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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KnackFN: Bonner found that their Dudelsheim marriage record said this woman who married a Scheidt man prior to their moving to Balzer was from Calbach.

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

Knapp{Valentin}FN: said by the 1816 Kassel census (#75) to be fromUC Lustnau, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg, but listed by KS:334 without origin.  Using FHL#193,207 the GCRA proved the family had been in Lemberg, Pirmasens [Amt], Rheinpfalz before going on to Russia.  See their book for more.  Sometimes spelled Knopp. 

KnappFN: said by the Keller FSL to be an orphan girl in the Hoffmann household.

KnappFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#112) and KS:334 with no origin. Using FHL#193,207, the GCRA may have found their origin in Lemberg, Pirmasens [Amt], Rheinpfalz, but a birthdate does not quite match.  See the GCRA book for a bit more.

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

KnappFN: also see Napp.

KnatzFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC Heringen, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate].  For 1786 see (Mai1798:Mv2306), and for 1798 see (Ur12, 13).

KnaubFN: said by the Kautz FSL to be fromUC Grosshausen, Darmstadt.

KnauerFN: said by KS:334 to be fromUC Gruenbach, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  The GCRA says another other record indicates his Hofer wife was born in Neudorf; see their book for detail.

Knauf FN: the Mariental FSL gives no origin for this orphan who was living in the household of a Reger family said to be fromUC Mannheim.

KnaufFN: said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC Gruenstadt, Kurpfalz.

KnausFN: Bonner proved that Eyring, later Eurich of Balzer, married and buried this wife in Duedelsheim.

KnausFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Neulise(?).

KnausFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Krelos(?), Wittenberg.

KnausFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Neplasheim(?), Wittenberg.

KnausFN:said by the Moor FSL to be from Isenburg. Bonner proved that he was baptized in Diebach, Isenburg[-Buedingen? County].  In 1798 the wife’s maiden name was given as Mueller (Mai1798:Mo20).

KnausFN:listed by the Moor FSL to be the mother both of the man in the preceding entry.  Bonner proved her to have been baptized a Hoffman in Hoechst, [Freidberg Imperial City], and to have been mother to both the man in the preceding entry and to the woman in the next entry.

KnausFN: the Buedingen ML says this Knausen woman fromUC Diebach married in 1766 a Mueller man; Stump gives her maiden name as both Knausen and Knaus (Mai&Marquardt#496).  By 1767 they were in Moor.  In 1798 her maiden name was given as Knaus (Mai1798:Mo15).  Bonner proved she was baptized in Duedelsheim and was sister to Knaus of Moor who had been baptized in Diebach.

KnausenFN: see Knaus.

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

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

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

Knedler?FN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Redenhof(?), Wuerttemberg(?).

KneissFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Kniss (Mai1798:Nr152).

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

KnetzerFN: said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC Michelfeld.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KniessFN: this family name was found recorded in Schlitz marriage records 1762-1767 and in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767;; see Flegel trip.

KnippelFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  Buedingen church records say the son of this man from Filligen, Braunfels died in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#1216a).  The 1798 Norka census gives his wife’s maiden name as Kleer? (Mai1798:Nr21).

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

Kniss: according to the Huck FSL this stepdaughter was living in a Koehler household from Isenburg.

KnissFN: said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poyjana FSL to fromUC Sinrot(?).  The Kromm version spells the place Simroth and suggests it was really Siemerode (p.133)

KnissFN: also see Kneiss and Knis.

KnittelFN: a Rosslau ML says this woman married in 1765 a Sachse man; by 1766 this couple was in Katharinenstadt; Stumpp spelled her name Keitel (Mai&Marquardt#190).

KnoblochFN: a Knobloch woman married a Reis man; they confirmed a daughter in 1763 in Mettenheim, Wartenberg before going to Russia where they were in Bauer by 1767 (Mai&Marquardt#1248).

KnoblochFN: said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Waltenberg County (no locality indicated).  The local, contemporary pastor indicated that this man had gone from Mettenheim, Wartenberg to Dietel (Mai&Marquardt#1241).  Dona Reeves-Marquardt found the birth records in Mettenheim, Wartenberg church books.

KnoblochFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Wollmar?.   According to the Buedingen ML this man married a Zulauf widow in Buedingen in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt :510)

KnoblockFN: according to the Buedingen ML this woman from Lorbach married a Gottfried man who apparently arrived in Goebel in 1767 with yet a different wife (Mai&Marquardt#431).

KnocheFN: said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC Fuerstenwalde?, Sachsen.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

KnoedlerFN: said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#52) and KS:335 to have come from Grossaspach,  Backnang [Amt], Wuerttemberg.   Using FHL#1,195,520, the GCRA proved this origin.  See their book for much more.

KnoellFN: see Gnel.

KnollFN: Herr Knoll was said by the Fischer FSL to be fromUC Linis?, Preussen; his frau was said to come from Reigenbol?, Sachsen.   I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

KnollFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC Velburg, Kurpfalz.

KnollFN: listed by both the 1858 Kassel census (#223) and KS:336 without origin. Using FHL#193,771 the GCRA proved their origin in Annweiler, Bergzabern [Amt], Rheinpfalz.  223

KnollFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Keinberg(?), Sachsen with a Koch wife fromUC Oranienbaum.

KnollFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).

KnollFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Stadt.

KnollFN: said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be a step-son living with the Alberg family which would indicate that frau Alberg was previously frau Knoll.  I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.

Knoll FN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be a mother-in-law and sister-in-law living with the Karl family.

KnopFN: see Knopp.

KnopfFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Mauerwelt(?), Fulda.

KnopfFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Grentu(?), Bamberg.

KnopfFN: also see Knopp.

Knopp/Knop/KnopfFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Tjunkoeping(?)/Tinkepin(?), Schweden.

KnoppFN: also see Knapp.

KnorrFN:  listed in the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:668, 336) without origin.  Origin in Scheppach, Weinsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg was proven by the GCRA using Waldbach parish records in FHL(1,340,203).  See the GCRA book for more details.

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

KnorrFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Reimkeln, Hesse-Darmstadt.

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

Kobeln(?)GL, Wittenberg: an unidentified place said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Reiser? family.  This might be some 21 miles NW of Dresden and some 52 miles SE of Wittenberg city.

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

Kobern(?)GL: an unidentified place said by the Holstein FSL to be homeUC to a Dangelin? family.  There is a Kobern, Rhineland-Palatinate, some 6 miles SW of Koblenz city.

KoblenzGS: a city on the Rhine some 50 miles WNW of Frankfurt-am-Main; in the 1760’s it may have been an independent Catholic city-state.  It is said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Kochum family.  Said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Wagner family.  Said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Fuchs family.

KocetnajaVV:  a variation of the Russian name for HoelzelVV.

KochFN: left Nagold, Wuerttemberg for Bessarabia in 1845.

KochFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no locality mentioned).  For later references see Mai1798: Mv279, and Fs23.

KochFN: this woman married a Kleinschmied man in 1766 in Luebeck; by 1767 this couple was in Boaro (Mai&Marquardt#1194).

KochFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Leipzig, Sachsen.  Still in Boaro in 1798 (Mai1798: Bx46).

KochFN: see Quindt of Boaro.

KochFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Kosswig.

KochFN: left Nagold, Wuerttemberg for the Caucasus in the 1817.

KochFN: said by the Dietel FSL to be fromUC Soldinin(?), Elbin(?):

KochFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Elsdorf.  In 1798 the maiden name of frau Koch was given as Kreb (Mai1798:Pb28).

KochFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Warnewalbach(?), Thueringen.

KochFN: arrived in South Russia in 1819; later settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Weiler-zum-Stein, Marbach Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.

KochFN: said by the Franzosen FSL to be the maiden name of frau Brochert.

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

KochFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC Mulfingen, Wuerzburg.

KochFN: said by the Hildman FSL to be fromUC Heiligenstadt, [Kur-]Mainz.

KochFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).Knot?

