LaaberFN:
said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Damice, Osesterrich.
Later spelled Labere and Labert (Mai1798:Gf9).
LaasFN:
see Lass.
LaasGL, Sachsen: is some 32 miles E of Leipzig, Saxony, and said by the Boaro
FSL to be homeUC to a Merk
family.
LabereFN:
see LaaberFN.
LabertFN:
see LaaberFN.
LabiszynGL,
Szubin [Kreis], Prussia:
8 miles SE of Szubin and 12 miles SSW of Bromberg,
Prussia.
Said by KS:368 to have
been (1785) homeUC to the Mauch{Christian} who went to Kassel.
Labor,
Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Barat family.
LachFN:
see Loch.
Lachen,
Kurbayern: is 25 miles SW of Muchich city centre, and was said by
the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC
to a Greich? family and possibly
to Schmidt step-children.
LachertFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Mannheim, Kurpfalz.
According to the Wohrd ML this man from Manheim
married in 1766 a Schnabel woman
(Mai&Marquardt#787). I could
not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
LackendorffGL,
Danzig Amt: is now Solnica,
Poland, and was some 4 miles SE of Tiegenhoff city.
Said by the Rosenort FSL
to be homeUC to a Tiessen/Thiessen
{Peter} family. Also spelled Lakendorf.
LackendorffGL,
Elbing Amt: Said by the Tiege
FSL to be homeUC to a
Fast family. Same place as
the preceding entry.
LackmannFN:
see Lakmann.
Lackot?GL,
Dafin?: an unidentified place
said by the Brabander FSL to be
homeUC to a Boullion
family.
LadenburgGL:
an unidentified place said by the Mariental
FSL to be homeUC to a Kantitlin
family.
LadenbergGL,
Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Schuck
FSL to be homeUC to a Bauer
family. This may be Ladenberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, some 27 miles S of Darmstadt city.
LadenburgGL,
Kurfalz: an unidentified place said by the Mariental
FSL to be homeUC to a Erlenbach
family.
LadnerFN:
said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC
Ischenroth?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt[?] with
the single Wenzel brother of the Wenzel
wife in one of the two households. According
to the Buedingen ML marriages in 1766 included one Latmer brother married a Christ
woman (Mai&Marquardt#401) and
one Lattmer brother marriage a Wentzel
woman (#407). In 1798, for {J.Peter}
see Mai1798:Gk20, and for {Konrad}
see Gk51 and Sb22.
Ladner
FN: also see Lotner.
Ladonerbach(?)GL,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place
said by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC
to Berger and Deshtein/Destein? families.
LaechlerFN:
see Laesler.
LaeherFN:
see Lecher.
LaehrFN:
see Lehr.
LaemleinFN:
listed by the 1816 Kassel census
(#71) without origin. Not
treated in the GCRA book.
LaemmerhirtFN:
this family name was found recorded in Tann
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel
trip.
LaemmleFN:
said by the Bergdorf 1816 census
(KS:660, 351) to have been Bahnbruecken,
Bruchsal [Amt], Baden.
This origin was verified by the GCRA
using FHL(1,238,477-8). See
their book for more detail.
LaemmleFN:
Curt Renz
has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Winnenden, Waiblingen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.
Stumpp, p.523, says they arrived in Russia in 1827.
LaerGL:
see Leer.
LaeslerFN:
said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:672, 351) to be from Asperg,
Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using FHL(1,056,991), the
GCRA verified this origin.
See the GCRA book for more
details.
Also spelled Laechler and Laessle.
LaessleFN:
see Laesler.
LaetterleFN:
said by KS:351 to have leftUC
Hohenstein, Besigheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg
forUC Glueckstal; the GCRA found no evidence of this family in the Glueckstal colonies;
see their book.
LageGL/GS:
an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Ordnung
family. There are several Lage
in Germany.
LaglerFN:
see Legler.
Lagnitz?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC to a Baschka/Pashka
family, and possibly to their Mattis
step-son. This place probably
was in Kursachsen, some 23 miles
SW of Leipzig city.
LahnertFN:
said by the Stumpp and Pleve versions of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be fromUC Erbach
(now in the state of Hessen).
The Kromm version says frau Lahnert
was a Hergert and says Lahnert
may have been fromUC either Erbach
or Offenbach.
