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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East PrussiaGL: see Ostpreussen.

EbelFN: said by the  Moor 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Scherf (Mai1798:Mo13).

EbelFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Zell, Darmstadt.

EbelFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this family in  Mai1798.

Ebel{Johannes,Elisabetha} FN: said by the Schoenchen FSL to be step-children in the Kuhn{J.Heinrich} household.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Sn12.

Ebel{Joseph}FN: said by the Schoenchen FSL to be an orphan in the Schneider household.  I could not find him in Mai1798.

Ebel FN: also see Gabel.

EbensfeldGL, Bamberg: is some 11 miles NNE of Bamberg city, Bavaria, and said by the Goebel FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt and perhaps a Hoffmann family.

EberbachGLErbach County:  is 9 miles NW of Erbach city and said by the Frank FSL to be homeUC to a Freiling family.  Geig1 proved the family name was Froelich and that this family came from here, that the man married a Hofferbaer/Hofferbert woman from Hoechst, and that they were residents of Kirsch-Beerfurth just before departure for Russia.

EberbachGL, Kurpfalz: is some 15 miles ENE of Heidelberg city, and 12 miles S of Erbach city, said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC to a Martin family and possibly to a Morasch family.

EberfeldGL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Martin family.

Ebergi(?)GL, was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Hessen-Darmstadt and was homeUC to a Baum family.

EbergoetzenGL, [Kurbraunshweig]: is 7.5 miles ENE of Goettingen city, and said (no locality mentioned) by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to Mueller{Jonas} and {Martin} families.

EberhardFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:669, 388) with no origin. Using FHL(1,569,075 and 1,569,082), the GCRA proved origin in Reutlingen, Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. See their book for more detail.   Also spelled Eberhardt, Obergard, Oberhard, Oberhardt, and Oberhart.

EberhardFN: not found in an FSL but was in the 1775 Grimm census #46.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Gm59, Kf10, Sb21).

Eberhard{Matthaeus,Friedrich,Georg}FN: listed by the 1858 Neudorf census (#241, 242) without origin and said by KS:250 to be from Wittendorf, Freudenstadt [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL#1,884,477, the GCRA proved this origin.  See their book for much more. Also spelled Eberhardt.

Eberhard{Michel}FN: said by KS:250 to have gone toUC Neudorf fromUC Hildesheim, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden.  The GCRA found that this man never was in Neudorf.  See their book for more.

Eberhard{Michel}FN: said by KS:250 to have gone toUC Neudorf fromUC Sterneck, Freudenstadt [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  The GCRA found that this man never was in Neudorf.  See their book for more.

EberhardFN: also see Leonhard of Glueckstal.

EberhardFN: according to the Goebel FSL this was the maiden name of Bittner (fromUC Mittelsinn, Wuerzburg)’s wife.

EberhardFN: also see Eberhardt.

EberhardtFN{J.Daniel}: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Kalzhof?, Bupaterpronsk?.

EberhardtFN{Johannes}: said by the Brabander FSL to be a brother-in-law? Living in the Zimmer household.  In 1798 the name was spelled Eberhard (Mai1798:Bn08).

EberhardtFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be an orphan boy in the Arnhold household.

EberhardtFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Nassau-Usingen (no locality mentioned) with a Rohr wife fromUC Darmstadt.  Later spelled Eberhard (Mai1798:Ka20, 25); his wife’s maiden name is given as Jokel (Ka20).

EberhardtFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

Eberhardt FN: said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned).  The family name was spelled Eberhard in 1798 (Mai1798:Mo66).

EberhardtFN{Magdalena}: said by the Norka FSL to be the orphaned daughter of Martin Eberhardt living in the Kleiber household.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Kz8.

EberhardtFN{Susanna}: this widow was said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Ebert and Eberhard in 1798 (Mai1798:Nr96).

EberhardtFN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Wolfgang, Hanau [County].  I could not find them in Mai1798.

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

EberhardtFN: also see Eberhard.

EberhausFN:  said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC Hel?, Herzogtum Branzwon?, with a step-son in the household.   Spelled Ebershausen in 1798 (Mai1798:Rh12).

EberhausFN: the wife was said (no locality mentioned) by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC Hannover [aka Kurbraunschweig]. 

EberleFN:  said by the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:667, 250) to have been Daisbach, Sinsheim [Amt], Baden, while his death record said he was born in Neudingen, Oehningen Amt, which is a Catholic village. The GCRA checked records of the Eberle family both in Neudingen, Oehningen Amt, Wuerttemberg, and in Daisbach but were unable to find the birth of this particular settler.  See their book for more detail.

EberleFN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Siebert.

EberleFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Neustadt, Pfalz

EberleFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Rothenburg.  Later spelled Ertel and Ertle.

Eberlein?FN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Hellburg?.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

EberleinFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Appenrod, Darmstadt.  In 1798 the wife’s maiden name was given as Bauer (Mai1798:Lb23).

Eberlein FN: said by the Seelmann FSL to be fromUC Ton?, Kurpfalz.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Sm25.

EberleinFN: also see Heberlein.

Eberlin/Eberling?FN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Stierstadt, Mainz.

EberlingFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Sachsenhausen.

EberlingFN{Heinrich Karl}: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  For 1798 see Mai1798:Nr102, 101.

EberlingFN{Johannes}: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  For 1798 see Mai1798:Nr103 and perhaps Bd48?

EberlingFN: the Buedingen ML says this woman married a Mueller man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Norka (Mai&Marquardt#423).

EberlingFN: said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC Halle, [Kur-]Brandenburg.  In 1775 he is reported as “escaped” (Mai1798:Mv2895).

EberlingFN: his wife, the former widow Hannemann, was said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC Nordhausen [Imperial City]. 

EberlingFN: also see Eberlin and Eherling .

Ebermann?FN: said by the Dreispitz FSL to be fromUC Postsdam, Brandenburg. I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Ebernburg(?)GL, Zweibruecken: an unidentified place said by the Herzog FSL to be home to a Becker family, and probably a Kuhn family as well.

EbersFN: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Kottenheim, Bassenheim [Barony], with Rauch orphan boys in the household.  I could not find the Ebers family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

EbersbachGL, Wittenberg: said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Feidel family.  I think Wittenberg here is actually the Wuerttemberg Duchy and that the place is some 16 miles ESE of Stuttgart city.

EbershausenFN: see Eberhaus.

EberspielGL, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 2.5 miles NW of Calw city, and said by KS:433 to be homeUC to the Schnuerle family that went to Bergdorf; see the GCRA book for more details.

