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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DobFN: said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality indicated).

DobenreuthGL: see Dobesrieth.

DobesriethGL: is an unidentified place said by the Woehrd ML to be homeUC to a Keller who in 1766 married a Brunner woman; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar; Stumpp says this is Dobenreuth near Forchheim (Mai&Marquardt#821).  Dobenreuth, Bavaria is some 17 miles NNE of Nuernberg.

DoblerFN:  according to a Woehrd ML this widow of a soldier in a Prussian army married in 1766 a Schindler man from Leipzig (Mai&Marquardt#803).

DobrinkaVV: (aka Nischnaja Dobrinka, Nishnaya Dobrinka, or Niznjaja Dobrinka): a Russian Lutheran German village situated on the western side of the Volga.  The first German village in the Volga area, its FSL has been published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp.313-339.  According to it, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens.  The number following each name is their household number in the FSL:

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from Albek, Daenmark: (Philippsen46);

from Alburg(?), Oesterreich: (Moninger?1);

from Ambap(?), Wittenberg: (Kraut24);

from Babke, Mecklenburg: (Foos42);

from Barger(?), Kurpfalz: (Mueller39);

from Belterstein(?), Darmstadt: (Opfer71);

from Belzer, Darmstadt: (Schenk74);

from Berlin, Brandenburg: (Schintwelt?28);

from Blankenhof(?), Baden-Durlach: (Simon30);

from Brankenloch(?), Durlach: (Hueber13);

from Daefpeng(?), Pfalz: (Flomart?9);

from Danzig: (Flad?41, Riedelmann92);

from Darabach(?), Oesterreich: (Meier11);

from Darmstadt: (Satzfried?76);

from Demmin, Prenzbahn(?): (Breuer50);

from Dresden, Sachsen: (Heinze19);

from Efet(?), Franken: (Albrecht66);

from Elbing, Preussen: (Bast23);

from Epping, Felzer(?): (Meer?56 and perhaps Flom?56a);

from Erstein(?), Birkenfeld(?): (Weber8);

from Erzein(?), Darmstadt: (Heidelbach70);

from Ferdinanz(?), Pommern: (Strep?36);

from Fledang(?), Mecklenburg: (Heidemann31);

from Frankfurt-am-Main: (Bischof79);

from Freiwalde, Brandenburg: (Rau7);

from Gelnhausen: (Schulz87 and perhaps Filius?87a);

from Grab, Dnelaschni(?): (Wenz5);

from Graben, Durlach: (Wenz35);

from Hausen, Friedrichdamst(?): (Eichmann?73);

from Hirschbach, Schlesien(?): (Schindler32);

from Hobert(?), Bistum Bruessel: (Seiffert12);

from Inerepach(?), Oroningen(?): (Graf55);

from Kelgin(?), Strumbach(?): (Schueber91);

from Kelzhaus(?), Kurpfalz: (Schnieder51 and perhaps Erlich51a);

from Kiel, Holstein: (Dietz53, Graetz60);

from Kielerakpow(?), Holstein: (Cabobel38);

from Kobeln(?), Wittenberg: (Reiser?44);

from Krumbach, Franken: (Schmunk68);

from Kulzfeld(?), Heilbronn: (Hafele3);

from Lauterbach, Riedesel: (Kahl78);

from Lawinoj(?), Wuerttemberg: (Strep?2);

from Lebront(?), Wittenberg: (Sauer21);

from Lenden(?), Kurland: (Schemberg[Schieberg?]6);

from Lentach(?), Fribourg(?): (Chrispens82);

from Leppin, Schwedisch Pommern: (Zimmerberg40);

from Liewart(?), Sachsen: (Relke58);

from Luebeck: (Erbes59);

from Mecklenburg-Strelitz: (Hahn43);

from Mikarstanik(?), Pfalz: (Clauser10);

from Mitau, Kurland: (Buege18);

from Neidelfetz(?), Oschbauch(?): (Goetz20);

from Niederhof, Wittenberg: (Keller22, Krassel54, and perhaps Ziegler22a);

from Obelies(?), Ridelsch(?): (Kaltenschnee89);

from Oberpesin(?), Zorn(?): (Vogel62, 63);