LahnsteinGL,
Nassau: an unidentified place said by the Diel
family chart to be homeUC to two Diel
families and by the Simon family
chart to be homeUC to a Rudolph
family, all three families that settled in Straub.
There was a Lahnstein some 7 miles W of Nassau
town but it was then in none of the Nassau states, but rather was in Kurmainz.
Laibaroes,
Bamberg [Bishopric]: is
10 miles E of Bamberg city, and
was said by the Leitsinger FSL to
be homeUC to a Herbst
family.
Laibstadt?GL,
Nuernberg: is some 24 miles SSE
of Nuernberg city and must have been in a very tiny isolated Nuernbergen
territory. Said by the Lauwe
FSL to be homeUC to a Heckel
family.
LaierFN:
said by KS:219 to have come from Kirchberg,
Backnang [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Also spelled Layher.
Using FHL#1,187,173, the
GCRA proved origin in Kirchberg,
Marbach [Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
See the GCRA book for
more.
LaisFN, see Leis.
LaisaGL, Frankenberg Amt, [Hessen-Kassel]: is 9.5 miles SW of Frankenberg
town, and said by the Auerebach
index to be home to the frau Beckel
[who went to Walter].
Laitenberger:
listed in the Bergdorf census
with no origin, but origin in Neckarwesthiem
[formerly Kaltenwesten], Heilbronn
[Amt], Wuerttemberg proved
by the GCRA, using FHL
1,184,925. See their book for
detail. Also spelled Leitenberger.
Lakendorf
GL: see Lackendorff.
LakmannFN:
said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel
FSL to be fromUC Elmen(?),
Hannover.
Later spelled Lackmann and Lockmann.
At least some descendants believe that this family was of Jewish
origin having converted to Christianity.
Lalb[?]FN:
listed in the Pobochnaya FSL so
may have been from Darmstadt
state.
LamackFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Luettich.
LambFN:
see Lamp.
LambelFN:
see Lampel.
LambertFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Bensheim, Bergstrasse, Kurmainz.
For 1798 see Mai1798:Bn63.
Lambert
FN: said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be fromUC Fenn.
I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.
LambrechtFN:
said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be
fromUC Arnstein.
Kuhlberg gives the state as Wuerzburg.
Lambsheim(?)GL,
Darmstadt: Said by the Boaro
FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller
family. If Lambsheim is correct,
Darmstadt is not, and this is the same place as the next entry.
Lambsheim,
Kurpfalz: is 8 miles WNW of Mannheim
city center, and said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Seitz
family.
Lamm
FN: said by the Ernestinendorf
FSL to be fromUC Burg
Gemuenden, [Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate]. For 1769 see Mai1798:Mv556.
LammFN:
two families said by the Norka
FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no
locality mentioned). The maiden
name of one of the wives is later said to be Schaat
(Mai1798:Nr214).
LammFN:
listed in the Pobochnaya FSL so
may have been from Darmstadt
state.
LammerFN:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
fromUC Einbach.
Spelled Limmer in 1786 (Mai1798:Mv2079).
LampFN:
said by the Dinkel FSL to be fromUC
Rieben, Brandenburg.
Later may have been spelled Lamb.
LampeFN:
said by the Merkel FSL to be fromUC
Hamburg.
LampeFN:
said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be
a step-son living with the Fischer
family which would indicate that frau Fischer
was previously frau Lampe. The
family name was spelled Lempe in
1798 (Mai1798:Mv2169).
LampelFN:
said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC
Bruck, Erlangen. In 1798 the
family name was given as Lambel (Mai1798:Mo54,Jo30).
According to a Woehrd ML this man fromUC Bruck married in 1766 a Voitling
woman also fromUC Bruck
(Mai&Marquardt#790).
LamperhelmGL:
an unidentified place said by the Schuck
FSL to be homeUC to Gruenewald
family. Might this be Lampertheim?
LampertheimGL
is in Hesse some 5.6 miles SE of Worms.
Said by the Rothammel FSL to be homeUC to a Stork family. Said by
the Seewald FSL to be homeUC
to a Berg family.
See also Lambsheim.
Landau-in-der-PfalzGL:
is some 16 miles SW of Speyer,
Rhineland-Palatinate. This
place was the seat of the following Amt.
