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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Da Den Do
Ea Em Fa
Fo Ga Gi
Gn Gr Ha
He Hel Hi
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Ka Ke Ki
Kn Kr Ku
La Le Li
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Na Ni O
Pa Pf Q
Ra Re Ri
Ro Sa Scha
Schm Scho Se
Si Sta Sti
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Emerdorfer?: this mother-in-law was said by the Dobrinka FSL to be living in a Hueber household fromUC Selinger(?), Durlach.

EmerichFN: said by the1798 Ernestinendorf census to be the maiden name of frau Becker{Johann} {Mai1798:Sh40).

EmerichFN: also see Emrich.

EmertFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Ansbach (no locality mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Emmert (Mai1798:Ms12).

EmgerFN:  see Imherr.

EmichFN{J.Nicolaus}: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Hessen-]Darmstadt.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Pl22.

EmmerichFN{Friedrich}: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Rothein?.    Spelled Emich and Emerich in 1798 (Mai1798:Kd19?).

EmichFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Ichtebeck? Amt.

EmmerichFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Hanau (no lcality mentioned).  It is possible that his was a variation of Emich.

Emich FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Rottau.

EmmelFN: see Emmol.

Emmendingen [Amt]GL, Baden: is 9 miles N of Freiburg city, and was a District administrative center.

EmmerichFN: see Emrich.

Emmerling?FN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).

EmmershausenGL, [Nassau-Usingen Principality]: is some 6 miles WNW of Usingen city, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Hardt family.

EmmertFN: see Emert.

EmmolFN: the Beudingen ML says an Emmol woman fromUC Mockstadt married a Mueller man in 1766; later the couple went to Kraft; Stump spelled her family name Emmel (Mai&Marquardt#647).

Emrich?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Dresden (no locality mentioned).  This might be Emerich?  I could not find this family under either name in the 1798 Volga censuses.

EmrichFN: listed in the Pobochnaya FSL so may have been from Darmstadt state.

EmsGL: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Hepp family.  This may be Bad Ems some 6 miles SE of Koblenz.

EmsenFN: said by the Rosenort FSL to be a friend living in the Siemens household.

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

Enachenzerl? GL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Mueller{Nicholas} family.  Might this be Eichenzell 4 miles S of Fulda city?

EndersFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Gruenberg, Darmstadt.  A 1766 Luebeck baptismal record says Enders wife’s maiden name was Fischer (Mai&Marquardt#1290).

EndersVV: (aka Ust-Karaman) is a Lutheran German village founded in 1765 on the eastern side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 381-393.  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.  The number with the family name is their FSL household number:

from Bern, Schweiz: (Kraus9);

from Bischtau?, Holstein: (Erenstramin?22);

from Bizau?, Mecklenburg: (frau Petersen28);

from Brenha: Berns[Behrens]4);

from Breslau, Schlesien: (Reiher33);

from Dahlenberg, Preussen: (Stenaben?29);

from Donau?, Hannover: (Klaudi?36);

from Durlach: (frau Belzig?30, frau Kifler?[Keibler] the widow Kolberg nee Riesch21);

from Flensburg, Holstein: (Endersen32);

from Guben, Sachsen: (Fleming[Flemming]34);

from Isenburg-Buedingen: (Pril[Piel]38, Zitner[Sittner]37);

from Kengi?, Holstein: [Brant[Brandt]19, and possibly Kelchner19a);

from Kiel, Holstein: (Endersen[Andersen]6,7,8);

from Klein, Holstein: (Fallendorf?[Wollendorf]27);

from Kloster Lichter?, Wittenberg: (Gitle?[Hitler]14);

from Kolberg, Preussen: (Kaiser3);

from Kopenhagen, Daenemark: Petersen[Peterson]1);

from Krakau, Polen: (frau Berkenstock11);

from Krenreaus?, Polen: (Brozmann/Kratz?24a);

from Krestwin?, Schweden: (Rosenquist5);

from Kuntersbleim?, Leidinsk?: Britenfeld?35);

from Kurpfalz: (Kraft25, and possibly Kifler25a);

