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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Dabrowa Tarnowska: 46 miles E of Krakow, 11 miles N of Tarnow city, Poland.  This may have been the Dumerof which the GCRA found associated with the Eichelberg family.

DachsFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Dachs woman fromUC Ambach, Erbach married a Hoffaerber man in 1766; later the couple went to Frank (Mai&Marquardt#605).

DachwigGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be Teisel? and Teusel? widows.

Dadriof?GL: an unidentified country; see Kritz.

Daefpeng(?)GL, Pfalz: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Flomart? family.

Daenchenburg, [Mechlenburg-Schwerin Duchy]: is some 12 miles ENE of Rostock city; see Delchenburg.

Daenemark is German for Denmark.  Dona Reeves-Marquardt found that the Dumbler family settled for a while in Denmark (no locality mentioned) on its way to Grimm where it arrived before 1775 and was included as household 51 in the 1775 census there. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Wurseck family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Eck family.  The Mariental FSL says this was (no locality mentioned) the homeUC of frau Dessert.

DaennekerFN: see Danecker.

DaenstaedtGL, Saxony: see Danstedt, Sachsen.

Dafin?GS: is the Dauphine region of France.

DagsburgGL, Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Gaertner family.

DahlheimerFN: see Thalmeimer.

DahnFN: see Than.

DaisbachGL, Sinsheim [Amt], Baden: is some 3 miles N of Sinsheim city, and said by the 1858 Bergdorf census to be homeUC to the Eberle family.

DahlenbergGL, Preussen: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to a Stenaben? family.  There was a place of this name in Kursachsen some 28 miles NE of Leipzig city, but I do not find one in Prussian territory.

DahlingerFN: see Dalinger.

DahmerFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Stollberg (no locality mentioned).

DaireFN: see Derr.

DairingFN: see Deiringand Deuring.

DaisFN: see Daiss.

DaissFN: arrived in Glueckstal 1820-24 and KS:323 said they were fromUC Entringen, Herrenberg [Amt], Wuerttemberg; but GCRA proved origin in Obergruppenbach, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg using FHL 1,860,469.  Also spelled Dais and Tais.  See the GCRA book for detail.

DalheimGL, Luxembourg: is some 7.5 miles SE of the city of Luxembourg, and said by the Preuss FSL to be home to Hess and Krantz families.

DalingerFN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Langenalb, Baden-Durlach.  Spelled Dahlinger in 1798: for {Christoph/Christian} see (Mai1798:7, 9, and 57; for {Maria} see Gk18 and Db79.

Dalov(?)GL, Champagne, France: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Weber family.

DalsheimGL, France: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Diehl family.  There are several Dalsheim in Germany.  There is a Dalstein some 25 miles SE of the city of Luxembourg in the Mosel valley of Lorraine province, France.

DamFN: said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Mecklenburg (no locality indicated).

DamehtebergGL, Pfalz-Zweibrucken: an unidentified place said by the Warenburg FSL to be homeUC to a Bier and a Sparwasser (aka fra Bier) family.

DamerFN: this woman from Engelrothmarried in Schlitz in 1766 a Winterholder man; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro  (Mai&Marquardt#746).

Damerzhausen?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Margraviate]: an unidentified place said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Raab family.  This just might be Damshausen, some 6 miles WNW of Marburg-an-der-Lahn, lying on or very near the border between Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kessel.

DamfeldGL,  Marienburg Amt: is now Grobelno, Poland, and was some 1.5 miles W of Marienburg city.  Said by the Rosenort FSL to be homeUC to a Borm{Peter} family.  Also spelled Dammfelde.

DamiceGL, Osesterrich: said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to a Zahn family.

DammFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Oberdorf.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Er8, Bb3.

DammFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Grossen Buseck.

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

DammFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC Friedewald.  Spelled Dan in 1769 (Mai1798:Mv2285).

DammFN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Biel, Baden-Baden.

DammFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Amorbach, Mainz.

DammfeldeGL: see Damfeld.

DamplonFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Medernas, Luxembourg [Duchy].   Spelled Tomplon? in 1798 (Mai1798:Bn68).