Landau
[Amt]GL, Rheinpfalz:
is at Landau-in-der-Pfalz some 18 miles NW of Karlsruhe
city and was a District administrative center.
The GCRA found an
indication that this area may have been homeUC to the Schatz
man who settled in Kassel.
LandaukGL,
Frants: said by the Walter
FSL to be homeUC to a Wittenberger
family. Identified by the Walter Research Project as Landau-in-der-Pfalz.
LandenbergerFN:
listed by the 1816 Neudorf census
(#90, 92) without origin and mistakenly said by KS:352
to be fromUC Neuweiler,
Boeblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg. Using
FHL#717,097, the
GCRA proved their origin in Hunspach,
Sulz [Amt], Elsass.
See the GCRA book for
more.
LandsbergGL:
an unidentified place said by the Belowescher
Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to a Bethke/Bethge?
family.
LandsbergerFN:
listed by the 1816 Glueckstal census (KS:671,
352) as frau Schrieber without
origin; but the GCRA believes her
to be fromUC Kirchheim-am-Neckar, Heilbronn
or Besigheim [Amt], [Ludwigsburg Oberamt],
Wuerttemberg, using FHL
1,189,099; see their book for detail.
LandsendorfGL,
Braunfels: an unidentified place said by the Kolb
FSL to be homeUC to a
Scheuermann family.
LangFN{Georg
Adam}: this family settled in Bergdorf and moved very soon to Glueckstal. KS:352
said they were from Altbach,
Esslingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
The GCRA verified this
origin using FHL
1,056,991.
LangFN{Johann
Fried.}: his widow is listed in
the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:665,
352) without origin. The GCRA
has proven they came from Neuhausen-ob-Eck,
Tuttlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg;
see their book for detail.
LangFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Branzel?, Sachsen. For 1798 see Mai1798:Bn47,
55).
LangFN:
Herr Lang was said by the Fischer
FSL to be fromUC Filis?,
Polen; his frau was said to come fromUC Preussen
but not to have been born there.
LangFN:
a Lang woman from Laubach married
a Bastron man – the couple was in Frank by 1767.
LangFN{Jakob
Fried.}: said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (KS:670, 673, 352) to be
from Endersbach, Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using FHL(1,056,991), the
GCRA verified this origin.
See the GCRA book for more
details.
LangFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL to be
fromUC Reichenbach, Bamberg [Bishopric].
According to a Rosslau ML this man married in 1766 a Hehnlein woman (Mai&Marquardt#1024).
For 1798 see Mai1798:Ps56).
LangFN:
said by the Hildmann FSL to be
fromUC Neuburg-an-der-Ohm.
Lang{Elizabeth}FN:
a widow said by the Kano FSL to
be fromUC Halle. For
1798 see Mai1798:Zg04.
Lang{Friedrich}FN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Hannover [i.e. Kurbraunschweig] (no locality mentioned).
For 1798 see Mai1798:Kn06 which gives the wife’s maiden name as Stoll.
Lang{Andreas)FN:
listed by both the 1816 Kassel
census (#39, 70) and KS:352
without origin. Using FHL#1,184,602
the GCRA
proved origin in Ochsenbach, Brackenheim
[Amt], Wuerttemberg.
See their book for more.
Lang{Christoph}:
KS:352 listed him without origin, but the 1816 Kassel census (#88) mistakenly said this family came fromUC
Dornhan, Horb[Amt], Wuerttembeg.
The GCRA did not find them in the Dornhan
records; see their book for more.
Lang{David}95,
208, 215, {Paul}91, 208, 215) FN: listed by the 1816 Kassel
census (#95, 91) wihout origin, but KS:352
said they came fromUC
Polen (no locality indicated). The
GCRA found claims that Paul had
been born in Algruen, Prussia,
and that various of their children had been born in Prussia:
in Schetschilnik; and others in Poland:
in Geschorki, Koloschgef, and Kuschedole – all unidentifed villages.
See the GCRA book for
more.
Lang{Friedrich}FN:
listed by the 1858 Kassel census
(#233) without origin. The GCRA thinks this might be the man mentioned in KS:352 as being fromUC Neipperg, Brackenheim [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. See their
book for more.