KochFN: one family is said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Nidda and by the Kromm version to be fromUC Nidda or fromUC Feuerbach [i.e. Fauerbach].  A Koch step-son in a Kles household in the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL was said to be from Darmstadt [i.e. Hessen-Darmstadt], by the Kromm version to be from Eichelsdorf, Nidda [Amt, Hessen-Darmstadt], and by the Stumpp version to be from Ulfa, home of his step-dad.

KochFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Koch woman fromUC Fauerbach married in 1766 a Goetz man; later this couple went to Jagodnaja Poljana (Mai&Marquardt#729).

KochFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Berlin. According to a Rosslau ML this Koch man married in 1766 a Proesin woman (Mai&Marquardt#970).

KochFN: listed by both the 1858 Kassel census (#229) and KS:336 without origin. Using FHL#1,272,325, item 6, the GCRA proved their origin in Berwangen, Eppingen [Amt], Baden.  See their book for more.

KochFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Arnheim, Holland.

KochFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Buchenau, Darmstadt.

KochFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Hirschfeld(?), Hessen.

KochFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Oranienbaum.

KochFN: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Gross Winterbach?, Kurpfalz.

KochFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Engelrod, Riedesel.

KochFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Wiesbaden, Nassau.

KochFN: the Buedingen ML said this woman from Lorbach married in 1766 a Nazarenus man; by 1767 the couple was in Kutter (Mai&Marquardt#577).

KochFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Alsfeld.

KochFN: said (no locality mentioned) by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Hessen-Darmstadt.

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

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

KochFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Graben. For 1798 see Mai1798:Om27, 47.

KochFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Balingen.

KochFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be an orphan girl in the Tischer household.

KochFN: according to the Buedingen ML a Koch woman from Lorbach married in 1766 a Windecker man; by 1767 this couple was in Walter (Mai&Marquardt#458).

KochFN: this family name was found recorded in Haiger parish records during the years prior to 1767, in marriage records 1762-1767 for three different places: Herborn, Kirburg, and Tann, in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767, and in Winterhausen marriage records 1760-1769; see Flegel trip.

Kochanow-bei-Gluchow, [Rawa Kreis, Warschau Dept, South Prussia]: aka Erdmannsweiler, is 10 miles W of Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland. according to the GCRA which found a Kaul family associated with it.  Gluchow was the local Catholic parish.  The nearby Lutheran parish was Ilow.

KochinFN: see Kokon.

KochstedtGL, [Anhalt-]Dessau [Principality]: is some 2 miles SW of Dessau city and said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to Krabe, Krueger and Kruemel families. place Said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Krieger family.

Kochstedt?, Wittenberg[?]:an unidentified place, said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to a Lorenz family.  The only Kochstedt which I can find was in Anhalt-Dessau Principality 32 miles NNW of Leipzig city, same as the previous entry.

KochumFN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Koblenz.

KoehlerFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality indicated).  Said by Stumpp to have gone from Offenbach, Isenburg in 1766, to Balzer.  Peter Zinnkann reporting in writing from the Buedingen Archives in 2005 told Alan Cropper of a man with the right name and age who had been born in Buedingen on 12.04.1733 to parents who had come there from the village of Calbach.

KoehlerFN: said by the KS:338 to be from Bieselberg, Calw [Amt], Wuerttemberg. The GCRA verified this origin in Bieselberg church records included among Schoemberg, Neuenbuerg [Amt], Wuerttemberg, records in FHL #1056,821 and ,823; they found that this family had lived in Bergdorf even though not listed in the official census.  See the GCRA book for detail.

KoehlerFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Senburg(?).  Spelled Keller in 1798 (Mai1798: Bx12).

KoehlerFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Zuchau.  I did not identifiy this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KoehlerFN: said by the Cheisol FSL to be fromUC Losen?, [Kur-]Trier, with Hein step-children in the household.   Spelled Kohlner in 1798 (Mai1798:Gf5).

KoehlerFN:  a Luebeck ML said this woman married in 1766 a Westingsheim man; by 1768 this couple was in Galka (Mai&Marquardt#211).