from Oldorf(?), Mecklenburg: (Langhofer16);

from Pokhausen: (Geier88);

from Poppenhausen, Hanau: (Gerlach80);

from Prussenbrun(?), Pfalz: (Breiner14);

from Redenhof(?), Wuerttemberg(?): (Knedler?15);

from Reigensen(?), Erbach: (Schimpf69);

from Reit, Braunfels: (Mihl93);

from Retes(?), Braunfels: (Ruehl[Rihl?]72);

from Reval, Estland: (Horlensin?29);

from Rheinbach, Kurpfalz: (Morhart?65);

from Riede, Hessen: (Weimar45);

from Rigelsen(?), Erbach: (Geist64);

from Rostock, Mecklenburg: (Meier47);

from Roth, Isenburg: (Faust94);

from Schackzalt(?), Schafftanau(?): (Rau90);

from Schneimet(?), Schwaben: (Utz52);

from Schoenhausen(?), Riedesel: (Dozert?86 and perhaps Baer86a);

from Schwaigern, Heilbronn: (Baumgaertner25);

from Seilzias(?), Darmstadt: (Rupp75);

from Selinger(?), Durlach: (Hueber57 and perhaps Emerdorfer?57a);

from Seminrot(?), Darmstadt: (Horst85);

from Sit(?), Sachsen: (Michaelis61);

from Spitzenalten(?), Schatanu(?): (Rau77);

from Stanewo(?), Vierstammstadt(?): (Wenzel67);

from Stangos(?), Riedes(?): (Klaus81);

from Stein, Baden-Durlach: (Fuertig49);

from Sten(?), Durlach: (Glas[Glaser?]33);

from Stockhausen, Riedesel: (Just84);

from Stockholm, Schweden: (Erich26, 27);

from Stonhan(?), Riedesel: (Schoen83);

from Szakmar(?), Ungarn: (Nemeti37);

from Tab(?), Oesterreich: (Rauch4);

from Ulo(?), Finnland: (Asplew?17);

from Uwettersbach(?), Durlach: (Utz34);

from Wimpfen(?), Oesterreich: (Schwend?48).

DobromierzGL, Poland: see Hohenfriedeberg.

DockterFN: see Doktor.

DoebbleFN: see Doebele.

DoebeleFN: members of this family were found by the GCRA in Glueckstal but not in any census.  Using FHL#1,184,723, they proved the family origin in Brackenheim, Brackkenheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Also spelled Doebble.  See the GCRA book for more.

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

Doeffinger FN: said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:660, 247) to have been fromUC Neidlingen, Nuertingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg, but were proven by the GCRA to have originated in Aidlingen, Boeblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg by using FHL(1,184,687).  The GRCA say that this family went to S. Prussia in 1803; leaving Neu Wuerttemberg, Amt Tkaczew, NW of Lodz to arrive in Bergdorf in 1809.  The family name was also spelled Tefinger.

DoeffingenGL, Wuerttemberg: is some 20 miles NW of Reutlingen, and was the ancestral home about 1580 of the Siegward who settled in Dreispitz in 1766-67.

DoehlingerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Herbsthausen.

DoehringFN: see Doeringer.

Doengelstiel(?)GL, Schwaben: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.  There is a Degelstein, Bavaria, in the Swabian Alps, some 79 miles SW of Augsburg.  Pleve in a note (*) to the FSL says that Kuhlberg says this man was from Nuernberg.

DoenhofFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Kettwig.

DoenhofFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Gumbinnen, Preussen.

DoenhofVV: (aka Alt-Doenhof, Alt-Gololobowka, Denhoff, Doennhof, Gololobovka, Gololobowka) is a Lutheran German village on the western side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 313-339.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. Verified corrections are in red.  The number with the name is their household number in the FSL. 

