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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HelberFN:  said by the 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Doehring of Ober-Monjou now frau Sack (Mai1798:Sn27).

HelbertFN: said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Fulda (no locality given), and his frau’s maiden name was given as Hornung (no origin given).

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

HeldFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

HeldFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Held woman fromUC Georgenhausen married a Mey man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Holstein (Mai&Marquardt#586).

HeldFN: see Geld of Paulskaya.

Held{Herman}FN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC Hirschfeld.  In 1766 this man married a Dietrich woman in Luebeck (Mai&Marquardt#179).   Spelled Heldt in 1798, the maiden name of frau Heldt given as Tartraycher with a Trautrich orphan girl in the household (Mai1798:Pp8).

Held {Michael}FN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC Hirschfeld.  Spelled Heldt in 1798 (Mai1798:Pp4).

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

HeldFN: also see Geld and Heldt.

HeldeFN: see Golde.

HeldenbergenGL: see Friedberg.

HeldenreichFN: see Rendenreich.

HelhornFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Kutter FSL to be fromUC Isenburg.  Later spelled Gelhorn.

HeldrothFN: see Hellrut.

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

HeldtFN: also see Geld, Held, and Hilt.

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

Helenhof, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to a Wegner family.

HelfensteinFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#1) and KS:301 without origin, but another confused entry on KS:301 said they came fromUC Ehnweiler, Kusel [Amt], Rheinpfalz.  The GCRA found one reference which said one of their children had been born inUC Rewelt-bei-Zweibruecken and another which said one had been born atUC Rechweiler-bei-Zweibruecken.  So far, the GCRA has found no proof of origin; see their book for more.

Hellefelde, Orpiszewo [Amt, Posen Department, Krotschin Kreis], South Prussia: nka Jasne Pole, Poland, is 3 miles WSW of Orpiszew and 4 miles E of Krotschin, near Forsthaeus.  The GCRA found a source which says that the Wittich family that went to Bergdorf was here in 1801.  In addition they found it it associated with Maihoefer, Wetzler, and Wittich families in the first decade of the 1800s.   See theGCRA book for more on these families.

HelffertFN: see Hellferich.

Helfreichshof V: Gwen Pritzgau says that in 1766 80 German familes were to settle here and in Hirschenhof, one of the four or five non-Volga colony areas in 1765-67.

HellFN: said by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:671, 301, 276) to be fromUC Sulz, Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass.  However, using FHL(1,055,882-7), the GCRA proved origin in Moehringen, Stuttgart [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  See the GCRA book for more details.  Also spelled Gell, Gohl and Goll.

HellFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Geller.

HellFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Koeln.

HellbornGL: is some 14 miles SE of Jena city (and looks to have been in the Altenburg Duchy).  Said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Goetz family

HellbornGS: an unidentified country.  See Sulzfeld.

Hellburg?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Zinock? man.  This probably was Hellburg, Kurbrandenburg, some 40 miles SE of Schwerin city.

Helllenfels, Orpiszewo, South Prussia: aka Hellefelde?

HellerFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Kork, Darmstadt [Hanau]. 

HellerFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Bubenheim?, Kurpfalz.

HellferichFN: according to the Goebel FSL this was the maiden name of Schaefer (fromUC Margetenhaun, Fulda)’s wife.  Her name is spelled Helffert in the Buedingen ML (Mai&Marquardt#398).

HellfussFN: see Kellfuss.

Hellrut?FN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Tolarn(?), Schweden.  Later spelled Heldroth.

HellsteinGL, Henburg County: see Gelstein.

HellwigFN: see Heilig.

HelmFN: said by the Caesarsfeld FSL to be fromUC Straslund.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Helm FN: listed by both the 1858 Kassel census (#252) and KS:301 without origin.  Said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#43) and KS:301 to have come fromUC Oberhausen, Koblenz [Oberamt], Rheinpfalz.  The GCRA found sources to indicate that they in fact came fromUC Oberhausen-bei-Kirn, Kirn [Amt], Rheinpfalz, going first to Hilsbach, Krzepice Amt, South Prussia, on their way to Neudorf.  See the GCRA book for more.

Helm?FN: see Gelm or Heilm.

Helmlingen, near Buehl, Baden: is 8 miles W of Buehl town, and incorrectly said to be homeUC to Meier{Jakob} who died in Glueckstal; see the GCRA book for a bit more detail.