DamshausenGL: see Damerzhausen.

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

DanFN: see Damm and Don.

DanGL, France: an unidentified place said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC to a Grimm family.

DaneckerFN: said by the Bettinger FSL to be fromUC Wittendorf.  Later spelled Daenneker.

Dangelin?FN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Kobern(?).

DanglerFN: see Dengler.

DannerFN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Anspach (no locality mentioned).

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

DannstadtGL, Kurpfalz: said by the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Becker family.  This surely is the same place as the following.

DannstadtGL, Pfalz, 14.5 miles SSW of Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, said by the Seewald FSL to be in Pfalz and to be the homeUC of a Steinbach family.

DanowskiFN: said by the Husaren FSL to be fromUC Sweg?, Polen. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Danran?GL/GS: an unidentified place said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC (unclearly written) to a Walter man who came here later than the first settlers (p.35).

Dansenberg?GL, [Kur-]Pflaz: is now a southern suburb of Kaiserslautern city, and  said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Meier family.

DanstedtGL, Sachsen: is 29 miles SE of Brunswick city, and said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Frank family.

DanzigGS (aka Gdansk) is some 252 miles NW of Berlin.  In the 1760’s it was an independent city-state controlling considerable territory to the S and E, bordered all round either by the Baltic Sea or Prussia.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Blank, Grischowsky, Makowsky, Naumann, Peters, Sperling, Stenzel, Tiebe, and Wilhelm families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Mattern{Heinrich}26 and Schoenkneckht families.  Said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Flad? and Riedelmann families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Goebel FSL to be homeUC to Ancre and Tokarski, and perhaps Kammerer and Steinauer families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Husaren FSL to be homeUC to Gitor/Gutor, Rutowski, Sdawinski/Strowinski, and Stephan families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Nickel family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to a Bruhl family, and possibly to a Kujak family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Tomson family.

Danzig, West Prussia: said by both the 1816 Kassel census (#113) and KS:495 to be homeUC to the Zerfas/Zerfass man who disappeared in 1809-1812.  Same place as the previous entry, except 50 years later.

DanzigGS, Free Republic: said by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to Felker and Arent families.  Same place as the previous entry.

DarFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Nottingham, England. 

Darabach(?)GL, Oesterreich: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Meier family.

DargenerFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Hanau.

DariusFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Halberstadt.