from Baden-Durlach: (Boltz7, Lichtenwald92);

from Buedingen: (Kisselmann100 and perhaps Ruppert100a);

from Darmstadt: (Deines108, Dross70, Eit?62, Frick63, Geld25, Held2, Henkel15, Pappenheim18, Reinhard3, 24, Rutz14, 97, Schmidt104, Schoenhals87, Steinbrecher10, 23, Stoerger5, Strauch61, Stromberger27, 28, Valentin52, Vogel22, Weber51, Wolf82, 83 and perhaps Lind61a and Strauch63a);

from Erbach: (Bauss102);

from Frankfurt-am-Main: (Keller4);

from Gelnhausen: (Hess81, Kaiser60, Krauss76a, Lauck79, Ley65, Nafts76b, Reil76);

from Gumbinnen, Preussen: (Doenhof1);

from Hanau: (Fendel84);

from Hannover: (Sitzinger?53);

from Heilbronn: (Faber20, Hans43, Schneider11, 19 and possibly Ort43a);

from Hohenlohe: (Frank88, 89, 90);

from Holstein: (Erksin17);

from Isenburg: (Goettlinger6, Held74, Jacoby75, Lenz78, Nuss99 and perhaps Kelker99a);

from Keminisch(?): (Detterer8);

from Koethen, Stollberg: (Schwab54);

from Kurpfalz: (Andres42, Bauer33, 35, Becking34, Eichhorn21, Gomer9, 48, Queissner26, Schenkel32, Stoll16 and perhaps Hack26a);

from Loewenstein: (Huwa103);

from Loewenstein, Kurpfalz: (Sorg105);

from Luebeck: (Kron85);

from Magdeburg: (Rudeloff101);

from Riedesel: (Fischer67, Henckel?66, Kurtz69, Mueller57);

from Runkel, Wuerttemberg: (Funk93 and possibly Mueller93a);

from Sachsen: (Boehm50, Eichler29, Salzmann12);

from Schoenberg, Hessen: (Rutz98);

from Stollberg: (Baecker56, Dahmer55, Erbes77, Haas71, 72, 73, Lohrengel58, 68, Scheller59, Steinmark64, Wagner80);

from unknown origins: (Seibert109);

from Wittenberg: (Roeber13);

from Wuerttemberg: (Altergot88a, 91, 94, Bendel39, 40, Fink38, Kestle?44, Legler47, 49, Meier45, Schaefer38a, Schulz31, Schwartzkopf41, Ulrich30, Wiedemann37, 38 and possibly Lange44a);

from Wuerzburg: (Beier46, Engelhardt95, Mechwart?86, Siebenlist96);

from Zweibruecken: (Hergert106 and possibly Dirol107).

DoennhofVV: an alternate spelling of the German name for Doenhof.

DoeptorFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Zerbst (no locality indicated). ). The family name was spelled Deptar? in 1798 (Mai1798:Or9).

DoerflerFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Lueckstedt?, Sachsen.

DoerflerFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC [Isenburg-]Buedingen [County].  For 1798 see Mai1798:Om49 and maybe Om67.

DoeringFN: this family spent time in Bergdorf and Kassel.  KS:247 said they had come from Freienwald, Stargard, but the GCRA proved their origin in Oberstenfeld, Marbach [Amt], Wuerttemberg; see their book for a bit more detail.  Also spelled Deuring.

DoeringFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Ingelsheim(?) (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DoeringFN: said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Fulda (no locality given), and his frau’s maiden name was given as Heil (no origin given).  According to a Luebeck ML this man married a Mueller woman in 1766; Kuhlberg said he was from Darmstadt [he may have passed through this neighboring state on his way to Russia??] (Mai&Marquardt#110).  So apparently by 1767 in Koehler the Mueller wife had died and had been replaced by the Heil woman.

DoeringFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Dresden.

DoeringFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Stoberg (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Derrin (Mai1798:Nr6, 7).

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

DoeringFN: see also Deuring, Doeringer and Tiring.

DoeringerFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Sondersfeld, [Kurbayern].   Spelled Doering in 1780 (Mai1798:Mv2051) and Doehring in 1798 (Sn27, 42) when the maiden name of the wife was given as Helber (Sn27).

DoernachGL, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 6.5 miles NE of Tuebingen city, and proven by the GCRA to be home to the Schenk family that went to Bergdorf; see their book for more details.

DoerrFN: Bonner proved that the Doerr wives of Herr Ross and of Herr Bender, as well as the brother of the latter, all later of Balzer, were born in Huettengesas, Isenburg[-Meerholz County].  Her brother was mistakenly named Deckmann in the Balzer FSL (#41a).