EberstadtGL, Darmstadt: was just about 3 miles S of Darmstadt city center, and said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Kreutzer family.

Eberstein County: probably seated at Ebersteinburg in the Murg River valley some 16 miles SSW of Karlsruhe.  See Ebescht.

Ebersteinburg: likely seat of Eberstein County, in the Murg River valley some 16 miles SSW of Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg.

EbertFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Griedelbach.  For 1794 and 1798 see Mai1798:Mv582 and Er9.

Ebert FN: according to a Rosslau ML this woman married in 1766 a Baltzer man, no origins given (Mai&Marquardt#942).  They then went to Paulskaya.

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

EbertFN:  also see Eberhardt.

Ebescht(?)GS: Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.  This may well have been the County of Eberstein, seated probably at Ebersteinburg, in the Murg River valley.

EbingenGL, Wuerttemberg: is just 1 miles E of Albstadt in the Swabian Alps, and said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Strasser family.

EchemGL, Sachsen: is some 7 miles NE of Lueneburg, and said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.

Echenbrunn, Bamberg [Bishopric]: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Sommer family.  The only Echenbrunn I have found is 22 miles NE of Ulm city and was then in the Pfalz-Neuburg Duchy.

EchenhuthFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this man in  Mai1798.  In 1768 he was reportedly working in Saratov.  Might this have been Eisenhut?

EchenrodtGL:  is now Eckenreid, some 10 miles SSW of Fulda city.  According to the Buedingen ML this was in the area of Hutten and the homeUC of a Proescher man who married in 1766 a Reiss woman; by 1767 the couple was in Koehler [where his name was given as Brescher]; Stumpp said this place was Eckenrot near Bingen [which was in the 1760’s in Kurmainz] (Mai&Marquardt#580).  According to the Koehler FSL it was within the Fulda Bishopric.

EchingGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Spahnnagel family.  There are at least 3 such placenames in Germany, all in present-day Bavaria.

EchtFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Kitsheim, Wuertsburg.

EchterdingenGL, Esslingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 7.5 miles SW of Esslingen-am-Neckar, and proven by GCRA to be home to the Heimerdinger family that went to Glueckstal, and possibly to the family of the Scherer woman who married one of the Heimerdingers.  See the GCRA book for more details.

Echterdingen, [Wuerttemberg Duchy]GL: is 11 km S of Stuttgart city, and was said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be homeUC to the  Afner family.  This is the same place as the preceding entry, except 50 years earlier.

EchternachGL, Kurtrier: is some 10 miles NW of Trier city said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Hansel family.

EchzellGL: said by the Mueller FSL to be homeUC to a Kuehn family.  There is an Echzell in Hesse some 4 miles W of Nidda town.

EckFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Daenemark (no locality mentioned).

EckFN:  said by the Ober-Monjou movement chart in 1784 to be the maiden name of frau Speister (Mai1798:Mv2028).

Eck{Jakob}FN: said by the 1798 Rosenheim census (Rm52) to be the illegitimate son of Markstaller{Margaret}.  I could find no likely Eck father for this boy, except perhaps Eck{Jacob} #130 in Lokators Beauregard (Pleve IV).

EckardFN: listed by KS:251 with no origin, but the 1816 Kassel census (#85) said this family came fromUC Flein, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL#717,097, the GCRA proved that both this man and his Haas wife came from Ingolsheim, Hunspach, Sulz [Amt], Elsass.  See their book for more.  Also spelled Eckardt and Eckart.

EckardtFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Halberstadt, Brandenburg.

EckardtFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Klauser, Hannover with a Fromm wife fromUC Gluekstadt.

EckardtFN: this step-son was said by the Laub FSL to be living in the Sasse household, which indicates that frau Sasse was formerly frau Eckardt. .  In 1798 the family name was spelled Eckhardt (Mai1798:Lw43).

EckardtFN: also see Eckard and Eckart.

EckardtVV: one form of the German name for  ZuerichVV.

EckarsbrunGL, is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank FSL, was in the state of Hessen-Darmstadt and was homeUC to a Hoffmann family.

EckartFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Bayreuth (no locality mentioned).

Eckart/EckardtFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach.  One of these Eckart men may have married a Backe woman in Rosslau in 1765 (Mai&Marquardt#874).

EckartFN{J.Heinrich}: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Isenburg [County].  Spelled Eckhardt in 1798 and the wife’s maiden name was given as Werth (Mai1798:Nm04).  This Eckert man was said to have married Margaret Werth in 1766 in Luebeck (Mai&Marquardt#1185).

EckartFN: also see Eckard, Eckardt, Eckart, Eckhardt and Ekhart.

EckartsbornGL, Hessen-Darmstadt: is some 5 miles NNW of Buedingen; see Ekeborn or Ekersporn.

Eckartshausen, Isenburg[-Marienborn County]: Bonner proved this home to the Kaiser/Kayser family that went to BalzerHe also proved it home to the Bohn bride of one of the two Zieg brothers who both married here in 1766 before proceeding to MesserBonner also proved that an Euler was baptized here, and that  two of the Hohnstein men {Adam} & {Nicolaus} who settled in Norka were both baptized and married here (to a Kraft and a Siebold respectively).

EckartshausenGL: also see Eckertshausen.

EckelFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Leisel, Darmstadt.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

EckelFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Heimbach.  Spelled Jaekel in 1798 (Mai1798:Bb31).

EckelFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC Mannheim, Kurpfalz.

EckelFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC Regesnburg.

EckelFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

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

EckelFN: said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC Dieburg, [Kur-]Mainz.  Spelled Jaekel  in 1798 (Mai1798:Dg13).

Eckenfein? GL, [Kur-]Bayern: an unidentified place said by the Louis FSL to be homeUC to a Huber family.

EckenreidGL:  see  Echenrodt.

EckenshausenGL: an unidentified place said by a Luebeck ML to be the home of a Keyser woman who in 1766 married a Mueller man; later this couple went to Stahl-am-Karman (Mai&Marquardt#221).  There is an Eschenshausen some 17 miles SSW of Bremen.  Also might be Eckartshausen?

Eckenstaghausen?: an unidentified place said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be homeUC to a Schaefer/Siefert family.  This place was said by Kuhlberg to be in Solms.  There were three different Solms countries.

EckermannFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Koenigstein

EckersdorfGL, Bayreuth: is some 3 miles W of Bayreuth city, and said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Goetsch and Wittenbeck families.