Lang{J.Erdmann}FN:
listed by the 1816 Kassel census
(#40) without origin. The GCRA suggests that he might be the son of Lang{Andreas} but found no documentation.
See their book for more.
LangFN:
Herr Lang was said by the Koehler
FSL to be fromUC Olmuetz?,
Oesterreich, and his frau’s maiden name was given as Egner
(no origin given).
LangFN:
said by the Leichtling FSL to be
fromUC Seligenstadt (no
locality mentioned).
LangFN:
according to the Buedingen ML a Lang woman, no origin given, married in 1766 a Kaemmerer man; later this couple went to Leichtling (Mai&Marquardt#411).
LangFN:
said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC
Algesheim, Kurmainz.
LangFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned),
and a Meisinger orphan is living
in the household. Bonner
proved the maiden name of this wife as Meissinger, who like her orphaned brother was from Aulendiebach.
LangFN:
said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC
Hertzheim, Kurmainz.
Lang,
GerhardRN:
has spent years tracking German settlers
through Denmark into Russia.
His research shows that the
Doenhof Leglers stopped in Havetoft, and
Flensburg, Schleswig Holstein in
the early 1760s before going on to Russia.
LangFN:
this family name was found recorded in Herborn
marriage records 1762-1767, and in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
LangFN:
also see Lange.
LangdGL:
is 4 miles NE of Nidda and 14
miles SE of Giessen, Hessen, and
said by the Buedingen ML to be
homeUC to the Gruen
woman who married in 1766 a Franck
man; later the couple went to Roethling;
Stumpp says it is near Giessen (Mai&Marquardt#720).
Langdorf?,
Lothringen: an unidentifed place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to an Allerborn/Ahlerborn
family.
LangeFN:
according to the Doenhof FSL he
was a step-son in a Kestle
household from Wuerttemberg (no
locality mentioned).
LangeFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Nieder-Ramstadt,
Darmstadt.
LangeFN:
his wife is said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC Westfalen
(no locality mentioned).
LangeFN:
said by the Kratzke FSL to be
fromUC Kiel, Holstein.
LangeFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Salzberg.
In 1798 the family name was spelled Lang
(Mai1798:Zg4,29).
Lange?,
Kurtrier: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Dink family.
Langebach?FN:
said by the 1798 census to be the maiden name of frau Buechner
of Dehler (Mai1798:Dl11).
Langebranich(?)GL,
was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Erbach
and was homeUC to a Hoffmann
family.
There is a Lauerbach just S of the city of Erbach.
LangenGL,
is some 8 miles N of Darmstadt
city and said by the Frank FSL to
be in the state of Hessen-Darmstadt
and homeUC to a Hof family.
It is also some 8 miles SW of Offenbach,
and is said by the Roethling
FSL to be in the Offenbach region
of Hessen and to be homeUC
to a Grein family.
Said by the Mueller FSL to be homeUC to a Both family; Kuhlberg gives the state as Darmstadt.
Langenalb,
Baden-Durlach: is 11 miles SE of Karlsruhe city, and was said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC to Dalinger/Dahlinger {Christoph}
and {Maria} families. Using
a report from the Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat, Landeskirchliches Archiv,
abstracting from Langenalb church
records, Dick Kraus proved this origin: the widow Maria (nee Wackenhut)
had married her Dalinger husband
in 1735 in Langenalb – the
record provides birthdates for both bride and groom and the names of each of
their fathers.
LangenbachGL,
Isenburg: an unidentified place said by the Kolb
FSL to be homeUC to a
Mai family. Isenburg surely
is a mistake and this place must actually be the next entry.
Langenbach,
[Nassau-Usingen Principality]: said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Graf{Heinrich} family. Said
by Kuhlberg to be in Nassau.
LangenbrandGL,
Bieselberg [parish], Calw [Amt],
Wuerttemberg: the GCRA
thinks this the most likely origin of the Raschez/Rometsch/Rumetz family that went, probably via South Prussia, to Kassel.
LangendorfGL:
an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Fleischmann
family. There are 9 places of
this name in Germany and 5 in Poland and the Czech Republic.
LangendorfGL,
Wuerzburg [Bishopric]: is 13 miles NW of Schweinfurt
city, and said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Glitsch
family.
LangenfeldGL:
an unidentified place said by the Graf
FSL to be homeUC to Stollmann’s
wife. There were many such place
names in the Germanies.