DoerrFN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#28) and KS:247 said this family came from Offenbach, Landau [Amt], Rheinpfalz.  Using FHL#1,457,535, the GCRA confirmed this origin.  See their book for more.

DoerrFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Gruenberg, Hessen with a Walter wife fromUC Darmstadt.

DoerrFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Hangheim, Franken.  Also spelled Derr and Dir.

DoerrFN: Bonner proved this woman baptized in Huettengesas married an Iskam man in Vonhausen before they moved to Moor.

DoerrFN: according to Fraenkisch-Crumbach parish records a Weber woman from Erbach , who already had an out-of-wedlock Doerr son, married in 1766 a WalterFN man; by 1767 this couple, but apparently not this son, was in Walter colony (Mai&Marquardt#752).

DoerrFN: also see Derr.

DoerrenbachGL, Bergzabern Amt, Rheinpfalz: is some 1.5 miles WSW of Bad Bergzabern, and was proven by the GCRA to be home to Fauth children and of the Hey family who went to Bergdorf; see their book for details.  Proven by Curent Renz as home to a Wagenmann family that settled in Hoffnungstal.  Said by the Kassel 1816 census and KS:328 to be homeUC a Ketterling family; but their home was proved by the GCRA to be Oberrotterbach in that Amt.  Said by the 1816 Kassel census (#9) and by KS:469 to be homeUC to the Vogel{Abraham} family; however, the GCRA could not find them in either of the three Dorrenbachs. Proven by the GCRA to be home to Walter{Philipp} and to the Wagenmann/Wagemann and Rotenberger/Rothenberger families all of whom settled in Neudorf.

DoerrheimFN: see Derheim.

DoerringFN: see Deiringand Deuring.

DoerrnhofGL, Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter: see Dorrnhof.

Dofen?GS: is the Dauphine region of France.

DohnaGL, Polen: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Lippert family.  There is a Dohna, Saxony, some 10 miles SE of Dresden

Dohs?FN: said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC Gaden(?), Holstein.  Later spelled Doos.

DoktorFN: listed by the the 1816 Neudorf census (#21, 22) without origin, but by KS:248 as being fromUC Sessenheim, Hagenau [Oberamt], Elsass. Using FHL#746,033, the GCRA proved their origin in Sessenheim, Bischweiler [Amt], Hagenau [Oberamt], Elsass.  See the GCRA book for a bit more.  Also spelled Dockter.

DollFN:  said by KS:248 to have gone toUC Glueckstal from Nabern, Nuertingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg; the GCRA veriifed the origin but found no evidence of the family in the Glueckstal colonies.  See their book for detail.

DollheimerFN: see Thalmeimer.

DollingerFN:  listed in the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:662, 248) without origin; said by the Glueckstal 1816 census (KS:673, 248) to be fromUC Birkenfeld, Calw, Wuerttemberg.  The GCRA says there are no Dollinger records in this Birkenfeld, but that Dollinger evidently held a Birkenfelde, Suedpreussen, passport (where he may have taught for a time), and a son’s death record says that the son was born in Markowitz, Krzepien Amt, Suedpreussen, before the family removed to Glueckstal and Bergdorf.  See the GCRA book for more detail.

DomFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Genderkingen?.

DomannFN: see Tomann.

DomrowaGL: may have been the correct name for Dumerof which the GCRA found associated with the Eichelberg family.  This might have been Domrowa Gernicza.

Domrowa GerniczaGL: was 28 miles N of Krakow.

DommartinGL, Picardie, Frankreich: is some 62 miles N of Paris center, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to an Ubre family.  Gary Ubert says that the second of the Houbre men in Dommartin married a Poullet woman in nearby Remiencourt.

DommartinGL, Picardie, Frankreich: is some 62 miles N of Paris center, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to an Ubre family.  Gary Ubert says that the second of the Houbre men in Dommartin married a Poullet woman in nearby Remiencourt.

DommeFN: see Thomaa.

Dompert FN: said by KS:248 to have come from Simmozheim, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL#1,528,471, they proved this origin.  See the GCRA book for more.