EckertFN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Esch, Nassau.  In 1798 spelled Eckhardt and the wife’s maiden name was given as Beiser (Mai1798:Bg11 and 7).

EckertFN: according to the Buedingen ML, an Eckert woman from Spielberg married a Rau man in 1766; the couple then went to Huck (Mai&Marquardt#504).

EckertFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Kidow(?), Hessen-Darmstadt.

EckertFN also see Eckhardt, Echart and Gekert.

Eckert?, Isenburg: said by the Schwed FSL to be homeUC to a Herdt family.  This may have been Eckershausen??

EckertVV: one form of the German name for  ZuerichVV.

EckertshausenGL: said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Niedenthal man who in 1766 married an Ickes woman; by 1767 this couple was in Kutter; Stumpp says Eckertshausen is near Buedingen (Mai&Marquardt#629).  This surely is Eckartshausen some 4 miles SW of Buedingen, then in Isenburg-Buedingen County.

EckhardFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach, Solms.

EckhardFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Meisenheim, Zweibruecken. In 1798 the family name was spelled Eckhardt (Mai1798:Ls18).

EckhardFN: also see Eckhardt.

EckhardtFN: also see Eckhard.

EckhardtFN: said by the Bettinger FSL to be fromUC Marburg.  This couple surely died prior to the 1798 Volga census.

Eckhardt?/Eckhart/EckertFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

EckhardtFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Nidda, Darmstadt.  According to a Luebeck ML this Eckhard man from Darmstadt married in 1766 a Walter woman (Mai&Marquardt#263).

EckhardtFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Friedberg.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Nm35.

EckardtFN:  said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC Ostenau?, Daenemark.  I could not find them in Mai1798.

EckhardtFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Schulz FSL to be fromUC Hessen-Kassel [Landgraviate]. For 1798 see Mai1798:Rl13.

EckhardtFN: the wife was said by the Schulz FSL to be fromUC Goellnitz?, Sachsen[-Altenburg Duchy].  For 1798 see Mai1798:Rl13.

EckhardtFN: possible early settlers of Zuerich said to be fromUC Suhl, [Kursachsen] with a Reichmann orphan girl in the household  (Lk1 and 1a).  For 1798 see Mai1798:Zg16.

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

EckhardtFN: also see Eckart.

EckhartFN: see Eckhardt.

EcklefsteinGL/GS?: said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC to a Heyd family.  This might have been a small barony called Egloffstein some 13 miles NW of Erlangen.

EcklerFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Laurterecken an der Glan.  The 1798 census says his wife's maiden name was Bachmann (Mai1798:Pf81).

Eckmann FN: listed by the 1816 Kassel census (#18), the 1858 census (#135) and KS:251 without origin.  KS:258 said they were from Niedersteinbach, Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass.  Using FHL#771,115 the GCRA proved as the birthplace for the migrant children and their Trautmann mother and her parents, while using FHL#1,069,713 the GCRA proved the father’s origin earlier in Wingen, Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass.  See their book for more.  Also spelled Ettmann.

EcksleinFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Ansbach (no locality mentioned).  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

EckstedtGL: said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to a Graf family.  This probably is in Thueringen some 6 miles NE of Erfurt city.

Eckstedt, [Kurmainz?]: is 10 km NE of Erfurt city which would seem to place it in one of the easternmost exclaves of Kurmainz.  It was said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to a Graf family.  Said by the Seelmann FSL to be homeUC to Schneider and  Standacher families. 

EckhardtVV: one form of the German name for  ZuerichVV.

Eckstein FN:  said by both the Koehler FSL and the 1798 census (Mai1798:Kl19) to be the maiden name of frau Farger?.

Ecksu?FN: said by the Stahl-am-Tarlyk FSL to be fromUC Borg, Mecklenburg[-Schwerin Duchy with a  Bartel{Johann} step-son in the household.

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

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

EdelFN: said by the Fischer FSL to be fromUC Heilbronn (no locality mentioned).

EdelFN: said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Insburg. I could not find this family name in the 1798 censuses.

Edel?GL, Schwaben: an unidentified place said by the Seelmann FSL to be homeUC to a Semerefi family.  Schwaben often is used in the FSLs to indicate Hapsburgian lands, but I found no Edel anywhere in the German-speaking lands.

EdelbachFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Herdorf.

EdelmannFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:677, 251) with no origin. See the GCRA book for some detail.

EdenkobenGL, Rhineland-Palatinate: (information supplied by Steven Hahn and by Judy Remmick,  descendants of Edenkoben families) is some 6 miles S of Neustadt-an-der-Weinstrasse and about 15 miles WSW of SpeyerFrom here Roemmich/Remmick, Ochsner and Walter families went to Worms, Odessa.  Other families that went to Russia were Acker, Croissant/Croussant, Griess/Gries/Griesz, and Meyer/Meier.  See http://www.remmick.org/EdenkobenPfalz/ for sources.

Eder?FN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Vienna, Austria.

Edersheim-am-MainGL: is some 8 miles ENE of Mainz city, and said by a Woehrd ML to be homeUC  to the widow Harpf who in 1766 married a Bauer man; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro (Mai&Marquardt#794).  Stumpp seems to have confused this place with Edesheim near Kreiensen, Lower Saxony.

Eding?, Wenenburg?: an unidentified place said by the Reinhard FSL to be homeUC to the Klinger family.

EdlendorfGL, [Bayreuth Margraviate]: is some 8 miles SW of Hof, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Bohn family.

Efermann? FN:  said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC Stockholm, Schweden.  I could not find them in Mai1798.

Efermann?FN:  the wife was said by the Reinhard FSL to be fromUC Worms, Kurpfalz.

Efet(?)GL, Franken: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to an Albrecht family.

EffringenGL, Nagold Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is some 4 miles N of Nagold, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to a Seeger family that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.

EgelsheimGL, [Kurbayern]: said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Fetter? family. 

Egenik?GL, Schwaben: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Heil family.

EgerFN said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be fromUC Friedberg of the Holy Roman Empire.

EgerGL: now called Cheb in the western Czech Republic some 35 miles ENE of Bayreuth.  Said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to  Hartung and Klepphahn families.  Said by the Schwed FSL to be homeUC to frau Schulz.

EgerGL, Oesterreich: said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to a Gareis family, and possibly to both Bernhardt and Wagner families.  Same place as the previous entry.

EgersFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Rostock. I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

Egeus?FN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Bassß.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Egewald FN: see Hegewald and  Hockwald.