Helmsbach?, Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Schmelzinger family.  There is a Helmbacher some 11 miles SE of Kaiserslautern city.

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

HelmleinFN: said by the Hoelzel FSL to be fromUC Freienfels?, Bamberg [Bishopric].   Spelled Mehrlein in 1795 (Mai1798:Mv953) and in 1798 (Ps82).

Helmsgruen?GL, [Kur-]Sachsen: is some 17 miles SW of Zwickau and said by the Fischer FSL to be homeUC to a Fischer family.

Helmstedt, Braunschweig [Duchy]: is 20 miles E of Braunschweig [Brunswick] city and said by the Hildmann FSL to be homeUC to a Remisch/Romme/Romig family. Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Wagner families.

HelmutFN: see Gelmut.

HelpershainGL, Felda Gericht, Hessen-Darmstadt: is 21 miles WNW of Fulda city, and said by the Krumm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be in Ulrichstein (this surely is an error) and to be homeUC to a Rausch family.

HelskeFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Aepfelborn?, Lothringen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

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

Helwig?FN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Alzey.

HelwigFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Alsfeld.  The Buedingen Births and Deaths record says Helwig was fromUC Obern Breidenbach in the district of Romrodt (Mai&Marquardt#1218).

HelwigFN: said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  The wife’s maiden name was given as Pomersheim in 1798 (Mai1798:Mo71).  Bonner found that their Vonhausen marriage record said he was fromUC Neu Wiedermus, Isenburg[-Meerholz? County] and that she was baptized a Bomersheim in Vonhausen.

HelwigFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

HelwigFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Magdeburg (no locality mentioned).

HelzerFN: listed by the 1816 Neudorf census (#47) with no origin.  Also spelled Gelzer.

HelzerFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).  Later also spelled Hoelzer (Mai1798: Nr5).

HelzerFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

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

Hemann?FN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Denklingen.  I could not find this man in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Hemerling?FN: said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC Dresden, Sachsen.

Hemhofen, Bamberg [Bishopric]: is 15 miles SSW of Bamberg city, and was said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Frank family.

HemliminFN: according to a Rosslau ML this woman married in 1766 a Besselt man; they settled in Hoelzel (Mai&Marquardt#1023).

Hemmerich FN: this family was in Glueckstal for a time; the GCRA believes it came viaUC Torshau, Batshka, Hungary fromUC Reichmannshausen, Schweinfurt [Amt], Bavaria; see the GCRA book for detail.

Hemmingen, Leonberg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 4.5 miles N of Leonberg city, and said by the 1816 Neudorf census (#45) to have been homeUC  to a Fuchs family.

HemmingerFN: listed by KS:301 without origin but said by the 1816 Kassel census (#80) possibly to be fromUC Nagold, Wuerttemberg.  See the GCRA book for more.

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

HemrischFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Zerbst (no locality indicated). The family name was spelled Ermisch in 1798 (Mai1798:Or36).

Henburg CountyGS: The Walter Research Group thinks this may have been a mistransiteration of Hessen, but I think there is a good chance that it stood for the Henneberg County.

HenckelFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Riedesel (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Henkel.

HenckelFN: also see Henkel.

HendelFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Sachsen (no locality mentioned).

HendelFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Susshausen(?), Wuertenburg(?).

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

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

HendregFN: two families said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Zweibruecken (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Heinrich (Mai1798:Nr1, 9, 90, 154, 161, 221).

HeneckerFN: see Sachs and Vierschenk.

Heneswart?GL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to a Stecker?120, and possibly to a Bachmann family.  There is a Hunneswarf some 64 miles NW of Kiel city.

HengerFN{Georg, Julianna}: said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:662, 665, 301) to have been fromUC Kaltental, Stuttgart [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  However, KS:278 gave the origin as Bergfelden, Sulz [Amt], Wuerttemberg, which was proven by the GCRA using FHL(1,732,270), which also found that the family first went to S. Prussia and then to Bergdorf.  See the GCRA book for more details.  Also spelled Ginger, Haenger, Hinger, and Huenger.

Hengofen?GL: an unidentified place said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Ruder?/Rueder family. There is a Hennhofen some 15 miles NW of Augsburg city.

HengstFN: see Milgeig.

Hengstler FN: see Hingster.

HenickeFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be orphans living in the Schneider household.  I could not find them in the 1798 Volga censuses.

HeningFN: see Henning.

HeningerFN: said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC Michelstadt, Kurpfalz.