LangenhainGL,
Darmstadt: is about 15 miles due
N of Frankfurt-am-Main city center, and said by the Laub FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt family.
LangenkandelGL:
is Kandel.
LangenprozeltenGL,
Gelnhausen/Gemuenden (Main), Hessen is now in Bavaria
some 23 miles SE of Gelnhausen,
Hessen, and 2 miles E of Gemuenden,
Bavaria, and is said by the Roethling
FSL to be homeUC to Ellang
and Gobert/Gobel families.
LangenprozeltenGL,
Kurmainz: is said by the Roethling
FSL to be homeUC to a Rebart
family This surely is the same
place as the preceding entry … the area being within Kurmainz
in those days.
LangensalzGL,
Tomsk: an unidentified place said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be near Hamburg
and to be homeUC to a Schumacher
man who came here later than the first settlers (p.35).
LangensalzaGL,
[Kur-]Sachsen:
is now Bad Langensalza, Thueringen, some 56 miles NE of Fulda,
Hessen, and 19 miles NW of Erfurt.
Said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC
to a Hagen family.
Said by the Kolb FSL to be homeUC to a Reuber family. The Buedingen
ML says this Reiber man married
in 1766 a Ringel woman (Mai&Marquardt#371); however he shows up in Kolb in 1767 with a Roth
wife.
LangensalzbergGL,
Isenburg: an unidentified place said by the Kolb
FSL to be homeUC to Thiel
families.
LangenschwartzGL:
is some 16 miles ESE of Alsfeld,
and said by the Buedingen ML to
have been homeUC to both a Ruhl
man and his Lutz bride who may
have gone to Kraft (Mai&Marquardt#648). :
Said by the Buedingen ML to be
home to a Bapst man who married a
Schneider woman in 1766; by 1767
this couple was in Krasnoyar;
Stumpp says that Langenschwarz is near Huenfeld,
Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#645).
Said by the Buedingen ML to be home to a Schaeffer
woman who married a Peter man
in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Walter
(Mai&Marquardt#690).
LangenschwarzGL,
Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter:
is some 11 miles NNW of Fulda
city, and said by the Walter FSL
to be homeUC to Ils, Schaefer and Schissler
families. Same place as the
prior entry.
Langenstadt?GL,
Nuernberg: said by the Lauwe
FSL to be homeUC to a Weiss
family. There is a Langenstadt
some 5 miles S of Kulmbach city,
but it lay in territory that surely belonged either to Bayreuth Margraviate
or the Thurnau barony, not to Nuernberg Imperial City.
LangensteinGL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to a Rickes?
family. There were at least 4
Langenstein in the Germanies.
LangensteinGL,
Sachsen: is some 3 miles SW of Halberstadt,
Sachsen-Anhalt, said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to a Meder
family.
LangensteinbachGL,
Karlsruhe [Amt], Baden: is some 7.5
miles SE of Karlsruhe city and
based on FHL(1,189,472) the GCRA
believes that this was homeUC to the Brandner
family that went to Glueckstal.
See their book for more information.
LangensulzbachGL,
Weissenburg Kreis, Elsass: is now called Langensoultzbach, is some 10
miles SW of Wissembourg, Alsace, France, and was home to
an Eider family that settled in
Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.
Langeraltar(?):an
unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Vollmer
family. This might be either
Langenargen, Baden-Wuerttemberg
(18 miles SE of Konstanz), or
perhaps Langensalza, Thuengen.
LanggoensGL,
[Hessen-Darmstadt]: is some 6
miles S of Geiessen city, and was the home of the Wagner
man who settled in Frank, and to
his ancestors back to 1620 as well.
LangheimGL,
Ansbach: an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Riedel
family.
LanghoferFN:
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be
fromUC Oldorf(?), Mecklenburg. Later
spelled Langholf (Mai1798:Db39).
LangholfFN:
see Langhofer.
LanglitzFN:
said by thePleve version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be fromUC Nidda
and by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be either fromUC Eichelsdorf, Nidda
(p.32), [Amt, Hessen-Darmstadt], or from Ober
Seemen, Gedern Amt, Stollberg near Nidda
(p.34).
LangsdorfGL,
[Solms-Hungen]:
confirmed home of the Trupps who
are said to have gone to Frank.