EggebekTondern Amt, Daenemark Kingdom: probably 11 miles NW of Flensburg city and not 11 miles SSW of Flensburg, where the Amann family of Gundernhausen was from 1763-1764 (Gieg1).

EggensteinGL, Karlsruhe Amt, Baden: is some 5 miles N of Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to a Simon family that settled in Hoffnungstal.

Egler?FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be an orphan boy in the Kopen? household.  Kuhlberg said he was from Hanau (no locality mentioned).

EgloffsteinGS: see Ecklefstein.

EgnerFN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Lang.

EherlingFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Eberling (Mai1798:Nr101, 102, 103).  The Buedingen ML says this Eberling man fromUC Buedingen married a Weber woman (Mai&Marquardt#678).

EhergardtFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Gerhart in the 1775 Norka census.

EhingenGL, Wuerttemberg: is some 15 miles SW of Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg.

EhlenbergerFN: see Elenberger.

EhlerFN: see Eller.

EhlertFN: see Ellert.

EhlheinFN: see Elheim.

EhlyFN: see Ili.

Ehnweiler, Kusel [Amt], Rheinpfalz: an unidentified place; one entry on KS:301 said the Helfenstein family came fromUC here.  There was an Erzweiler 5 miles N and an Essweiler 7 miles E of Kusel town.

Ehoff FN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Neuteich, Preussisch-Polen. In 1798 the name was spelled Yegof (Mai1798:Jo19).

EhrbardorfGL, Posen, Prussia: present-day Herburtowo, was 4 miles N of present-day Wielen (formerly Kreis Filchne), Poland, and is believed by the GCRA to be home to the Mattwich family that went to Bergdorf.  See their book for details.

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

EhrentraudtFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be a brother-in-law in the Rosenberg household.  According to the 1798 census, this was the maiden name of frau Rosenberger (Mai1798:Nm49).

EhresmannFN: mistakenly said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#113) and KS:252 to have come fromUC Billigheim, Bergzabern [Amt], Rheinpfalz, but listed by KS:343 without origin.  Also spelled Erasmann and Kretschmann.  Using FHL#247,617, the GCRA proved their origin in Impflingen, Landau [Amt], Rheinpfalz; they proved his Raich wife was from Billigheim.  See the GCRA book for more.  Also spelled Eresmann.

EhretFN: arrived in South Russia in 1819 and later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa, and in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia; family records found by Curt Renz in Illingen, Maulbronn Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

EhrfurtGL, see Erfurt and Erfurth.

EhrhardtFN: said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC Seebach.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Sv11.

EhringFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:678, 252) with no origin. See the GCRA book for some detail.

EhringGL, Ansbach: an unidentified place said by the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC to a Kek family.

EhringshausenGL, [Hessen-Darmstadt]: is some 7 miles SW of Alsfeld, Hessen, and said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Schaeffer woman who in 1766 married an Icks man; by 1767 this couple was in Grimm; Stumpp says Ehringshausen was near Alsfeld, Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#487).  Said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Beitz family.

EhringshausenGL, [Hessen-]Darmstadt: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Timer? family.  Same place as the preceding entry.

EhrlichFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Brandenburg (no locality mentioned).

Ehrlich{Gottlieb}FN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Baerenburg.

Ehrlich{J.Georg}FN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Bermbach.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Rm08 and for 1786 see :Mv1144.

Ehrlich{Katharina}FN: this widow is listed as leaving Rosenheim in 1789 (Mv2463) but I cannot find her family in any FSL.

Ehrlich{Christoph}FN: is listed in the 1798 Shcherbakovka census (Sv29) but I cannot find him in any FSL.

Ehrlich{Friedrich}FN: is listed in the AHSGR version of the 1798 Shcherbakovka census supplement as having paid his Treasury debts, received a passport for residence in Russia, and continuing to live in the colony on an equal basis with the other families listed in the 1798 census; I cannot find him in any FSL.

EhrmannFN: this family, listed in KS:252, that went to Hoffnungstal and Arcis, Bessarabia, as well as Kassel was proven by the GCRA to be from Bonfeld, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg. See their book for detail.

EhrstaedtGL: is 4.7 miles E of Sinsheim and said by the Roethling FSL to be in or near Sinsheim, Baden, and possibly to be homeUC to the Schwab family.  Also spelled Ehrstadt.

EhrstaedtGL, Sinsheim Amt, Baden: is some 4 miles E of Sinsheim city and was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Lauer family which went to BergdorfProven by GCRA to be home to Kemet/Kemmet and Ritter families that went to Glueckstal.  Curt Renz proved this  home to a Kaepple family that settled in Hoffnungstal, BessarabiaThe GCRA proved that the Meier/Maier{J.Adam, J.Georg, J.Konrad, Jakob} family moved here from nearby Adersbach and then immigrated to Kassel.

EhrtFN: see Erbs.

Ehse/Ese?FN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Boehmen (no locality given).

EichGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Kelberdinger? family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Nassau.  That is very unlikely and this surely was one of the next two entries.

Eich[-am-Rhein]GL, Kurpfalz: is 19 miles SSE of Mainz city, and said by the Kautz FSL to be the homeUC of Dewald and Oswald families.  There are two Eichs in the Pfalz: one is 19 miles SSE of Mainz; one is 11 miles NW of Koblenz.

Eich[-bei-Pfungstadt]GL, [Hessen-]Darmstadt: is 1.5 miles SW of Pfungstadt city.   See Ikt.

Eiche/Eichen?GL/GS: an unidentified place said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to Triller and Zinkhan? families.

EichelGL, [Wertheim Principality and County]: is 1.5 miles ENE of Wertheim city, and lace said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Becher family.

EichelbergFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:676) to be “Warschauer”, i.e. from Polen (KS:252).  Using FHL(245,516), the GCRA proved that one branch of the family was from Lobsens, Wirsitz Kreis, Posen Department, South Prussia; and they have strong reason to believe that the family wasUC earlier a bit further E in Bromberg and later wasUC in Domrowa, before going on to Glueckstal.

EichelhainGL: said to be the modern spelling of Eichenhayn (Mai&Marquardt#739).

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

EichelsachsenGL, [Schotten Amt2, Hessen-Darmstadt]: is some 3 miles S of Schotten, some 6 miles NE of Nidda, Hessen, and said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL possibly to be homeUC to Fischer, Kaiser, and Wert/Wuetz/Werth/Wirth families (pp.30, 33, 34).