DomrowaGL: the only place of this name that I can find is now Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland, some 38 miles NW of Krakow. Domrowa is thought by the GCRA to be the place called Dumerof in the old records, the probable homeUC to an Eichelberg family that went to Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more details.

DonFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Hitzhofen?, Hanzzoler?.    Pleve thought this might be Dan. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DomsGL, Poland: an unidentified place which the GCRA found associated with Ahl and Lippert families in 1798.

DonadFN: see Tonat.

Donau?GL, Hannover: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to a Klaudi? family.

Donaueschingen [Amt], Baden: is 35 miles SSE of Freudenstadt city.

DonnbronnGL, Besigheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 8 miles NE of Besigheim city, and the GCRA proved that the Frei family which went to Glueckstal did not come from here.

Donnbronn, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 3 miles SE of Heilbronn city, and was mistakenly said by KS:268 to be homeUC to the Frei/Frey{Jakob}  family that settled in Kassel.

DonnbronnGL, Untergruppenbach [parish], Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: proved by the CGRA to be home to Frei{J.Jakob} who went to Glueckstal.  This is the same place as the previous two entries.

DonneFN: the Belowescher Kolonien FSL says that the widow Donne fromUC Hanau (no locality mentioned) married in Oranienbaum, a Hering.

DoosFN: see Dohs.

DorbauFN: said by the Husaren FSL to be fromUC Bouillon, Frankreich.  In 1798 spelled Durbak (Mai1798:Hn2) and Durban (Hn3).

Dordecken(?)GL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Keil family.

Dorfern?, Oesterreich: said by the Husaren FSL to be homeUC to a Stein family.  There was a Dorfern 29 miles W of Vienna city centre.

Dorfheim, Bamberg [Bishopric]: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Lemp family.

DorfweilGL, Nassau-Usingen: is some 5 miles SW of Usingen town, and said by the Bangert FSL to homeUC to a Loob family.

DorheimGL: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Bisl/Biehl/Biel/Pihl family.  There are at least two Dorheims in Germany.

DoringFN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Obersabelroth, Darmstadt.

DoringFN: this family name was found recorded in 1700s Berstadt parish records; see Flegel trip.

DorloschFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality indicated).

Dormitz, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is 23 miles SSE of Bamberg city and was said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Strohbett family and possibly to an Amon family.

DormstadtGL: an unidentified area or state (Darmstadt?), said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to include the locality of Kriburg and to be homeUC of a Rizon family.

DormannFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Hamburg.

DornFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Sankt-Thomas, Falkenstein.

DornFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Ganerin? with a widowed Kraft mother-in-law in the household.  In 1798 the maiden name of frau Dorn was given as Kraft (Mai1798:Pl28).

DornFN: said by a Luebeck ML to be the maiden name Herr Katzenbach’s bride; Kuhlberg said they were from Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#109). They later went to Paulskaya.

Dorn FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be the maiden name of frau Guenther (Mai1798:Pl15).

DornburgGL, Mecklenburg: an unidentified place said by the Bauer FSL to be homeUC to a Stieben family.

Dorn-DuerkheimGL: a woman from here married a Reichel man; the couple settled in Bauer (Mai&Marquardt#1246).

Dorn DuerkheimGL, Hessen Darmstadt: now in Rhineland-Palatinate.  Also see Dirkheim and Duerkheim.

DornetzFN: see Dornus.

Dornhan, Horb[Amt], Wuerttembeg: is some 10 miles SW of Horb-am-Neckar, and proven by GCRA to be home to the Eisenbeiss family that went to Glueckstal.  Mistakenly said by the 1816 Kassel census (#88) to be homeUC to the Lang{Christoph} family.  See the GCRA book for more details.

DornhanGL, Sulz Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is 5 miles WSW of Sulz-am-Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to an Eisenbeiss family that settled in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.

Dornhof FN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Oelsberg?, [Kur-]Trier.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DornusFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Alzey, Kurpfalz.  Later spelled Dornetz.

Dorr FN: see Derr.

DorrnhofGL, Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter: Doerrnhof is some 2 miles W of Gersfeld and was the birthplace of some of the children of the Zitzmann colonist who went to Frank.