Koehler/KellerFN said by the Huck FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).

KoehlerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Boehmen (no locality mentioned).

KoehlerFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Mergburg, Hessen with a Vollmer wife fromUC Langeraltar.

KoehlerFN: Herr Koehler was said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Freiburg, Sachsen, and his frau’s maiden name was given as Friebel (no origin given).

KoehlerFN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Klein.

KoehlerFN{G.Michael}: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Reiskirchen?.   Spelled Keller in 1798 (Mai1798:Mn26);

KoehlerFN{Ludwig}: said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be fromUC Wittgenborn?.  Spelled Keller in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv1912,Sf12).

KohlerFN: three families said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Later also spelled Keller (Mai1798:Nr202).  The maiden name of one of the wives is later said to be Gruen (Mai1798:Nr77).

KoehlerFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Fulda. 

KoehlerFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Hammelburg. 

KoehlerFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Salmuenster, Fulda.  Later spelled Keller (Mai1798:Pf06).

KoehlerFN: also see Kohler.

KoehlerVV: (aka Karaulney Buyerak, Karaulnoi-Buyerak, or Karaulny-Bujerak) is a Catholic German village founded in 1767 on the western side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.II, pp. 359-383.  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 Alt Simmern, Baden: (Siebert75, and possibly Eberle75);

from Aschaffenburg: (Baumann16, Frick45, Heiss[Geiss]9, Thomae84, and possibly Heick45a, Hubert9 and Litz16);

from Binau: (Bauer71 and possibly Staud71);

from Bonn: (Weissheim90);

from Braunfels: (Walter66);

from Brueckenau: (Imherr[Emger]62);

from Brueckenau, Fulda: (Macht60, and possibly Wisgemann60);

from Danzig: (Bruhl[Prol/Brohl]22, and possibly Kujak22);

from Eger, Oesterreich: (Gareis[Goreis]6, and possibly Bernhardt6 and Wagner6a);

from Erbach: (Just24, and possibly Bettenheuser24);

from Esse?, Frankreich: (Pelletier[Bollender]47);

from Ewo?, Frankreich: (Libie92);

from Franken: (Firgeiling?95);

from Freiburg: (Brueckmann[Brickmann]74);

from Freiburg, Sachsen: (Koehler1, and possbily Friebel1);

from Fulda: (Bien[Biehn]43, Brescher59, Dietrich37, Doering19, Farger?63, Gerber[Herber]36, Gerk35, Gerstrung78, Glitsch68, Haag20, Habicht[Habig]85, Hessenhauer[Hassenhauer]41, Koenig10,12, Manz18, Mensing[Mensinger]67,76, Mohrenhaeuser94, Mueller15,51, Reut[Reid]48, Schmidt21, Schnell13, Schweitzer29, Steinbock[Steinbein/Steinbach]79, Weigand2, Weiss38, Ziegler14, and possibly Eckstein63, Ernst14, Faulstich21, Gassner76, Gerod20, Hahn67, Halbich35, Heidgardt13, Heil19, Hess36, Plock78, Otterpein[Otterbein]12, Preler37, Reiss59, Schaefer10, Seger15, Seifert[Seibert]18a, Straubach2, Voelker18, Walter79, and  Wolf85);

from Gemuenden-am-Main: (Reisch46, and possibly Kuemmel46);

from Gemuenden-am-Main, Wuerzburg: (Kirchgessner47, Klein61, and possibly Koehler61 and Schmidtlein61a);

from Geratshofen?: (Hartmann83, and possibly Burgardt83);

from Gruenau, Mainz: (Bettenhaeuser[Bettinheiser]93);

from Hammelburg, Wuerzburg: (Leinecker42, and possibly Weber42);

from Hanau: (Gruen69);

from Herbstein: (Leister32, and possibly Werz[Merz]32);

from Herbstein, Fulda: (Ruhl30,33,34, Schneider4,30,31, Trin[Trinak]3, and possibly Hein31, and Fleischer3l);

from Insburg: (Edel77);