from Lanz, Witteberge: (frau Gitle?14, (Ming[Meng]12);

from Liepe?, Preussen: (frau Ming12);

from Lissenburg?, Frankreich: (frau Dotz24);

from Luebeck: (Petersen28, Sond39, von Bracken?20);

from Malbrun?, Wuerttemberg: (Rieger40);

from Mitau, Kurland: (Lionier?2);

from Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg: (Ritter10);

from Neustadt, Wernburg: (frau Brant19, and possibly Kelchner19a);

from Paterburg: (frau Kraft nee Kifler?25);

from Paterburg, Katelbusch?: (Kifler?[Kiebler]21);

from Paterburg, Kennlinsk?: (Kifler?[Kiebler]17);

from Prenzlau, Brandenburg: (Dietz16);

from Rilik, Daenemark: (frau Lionier?2);

from Saratov: (frau Rosenquist5);

from Schilbor?, Herrbrass: (frau Buschmann15);

from Schleswig-Holstein: (Belzig?29a,30, frau Fleming34, Luzaft?[Lutzhoff]23), frau Stenaben?29);

from Stockholm, Schweden: (Berkenstock11, Dotz[Totz]24, Kiwet?[Kiewit]13, frau Reiher33);

from Stollberg, Sachsen: (Buschmann15);

from Strausberg, Sachsen: (Kronstan?13, frau Kiwet? the widow Konstan?13a);

from Stuttgart: (Ludwig31);

from Suni?, Schweden: (frau Endersen6);

from Teterow, Mecklenburg: (Schniker?26);

from Tilsit, Preussen: Asterowskij?18);

from Tosrei?, Sachsen: (frau Erenstramin?22);

from Zweibruecken: (frau Berns4).

EndersbachGL, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 3 miles ESE of Waiblingen city, and proven by GCRA to be home to Albrecht, Lang, Nuding{Jakob}, Schmid, and Stroebel{Friedrich} families that went to Glueckstal; as well as home to the Kuhnle woman who became the 2nd frau Gugel in Bergdorf.  See the GCRA book for more details.

EndersenFN: said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Flensburg, Holstein.

Endersen FN: three families said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Kiel, Holstein. The family name in 1798 was spelled Andersen (Mai1798:En3,29).

EndersenFN: one frau Endersen was said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Suni?, Schweden.

Endingen: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Zweigat? family.  This might be Endingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, some 31 miles S of Strasbourg.

EndorfGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Gebauer family.  There were at least 6 Endorfs in the Germanies.

EndlichFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Johann-Georgenstadt, Sachsen.  Also spelled Englikh (Mai1798:Mv1166).

EndressFN: according to the Buedingen ML an Endress woman for whom no origin was given married in 1766 a Leicht man; by 1767 this couple was in Krasnoyar (Mai&Marquardt#360).

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

EndtersFN: also see Enders.

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

Enflender?FN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be Schwarz.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

EngelFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned) and to have married in Oranienbaum a Heinrich woman.

EngelFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality indicated).

EngelFN{Heninrich}:said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Neunhof.

Engel FN {Adam}: said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Schierstein.  The 1798 Boregard census gives the wife’s maiden name as Mattern (Mai1798:Bo34).

EngelFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Kurland.

EngelFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.

EngelFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Kirsbach, Kurpfalz.

EngelFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Ottenberg, Stolberg County.

EngelFN: this family name was found recorded in two different Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767 and in in Winterhausen marriage records 1760-1769; see Flegel trip.

EngelFN: also see Engelson.

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

EngelbertFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Melem(?), Kelheim.

EngelbrechtFN: said by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Hessen.

EngelerFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Elbing, Polen.

EngelhandszellGL, Bayern: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Kalmbach family that went to Glueckstal.  No such place has been identified. KS:323 suggested it might be Engelhardtzell?.  There is also an Engelbarzell, Bavaria some 13 miles N of Staubing city.

EngelhardFN: said by the Hildmann FSL to be the maiden name of frau Schumm.

EngelhardFN: this family name was found recorded in Winterhausen marriage records 1760-1769; see Flegel trip.

EngelhardFN: also see Engelhardt.