DarmstadtGS was the short form of the large independent state, Hessen-Darmstadt.  Darmstadt city was its seat and is some 18 miles S of Frankfurt-am-Main.  Be careful with references to Darmstadt: it was the seat of the princes and dukes of Hessen-Darmstadt and so ”Darmstadt” may indicate the city or but more often indicates the principality of Hessen-Darmstadt which was far-flung.  Said by the Pleve version of the Balzer FSL to be homeUC (no locality indicated) to Baer and Berg families.  Said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Baumbach, Beckel, Bruner/Brunner, Gutermut, Just, Krumm/Krum, Schaefer, Wenzel, and Wilhelm families, as well as to frau Bethke, the widow Heck/Hess who married Grapowsky, and frau Steger.  Said by a Luebeck ML to be homeUC to a Bechtold man who in 1766 married a Zipp woman (Mai&Marquardt#264); by 1767 this couple may have been in the Belowescher Kolonien.  Said by the Bettinger FSL to be homeUC (no locality indicated) to a Marx family.  Said (no locality indicated) by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Satzfried? family.  Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to Hal? and Schneider families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Degott FSL to be homeUC to a Knorr family.  Said (no locality indicated) by the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to Heilbrun, Kuhn, and Stieber families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Doenhof FSL to be homeUC to Deines, Dross, Eit?, Frick, Geld, Held, Henkel, Pappenheim, Reinhard, Rutz, Schmidt, Schoenhals, Steinbrecher, Stoerger, Strauch, Stromberger, Valentin, Vogel, Weber, and Wolf families and perhaps a Lind family as well. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to a Grunner family.  Said by the Grimm FSL to be home (no locality mentioned) to Ab, Albrecht, Baeker, Balzer, Benner, Brahm, Erdmann, Felda, Fink, Fischer, Heimbuch, Heppel, Icks, Just, Kaiser, Koch, Lefler, Maus, Mueller, Pfeif, Rau, Reich, Salzmann, Schaefer, Schamber, Schmidt, Schneider, Schulz, Strebe, Walter, Zulauf, plus possibly Heil, Merz, Tripper, Waffel families.  Said by the Huck FSL to be homeUC (no locality indicated) to Ritter and Schlotthauer families; in addition a Rimmel orphan was living the Schlotthauers and may have been from Darmstadt too.  Said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC (no locality indicated) to Flach and Schneidermueller/Schneidmueller families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Hell, Mueller, Riehl, Rohr, Springer, and Walter families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Rexius family.  Said (no locality mentioned but at least two were fromUC the Alsfeld region) by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to Habermehl, Junker, Knoll, Lehr, Leicht, Nikolay, Reier?, Ritter, Schmidt, Steinbecher, Veller, and Werner families.  Said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC (no locality indicated) to a Gross family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Stahlmann family.  Said by the Messer FSL to be homeUC to Emmerling? and Nenies? families.  Said (no lcality mentioned) by the Kuhlberg List to be homeUC to  a Riehs orphan, who according to the Mueller FSL was living with a Klein family from Zell.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Norka FSL to be homeUC to Fink, Hewel, and Knippel families. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to Ammenheuser and Dortmann families.  Said by the Roethling FSL possibly to be homeUC (no locality indicated) to a Frank family.  Said by the Schaefer  FSL to be homeUC to a Lerch family.  Said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be homeUC to a Veber family and, possibly, to a Rizon family. Said by the Simon family chart (Warensburg colony) to be homeUC to two Kramer families and possibly a Burbach family.  

DarmstadtGL?, Hessen: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Schwerin family.  This might indicate the city.

Darmstadt-LichtenbergGS: this name probably was applied to a portion of Hessen-Darmstadt which earlier had absorbed Lichtenberg County in 1736.

DarrFN: see Derr.

DarsteinGL, Bergzabern [Amt], Pfalz: is 1 mile N of Vorderweidentahl and was birthplace of at least three of the Faiock children.  See the GCRA book for detail.

Datz?FN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Leuth?. The family name was Tats? in 1798 (Mai1798:Or61).

DaubFN: see Daublin.

DaubertFN: said by the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Nidda in the state of Hessen.  This man is said by the Buedingen ML to be fromUC Huette and to have married in 1766 a Schmitt woman fromUC Oberau in the area of Fri[e]dberg (Mai&Marquardt#716).  The Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL says he was from Glasshutten near Nidda (p.131).

DaubertFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Buedingen, Isenburg.

DaublinFN: the maiden name of Herr Hermann of Bergdorf.

Dauer FN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Ramsin?, Anhalt-Dessau.

DauerFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Bradern?, Ansbach.

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

DaumFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Rohrbach, Lautenbach.

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

DaumerFN: According to a Luebeck ML, a Daumer woman from the County of Erbach (no locality given) married in 1766 a Lautenschlaeger man; later this couple went to Jagodnaja Polyana (Mai&Marquardt#325).

DaumreichFN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Alzey (no locality mentioned).

Dauphin(?)GL: mentioned by the Frank FSL was the Dauphine region of France.

DauphineGL: the Dauphine region of France that lay to the SE of Lyon, covering the central chunk of the French Alps, now most of the departments of Haute-Alpes, Isere, and Drome.  Its traditional capital was Grenoble.

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

Daut? FN said by the Messer FSL to be an orphan living in a Meininger household.  In 1798 the family name was spelled Thaut (Mai1798:Ms59).

DavazFN:  listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:675) as frau Lotner without origin; the GCRA proved her origin in Seewis-im-Praetigau, Graubuenden Kanton, Schweis, using FHL 1,192,862; see their book for detail.

DavennesFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Paris, Frankreich.

DavidFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Berlin.  A descendant believes that this man was a Jewish merchant (family name Leopold) who converted to Christianity and changed his family name to David before coming to Russia; they also believe that his Lackmann/Lockmann wife whom he married in 1774 was of Jewish ancestry.

DawtenburgGL an unidentifed locality said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be in the Dormstadt area and to be homeUC to the wife of colonist Berhard Shifler.

DebaptisteFN: his wife was said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Bitsch, Lothringen.

DebaptisteFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Linz, and faru Debaptiste was said to be fromUC Bitsch, Lothringen.   In 1798 the family name was spelled DePatiste (Mai1798:Ls44,Bo33).

Debertsin(?)GL, Austria: an unidentified place said by the Merkel FSL to be homeUC to a Grason? family.

DebratFN: see Deprat.

DebusFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Hirschhausen, Braunfels.

DechantFN: see Dechaut and Degent.

DechautFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Hoechst, [Friedberg Imperial City?].  Spelled Dechant in 1798 (Mai1798:Om50, 68, Wm3).

DecherFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Anjou?.  In 1798 the family name on theis couple's daughter was given as Deckert (Mai1798: Db04).

DechertFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Zell.  In 1798 this family name is rendered as Deckert (Mai1798: Ml36).

DechertFN: the Schlitz ML says this woman from Engelroth married in 1766 a Roth man; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro (Mai&Marquardt#746).

Deckenfronn, Herrenberg [Amt], Calw [OberAmt], Wuerttemberg: is 4.5 miles NW of Herrenberg city, and was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Lutz{Friedrich/Georg F.} family that settled in Neudorf.

DeckerFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Zweibruecken, Kurpfalz.

DeckerFNS by the Stumpp version of the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz, and by the Pleve version to be from Zweibruecken, Kurpfalz.

DeckertFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Elzhausen?.

DeckertFN: also see Decher and Dechert of Mueller, and Decker.

DeckmanFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.

DeckmanFN: also see Dickmann.

DeckmannFN: said by Balzer FSL to be the brother of frau Bender, living in the Bender household.  Bonner has proven that his family name actually was Doerr from Huettengesas, Isenburg[-Meerholz County]..

DedererFN: said by Wilhelm Dederer to have leftUC the Baden Duchy for Denmark in 1762, and left forUC Riebensdorf between June and October 1765.

DedzorFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Kersbach?, Bamberg [Bishopric].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DeesGL, Hungary: an unidentifiec place which the GCRA found evidence was associated with the Lippert family in 1801.

DeFageFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Linge(?).

DegassFN: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Bissersheim, Kurmainz.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DegelsteinGL, Bavaria: see Doengelstiel(?)GL, Schwaben.

DegenauFN: said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

DegenhardtFN: said by the Degott FSL to be fromUC La Tour, Frankreich.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Rt09??

DegenhardtFN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Berngards(?), Fulda.

Degent?FN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Woerth-am-Main, Mainz.  Later spelled Dechant (Mai1798:Pf74).

Degerlet(?)GL, Wittenberg: an unidentified place, said by the Bauer FSL to be homeUC to a Hohl family.

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

DegottFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Degott FSL to be fromUC Frankenthal, Mannheim, [Oberamt, Kurpfalz].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DegottVV:  (aka Dejgott, Kamenny Ovrag, Kamenny Owrag, Kamennyj Ovrag) is a Catholic German village founded in 1766 on the western side of the Volga.  Its FSL is  now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 263-266.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens.   Other spellings of family names, usually from later sources are in square brackets.  {Given names} are used only when there is more than one family for a family name. Verified origin information is in red.  The number with the family name is their FSL household number:

from Darmstadt: (Knorr7);

from Frankenthal, Mannheim [Oberamt, Kurpfalz]: (Degott5);

from Hamburg [Imperial City]: (Herzog10);

from Kaiserslautern, [Pfalz-Lautern Principality], Kurpfalz: (Heinrich3, Schneider13);

from Kopenhagen, Daenemark: (Leonhard[Leonhardt]9);

from La Tour, Frankreich: (Degenhardt2);

from Meisenheim, Kurpfalz: (Muelberger[Muehlberger]{Casimir}4);

from Saulcet dr. Allier, Lothringen: (Mehlberger{Michael}4);

from Schletstadt, Elsass: (Koller6);

from Schwtzingen?, Mannheim [Oberamt, Kurpfalz]: (Berett12);

from Steinen, Hannover: (Krissel[Griessel]11);

from [Kur-]Trier: (Groeber[Graeber]14;

from Waslam?, Frankreich: (Ludwig1).