from Kirchberg, Baden: (Leonhard[Leonardt]80, and possbily Weilinger80);

from Laubach: (Diel7);

from Liebstedt, Preussen: (Mueller27);

from Lohr: (Ulrich28, and possibly Hoffmann28);

from Mamberg?, Mainz: (Fuchs58, and possibly Demerlin58);

from Mannheim: (Pretz[Bretz]65, and possibly Roemer65);

from Miltenberg: (Helbert[Gelfert]70, and possibly Hornung70);

from Mondsee, Ungarn: (Weinzettel[Weinzetel]39, and possibly Weinbaer39);

from Mondsee?, Oesterreich: (Zag23);

from Montabauer, Trier: (Freiberger5, and Walter5);

from Mosbach: (Reigert86);

from Nidda, Darmstadt: (Rosenbach[Rosebach]52, and possibly Schiebler52);

from Olmuetz?, Oesterreich: (Lang89, and possibly Egner89);

from Orb: (Bishammer[Beisheimer]50, Imhof[Imhoff]55, and possibly Rupp50 and Seibel55);

from Picardie, Frankreich: (Lossel87);

from Posen, Polen: Weimann26);

from Rekgoberteng?, Frankreich: (Kilian72 and possibly Pichel72);

from Rumstadt?: (Rueckert[Rikert/Reichert]82) and possibly Tropp[Trapp]82;

from Salmuenster: (Bergeritz88, Huber[Hubert]53,54, Klug44, Schmidt49,56, Seipel[Seibel]49, and possibly Wahl54);

from Seligenstadt, Mainz: (Dreschsler[Drechseler]11) and possibly Wilhelmi11);

from Steinheim, Mainz: (Froschhauser[Froschhauer]81, Schilling73, and possibly Trab[Trapp]81;

from Strassburg, Frankreich: (Mathien8);

from Wertheim: (Glueck40, Hartwig[Haertwig]17, and possibly Heger40 and Heindorf17);

from Worms: (Preis25, Warle91, and possibly Hermann91);

from Wuerzburg: (Lechner64 and possibly Ganz64).

KoelleFN: listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:670) with no origin, and KS:337 incorrectly said they were fromUC Schwieberdingen, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  Using FHL(1,340,145) the GCRA proved origin in Heuchstaetten, Heidenheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg. See their book for more detail.  Also spelled Kelle.

KoellmerFN: see Coellmer.

KoellnFN: see Koeln.

KoelnFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Meimersdorf.  Later spelled Koelln.

KoelnGS, aka Cologne, this could refer either to the independent city state (called a free imperial city) from 1288 to 1794, located on the Rhine, 94 miles NW of Frankfurt-am-Main, or to a large Electorate (Kurkoeln) holding very extensive lands.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Delp and Sauerwald families.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to Hell and Weber families.  Said (no locality given) by Kuhlberg to be homeUC to the Spithof step-son of the Job family listed in the Keller FSL.  Said (no locality given) by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to the wife (no maiden name given) of Herr Weber; in the 1798 Mariental census she seems now to be Frau Diehl and her maiden name is given as Gantz (Mai1798:Mt42).

KoelnerFN: see Kelner.

KoenigFN: said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Erbach (no locality mentioned).  The Buedingen ML says that of these two men, the father was from Erbach, while the son was fromUC Walbach, Breuberg and married in 1766 a Schaefter woman fromUC Erbach (Mai&Marquardt#677).

KoenigFN: said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC Quellendorf, Dessau.  Another source also says at least one was fromUC Quellendorf (Mai&Marquardt#1103).  Spelled Koenig in 1798 (Mai1798: Mv270, Bx32,Sk30).

KoenigFN: said by the Boregard FSL to be the maiden name of frau Diethorn and the family name of a stepson in the household.

KoenigFN {Jacob}: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Holzheim.  A Luebeck ML said this man married in 1765 a Schmidt woman fromUC Kurpfalz (Mai&Marquardt#1176).

Koenig{Christian}FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Potsdam.