EngelhardGL, Zdziechow [parish?], Posen Department, South Prussia: an unidentified place, probably 2-8 miles NNW of Gnesen, the Kreis center, said by the GCRA to be associated with the Lapp and Sauter families in 1805.

EngelhardtFN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz.

EngelhardtFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Wuerzburg (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Engelhard (Mai1798:Mv1165).

EngelhardtFN: Curt Renz has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Hofenheim, Sinsheim Amt, Baden.

EngelhardtFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Jakobsheim(?), Anspach.  Also spelled Engelhard.

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

EngelhardtzellGL, [Austria]: is on the Danube and long has been the border crossing into Bavaria.  Some parts of it might have been in Bavaria?? and been homeUC to the the Kalmbach family that went to Glueckstal?  See Engelhandszell.

EngelmannFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Silberhaus, Nassau.

EngelmannFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Waren, Mechlenburg.

EngelmannFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Biskirchen, Braunfels.

EngelmannFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Eichenborn, Nassau-Weilburg; there was a step-son Flach in the household.  So frau Engelmann evidently was a former frau Flach.

EngelrodGL, [Riedesel Barony]: is 11 miles S of Alsfeld city, and said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be homeUC to a Roth family.  This is the same place as the next entry.

EngelrodGL, Riedesel: is in Hessen some 14 miles SW of Schlitz city, some 7 miles SW of Lauterbach, and said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to Koch, Krepp and Schreiner families.  See Schlitz.

EngelrothGL: said by the Schlitz ML to be home to the Damer woman who married a Winteholder man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro  (Mai&Marquardt#746).  Said by the Schlitz ML to be homeUC to the Dechert woman who married in 1766 a Roth man; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro (Mai&Marquardt#746).  Engelrod is an alternative spelling.

EngelsohnFN: see Engelson.

EngelsonFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:672, 255) with no origin.  Using FHL(1,569,075), the GCRA proved origin in Reutlingen, Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. See the GCRA book for more details.  Also spelled Engelsohn, and most records use Engel.

EngelstaedterFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Wasselheimburg, Strassburg with a Wagner wife fromUC Hedersheim.  Later spelled Engelstetter (Mai1798:Ka46).

EngelstaedterFN: his wife is said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Hedersheim(?), Pfalz.

EngelstetterFN: see Engelstaedter.

EngelthalGL: see Friedberg.

EngenGL, Switzerland said by a Luebeck ML to be homeUC to a Buettner woman who married in 1766 a Rosenberger man who settled in Neidermonjou (Mai&Marquardt#291).  In those days Schaffhausen was a part of Switzerland, and there was an Engen just 11 miles NE of Schaffhausen … but it looks to have been in the Fuerstenberg Principality.

EnghienGL, Braband, Frankreich: evidently is 17 miles SW of Brussels city, said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Dubois family.  But it is very doubtful that this was French territory in the 1760’s.

EnglandGS: said (no locality mentioned) by the Bettinger FSL to be homeUC to a Paul family.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Otzen? family.  See also Brunswick.

EnglerFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Mednsch?.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Nm33??

EnglikhFN: see Endlich.

EngrafFN: said by the Rothammel FSL to be fromUC Momlingen, Kurmainz.

EnnerichGL, Runkel: is 1 mile W of Runkel town, and said by the Kukkus FSL to be homeUC to an Ilberg?/Ulberg family.

Enrander?FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be step-daughter in the Peter household.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga csnsuses.

EnselFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Eusel (Mai1798:Nr159) and Eisel (Nr200).  His wife’s maiden name was given by the 1798 Norka census as Becker (Nr159).

EnselingerFN: he is said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Weissenburg, Frankreich and his wife is said to be from Regensburg (no locality and no maiden name given).   The family name was later spelled Enslinger (Mai1798:Mt43).

EnsheimGL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Kautz FSL to be the homeUC of a Bensel/Benzel family.  There are two prime candidates: Ensheim some 15 miles SW of Mainz, and Enzheim some 21 miles SSW of Mainz.

EnslerFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Rackith.EnslingenGS: I can find no state by this name.  There was a village so named in Oettingen County some 7 miles W of Oettingen town.

EnslingerFN: see Enselinger.

EnsterFN: said  (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Kur]-Brandenburg. I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

EnszFL:  said by the Orloff  FSL to be fromUC Margenau, Tiegenhoff Amt.  Also spelled Enz.

EnszFN{Isaac}: said by the Rosenort FSL to be fromUC Heubuhden, Marienburg Amt. Also spelled Enz.

Entringen, Herrenberg Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: mistakenly said by KS:323 to be homeUC to the Daiss family that went to Glueckstal.  Proven by Curt Renz to be home to a Rieger family that settled in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.

EntringenGL, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 2 miles NW of Tuebingen city centre, and was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Stickelmeier, Were, and Weiss families that went to Bergdorf, as well as the Schumacher{J.Adam} family that went to Glueckstal.  Also proven by GCRA not to be home to the Reiser family and to be home to the Dupper, Fleck{G.Christoph}, Goehring, Kaiser,  Kuch, and Reiger families that went to Glueckstal, as well as to the Schlichter family that settled in Neudorf.   Said by the Bergdorf 1814 census to be homeUC to the Schaefer{G.Fried.} family. And was proven, by the GCRA, not to be the oriigin of the Lehmann widow whose children settled in Neudorf.  See the GCRA book for more on all of these families.

EnzFN: said by the Blumenort FSL to be fromUC Neusteterwald, Elbing.

EnzFL: also see Ensz.

EnzbergGL, Maulbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 4 miles S of Maulbronn town, and proven by GCRA to be home to the Bauer family that went to Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more details.

EnzenGL: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Kaeser family.  There were at least three Enzens in the Germanies.

EnzheimGL, [Isenburg-Buedingen County]: is some 5 miles W of Buedingen city, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Kopen? family.  Or Enzheim could have been owned by Friedberg Imperial City.

EnzheimGL: see also Insheim.

Enzweihingen, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 1.5 miles SE of Vaihingen-an-der-Enz, and said by KS:438, 578 to be home to the Schuler family that went to Grossliebental and Bergdorf.

Enzweiler, Birkenfeld [Amt], Pfalz: is 6.5 miles NE of Birkenfeld town and 1 mile SW of Idar-Oberstein town.  Proved by the CGRA to be home to Krieger{G.Jakob} who went to Glueckstal.

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

EphraimFN: according to the Belowescher Kolonien FSL there was an Ephraim father-in-law in the Albert household that was fromUC Mainz (no locality mentioned).

EppFN:  said by the Orloff FSL to be fromUC Pletzendorff, Tiegenhoff Amt.

EppenbrunnGL, Rhineland-Palatinate: see Epperbrum.

EppenrodGL: is some 5 miles NW of Limburg-an-der-Lahn, and said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Karl family, and perhaps to a Knoll family.  Eppenrod might have been in the territory of Holzappel County, or Diez County, or Kurtrier … my map is not clear.

EpperbrumGL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Dink? family.  There is an Eppenbrunn, Rhineland-Palatinate, some 12 miles SE of Zweibruecken.

EppingGL, Felzer(?):said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Meer? and perhaps a Flom? family.  This may be the Epping which probably then was in the Pfalz but now is some 9 miles S of Zweibruecken city,  in the Lorraine, France.

EppingenGL: probably is the Eppingen which is 13 miles W of Heilbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg; said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to 2 Siegel families.

Eppingen [Amt]GL, Baden: is 13.5 miles W of Heilbronn city, and was a District administrative center.

EppingenGL, Eppingen Amt, Baden: is some 13 miles W of Heilbronn city, and was home to a Wittmer family that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.  Also was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Felhauer/Filhauer /Villhauer, Hochhalter, and Mehlhaf  families that settled in Kassel.

Eppingen, Sinsheim [Amt], Baden: mistakenly said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#117) and KS:467 to have been be homeUC  to the Unger family that settled in Neudorf.  This surely is the same place as the previous entry.

EppsteinGL, Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Fritz family.  This is probably Eppstein, Hesse, some 11 miles NE of Mainz.