DehlFN see Dell and Diehl.

DehlerFN: said by the Caesarsfeld FSL to be fromUC Schinalitsch? with an Albrecht orphan boy in the household.

DehlerFN: said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC Wernborn, Kurmainz. For 1798 see 1798Mai:Dl01.

DehlerFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Bamberg [Bishopric] (no locality mentioned). I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DehlerVV: aka Berejosowka, Beresovka, Berezovka, and Deller is a German Catholic village on the western side of the Volga founded in 1767. Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 267-278.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. If a name is in italics it comes from the Kuhlberg lists.  If a family name is shown coming from more than one place, given names follow the family name in the following.  The number after a name is their FSL household number:

from Berenbach, Kurmainz [sic for Kurkoeln?]: (Glasony13);

from Bommersheim, Kurmainz: (Busch22);

from Burbach, Kurmainz[sic?]: (Mueller7);

from Camberg, [Kur-]Trier: (Buchner/Buechner18);

from Damerzhausen?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Margraviate]: (Raab23);

from Denckschoen?, Ansbach [Margraviate]: (Dittor49);

from Dietersheim, Kurmainz: (Gruenewald55);

from Dorschheim, Ansbach [Margraviate]: (Graf{Johannes}2);

from Eisenbach, [Kur-]Trier: (Sensdorf?20);

from Erbach, [Kur-]Trier: (Hammerschmidt28);

from Forchheim, Bamberg [Bishopric]: (Betz6);

from Hilst?, Kurmainz: (Herzberger33, and possibly Trumm/Trumpf33a);

from Ilmstein?, Kurpfalz: (Papenberger30);

from Issewoerth?, Kurmainz: (Guenther32);

from Kerpche?, Gockelm?: (Kroneberger10);

from Kessenhausen?, [Kur-]Trier: (Lintze46);

from Kinzburg?, Schweiz: (Heinze26);

from Kinzeldorf?, Kurmainz: (Freudenberg/Friedenberg12);

from Kotikam Perschie?, Flandern: (Krotter25);

from Kreuzberg, Bassenheim [Barony], Kurmainz: (Rudolf43);

from Krossau?, Hohenzell?: (Christ27);

from Kurmainz: (Faeling?48, Schneider[Scholl?]40);

from Langenbach, Nassau: (Graf{Heinrich}9);

from Lohr, Kurmainz: (Schulz/Schuld11);

from Menning, [Kur-]Bayern: (Lattenbach37);

from Metz, Lothringen: (Westphale39);

from Neustadt, Kurmainz: (Bauer21, Kroll/Krohl53);

from Neustadt, [Kur-]Trier: (Sahl47);

from Oberschgogen?, Kurmainz: (Scheierling44);

from Pamortal?, Kurmainz: (Strasser36);

from Reifenberg, Bassenheim [Barony]: (Brendel17, Fest14, 15, Fuchs8);

from Reifenberg, Bassenheim [Barony], Kurmainz: (Sturmann45,

from Sachsenhausen, [Kur-]Trier: (Menges16);

from Selzen, Kurpfalz: (Holzmeier50);

from Spelcher, [Kur-]Trier: (Hoffmann19);

from Stadtbach?/Statzbach?, Kurmainz: (Martel/Martell/Mander29, 51, 52);

from unknown: (Sazins54);

from Unteralba, Fulda [Bishopric]: (Ritter3);

from Waterheim?, Leningen [County]:  (Max4);

from Wdeges?, [Kur-]Trier: (Becker{Peter}24);

from Weitersburg, Kurpfalz: (Hermann34, and possibly Schaefer?34a);

from Wernborn, Kurmainz: (Becker{Philipp}5, Dehler1, Wirt42);

from Wernheim?, [Kur-]Trier: (Roethler31);

from Westhofen, Kurpfalz: (Stoessel/Stetzel35);

from Wirges, Kurmainz [sic for Kurtrier]: (Minor/Minder?38);

from Wirges, [Kur-]Trier: (Gauersmann41).

DehlermannFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Bessenbach, Bamberg [Bishopric].  Spelled Telemann and Telerman in 1798 (Mai1798:Hz10, 04).

DehlingenGL, Zabern [Amt], Elsass:  is 17.5 miles NNW of Saverne city, and was thought by the GCRA to be the probable homeUC of the Nehlich family that went to Glueckstal.  See their book for detail.

DehnFN: see Dene.

Deibert?FN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Bernhausen, Wuerttemberg.

Deich FN: see Teich.

Deihofen?GL: an unidentified place said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Goetz family. Kuhlberg said it was in the state of Zerbst.

DeileFN:  said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:660/243) to have been from Fellbach, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  This origin was verified by GCRA using FHL(1,055,978); they also proved that this family was in Groembach colony in S. Prussia in 1801.  See their book for more detail.

DeinesFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).

Deiring{Margarete}FN: listed by the 1858 Neudorf census (#210) without origin.  The GCRA found her to be the daughter of Deuring(J.Fred.} of Kassel whose origins had been proven in Oberstenfeld, Marbach [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Also spelled Deuring, Doerring, and Dairing.

DeisFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Merenberg, Nassau-Weilburg.  According to a Friedberg ML this Deiss man from Merenberg, Weilburg, married in 1766 a woman fromUC Burgschwalbach (Mai&Marquardt#312).

DeisFN: also see Deitz.

DeischFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Sierck/Sirsk(?), Frankreich.

DeiselFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned

DeisnerFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Raibach, Darmstadt.

DeitzFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Deis in the 1775 census.  Spelled Tais in 1798 and the wife’s maiden name is given as Tryeen? (Mai1798:Nr37).

DejgottVV:  a variant spelling of  DegottVV.

Dekhel?FN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC MersfeldGL, Kurpfalz.

Delchenburg?GL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Kerner family.  There is a Daenchenburg some 12 miles ENE of Rostock city.

DelfussFN: see Kellfuss.

Dell/Dehl?FN said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).

DellhoppFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Liege.

Dellhopp’s wife is said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Leipzig, Sachsen.

Dellos FN: see Delouse and Delym.

DelousFN: according to the Buedingen ML a woman of this family name, fromUC Welschdorff, married a Scharmann man; later the couple went to Huck; another source says she was from Neu-Isenburg near Offenbach, Hessen, which seems to me more likely (Mai & Marquart #522).

DelousFN: see Delouse.

DelouseFN: said by the Buedingen ML to be fromUC Neu-Yesenburg and to have married a Kayeser woman from Utsberg; later the couple moved to Huck and even later the widower moved to Straub (Mai&Marquardt#509).  Later spelled Dellos and Delous.  See Delym.

DelpFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Koeln.

DelvauFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Heimerdingen?, Lothringen. In 1798 the family name was spelled Delwa (Mai1798:Ls49,Mt75,Mv1572).

DelwaFN: see Delvau.

DelymFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  See Delouse.

DemelFN: said by the Rosslau ML to be have married in 1765 a Leissel man; by 1766 this couple was in Graf (Mai&Marquardt#844).

DemerlinFN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Fuchs.

DemertFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Neustadt bei Dresden, Sachsen.

DemlerFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#121) and KS:243 with no origin.  See the GCRA book for a bit more.

DemmFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg.  Spelled Dim? and Dumm in 1798 (Mai1798:Bn42/Mv345).  A Rosslau ML said this Dim man married in 1766 a Hiebler woman (Mai&Marquardt#979).

Demmelsdorf, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is 7 miles NE of Bamberg city, and was said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to Welt and Zimmermann families.

DemminGL, Prenzbahn(?):said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Breuer family.  This probably is some 16 miles NE of Malchin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

 

 

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