Henke/HinkeFN: Curt Renz has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Moehringen, Stuttgart Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

HenkeFN: also see Hinke.

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

HenkelFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Heimweiler(?), Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter(?).

HenkelFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  In 1798 the family name was spelled Hinkel and the wife’s maiden name was given as Kaiser (Mai1798:Ms77).  Bonner proved this maiden name and her baptism in Buches records.

HenkelFN: two families said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  The Buedingen ML says one of these Henckel men married in 1766 a Hosfeld woman (Mai&Marquardt#640).

HenkelFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Rohrbach, Wuerzburg.

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

Henlein?: see Genlein.

Henne?FN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC [Anhalt-]Dessau [Principality].  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

HenneFN: said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#100 and KS:302 to have come from Rohrdorf, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg; said by a.second KS:302 entry to have come from Altensteig, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using FHL#1,201,997, the GCRA proved their origin in Rohrdorf-bei-Altensteig, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  See the GCRA book for more.

HenneFN: also see Hehn.

HennebergFN: said by the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL to be fromUC Gening.

HennebergGS: an uidentified place said (no locality mentioned) by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Leinhardt family.

Henneberg CountyGS: was a County mostly in or near present-day Meiningen, Thueringin, but which held some lands in present-day Hessen.  In the 1760s it was considered part of the Saxe-Meiningen Duchy.

HennersdorfGL: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Nicks family.    There were at least 10 Hennersdorfs in the Germanies.

HennhofenGL: see Hengofen.

Hening? FN{Johannes}: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Winner?.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

Henning FN{Peter}: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Hamburg. For 1798 see Mai1798: Or26.

HenningFN: said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#117) and KS:302 to have come fromUC Metzingen, Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  The GCRA says his death record says he was bornUC in Juterbach in Sachsen, which they suggest might be Jueterbog, SW of Berlin.  See the GCRA book for more.

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

HenningerFN: see Heninger.

Hennweiler, Kirn [Amt], Rheinpfalz: is 5 miles NW of Kirn town, and was said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#44) and KS:479 to have been homeUC  to Weinz{Johannes} family.

HenrichFN see Heinrich.

HenrichsFN: see Heinrich.

HenschFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Anhalt-Zerbst (no locality mentioned).

HenschFN: also see Gensch.

HenseFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Eutin.

HenselFN: said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC Kabbel, Daenemark.

HenselFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Gitting?, Pfalz-Neuburg[Duchy].  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

Hensler/HensslerFN: arrived in South Russia in 1819 and later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Pfuellingen, Reutlingen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

HensseFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Genze (Mai1798: Mv320).  Just before leaving for Russia they were called Hentze, the husband said to have been fromUC Naundorf, Dessau, but originally fromUC Saxony and the wife said to be fromUC Hindsdorf, Saxony (Mai&Marquardt#1085).

HensslerFN: see Hensler.

HentzeFN:  according to a Rosslau ML this woman (no origin given) married in 1766 a Kirchner man; by 1767 the couple was in Jost (Mai&Marquardt#925).

HentzeFN: also see Hensse.

HepbergGL: see Geperkh.

HepfnerFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Zwickau, Sachsen.

HeppFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.

HeppFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Gelnhausen, Hessen (no locality mentioned).  This family evidently was known in Russia as Hess.

HeppFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Ems.

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

HeppenheimGL, Mainz: an unidentified place said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC to a Geld/Held? family.  This is likely Heppenheim-an-der-Bergstrasse, Hesse, was in the 1760’s part of Kurmainz, and is some 13 miles NE of Mannheim and some 30 miles SE of Mainz city.

Heppenheim-an-der-BergstrasseGL, Hesse: see Heppenheim, Mainz (or Kurmainz).

Heppenheim OberamtGL, Kurmainz: is the district containing the town of Heppenheim and the surrounding villages and is said by the Anton FSL to be homeUC to a Keil family.

HepperleFN: in 1820 settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Oberstenfeld, Ludwigsburg parish, Wuerttemberg.  Stumpp, p.599, said the locality was Grossbottwar, not Oberstenfeld.

HeppnerFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Windheim?.    Spelled Huebner in 1798 (Mai1798:Sn22) and Hoepfner in 1786 (Mv2073).

HerbelFN: said by the Pleve version of the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Hessen.

HerbelFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Bechlingen, Braunfels.