ErasmannFN: see Ehresmann.

ErbFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

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

ErbachGL, Falkenstein: said by the Kolb FSL to be homeUC to a Bauer family.  I am guessing this was the Erbach that was some 11 miles S of Weilburg city, Hessen., and that this Falkenstein belonged to Nassau-Weilburg.

ErbachGL, Kurmainz: is 7 miles WNW of Mainz city, and said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Schlager family.

Erbach, [Kur-]Trier: said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Hammerschmidt family.  This might be 10 miles NW of Bingen town, a place that would have been very near the Kurtrier-Kurpfalz border.

ErbachGL, Weilburg: is some 11 miles S of Weilburg town, and said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt family.

Erbach [County]GS: was an independent country in the Odenwald (per Remmick) seated in Erbach city, Hessen which is some 36 miles SE of Frankfort-am-Main.  Its lands extended in a fairly narrow path from just beyond Bad Koenig on the N to the southern Hesse border on the S, with an arm pointing W toward but not including Lindenfels.  It held one isolated bit of territory W of Lindenfels and one about four miles S of Lindenfels.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Anton FSL to be home to Guterich? and Hahn families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Arnold, Bauer, Blank, Braun, Edel, Ellenbacher, Gorleben, Koenig, Miller/Mueller, Ramche/Range, Rech/Wergensrech, Sartisson, Stumpf, and Wenrich families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Doenhof FSL to be homeUC to a Bauss family. Said ( no locality mentioned) by the Fischer FSL to be homeUC to a Heinrich family.  Said by the Grimm FSL to be homeUC to a Kerber family.  Said by the Pleve and Stumpp versions of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be homeUC to Blumenschein/Blumenstein (Kromm says the Blumenstein homeUC was Reichelsheim, Erbach), Hollstein/Holstein, Hergert, Voelker, and Zuergiebel families, and by both Pleve and Kromm versions to be homeUC to Lahnert and Lautenschlaeger families (no locality mention in any case), although Kromm thought that the place might have been Offenbach.  Said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to a Just family, and possibly to a Bettenheuser family. Said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Bischoff man.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Retich? family.

Erbenson FN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Friedrichsgabe, [Holstein-Gottorp Duchy?].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

ErberFN: said by the Bangert FSL to be fromUC Weilmuenster, Nassau-Weilburg.

ErbesFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Luebeck.

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

ErboldFN: the 1798 Norka census gives this as the maiden name of the wife of one of the Isenburger Hohenstein men (Mai1798:Nr74).

Erbs/EhrtFN: said by the Bettinger FSL to be fromUC Lehn.

ErbstettenGL, Marbach [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 5 miles E of Marbach-am-Neckar, and was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Seeger family that went to Glueckstal.

ErchardtFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be an orphan young manl in the Hose household.

ErckFN: see Irk.

Erder?FN: said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC Heidelberg Oberamt, Kurpfalz.

Erdiner?FN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Augsburg.

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

ErdmannhausenGL, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 5.5 miles NE of Ludwigsburg city, and proven by the GCRA to be home to the Haegele and Jenner families that went to Bergdorf.  Evidently after the Bergdorf emigrants left, the Amt jurisdiction was shifted from Ludwigsburg to Marbach Amt.  Was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Schmierer and Schwarzwaelder families that settled in Neudorf.

Erdmannsweiler, Prussian Poland: aka Kochanow-bei-Gluchow, and associated by the GCRA with a Kaul family in 1805.

ErengaGL, Isenburg: said by the Walter FSL to be homeUC to a Windecker family.  The Walter Research Group has confirmed in parish records that this Windecker family came from Herrnhaag, Isenburg (now Hessen).

Erenstramin?FN: said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Bischtau?, Holstein. I cannot find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Erenstramin? FN: frau Erenstramin? was said by the Enders FSL to be fromUC Tosrei?, Sachsen.

EresmannFN: see Ehresmann.

ErffurtFN: see Erfurth.