KoenigFN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Achenbach.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Er11 where the maiden name of his frau is given as Gruen{Catharina}.

KoenigFN: said by the Jost FSL to be fromUC Sangerhausen, Sachsen.

KoenigFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Nordhausen, Thueringen.

KoenigFN: two families said by the Koehler FSL to be fromUC Fulda (no locality given), and one frau’s maiden name was given as Schaefer while the other’s was given as Otterpein (no origin given for either).

KoenigFN: said by the Kratzke FSL to be fromUC Torgau, Sachsen.

KoenigFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Paris.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Lz19 and maybe Om64 and 76?.  In 1798 the maiden name of the wife seems to have been given as both Rutz and Mink??

KoenigFN: said by the 1798 Wittman census to be the maiden name of frau Lichtenstein (Mai1798:Wm27).  See Lichtenstein of Paulskaya.

Koenig FN said by the Roethling FSL to be fromUC Michelbach near Alzenau, Hessen.

Koenigsbach, Pforzheim [Amt], Baden: said by both the 1858 Neudorf census (#236) and KS:380 to have been homeUC  to Mueller{Jakob}.

KoenigsbachGL, [Pabianice?], South Prussia: nka Bukowice?, Poland 13 miles E of Pabianice?  The GCRA found some evidence that the Legler family that settled in Neudorf was here in 1804.  They also found it associated with Barth and Raschez/Rometsch families in 1803

KoenigsbergGL: an unidentified place said by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Gross/Grauss? and Kehlmann families. Said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to the Hartmann{Just} family.    Said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Schwarz family.  Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Schwert family.  There were at least 11 Koeinigsbergs in the Germanies.

KoenigsbergGL, Brandenburg: is about 5 miles E of Magdeburg city, and said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Bitter family.

KoenigsbergGL, Darmstadt: is some 6 miles NNE of Wetzler city, and said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Bruek family, and possibly to a Kous? family.

KoenigsbergGL, Preussen: this was Koenigsberg-im-Neumark and is now Chojna, Poland, some 53 miles NE of Berlin.  Said by the Frank FSL this was homeUC to a Dietrich family.  Said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a Glauwitz family. Said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Wikster? family.

Koenigsberg CountyGS: a small scattered country mostly to the W of Aulensdorf town.

KoenigsheimGL: an unidentified place said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to a Trautwein family.  There is such a place 8 miles NNE of Tuttlingen city in what was then Habsburgian Lands.

KoenigshofenGL: an unidentified place said by the Kamenka FSL to be homeUC to a Kessler family.  There are several places by this name in Germany.

KoenigshofenGL, Nassau[-Usingen Principality]: is some 6.5 miles NNE of Wiesbaden city, and place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Mertz family.  Said by the Keller FSL to be homeUC to a Gorgie family, and possibly a Riegelhof family.

Koenigshuld, Poland: an unidentified place which the GCRA said was NE of Warsaw and was associated with a Kammerer family in 1804.

KoenigssteinGL, Kurmainz: is Koenigstein-im-Taunus is some 12 miles NE of Mainz city.  See also Koenigstein.

KoenigsteinGL: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Eckermann family.  There are at least 4 Koenigstein in Germany.

KoenigsteinGL, Kurmainz: is Koenigstein-im-Taunus some 12 miles NE of Wiesbaden city.

KoernerFN: according to the 1798 census this was the maiden name of frau Ziegemann of Hoelzel (Mai1798:Hz9).

KoernerFN: also see Kerner and Kirner.

KoernmeierFN: said by the 1798 Mariental census to be the maiden name of Meier ofUC Hohenburg's wife (Mai1798:Mt53).

KoesslerFN: see Hesler.

KoesslinGL, Prussian Pomerania: is some 100 miles W of Gdansk, Poland; see Shodlins.

KoestrichGL, Hessen-Darmstadt: see Kestrich.

KoethenGL: an unidentified place said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Reisch family and possibly to a Deringer family. Kuhlberg said [probably mistakenly] that this was in the state of Neustadt.

KoethenGL, Stollberg: an unidentified place, said by the Doenhof FSL to be homeUC to a Schwab family.  Said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to a Beller family.