EichelsdorfGL, Nidda Amt, Hessen-Darmstadt: is 3 miles NE of Nidda city and said by various versions of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be the homeUC of Dietz, Goetz, Koch, Langlitz, Spangenberg/Spangenberger, and Wuertz families plus possibly Bolaender, Ludwig and Riklen families.  Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Goetz man who married in 1766 a Koch woman; later this couple went to Jagodnaja Poljana; other sources say this place was near both Nidda and Schotten (Mai&Marquardt#729).

Eichelwir(?)GL, Holstein: an unidentified place said by the Dinkel FSL to be homeUC to a Neff family.

EichenGL: see Eiche.

EichenbornGL, Nassau-Weilburg: said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to an Engelmann and possibly to a Flach family.  There was an Eisenberg in Nassau-Weilburg (some 14 miles W of Worms city) but no Eichenborn that I have been able to find.

EichenbuehlGL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Leifried? family.  This probably is 10 miles SE of Erlenbach-am-Main.

Eichenhayn/EichenhainGL: said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to Roth and Ungefug families.  The Schlitz ML concurs with the Roth origin (Mai&Marquardt#746).  According to the Schlitz ML an Eiffert woman fromUC here in 1766 married an Ortstadt man; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro (Mai&Marquardt#740).  The modern spelling is said to be Eichelhain (Mai&Marquardt#739) which is some 14 miles SW of Schlitz city, and was in 1766 in the Riedesel Barony.  Said by the Schlitz ML to be home to the Unkefug woman who married a Winteholder man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro  (Mai&Marquardt#745).

Eichenzell GL: see Stadt Eis.

EichenzellGL, [Fulda Bishopric]: is some 4 miles S of Fulda city.

EichfeldeGL, Wirsitz parish, Posen Department, Prussia: nka Polanowo, it was 1 mile SSW of Wirsitz and has been proven, using FHL(245,507), by the GCRA to be home to the Teske family that went to Bergdorf; see their book under Teske{Christian} for more.

EichholzFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:678, 253) with no origin.  The GCRA found that his brother who settled in Alexanderhilf was said to have been fromUC Wolfsoelden, Backnang [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  See the GCRA book for more details.

EichhornFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned).

EichhornFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned

EichornFN:  according to a Rosslau ML this woman (no origin given) married in 1766 an Rudolph man; by 1767 the couple was in Jost (Mai&Marquardt#971).

EichhornFN: said by the 1798 Naeb census to be the maiden name of the wife of the Schwenk who first settled in Kano.

EichhornFN: said by the Urbach FSL to be fromUC Suhl, [Kur-]Sachsen with Bettheusen step-daughters in the household.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Ur20.

EichlerFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Sachsen (no locality mentioned).

EichlerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Kornfeld, Gruenberg with a Brot wife fromUC Darmstadt.

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

Eichmann?FN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Hausen, Friedrichdamst(?).

EichmannFN{Michael, A.Margaretha}: both were born in Breitenbrunn, Breuberg Condominimum,   and married in 1766 in Buedingen.  He married a Voelker from Eschau and she married a Dorsch from Breitenbrunn; by 1798, she, in addition to, Michael’s widowed 2nd wife and  three offspring were living in Schwab (Sb29, 30, 44, 17) [Gieg1).  Said by the Schwab FSL to be fromUC Breitenburg[sic], Erbach. This man from Breitenbrunn married in 1766 in Buedingen a Voelcker woman (Mai&Marquardt#722).  For 1796 and 1798 see Mai1798:Mv2686, Gk33, Sb14, 16, and  21.  Also in 1766 in Buedingen an Eichmann woman also from Breitenbronn married a Dorsch man; [by 1767 they were in Schwab] (Mai&Marquardt#723). 

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

EichnerFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz.  For 1798 see Mai1798:An28 and 42.

EichnerFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned).  For 1798 see Mai1798:Bz31).

EichsfeldGL: seems to be the regional name for the corner where Hessen and Thueringia come together, owned by the Princearchbishop of Kur-Mainz.

Eichstedt: an unidentified place said by the Warenburg FSL to be homeUC to a Kremell man.  The only Eichstedt I could find was in Kurbrandenburg, 8 km N of Stendal city, but there were also an Eickstedt, two Eichstaetts and an Eichstadt.

EidFN: see Eit.

Eidenmueller{AdamCath.}FN: KS:118 says she married an Amann man in 1787 in Neu-Saratowka.

EidemuellerFN: J.Martin, Christine (Zahn) and 4 children left Fraenkisch-Crumbach in 1766 for Russia; (Gieg1); they are listed in the Bauer FSL #1 as Miller.

EidemuellerFN: J.Nikolaus, Agathe (Bock) and 5 children left Fraenkisch-Crumbach in 1766 for Russia; they settled in Neu-Saratowka (Gieg1).  Also see Bock, Heinrich.

EidemuellerFN: Margaretha E., born in Hoellerbach, married a Becker (Gieg1).

EiderFN: Curt Renz has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Pirmasens, Rheinpfalz and Langensulzbach, Weissenburg Kreis, Elsass

Eidmueller: an Eidmueller woman married a Becker man, both (sic?) of Wersau,  Dartmouth; by 1767 (br34) the couple were in Bauer (Mai&Marquardt#1278).

EidmuellerFN: see Miller of Bauer; also see Eidemueller and Eitemueller.

EifFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Wittenborn.

EifertFN: of Meinhard married a Becker woman, the widow of Becker and the former widow of Schmidt{Christian} of Susannental (Mai1798:Mv2883 and Mn28).

EifertFN: said by the Shcherbakovka FSL to be fromUC Suelzfeld.    I could not find any member of this family in Mai1798.

EiffertFN: according to the Schlitz ML this woman fromUC Eichenhayn in 1766 married an Ortstadt man; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro (Mai&Marquardt#740).

EihlerFN: see Euler.

EulerFN: said by the Norka FSL to be from Isenburg.  Spelled Eiler in the 1775 Norka census.  I cannot find them in the index to the 1798 censuses.  Also spelled EihlerBonner proved he was baptized in Eckartshauen, Isenburg[-Buedingen County].

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

Eiler? FN: said by the Balzer FSL to be orphan boys in the Schlegel{Philipp}household.  I could not find them in  Mai1798es.

EilerFN: also see Eihler and Euler.

EimerFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Hessen-]Darmstadt. I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

EinbachGL: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Lammer/Limmer family.  There are at least 2 places of this name in Germany.