Erfurt/EhrfurtGS, [Kurmainz]: the city controlled substantial territory around it.  It was conquered by the Archbishop of Mainz in 1664.  It is in Thueringen some 14 miles E of Gotha.  In 1760’s Thueringen was a geographical description not a state.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Losgus? family.  Said by the Dinkel FSL to be homeUC to a Seingold? family (no other locality mentioned). Said by the Graf FSL to be homeUC to a Hatzer family. Said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC to Kirchner and Rudolph families.  Said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Schiebert/Schibert/Schubert? family. Said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Wendehahn family.  Although nominally belonging to Mainz, the place operated very independently, so that FSL may refer to it as part of Thueringen or Sachsen.

ErfurtGL, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC to a Gellinger family. 

ErfurtGL, Thueringen: said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Lieders? family.  See Erfurt, Kurmainz.

ErfurthFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Anhalt (no locality mentioned). This Erffurt frau and her Erffurt sister-in-law were God-parents to a Belger daughter in Luebeck in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt:#1351).

ErfurthFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Anhalt-Koethen (no locality mentioned)  The family name was given as Ehrfurt in 1798 and the wife’s maiden name was given as Ellermeier (Mai1798:Mv2135). This Erffurt frau and her Erffurt sister-in-law were God-parents to a Belger daughter in Luebeck in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt:#1351).

ErfurthFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Koethen. The family name was spelled Ehrfurt in 1798 (Mai1798:Or12).

ErhardFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#16) and KS:257 without origin. See the GCRA book for more.

ErhardFN: also see Erhart.

Erhardt? FN: also see Gerhardt.

ErhartFN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Gross-Bieberau, Darmstadt.  Later spelled Erhard.

ErichFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Stockholm, Schweden.

Erinz?GL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Goetz family.

ErkertFN: settled, no date given, in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Steinheim, Murr-Marbach parish, Wuerttemberg.

ErksinFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Holstein (no locality mentioned).

ErlachGL, Brandenburg: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Kofent family.  I can find no Erlach in the old Brandenburg lands, but there is an Erlach near the town of Brannenburg in Bavaria.

ErlachGS: a misspelling of Erbach in Fraenkisch-Crumbach parish records.

Erland(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to a  Thierlein family.  Might be Erbach or Kurland??

ErlangGL: see Christian Erlang and Erlangen.

ErlangenGL: Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Borell family.  The Wohrd ML says it was Erlang; Stumpp says this place was in Bavaria (Mai&Marquardt#774).

ErlangenGL, Bayreuth County: is some 35 miles SW of Bayreuth city, Bavaria.  Said by the Herzog FSL to be home to frau Weigel; a Luebeck ML says her maiden name was Bergel, marrying Weigel in 1765 (Mai&Marquardt#29).  Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.  Erlangen was a semi-independent city associated with Bayreuth County because the same family owned both.

ErlauGS: a misspelling of Erbach in Fraenkisch-Crumbach parish records.

ErlbachGL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Beckel? family.  There were 9 Erlbach in Bavaria and 3 in Saxony.

ErlenbachFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Ladenburg, Kurfalz. 

ErlenbachFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Elbenrod.

ErlenbachGL: an unidentified place in which the Teske immigrant to Bergdorf may have been born; see the GCRA book for detail.

ErlenbachGL, Erbach: is about 1 mile SE of Erbach city, and said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Stumpff family

Erlenbach, Germersheim [Amt], Rheinpfalz: is some 11 miles SW of Germersheim city, and was home to a Runk family that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.  Home to a Wiesst/Wiest family that settled in Rohrbach, Odessa. The GCRA has proven that this was home to the Jordan woman who may have been frau Steinhauer and who later died as the widow of Abel{Andreas}. It was proven by the GCRA as home to the Bolaender/Bohlaender/Bollaender family that was for a time in Neudorf.  In the 1760’s this probably was part of Zweibruecken Duchy.

Erlenbach, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 2.5 miles NE of Heilbronn city, and was mistaken by KS:230 for Erlenbach, Germersheim [Amt], Rheinpfalz, home to the Bolaender family

Erlenbach-am-Main, Kurmainz: is some 12 miles S of Aschaffenburg city.

ErlichFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be a step-son in the household of Schneider fromUC Kelzhaus(?), Kurpfalz.