KoethenGS: This town, some 16 miles N of Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, was the seat of Anhalt-Koethen Principality.  The name Koethen usually was used as a short name for Anhalt-Koethen Principality, which see.

KoetteritzschGL, Kursachsen: see Kotteritz.

Kofent FN: said by the Boregard FSL to be fromUC Erlach, Brandenburg.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

KoffeldGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Werner family.  This may have been Kofeld some 5 miles SE of Ravensburg city, probably in Habsburgian lands.

KohlFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Basel, Schweiz.

KohlFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Mainz(no locality mentioned).

KohlFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be fromUC Utrecht.

KohlFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Kundenschburg?, Hessen-Kassel.

KohlFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, Preussen. 

KohlFN: said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be fromUC Graefenroda, [Sondershausen-Ruolstadt County?].  The maiden name of frau Kohl is given as Feder in 1798 (Mai1798:Om10).

KohlbeckFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Regensburg. 

KohlbergFN: said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC Praizio(?), Preussen.

KohlenbergFN: said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC Goettingen/Keddinggen, Hesse-Kassel.

KohlerFN: go to Koehler.

KohlmannFN: said by a Woehrd ML to have been the married name of a widow (no place of origin given) who married in 1766 a Held man fromUC Schwabach [in Ansbach Margraviate] (Mai&Marquardt#807).  By 1768 this family was in Paulskaya.

KohlmannFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Dessau (no locality mentioned).

KohlmannFN: said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC Alzey, Kurpfalz.

KohlmannFN: also see Kohlmeier and Kollmann.

KohlmerFN: according to the Bauer FSL there was a Kohlmer stepson living in the Heningers who were fromUC Michelstadt, Kurpfalz.

KohlmeierFN: said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC Heilbronn, Kurmainz.  The Rosslau ML says this Killmeyer man married a Prister woman in 1765 (Mai&Marquardt#855).

KohlmeierFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Zerbst (no locality indicated).  In 1798 the family name was spelled Kohlmann (Mai1798:Pl34).

Kohlner FN: see Koehler.

Kokon/Kochin:  said by both versions of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be the daughter of frau Stuckart by her first marriage (p. 29).  Kromm gives the alternate Kochin spelling.

KolbFN: said by the Balzer FSL to be fromUC Kurpfalz.

KolbFN: this family lived some time in Glueckstal and was said by KS:339 to be from Untergruppenbach, Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  The GCRA proved this origin using FHL 1,860,469.  See their book for detail.

KolbFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Ruesselsheim, Hessenburg(?).

KolbFN: said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC Rappoldshofen-bei-Neustadt-an-der-Aisch, Bayreuth.  A Woehrd ML says this man from Rapoldshofen bei-Neustadt-an-der-Aisch married in 1766 a Bittenberger woman fromUC Guttenstaedten; Stumpff says it was Rapoltshofen near Gaildorf in Wuerttemberg, and Gutenstetten near Neustadt (Aisch) in Wuerttemberg (Mai&Marquardt#804).

KolbFN: this family name was found recorded both in Herborn and in Kirburg marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel trip.

KolbVV: (aka Peskovatka, Peskowatka) is a Lutheran German village on the western side of the Volga.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.II, pp. 385-392.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. Verified corrections are in red.  The number with the name is their household number in the FSL:

from Alsbach, Hessen-Darmstadt: (Walter14);

from Bayreuth: (Eckart15);

from Bruchkoebel, Hanau: (Pfeifer1b);

from Duderstadt, Sachsen: (Schielrew?19);

from Duerkheim, Hessen-Darmstadt: (Walter26);

from Erbach, Falkenstein: (Bauer8);

from Gerbershein(?), Hanau: (Rein9);

from Heckeberg(?), Hanau: (Arnst27);

from Heimweiler(?), Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter(?): (Bart7, Henkel4, Schreiner23);

from Kronberg, Zweibruecken: (Wenz28, 29);

from Landsendorf, Braunfels: (Scheuermann30);

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