EinbeckGL: long famous for its beer, the city belonged to Brunswick and is some 40 miles SW of Brunswick city.  It was said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Heine family.

EinersheimGL: is 17 miles SE of Wuerzburg city.  It was one of the northern-most holdings of the Limpurg counts whose seat was at Gaildorf 26 miles ESE of Heilbronn city.

Einhausen, [Kurpfalz?]: said by the Stephan FSL to be homeUC to a Linker family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Darmstadt.  There were at least 5 Einhausens in sthe German-speaking lands, apparently none was in Hessen-Darmstadt lands, and  I think the one that is 20 km NNE of Mannheim city centre and was then in Kurfalz is the most likely.

Einike?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Falkenstein(?).  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Einschenk?FN: said by the Leichtling FSL to be fromUC Straubing (no locality mentioned).

EirichFN: said by the1798 Hildmann census to be the maiden name of frau Hiltmann (Mai1798:Hd22).

EirichFN: said by the Schwed FSL to be fromUC Lauterbach, [Fulda Bishopric/Riedesel Barony].  For 1798 see Mai1798:Sw14.

EirichFN: also see Rausch.

EisGL: see Stadt Eis.

EischaderFN: said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC Kissing, Kurmainz.  Later spelled Heischaeder (Mai1798:Gb62).

EischlegerFN: see Oelschlaeger.

EiselFN{Georg}:  said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Eusel in the 1775 Norka census.  Spelled Eisel in 1798 and the wife’s maiden name was given as Becker (Mai1798:Nr156, see also Nr208 and Wt8).

EiselFN{Johannes}:  said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Eusel in the 1775 Norka census.  Spelled Eisel in 1798 (Mai1798:Nr200).

EiselFN: also see Ensel and Eusel.

EiseleFN: said by the Rosenheim FSL to be fromUC Elbrunn?.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Rm39.

EisenachFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Willez(?), Schlitz.  Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to the Goebel woman who married in 1766 a Wachtmeister man; by 1767 this couple was in Pfeiffer (Mai&Marquardt:592)

EisenachGL/GS: this name was used sometimes for the city, 26 km WNW of Gotha city, and often for Duchy of which the city was the seat from 1741-1809: Saxe-Eisenach Duchy.

EisenachGS, Sachsen: the original entry probably was intended to be Saxe-Eisenach

EisenachGS, Thueringen: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Gige? and Happe families.  This most likely is the same place as the next entry, with Thueringen used here as a geographical description rather than a political entity.

Eisenach CountyGS: this appears on a 1789 map to be a subdivision of  the Saxe-Eisenach Duchy, bordering the duchy on the S, and with several exclaves: 3 within the Meiningen Duchy, and 1 each W and SW of that duchy.

Eisenach DuchyGS: this duchy, more formally known as the Saxe-Eisenach Duchy, extended a few miles in all directions from Eisenach city, and south of the city.  Futher S was its Eisenach County wotj its own scattered exclaves -- the southern-most exclave being around  Ostheim, now in Bavaria. The Eisenach duchy was from 1741 to 1809 controlled by the same family that controlled Saxe-Weimar.   In 1809 the two duchies were formally merged to create the Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Duchy.

Eisenbach, [Kur-]Trier: said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Sensdorf? family.  This might be 5 miles ESE of Koblenz city.  None of the other Eisenbachs I found would have been in Kurtrier.

EisenbachGL, Riedesel Barony: this town, some 2.5 miles SSW of Lauterbach city, was the official seat of the barony, although the principal home of the Barons was usually in Lauterbach.

EisenbeisFN: see Eisenbeiss.

EisenbeissFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:671, 253) to be Dornhan, Horb [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL(1,732,280), the GCRA verified this origin; see their book for more detail.  Also spelled Eisenbeis (KS:253).

EisenbeissFN: Curt Renz has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Dornhan, Sulz Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

EisenbergGL: see Eichenborn.

EisenbreiFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:672, 253) with no origin.  KS:253 said the family was from Guendelbach, Waihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL(1,184,607-8), the GCRA verified this origin; see their book for details.  Also spelled Eisenbrey.

EisenbreyFN: see Eisenbrei.

EisenheimGL, Wuerzburg: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Keifer family.  There is an Essenheim, Bavaria some 14 miles NNW of Wuerzburg city.

Eisenhofen?, [Kurbayern?] : said by the Susannental FSL to be homeUC to an Ingelmann family.  The only Eisenhofen I found is 31 km NW of Munich city centre and was then in Kurbayen.

EisenhutFN: in the Huck FSL an Eisenhut orphan was living the Repps who are said to have come from Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

EisenhutFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  For 1798 see Mai1798:Nr90.

EisenhutFN: also see Echenhuth and Eisenhuth.

EisenhuthFN: the Buedingen ML says this woman fromUC Mauswinckel married in 1766 a Kalatenschnee man (Mai&Marquardt#507).  Later spelled Eisenhut (Mai1798:Db28).

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

EisingenGL, Baden-Wuerttemberg: see Eitingein.

EismannFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Luebben?, Brandenburg.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Eisner{H.Christian}FN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Doernigheim, Hanau [County].  For 1798 see Mai1798:Wr56.

Eisner{Melchior}FN: said by the Warenburg FSL to be fromUC Beisheim, Wertheim [County]. For 1797 and 1798 see Mai1798:Mv3002,Wr11(where the wife’s maiden name was given as Siebert),Lb39.

EisweilerGL, Zweibruecken: is some 21 miles NW of Zweibruecken city, and said by the Bauer FSL to be homeUC to a Schreimann family.  Later spelled Schreiner.

Eit?FN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Eid.

Eitaksisia?GL: an unidentified place said to have been homeUC to the Koch family (Lk17), possible early settlers in Zuerich.

EitemuellerFN: see Eidemueller and Eidmueller, as well as Miller of Bauer.

EitenbenzFN: wife of Stickelmeier of Bergdorf.

Eitingein(?)GL, Baden Durlach: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to an Jung family.  This might be Eisingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, some 4 miles NNW of Pforzhem.  An Eltingen is 16 miles SE of Pforzheim.

EkebergenGL: see Hekeberkhental.

EkebornGL, Ints County: said by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to a Lenz family.

EkerspornGL, Hesse-Darmstadt County: said by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to a Bechtolt family.

Eket(?)GL, Friedberg: an unidentified place said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Wiehl family.

EkhartFN: this woman married a Lang man in 1766 in 1766 in Luebeck; other sources spell it Eckart  (Mai&Marquardt#142); by 1768 they were in Warenburg.