ErlichFN: maiden name of the wife of Kener of Herzog (Mai1798:Hr20).

ErlichhaeuserFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Mergentheim. 

ErligheimGL, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 9.5 miles NNW of Ludwigsburg town, and was said by KS:286 to be homeUC to the Gugel family that lived for a time in Bergdorf.  This was proven wrong by the GCRA; see their book for details.

ErmischFN: see Hemrisch.

Erndtebrueck?GL, [Wittgenstein County]: is some 12 miles NE of Siegen city, and was said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Schreiber family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Wittgenstein.

ErneFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Blasien?.

ErnestinendorfVV:  aka Baeckerdorf, Beckerdorf, and Beckersdorf, was a German Lutheran village on the eastern side of the Volga founded in 1767. The  FSL is published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.I, pp. 395-406.  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 in {} brackets follow the family name.  The number after a name is its FSL household number:

from Achenbach, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: (Koenig41);

from Anzhein?: (Kappes/Kippes25, and possibly Figelnus?25a and Hahn25b);

from Atzenhain, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: (Gruen{Hermann}35, Kutscher{Caspar}, Leisel/Leiser{Conrad}37,{J.Heinrich}38, });

from Berod, Kurpfalz:  (Lir/Lehr/Riel6);

from Buedingen, [Isenburg]: (Fischer16);

from Burg Gemuenden, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: (Krebe45);

from Eckenstaghausen?, Solms: (Schaefer/Siefert??24);

from Elberrod?: (Lill?8);

from Elsdorf, Darmstadt: (Koch28);

from Elzach, [Hapsburgian Lands]:  (Lamm21);

from Engelrod: (Roth20);

from Falwinhausen?, Waldeck: (Grebing/Greving27, and possibly Jung{H.Christian}27a);

from Fauerbach: (Philipp{Carl}11);

from Fauerbach, [Solms-Braunfels Principality]: (Hartmann18, Wasmuth/Wassmuth9);

from Gevmenrod?: (Felden?/Feld/Feldt4);

from Griedelbach, [Solms-Braunfels Principality]: (Ebert13, Schwabacher?/Schweichert/Schwabecher15, and possibly Diel15a);

from Hamburg [Imperial City]: (Seibert{Hermann}2);

from Hattenbach, [Hersfeld Principality]: (Walter/Walker44);

from Heimbach: (Eckel/Jaekel43);

from Herzhausen, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: (Arnhold/Arnold22, and possibly Eberhardt22a);

from Izel?, Darmstadt: (Becker{Johann}23);

from Krossigbusig?: (Faber/Faubus33);

from Leisel: (Fink19);

from Naugen?, Hanau: (Philipp{Christian}46);

from Oberdorf: (Damm40);

from Oberkleen, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]:  (Becker{J.Jacob}1, Stumper?/Stumpf12);

from Preetz?: (Litauer?5);

from Queckborn: (Reis{Johannes}14, and possibly Reis{Johann,Conrad}14a);

from Ruttershausen?: (Winkelhausen/Winkelaus29);

from Schwarz, Darmstadt: (Enflender?17);

from Schwarzenbach, Darmstadt: (Schmidt26);

from Stangenrod, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: (Kutscher{J.Georg}/Kutchera34, (Kutscher?{Johann}/Kutscher39, Ron?/Rohn42);

from Staufenberg: (Becker{J.Heinrich}31 and possibly Falk?31a);

from Staufenberg, Hessen: (Jung(J.Heinrich30);

from Vadenrod, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]:  (Dirlau3);

from Wallernhausen, [Isenburg-]Budedingen: (Stang7);

from Warzenbach, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Selbert{Johannes}/Selb32);

from Westhofen, Hessen: (Hufnagel?/Hufnagel10).

ErnstFN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Ziegler.  The 1798 census says the same (Mai1798:Kl150).

ErnstFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Hannover (no locality mentioned).

ErnstFN: said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).

ErnstFN: said by the Moor FSL to be a nephew living in the Roth household.

Ero(?)GL, Sachsen: an unidentified place said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Hauf family.