HerberFN: by the time of the Herzog FSL the widow Herber, said to be fromUC Gruensfeld, Wuerzburg, had married Gerstner bringing her Herber son with her.  Later this name was spelled Herr (Mai1798:Hr23).

HerberFN: said by the Schlitz ML to be fromUCNeuengronau in the baronial district of Duengen”, marrying a Schmidt girl fromUCElm in the district of Brandenstein” on 22 July 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#732).  If this family settled in either Nieder Monjou (from which an apparent widow moved prior to 1798) or Schaefer (to which she moved), this name may later have been spelled Herbert (Mai&Marquartnote724 [Sh21 there is a misprint for Sf21 – rak]).

HerberFN:  also see Gerber.

HerbertFN: the Rosslau ML says this woman married a Ruebsame man in 1765; by 1766 this couple was in Graf (Mai&Marquardt#863).  The Graf FSL says the wife was fromUC Schoenburg.

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

HerbertFN: also see Herber.

HerbionFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Bitsch, Lothringen.

HerbornGL, Hessen: is some 42 miles NNW of Frankfurt-am-Main, some 3 miles S of Dillenburg town, and in the 1760s was part of Nassau-Dillenburg County.  In 1972 the Flegels found mention of the following families in 1762-67 Herborn church marriage records: Amdt, Bauman, Bender, Benner, Bernhardt, Clauss, Ebert, Eisenkramer, Frank, Frey, Fuhrman, Gorlingshausen, Gueenther, Gunther, Haller, Hartmann, Haubach, Heuser, Hild, Hoffman, Jaeger, Jung, Kiegelmann, Hoch, Kolb, Kraft, Kuntz, Lang, Metzler, Morgenstern, Moritz, Mueller, Muller, Nicodemus, Niess, Offman, Paul, Petri, Piscator, Pistor, Relch, Reichardt, Reuter, Schaab, Schaaf, Scheldt, Schmidt, Schneider, Schreiner, Schuhmann, Schultz, Schumann, Schwartz, Seibel, Stuhl, Theis, Walther, Weber, Weidenbach, Weller, Weyel, and Wilhelm.  These families were from such places as Amdorf, Braunfelz, Herborn, and Hobach.  Amdorf and Hobach were small villages to the Wof Herborn.  Braunfels was Nassau-Braunfels County to the S of Herborn.

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

HerbstFN:  according to a Rosslau ML this woman (no origin given) married in 1766 a Krauswald(t)  man; by 1767 the couple was in Jost (Mai&Marquardt#989).

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

HerbsteinGL: said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC to a Schwing woman who in 1766 married a Weidhardt man; by 1767 this couple was in Karasnoyar; Stumpp said her family name was Schwinning and that this place was near Oberhessen in Buedingen (Mai&Marquardt#597).  Said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to a Leister family, and possibly to a Werz family.  This is surely the same place as the following entry.

HerbsteinGL, Fulda: is some 14 miles W of Fulda city, and said by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to Ruhl, Schneider, and Trin families, and possibly Fleischer and  Hein families.

HerbsthausenGL: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Doehlinger family.

Herchenau/HorgenauGL: is some 13 miles SW of Schlitz city and was in the Riedesel Barony.  HerchenauGL: Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to Winterholder families.  Schulze says the place is now known as Hoerganau  (Mai&Marquardt#745).  See Schlitz.

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

HercherFN: see Herr.

HerdFN: see Herdt.

Herdorf:GL: said by the Mueller FSL to be homeUC to an Edelbach family.  There is a Herdorf in the Westerwald some 15 miles W of Dillenburg.

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

HerdtFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Pawlagau(?), Hanau.

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

HerdtFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Hardt and one of the wives’ maiden name was given as Goebel (Mai1798:Ms11,22).  Bonner proved the maiden name of another wife as Meissinger from Aulendiebach.

HerdtFN: said by the Moor FSL to be from Isenburg. The Buedingen ML says this man from Offenbach married a Zipp woman also fromUC Offenbach in 1766; Stumpp also uses a Herd spelling (Mai&Marquardt#473).  Bonner proved Herdt was baptized in Offenbach, Isenburg[-Birstein Principality].

Herdt FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be the maiden name of frau Felsing who was from .

HerdtFN: also see Hardt.

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

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

HereleinFN: see Harlon.

HerfurthFN: see Herrfort.

Hergaz(?)GL, was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Fulda and was homeUC to a Rossmann family.