Eklavstein?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Burghardt family.

EklerFN: born in Goeppingen, Goeppingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg as proved by the GCRA using FHL 1,056,923.  She was the illegitimate daughter of Herr Fischer’s Steib wife, and was listed in the 1816 Bergdorf census (KS:659, 254) with no origin.  See the GCRA book for more detail.

Eklich?FN: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Konstanz.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

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

Elag(?)GS: an unidentified state said by the Bauer FSL to be whereKollmar is.

ElbachFN: said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC Copenhagen, Denmark.

Elben/ElbinGL, Preussen: said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Maljawski/Malyavski family.  This might be Elbing?

ElbenrodGL, [Hessen-Darmstadt]: is some 2 miles ENE of Alsfeld city, and said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Karl{Adam} family.  Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to an Erlenbach family.

Elbergen?: said by the Stephan FSL to be homeUC to a Spielmann family.  At that time there were two Elbergen in the German-speaking lands, both in Muenster Bishopric, one 8 km S, and the other 36 km NE, of Lingen city.

Elberkirchen?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Jung{Sebastian} family.

Elberrod?: an unidentified place said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be homeUC to a Lill? family.  This might be Elbenrod, Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate.

ElbersdorfGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Herrmann family.  This might have been in Hessen-Kassel some 15 miles SSE of Kassel city, or in Kursachsen some 11 miles ESE of Dresden city.

ElbinGS, see Elben or Elbing.

ElbingGL, [Polen]: is some 32 miles ESE of Danzig and said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Bast family.  Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Engeler family.  In 1772 Elbing became part of West Prussia.

ElbingGL, Polen: said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Herzer family.

ElbingGL: see also Elben, Elbin, and Elblag.

ElbingGL, West Prussia: now Elblag, Poland, was said by the Blumenort FSL to be homeUC to a Warckentin family in 1805.  Said by the Orloff FSL to be homeUC to a Warckentin family.  Elbing was then also a district center. Said by the Rosenort FSL to be homeUC to a Zacharias family.

ElblagGL is Polish for Elbing.

Elbor?GL: an unidentified place said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Loch family.  Kuhlberg said this was in the state of Darmstadt.

Elbruck?, Wachtenberg?: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Fackenbusch family.

Elbrunn?, Herzogtum Wuerttemberg[sic?]: said by the Rosenheim FSL to be homeUC to an Eisele family.  The only Elbrunn I can find was in Kurbayern, 55 km SE of Landshut, far from any Wuerttemberg Duchy lands.

ElbsGL (may be Gerna?) an unidentifed locality said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be in the Dormstadt area and to be homeUC to a Shifler family.

ElchesheimGL, Rastatt [Amt], Baden: is 4.5 miles N of Rastatt city, and said by KS:349 to be homeUC to Kurz{Jacob} who it said left forUC Glueckstal.

ElchnerFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Reichenbach.  In 1798 the family name was spelled Elkner (Mai1798:Bb41).

Eleanu?FN: said by the 1798 Straub census (Sr4) to be the maiden name of frau Appel.

ElenbergerFN: said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC Petersburg, Russia, having come there from Holstein (no locality mentioned).  Also spelled Ehlenberger.

Elers?FN: the Dinkel FSL says this step-son was living in a Hollbeck? household from Lueneburg.

ElfFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Waschenbach.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

ElfershausenGL: an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Sell man.  There are at least 2 places of this name in Germany.

ElfnerFN: listed by both the 1816 Kassel census (#77) and KS:254 without origin.  See the GCRA book for more.

ElhartFN: said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Salmuenster, Schluechtern, Hessen.

ElheimFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Wuerzburg no locality indicated.  Later spelled Ehlhein (Mai1798:Pf73).

EliFN: listed by both the 1816 Kassel census (#98) and KS:254 without origin.  Using FHL#247,646 the GCRA proved origin in Niederhochstadt, Landau [Amt], Rheinpfalz.  See their book for more.  Also spelled Ely.

ElisabethBV: the original  name for Tarutino.

ElisabethgradGL,  Podolia: aka Zinovievsh and Yelizavetgrad, nka Kirovohrad, Ukraine, 154 miles SSE of Kiev.  The GCRA found Hochhalter and Rudolf families associated with it in 1809.

ElknerFN: see Elchner.

EllFN: said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Kammerzell/Kaemmerzell, Fulda, Hessen:

EllangFN: said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC LangenprozeltenGL, Gelnhausen/Gemuenden (Main), Hessen.

Ellbrunn?GL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Lichtenstein? family. Kuhlberg said this was in Pfalz.  The only Ellbrunn I can find is deep in Bavaria far from Kurpfalz lands.

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

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

EllerFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Braunfels(?), no locality mentioned.

EllermeierFN: the 1798 Orlovskaya census gives this as the maiden name of one of the frau Ehrfurts (Mai1798:Mv2135).

Ellert  In 1798 spelled Ehlert (Mai1798:Rm20(when the wife’s maiden name was given as Schneider), Rm35 and En21).

EllerwaldGL, Elbing Amt: is now Janowo, Poland, and was some 2.5 miles W of Elbing city.  Said by the Rosenort FSL to be homeUC to  Jantzen and Rempel families.  Said by the Tiege FSL to be homeUC to the Ginter, Kroecker{Peter}, Neufelt/Neufeld and Toews{Philipp} households, and possibly to a Baergen household.

EllhofenGL, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 4 miles E of Heilbronn and proven by GCRA to be home to Goetz and Huber{Johannes/Gottlieb} who went to Glueckstal. : Said by both the 1816 Kassel census (#115) and KS:280 to be homeUC to Goetz{Jakob}.  See the GCRA book for more details.

EllhofenGL, Weinsberg Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is about 1 mile E of Weinsberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to a Goetz family that settled in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.

Ellingen, Kurpfalz[sic?]: an unidentified place said by the Warenburg FSL to be homeUC to a Boes? family and possibly to a Flach family.  I found 4 Ellingens, none of them on former Kurpfalz lands.

Ellmendingen?, [Baden-]Durlach [Margraviate]: is 8.5 km W of Pforzheim city centre and was said by the Schaefer FSL to be homeUC to the Boes family.  This is the same place as the next entry, except 50 years earlier.

EllmendingenGL, Pforzheim Amt, Baden: is some 5 miles WNW pf Pforzheim, and was home to a Schlittenhardt family that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.