Dorschau, Batschka, Ungarn: aka Torschau, Torza, and now, Savino Salo, is 22 miles NW of Novi Sad, Serbia, and the 1816 Neudorf census (#14) said the Maurer who settled in Neudorf settledUC in this place for a time before moving on to Neudorf.

Dorschheim, Ansbach [Margraviate]: an unidentified place said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Graf{Johannes} family.

DortmanFN: see Dortmann.

DortmannFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned)  In 1798 the family name was spelled Dortman (Mai1798:Nb24,Pl27).

DortmundGS: was an independent city state (called a free imperial city) from 1220 to 1803.

DorzweilerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Windheim, Franken.

DossierFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Obraurangel, Luxembourg [Duchy].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

DotzFN: frau Dotz was said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Lissenburg?, Frankreich.

DotzFN: said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Stockholm, Schweden. The family name in 1798 was spelled Totz (Mai1798:En22).

Dotz? FN: said by the Fischer FSL to be fromUC Wiesepans?, Nassau. I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

DotzertFN: see Dozert.

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

Dozert?FN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Schoenhausen(?), Riedesel.  The Buedingen ML says this Dotzert man from Stockhausen, Riedesel married a Traut woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#528).  Stockhausen was in Riedesel, Schoenhausen was not.

DrechselerFN:  see Dreschsler.

DrechslerFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Anhalt-Bernburg (no locality mentioned).  In 1798 the family name was given as Drexler and the wife’s maiden name was given as Haupt (Mai1798:Lw38).

DreherFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Strabing.

DreherFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Luxembourg.  This family name was later seems to have been spelled Hieronymus (Mai1798:Mt39).

DreherFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be step-children in the Wendemann household.  Spelled Dreher (Mai1798:Om31, 53) and Trerin (Om45) in 1798.

DreherFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Ulm.

DreieichGL, Hessen: is immediately to the S of Frankfurt-am-Main and some 5 miles SW of Offenbach city.

Dreieichenhain, Isenburg-Philippseich County: Philippseich the seat of Isenburg-Philippseich County apparently no longer exists except for its schloss about 1 km outside Dreieichenhain.which is just on the eastern outskirts of Dreieich, Hesse, some 6 miles SW of Offenbach-am-Main.

DreieicherhaynGL, [Isenburg-Philippseich County]: [aka Dreieich] said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Weissbinder man who went to Grimm; Stumpp says Dreieicherhayn was near Offenbach, Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#657).  This place surely is the previous entry.

Dreihof(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Winick/Winicke/Winik family.

DreilingFN: see Derillion and Treuling.

DreispitzVV: (aka Verkhnaya Dobrinka and Werchnaja Dobrinka) is a Lutheran German village founded in 1766 on the western side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 371-379.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places {italics indicate information from the Kuhlberg list} with the family names shown here in parens.   Other spellings of family names, usually from later sources are in square brackets.  Verified origin information is in red.  It is probably worth noting that the clerk who wrote this list fairly consistently rendered Wuerttemberg as Wittenberg.  The number with the family name is their FSL household number:

from Barth?, Schwedisch Pommern: (Schulz11);

from Bogart?, Hockler?: (Ginzer13);

from Breslau, Schlesien: (Schmidt27);

from Ebersbach, Wittenberg: (Feidel[Feil]4);

from Erfurt, Thueringen: (Lieders?8);

from Fluege?, Kurpfalz: (Schreuk?[Schreiock]2);

from Foffelhof?, Wittenberg: (Meier[Maier]14);

from Franzburg, Schwedisch Pommern: (Otto1);

from Gelnhausen, Isenburg: (Hessel28);

from Graben, Durlach: (Klein17);

from Haefnerhasslach, Wittenberg: (Volert10, Volert[Volet]6);

from Hefnerhessel, Wittenberg: (Wolet?[Volet]20);

from Kritz?, Dadriof?: (Heit?[Heidt]21);

from Magdeburg, Brandenburg: (Walwetz?26);

from Mainzrecht?, Gommern?: (Stengle[Steinle]3);

from Mark?, Holstein: (Peterson23);