HergenborteGL: see Hasselborn.

HergenheinFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Hargenhein and the wife’s maiden name was given as Dietrich (Mai1798:Ms36).

HergenraederFN: the Seewald FSL gives some evidence that one such family might have been fromUC Schwalbach, Nassau.

HergenraederFN also see Hergenroether.

HergenrederFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  I cannot find them in the index to the 1798 censuses.

HergenroederFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Raubach, Isenburg.

Hergenroether/HergenraederFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned

HergerFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Zenbar(?), Elsass.  Later spelled Gerger.

HergertFN: said by the Doenhof FSL to be fromUC Zweibruecken (no locality mentioned).

HergertFN: said by the Stumpp version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Erbach and from Niederseemen.  Said by the Pleve version to be from Niederseemen, which Kromm explains was in the Gedern Amt of Stollberg County near Nidda.  The Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL says the wife of Lahnert was a sister (p.30).

HergertFN: the Kutter FSL shows a Hergert orphan living in the Weigand household, the head of which is listed as coming from Isenburg.

HergertFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Hellborn. The family name was spelled Hergert in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2139,Or54).

HergertFN: see also Gerkhered.

Herget FN: see Hergert.

HergheimGL: see Friedberg.

Hering/Gehring/Goering?FN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Schwaben (no locality mentioned) and to have married the widow Donne.

HeringFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#63) and KS:275, 289, and 303 with no origin.  Using FHL#1,190,227, the GCRA proved their origin in Taebingen, Sulz [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  See the GCRA book for more.  Also spelled Gering, Haering, and, correctly, Goehring.

HeringFN: also see Haring.

Heringen, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: is 13 miles E of Bad Hersfeld, and was said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to Knatz, Sommer, and Wagner families.  Kuhlberg said this was in Hessen.

HeritzdorfFN: see Geritzdorf.

HerlFN: see Heberlin.

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

HermannFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Sachsen (no locality mentioned) and to have married in Oranienbaum, a Kramer woman.

HermannFN: said by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:659, 303) to have been fromUC Bieselsberg, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  However, the GCRA has proven this family was from Nellingsheim, Rottenburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg, and established his wife’s maiden name as Daub or Daublin. see their book for details.   Also spelled Herrmann.

HermannFN: said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC Weitersburg, Kurpfalz with a Schaefer? step-son in the household.

HermanFN: according to the Buedingen ML, a Herman woman fromUC Goetzenhain married in 1766 a Weisbinder man; by 1767 this couple was in Grimm (Mai&Marquardt#657).

HermannFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC Homberg-an-der-Ohm, Darmstadt.  Later spelled Herrmann (Mai1798:Gf17).

HermannFN: said by the Hoelzel FSL to be fromUC Stetten?, Kurpfalz with a Fort stepson in the household.  Spelled Herrmann in 1798 (Mai1798:Hz33).

Hermann FN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Warle.

HermannFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Appenrod, DarmstadtHerrmann

HermannFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Krumbach, Darmstadt.  In 1798 spelled (Mai1798:Lb9).

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

HermannFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Bitsch, Lothringen.  Later spelled Herrmann (Mai1798:Mt8,11,36,38).

HermannFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Luxembourg.  The name was later spelled Herrmann (Mai1798:Mt42,74).

HermannFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Kulm.

HermannFN: there is some evidence in the Rothammel FSL that one such family might be fromUC Hofheim, Worms. 

HermaringenGL, Heidenheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 7 miles SW of Heidenheim city and GCRA suggests may have been home to the Geigle family that went to Bergdorf.

HermersbergGL, Pirmasens [Amt], Pfalz: is some 8.5 miles N of Pirmasens city, and was proven by GCRA to be home to the Oster family that went to Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more details.

HernerFN: see Horner.

Hernthaller  Spelled Herrenstahler in 1798 when the maiden name of frau Herrenstahler was given as Bucholtz (Mai1798:Sn30).

HeroldFN: the Buedingen ML says this woman fromUC Burg Sinn married a Gosmann man (wife #1?) in 1766; by 1767 the man was in Goebel [with a younger wife] (Mai&Marquardt#519).

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

Herr{Georg}FN:  said listed both in Bergdorf 1816 census (#1), in Kassel 1816 census (#49) and twice in KS:303, without origin.  His origin in Ingolsheim, Sulz [Amt], Elsass was proven by the GCRA using FHL(721,154).  See the GCRA book for more.