EllnrodeGL, Frankenberg [Amt], Hesse: is 9 miles SE of Frankenberg town.  KS:429 said SchmidtFN{Hermann} came fromUC here; the GCRA proved he never came to Bergdorf.

EllsFN: see Ils.

ElmGL, Brandenstein: is in Hesse, 1 mile NE of Schluechtern. Said by the Schlitz ML to be homeUC to the Stoppel man who in 1766 married an Eyring woman; this couple settled in Boregard (Mai&Marquardt#733).  Said by the Schlitz ML to be homeUC to the Schmidt woman who married a Herber man; this couple settled in Schaefer (Mai&Marquardt#532). See Mit-nachbars-zu-ElmGL.

Elmen(?)GL, Hannover: an unidentified place said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Lakmann family.  According to a Luebeck ML this Lackmann man married a Schneck woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#116).

Elmenhorst?GL: an unidentified place said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to a Bergmann family.  There are at least 8 Elmenhorsts in Germany, all in the North.

Elmknecht? FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Etalt? with Lenert stepsons in the household.  I could not find the Elmknecht family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Elmshorn, [Schleswig-]Holstein [Royal Duchy]: is some 32 km NW of Hamburg city centre and was said by the Stahl-am-Tarlyk FSL to be homeUC to the Dietrich family and possibly to their Mueller{Johann} step-children.  I could not find members of this family in  Mai1798.

ElmsteinGL, Landau [Amt], Pflaz: is 14 miles NW of Landau-in-der-Pfalz, and proven by GCRA to be home to the Bruechler family that went to GlueckstalSee the GCRA book for more details.

Els?FN: the Dinkel FSL says this orphan was living in a Hartmann household from Bulwitz(?), Schweden.

ElsFN: also see Ils.

ElsaesserFN:  said by the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:668, 254) to have been from Vaihingen, Stuttgart [Amt], WuerttembergThis origin (Vaihingen auf den Fildern) was verified by the GCRA using FHL(1,055,888).  See their book for more detail.

ElsankaVV: one spelling of the Russian name for HusarenVV.

ElsarFN: see Eltzer.

ElsassGL: said with no locality indicated by KS:243 to be homeUC to the Denin family that went to Glueckstal by wayUC of Poland.

ElsassGS, see Alsace.  Said (no locality indicated) by the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to Jaerger and Vogel families.  Said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Schunk family, no locality mentioned.  Said (no locality mentioned) by one entry in KS:425 to be homeUC  to the Schlant family that settled in Neudorf.

ElsassGS, France: said (no locality indicated) by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.

Elsasser FN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Hessen-Darmstadt.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Nm34

ElsasserFN said by the Schwab FSL to be fromUC Gelnhausen [Imperial City].  For 1795 and 1798 see Mai1798:Mv2685, Gk32, 33, Sb14, 38.

Elsbach: said by the Schwab FSL to be homeUC to the Bernhardt family.  This probably was Elsbach, Erbach County, 2 km SW of Erbach city.

ElscheidFN: the Katharinenstadt FSL says this orphan was living with a Helwig? family fromUC Alzey.

ElscheidtFN: said by the 1798 Boregard census to be the maiden name of frau Sommer.

ElscheidtFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Heina.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Zr49.

Elschiburg?, Kurtrier: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Spaetter family.

Elsdorf: an unidentified place said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be homeUC to a Koch family.  Kuhlberg said this place was in Darmstadt.  There were at least 5 Elsdorfs in Germany, none of those 5 was within Hessen-Darmstadt.

ElsenzGL, Kurpfalz: is some 5 miles SSW of Sinsheim city.  Arliss has found some evidence that the Clauser family which settled first in Dobrinka may have come from here having earlier come from Switzerland.  This Elsenz is the same as the next two, just some 40 years earlier.

Elsenz, Bruchsal [Amt], Baden: is 11 miles NNE of Bruchsal city.  This is Elsenz, Eppingen [Amt], Baden

Elsenz, Eppingen [Amt], Baden: is 4.5 miles NW of Eppingen city.  The GCRA proved this home to the Benz{Abraham} family that went to Kassel.

Elters?GL: an unidentified place said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Lohmann family.  There is an Elters some 8 miles ENE of Fulda city.

Eltersdorf, Erlangen, Nuernberg [Imperial City]: is now a neighborhood  about 4 km S of Erlangen city  centre and probably did in the 1760s belong to Nuernberg Imperial City;  but Erlangen did not so belong and was consistently part of Brandenburg-Bayreuth Margraviate from 1603 to1806.

Eltersdorf, [Nuermberg Imperial City]: was just S of Frauenaurach and S of  Erlangen city of which it is now a neighborhood; said by a Woehrd ML to be homeUC to Andresz{Marg.} who in 1766 married Ahm{Johann} (Mai&Marquardt#789 and  KS:118).

EltingenGL: see Eitingein.

Eltman?GL, [Wuerzburg Bishopric]: is 10 miles NW of Bamberg city, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Long? family.  Usually spelled Eltmann.

EltzFN: said (no locality indicated) by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Anhalt-Zerbst with a young Gerhard man in the household.  I could not find the Eltz family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Eltz BaronyGS: lay S of Muenstermalfeld between that town and the Mosel river, but touching neither.  It may have included the village of Keldung.

EltzerFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Schwitzing?, Kurtrier and his wife was said to be from Michelhausen.  In 1798 the family name was spelled Elsar (Mai1798:Ls08).

ElwangenGL: probably is the city which is 102 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main in Baden-Wuerttemberg and said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Vogelmann family.  However there also is a village of Elwangen much further S in Baden-Wuerttemberg.

ElyFN: see Eli.

ElzGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Tersich? family.  This could be Elz, Nassau-Dillenburg Principality (or possibly Kurtrier), some 2 miles NNW of Limburg-an-der-Lahn.  Or it could been a mistransliteration of Eltz Barony.

Elzach, [Hapsburgian Lands]: is 15 miles NE of Freiburg city, and said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be homeUC to a Lamm family.

Elzach, Schwarzwald: said by the Seelmann FSL to be homeUC to a Vogelbach family.  Elzach was then in lands controlled by the Hapsburgs; this particular possession was in the Black Forest and they probably modestly refered to the property as Schwarzwald.

Elzhausen?GL, [Hall Imperial City]: is 6 miles NNE of Schwabisch Hall city, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Deckert family. Kuhlberg said this was in Hessen.  There was an Erzhausen, Hessen-Darmstadt, some 4 miles N of Darmstadt city.

Elzow FN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Meisdorf, Preussen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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