from Mittelsbach, Thueringen: (Mueller24);

from Mitz?, Wittenberg: (Siewert[Siegward]12);

from Naumburg, Kursachsen: (Braunhardt?32);

from Neira?, Gommern?: (Stengle[Steinle/Steinlein]9);

from Pfaffenhofen, Wuerttemberg: (Meier25);

from Potsdam, Brandenburg: (Ebermann?7);

from Rabin?, Darmstadt: (Mueller31);

from Sarmi?, Schweden: (Londerin?[Lungerin]19);

from Schulzendorf?, Renberun?: (Hefele[Heffele]22);

from Seifhennersdorf, Sachsen: (Wilhelm15);

from Sulzfeld, Hellborn: (Beisser?[Beisel]5);

from Sulzfeld, Oesterreich: (Beisel?[Beisler]18);

from Uschatsch, Polen: (Sokolowski[Sokolowsky]16);

from Weizwanal?, Isenburg: (Diel[Thiel]29);

from Witt?, Sipachisch?: (Rupp30).

DreitzFN, see Treitz.

DreschendorfGL, Bamberg [Bishopric]: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Dietrich family.  This probably is Dreuschendorf.

Drescher, SteveRN confirmed the origins of the Rothammel Appelhanz family.

DreschslerFN: Herr Dreschsler was said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Dreschsler, and his frau’s maiden name was given as Wilhelmi (no origin given).    The family name was spelled Drechseler in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv1328/Kl24).

DresdenGL, [Kursachsen]: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to a Sander family.  : Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to Eilau? and Emrich? families.  Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Brock family.  This surely is the same place as the following entry.  Said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Doering family.  Same place as the next entry.

DresdenGL, [Kur-]Sachsen:, is 231 miles ENE of Frankfurt-am-Main.  Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Stein family.  Said by the Dinkel FSL to be homeUC to a Hemerling? family.  Said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Heinze family.  Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Sachse and Weber families. : Said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC to Krausewald and possibly Berker families.  Said by the Merkel FSL to be homeUC to a Margheim family.  Said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC to Bettinger, Gerhardt/Erhardt?, and possibly Martin families.

DresenitzFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main.

DresnerFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Hakatz(?).

DresserFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Arnstein. 

Dresser?FN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Hanau no locality mentioned.  Later spelled Dieser (Mai1798:Pf68).

Dreuschendorf, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is some 10 miles SE of Bamberg city, said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Roppelt/Ruppelt/Rumpelt/Rumpel/Ropolt? family.

DreuschendorfGL, Bamberg [Bishopric]: also see Dreschendorf.

DreuthFN: the Buedingen ML says this woman fromUC Taurenheim married in 1766 a Blanck man from Erbach (Mai&Marquardt#547).  By 1767 the husband may have been in the Belowescher Kolonien with another wife.

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

DrexlerFN: see Drechsler.

Drien?, [Kur-]Trier: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Thueringer family and possibly to their Wendler/Wendeler step-children.

DrieserFN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Seligenstadt (no locality mentioned).

DriessFN: said by the Seewald FSL to be from Leistadt, Leiningen.  Darrell Brungardt found the birth and marriage records in Pfeffingen (Ungstein), Pfalz, proving this man was from Leistadt which was then ruled by the Leiningen family from their castle in Neuleiningen which was N of Leistadt.

DrinakFN: see Trinak.

DrosFN: see Dross.

DrossFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Dros.

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

Druja?, Polen: an unidentified place said by the Husaren FSL to be homeUC to a Sawizki family.

Drulingen Amt, Elsass: was an administrative center some 11 miles NW of Zabern.

Dse(?):an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Viehrat family.

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

DuboisFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Berlin, Brandenburg.

DuboisFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Enghien, Braband, Frankreich with a Fendel wife fromUC Leuven.

DuboisFN of Berlin’s wife is said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Schoenebeck, Magdeburg.

DubowoiVV: an alternate spelling of MarientalVV.

DuchschererFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be step-children in the Fuchs household.  Spelled Tuchscherer in 1798 (Mai1798:Om11).

Dudeldorf?GL, Kurtrier: Dudeldorf is some 15 miles N of Trier city and said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Herz family.