischberg, Lisberg Barony, some 3 miles WNW of Bamberg city.

Bischdorf, Lothringen: nka Boustroff, France, 21 miles SW pf Saarbruecken city, and  said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Hubert/Haubert family.

Bischausen-bei-Waldkappel, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: is 23 miles SE of Kassel city, and said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to a Wilhelm and possibly to a Ludwig family.

BischkeFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#98) and KS:395 with no origin, but KS:226 says they came fromUC Polen.  Also spelled Pischki.  The GCRA thinks they probably came from the Netze River valley near Samotschin, Posen, Prussia.  See their book for more.

BischofFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main.  Later spelled Bischoff and his wife’s maiden name is given as Rau (Mai1798:Db22).

Bischoff FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Erbach [County].

Bischoff FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Zwingenberg with a Weiner orphan boy in the household.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BischoffFN: also see Bischof.

BischofsheimGL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Baumann{Franz} family.  See the following:

Bischofsheim?GL, [Hessen-Darmstadt]: is some 14 miles NW of Darmstadt city, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Schreiber family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Darmstadt.

Bischofsheim, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place, said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to  Schick{Balthasar} and {Ludwig} families.  There are at least 5 such placenames in Germany, but none that I can find in lands which belonged at that time to Kurpfalz.

Bischt(?)GL , see Bischtu….

Bischtau?GL, Holstein: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to an Erenstramin? family.

Bischtu…(?)GL/Bischt(?): an unidentified place said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Herwig/Gervig family.  There is a Bischtroff-sur-Sarre in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France.

Bischweiler [Amt], Elsass: how Bischwiller, is some 16 miles S of Wissembourg city, and was a District administrative center.

BishammerFN: Herr Bishammer was said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Orb, and his frau’s maiden name was given as Hubert (no origin given).    The family name was spelled Geiss in 1798 (Mai1798:Kl85).

BishofFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no other locality mentioned) with a Mueller wife.

BiskirchenGL, [Solms-]Braunfels [County]: is some 4 miles WNW of Braunfels city, and said by the Kukkus FSL to be homeUC to Engelmann, Klapper, Schwab and Schweizer families.  Said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to Anchuetz, Scharf, and Schmidt{Just} families.

BislFN:  said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to have come fromUC Dorheim. The maiden name of frau Biehl was spelled Kreler? in 1798 (Mai1798:Om70).  In 1779, 1784 and 1798 also spelled Biehl  (see Mv2049, Mv2971, and Zg29 repsectively).  Also spelled Biel and Pihl in 1798 (see Zg29 and Zg20 respectively).

BissersheimGL, [Leiningen County]: is some 11 miles NW of Mannheim city, and was said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Becker family.  Said by the Caesarsfeld FSL to be homeUC to a Heidemann family.

BissersheimGL, Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to a Velde/Felde family.  The only Bissersheim I can find was in Leiningen County.

BissersheimGL, Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Keller FSL to be homeUC to a Degass family. The only Bissersheim I can find was in Leiningen County 11 miles WNW of Mannheim city.

Bisses(?)GL: is some 7 miles NE of Friedberg city, said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Schneider family.

BissingFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Amsterdam, Holland.

BissingenGL, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 4 miles NE of Ludwigsburg city, and proven by the GCRA to be home to the Scheufele family that went to Bergdorf; see their book for more details.

BisterfeldFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Wied-]Runkel [County] with Schaefer stepchildlren in the household.    See Mai1798:Nm10 for 1798.  Later also spelled Pisterfeld.

BisusesGL, was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Hessen-Darmstadt and was homeUC to a Hendelbach family.  It might have been Bisses which is some 12 miles NW of Buedingen.

Bitche, Frankreich: 12 miles SW of Pirmasens city, and said by the Cheisol FSL to be homeUC to a Sander family.

Bitersan(?)GL, Friedberg: an unidentified place said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to Schwind and Seib families.

Bitner/BittnerFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Mainz (no locality mentioned).

BitnerFN: also see Buetner.

BitschFN: said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Schlesien (no locality indicated).  Later spelled Pietsch.

Bitsch{Johann}FN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#87) and KS:226 and 395 said this family came fromUC Poland (no locality indicated). Also spelled Pietz, Pitsch, and Pitz.  See the GCRA book for more.

BitschFN: also see Pitz.

BitschGL, Lothringen: is in Lorraine some 22 miles W of Wissembourg. Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to Barbier, Dening, Herbion, Leichleiter, Meier, Obholz, Peil, Pourquenoit?, Rausch, and Springer families, as well as to frau Debaptiste.   Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to Hermann and Zwinger families.

BittelFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Bamberg (no locality mentioned).

Bittenberger FN: a Woehrd ML says this woman fromUC Guttenstaedten married in 1766 a Kolb man from Rapoldshofen (Mai&Marquardt#804).  They originally settled in Laub.

Bittenfeld, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 4 miles N of Waiblingen city and said (mistakenly?) by the the 1816 Neudorf census (#3) to be homeUC to a Reuter/Reuther/Reiter family that settled in Neudorf.

BitterFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Koenigsberg, Brandenburg.  In 1798 the wife’s maiden name was given as Stuetz (Mai1798:Lb7).

BitterFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Allerheiligen, Darmstadt.  There are several Allerheiligen in Germany and Austria, but none that I can find in former Hessen-Darmstadt lands.

BitterGL: an unidentified place said by the Hildmann FSL to be homeUC to a Tobi/Tobie family.  There was a Bitter, Kurbraunschweig, 50 miles SE of Hamburg city centre.

BitterfeldGL: an unidentified place and  said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Schuster family.  Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Blum family.  The only Bitterfeld I can find was in Kursachsen 18 miles N of Leipzig city..

Bitterfeld, Wittenberg[?]: an unidentified place, said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to a Ziegler family.  See the previous entry.

BittnerFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Schlitz.

BittnerFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Mittelsinn, Wuerzburg.

BittnerFN: said by the Kano FSL to be a step-daughter in the Fried household.  I could not find her in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Bittner{J.Ludwig} FN: listed by both the 1816 Kassel census (#87) and KS:227 without origin.  Using FHL#1,191,147 the GCRA proved origin in Romanshoff, Czarnikau [Kreis], Posen Province, Prussia.  See their book for more.

BittnerFN: also see Bitner.

BittorFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Leising?.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Bitzfeld, Weinsberg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 7.5 miles NE of Weinsberg town.  The GCRA thinks the roots of the Hagel who settled in Kassel may be here.

Bizau? GL, Mecklenburg: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to frau Petersen whose husband was from Luebeck.

BlaitsFN see Bleitz.

BlanckFN: see Blank.

BlanckensteinFN: see Blankenstein.

BlanenbachGL, Hessen(?): an unidentified place said by one or both versions of the Balzer FSL to be home to a Dorlosch family.  There is a Blankenbach, Hessen, some 30 miles SW of Kassel city.

BlankFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Danzig.

BlankFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Erbach (no locality mentioned).  The Buedingen ML says a Blanck man fromUC Erbach married a Dreuth woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#547).  However, the FSL gives the wife’s name as Juliane whereas the marriage record says Barbara Eliesabetha.

BlankFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg.

BlankFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Bach.

BlankFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Berlin.

BlankenbachGL, Hessen: see Blanenbach.

BlankenburgGL: see Bakenburg.

Blankenburg CountyGS: see Plekenberg County.

Blankenhof(?)GL, Baden-Durlach: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Simon family.  Probably Blankenloch, Baden-Wuerttemberg  some 7 miles NE of Karlsruhe.

Blankenloch GL, Baden-Durlach: some 7 miles NE of Karlsruhe.  See Blankenhof and Brankenloch.

BlankensteinFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Magdeburg, Sachsen.  A Luebeck ML says this Blanckenstein man married in 1765 a Bohm woman (Mai&Marquardt#32).

BlankensteinGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Lihmann family.   Kuhlberg said this was in Hessen.  There seem to be three Blankenstein in Germany, none of them in areas that belonged to either of the two Hessen countries in the 1760’s.

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

Blasien?GL: an unidentified place said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to Erne and Walter families.

BlassFN: said by the 1798 Katharinenstadt census to be the maiden name of Wormsbecher’s wife (Mai1798:Ka47).

Blass?FN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Hessen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

Blattner?FN, see Plattner.

BlatzFN: see Platz.

BlauFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Burbach, Darmstadt.

BlauFN: said by the 1798 Laub census to be the maiden name of frau Kahler (Mai1798:Lb18).

BlauenthalGL, Kotteritz: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Bachmann family.  I can only find one Blauenthal (then in Kursachsen), some 15 miles SSE of Zwickau city, but seeming to have no relationship to any Kotteritz.

BlausiusFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Schleinitz(?), Sachsen.

BlausteinGL: see Braustein.

BlechschmidFN: this woman in 1749 married a Schmidt man in Sprendlingen; by 1767 this couple was in Frank.

BleiFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Krastdorf?, Luxembourg.    Spelled Blein in 1798, and the wife’s maiden name was given as Wambach (Mai1798:Bn45, 67).

BleicherodeGL: Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to an Au family.  This probably is the Bleicherode, now in Thueringen, some 9 miles SW of Nordhausen city.

BleichrothFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Mannheim.

BleichstetterGL, Urach Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is some 3 miles S of Bad Urach, Baden Wuerttemberg, and was home to a Werner family that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.

Bleier?FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Meckendorf.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BleierFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Lauben.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses under either Bleier or Bleyer.

Bleifeld-bei-HoffnungsthalGL: issome 13 miles NE of Bonn and said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Wachter family.

BleinFN: see Blei.

BleitzFN{Peter}, {Adam}: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Kempton, Kurmainz.  Spelled {Peter} Blaits in 1798 (Mai1798:Nk35).

BleitzFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Bleitz woman fromUC Brenschbach near Umstadt married in 1766 a Hartmann man; by 1767 this couple had arrived in Walter (Mai&Marquardt#698).

BlemFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Fuerth, Ansbach.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

Blesau?FN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Werbellin, Brandenburg.

Bless?FN, see Pless.

BleyerFN: see Bleier.

BliesdalheimGL, Kurpfalz: is some 8 miles SW of Zweibruecken in the Saarland and said by the Kautz FSL to be the homeUC of a Werner family.

BlieskastelGL: is some 12 miles E of Saarbruecken city and seems to have been the seat of the von der Leyen lands which mostly lay to its E and S. Said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to a Wasinger family.  Said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to Kinderknecht  families. Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to Reinhard and Schmidt families.

BlitzFN: said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg-Offenbach [County], and by the Pleve version to be fromUC Kurpfalz.  The Buedingen ML says this man married a Michel woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquart#390).

BlochFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Gitserzhdorf, Hesse-Darmstadt County.

BlockFN: said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Nidda;  the Kromm version says he was from Streithain at Ober Lais near Nidda (pp.31, 33).

BloneckFN: this woman was said by a Woehrd ML to have married in 1766 a Schindler man; they then went to Keller (Mai&Marquardt#822);

Bloss?FN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC [Anhalt-]Dessau [Principality].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Bludenz?GL, Oesterreich: said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Maurer family.  Bludenz is in the Austrian Alps some 62 miles ESE of Zurich, Swiz.

BlumFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Hamburg.

BlumFN{Heinrich: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Geichel?.

BlumFN{J.Georg}: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Seedorf.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Nm43, Mv1917

BlumFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen.  The 1798 Norka census gives his wife’s maiden name as Repp (Mai1798:Nr197).

BlumFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Mindelheim. .  The wife’s maiden name was given as Wachtel in 1798 (Mai1798:Or24).

BlumFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Bitterfeld.

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

BlumbergerFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be a step-son in the Esperein household.  I could not find this man in the 1798 Volga censuses.

BlumenfeldGL: an unidentified place or country; see Botersinks.

BlumenortBV, Halbstad District, Molotschna: a German Mennonite village established in 1806.  According to Stumpp (p.97) all colonists came from West Prussia and the Danzig area.  Hildegard Wasnick village coordinator has begun to assemble information on the origins of settlers of this village and others, and to make that information available to this index.  So far her FSL source is mainly the Unruh book, but for almost every family listed here, she has assembled additional information from the records of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society (MMHS).  The numbers in parentheses are the household numbers in the village FSL as given in Unruh:

from Elbing: (Warckentin3);

from Halbstadt, Marienburg: (Weiler1,22);

from Neusteterwald, Elbing: (Enz2);

BlumenscheinFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Blumenschein woman fromUC Reichelsee married in 1766 a Zirckoebel man fromUC Reichelsee; after which the couple went to Jagodnaja Polyana; Stumpp says she was from Reichelsheim near Friedberg in Hessen [he surely was in error; the correct Reichelsheim must have been the one near Erbach city] (Mai&Marquardt#704).  According to Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL, this woman’s unmarried sister was from Erbach (p.131).

BlumenscheinFN: see Blumenstein.

BlumensteinFN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Reichelsheim, Erbach.  Later spelled Blumenschein.

BlumensteinFN: said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Erbach (no locality mentioned), and by Kromm to have been fromUC Reichelsheim, Erbach.  Stumpp spells it Blumenschein.

BlumensteinGL, Bern Kanton, Switzerland: is 14 miles SSE of Bern city.  See Mettler{J.Jakob}.

BlumentahlFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Schwaben (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Blun?FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Goettingen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses; might have been Blum?

Bluoa(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Mockler family.

BoaroVV (aka Boisraux, Boisroux, Bordowskoje) is a Lutheran German village on the eastern side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 139-175.  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.  Actually there were two lists both starting with the number 1.  Here number 1 of the supplementary list is given as 101, number 2 of that list is 102, and so forth:

from Bamberg: (Kleinlein102);

from Berlin: (Kisauer?68);

from Beseke(?): (Leinhardt?125, Meinhard121);

from Bibra: (Heilig?[Hellwig?]52);

from Bingen, Kurmainz: (Reichert35, and possibly Schmidt35a);

from Bleicherode: (Au26);

from Braun/Bsern(?): (Schlotter109);

from Breslau: (Verkehrt?63);

from Brundorf: (Jaeger29 and possibly Wegener/Wagner?29a);

from Clausthal(?): (Gottlieber?133, and possibly Meier133a);

from Darmstadt: (Hal?173, Schneider37a);

from Dessau: (Arnholt?41, Brausemann31, Gere?34, Gerward/Herrward?30, Hahn75, 76, Hensse13, 15, Hoher22, Hoppe54, 64a, Koch1, Krabe27, Krimer/Kremer?89, Mecker?79, Spenger?71, Tinike?88, Titschholz?32, Toepfer8, and possibly Glemer?8a, Wagner1a);

born in Diesdorf: (Walt11);

from Dresden: (Eilau?170, Emrich?171);

from Dresden, Sachsen: (Stein115);

from Ebescht(?): (Mueller129);

from Echem, Sachsen: (Mueller65);

from Eiche/Eichen?: (Triller179, 180, Zinkhan?178

from Eichenhayn: (Roth136, Ungefug156);

from Erfurt: (Losgus?168);

from Erlangen: (Borell111);

from Falkenstein(?): (Einike?137);

from Falun, Schweden: (Bergmann90);

from Frischborn: (Ortstadt147);

from Frischburg(?): (Fritzmann108);

from Fulda: (Lofink105);

from Gen(?), Darmstadt: (Mueller94);

from Gening(?): Schroeder74);

from Gera: (Raabe55);

from Gera, Sachsen: (Ludwig169);

from Gerestam(?): (Rausch95);

from Gernhausen(?), Kurmainz(?): (Bostel/Postel?162);

from Geschtet(?): (Berger141);

from Golniss, Dessau: (Reisegerste7, and possibly Wagner7a);

from Gohren, Dessau: (Bock28, and possibly Schmidt28a, Stallbaum28b);

from Gommern, Mecklenburg: (Scharf51);

from Gonna, Mecklenburg: (Arnst81, and possibly Lieders81a);

born in Gorau: (Schmidt43);

from Grobau: (Zwikau?14);

from Gumerthausen(?): (Klinkhefer96);

from Halberstadt: (Frankenfeld137, Gitte?12);

from Halle, Brandenburg: (Kommer87);

from Hausdorf: (Jordan145);

from Henneberg: (Leinhardt154);

from Herchenau: (Winterholder127, 128);

from Hessen: (Kleinschmidt120, Kronewald142);

from Hoergenau(?): (Winterholler176);

from Hohen-Pritz: (Sorgenfrey134, and possibly Siebert?134a);

from Iba: (Keilmann124, 135);

from Igersheim: (Bontraeger?153, Doering150);

from Ingelsheim(?): (Diel132, Unefuch?131);

from Irentehausen(?): Mull?151);

from Jambin(?): (Schmidt9);

from Kassel: (Schumm117);

from Kempten, Schwaben: (Gindlein?91);

from Kochstedt, Dessau: (Krabe24, Krueger38, Kruemel44);

from Koethen: (Bohle33, Handorf?87a, Walt11);

from Kosswig, Brandenburg: (Winter39);

from Kulz-bei-Oberviechbach: (Gulder101);

from Kumpelstadt(?): (Reinhard161);

from Kusfel(?): (Naumann152);

from Laas, Sachsen: (Merk57);

from Lambsheim(?), Darmstadt: (Mueller148);

from Lausitz: (Bilzack119, and possibly Rettich119a);

from Legen(?): (Fink122);

from Leipzig, Sachsen: (Koch2);

from Leisel(?): (Fank?139);

from Leisel, Darmstadt: (Eckel158);

from Loeben: (Schuhmann62);

from Mannheim, Kurpfalz: (Lachert107);

from Mecklenburg-Schwerin: (Fer?37);