Herr?FN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned

Herr?FN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz (no locality mentioned).

HerrFN: in 1798 maiden name of the wife of the Schoenberger man who first settled in Louis is given as Herr (Mai1798:Hr28). According to a Rosslau ML he had married a Lick woman in 1765 (Mai&Marquardt:843).

HerrFN: said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned). In 1798 the family name was spelled Geier and the wife’s maiden name was given as Berger (Mai1798:Ms4,Mv1714).

HerrFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Hessen (no locality mentioned).

HerrFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Mecklenburg (no locality mentioned).

HerrFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Orb, Mainz.

HerrFN: also see Derr and Herber.

HerrbrassGS: an unidentified country; see Schilbor.

Herrenberg [Amt] GL, Wuerttemberg: is some 20 miles SW of Stuttgart city, and was a District administrative center.

HerrenstahlerFN: see Hernthaller.

Herrfort?FN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Tiben(?), Sachsen.  According to a Rosslau ML this Herfurth man married a Kleinmuth woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#944).  Spelled Herrfort in 1798 (Mai1798: Mv314, Or24, Bx08?).

HerrhausenFN: see Gerhauser

HerrleinFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Genkingen, Siekingen.

HerrlingerFN: see Gerlinger.

HerrmannFN: in 1817 settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Erpfingen, Reutlingen parish, Wuerttemberg.  Stumpp, p.599, said the locality was Willmandingen, not Erpfingen.

Herrmann{Michael}FN: both the 1816 Kassel census (#26) and KS:304 said this family came from Freckenfeld, Germersheim [Amt], Rheinpfalz. Using FHL#247,602 the GCRA proved this origin.  The entry in KS:304 that gives an Elsass origin seems in error.  See the GCRA book for more.

HerrmannFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Elbersdorf.

HerrmanFN: the Buedingen ML  says this woman of of Usingen in 1766 married a Strack man; by 1767 this couple was in Pfeiffer (Mai&Marquardt:634).  

HerrmannFN: no place of origin is given for this orphan in the Pfeiffer FSL but he is living in the household of a Strang family fromUC Hannover. 

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

HerrmannFN: also see Hermann.

HerrnhaagGL, Isenburg: is some 2 miles SW of Buedingen town.  The Walter Research Group has confirmed in parish records that a Windecker family that went to Walter came from Herrnhaag, Isenburg (now Hessen).  See Erenga.

HerrwaldFN: see Gerward and Hahn.

HerrwardFN: see Gerward.

HerrwigFN see Herwig.

HerschFN: see Hirsch.

HersfeldGL: also see Hirschfeld.

Hersfeld PrincipalityGS, Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate: an ancient County which came under the control of Hessen-Kassel in 1648.  It was seated in the city now called Bad Hersfeld, some 22 miles N of Fulda. Its lands surrounding its city but the bulk of those lands lay to the W of its city.

HersteinFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  For later see Mai1798:Kk9.

HertFN: see Hardt and Hort.

HertelFN: said by the Kukkus FSL to be fromUC Soerth(?), Baden-Durlach.

HertelFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be fromUC Auerbach, Pfalz.

HertelFN: also see Hertle.

HerterFN: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Malchin.  For 1798 see Mai1798: Nm16.

HertleFN:  listed in the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:661, 292, 356) without origin.  Origin in Zaisenhausen, Sinsheim [Amt], Baden was proven by the GCRA using FHL(193,976).  See the GCRA book for more details.  Also spelled Hartle and Haerdle.

HertleFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:676, 677, 301, 304) with no origin.  Using FHL(193,771), the GCRA proved origin in Annsweiler, Bergzabern [Amt], Pfalz, and using FHL(400,459) they proved that this family was later in Waldhambach, Bergzabern [Amt], Pfalz before leaving for Russia.   See the GCRA book for more details.  Also spelled Hartle and Hertel.

HertleFN: also see Hartle.

Hertling  Spelled Gertling in 1778 (Mai1798:Mv2045).

Hertmannsweiller, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 6 miles NE of Waiblingen city.

HertnerFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Schoenberg.    Kuhlberg spelled the family name Gaertner.

HertzheimGL, Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Volmer FSL to be homeUC to a Lang family.

HerwigFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Mainz.  Spelled Herrwig in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv1867).

Herwig/GervigFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Bischtu…(?)GL/Bischt(?).

Herxheim-am-BergGL, Kurpp