LanguedocGL:
the area of southern France around the Gulf of Lion on the Mediterranian.
Said (no locality indicated) by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to Obert{Renard}
and {Georg} families. Kuhlberg
said this was in Frankreich.
Langweiler?FN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Leusel.
LankiewiezFN:
said by the Husaren FSL to be
fromUC Witebsk, Polen. I could not find
this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Lans(?)GL,
was an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Hessen-Darmstadt
and was homeUC to a Schauermann
family.
LantzenhainGL:
see Lanzenhayn.
LanzGL, Witteberge: an unidentified place said by the Enders FSL to be homeUC to frau Gitle? and to a Ming
family.
Lanzberg?GL,
Brandenburg: an unidentified
place said by the Fischer FSL to
be homeUC to frau Kepp?.
LanzenbachGL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Hartmann{Philipp}
family. There is such a place
8.5 miles W of Bonn city.
Lanzenhayn/LantzenhainGL:
is some 14 miles SW of Schlitz city and was in the Riedesel Barony. See Schlitz.
Laoschburg(?)GL,
Bayern: an unidentified place
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be homeUC to a Ressendorf
family.
Laplen?,
Dofen?: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Chavalier? family;. Kuhlberg
said this was in Frankreich.
LappFN:
listed by both the 1816 Kassel
census (#109) and KS:353 without
origin, but said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census (#94) to be from Diefenbach,
Maulbronn parish, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
Using FHL(1,187,160), the
GCRA verified this origin.
See the GCRA book for more.
LappFN
said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC
Pferdsbach(?), Isenburg.
LappFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Hessen (no locality mentioned).
LappFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
Lappegan/LateganFN: said (both spellings) by the Kano
FSL to be fromUC Werne.
Spelled Lattigan with the
wife’s maiden name given as Trouba
in 1798 (Mai1798:Zg06).
LardenbachGL,
Laubach County: see Laurenbach.
LaroeschFN
(Loresch in the Stahl-am-Karaman FSL) fromUC Rosbach according to the Buedingen
ML. The bride was a Schaed also from Rosbach
(Mai&Marquardt#483).
Larressingle(?)GL:
an unidentified place said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Letran
family. There is a Larressingle
village in the Pyrenees in France!
Larsh/Lorch(?)GL,
Mainz: an unidentified place said
by the Schuck FSL to be homeUC
to a Bupp? family.
This may be Lorsch, Hesse, some 27 miles SSEof Mainz city.
LassFN:
a Luebeck ML says this woman
married a Hansen man in 1765; by
1766 this couple was in Dinkel;
another source spells her name Latz
(Mai&Marquardt#34).
LassFN:
said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC
Klauswetz?, Mecklenburg. In 1798
spelled Laas (Mai1798:Lb14).
LateganFN:
see Lappegan.
LatmerFN:
see Ladner.
Latoszkowa:
aka Latschanow.
Latschanow,
Poland: an unidentified place which the GCRA thinks may have been Latschanow-bei-Kepa near old Warsaw now absorbed within Warsaw city; found by the GCRA
to be associated with a Weber
family.
La
TourGL, Frankreich:
an unidentified place said by the Degott
FSL to be homeUC to a
Degenhardt family. There are
several La Tours in France.
LattenbachFN:
said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC
Menning, [Kur-]Bayern.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
LattiganFN:
see Lappegan.
LattmerFN:
see Ladner.
LatviaGS:
see Lifland.
LatzFN:
see Lass.
LaubFN:
said by the Laub FSL to be fromUC
Niederhof, Darmstadt.
LaubVV:
(aka Tarlyk) is a Lutheran German
village on the eastern side of the Volga founded in 1767.
Its FSL is now published
in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.III, pp. 19-36.
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 corrections
are in red. The number with the
family name is their household number in the FSL:
from Alten,
Holstein: (Baecker48);
from Appenrod,
Darmstadt: (Wiederkehr[Witterker]18);
from Augsburg:
(Fendel52);
from Backnang,
Wuerttemberg: (Hort[Horth]47
and possibly Schwachewer?47a);
from Birkenfeld:
(Kagel59 and possibly Bernhardt59a);
from Bradern?,
Ansbach: (Dauer41);
from Bubenheim?,
Kurpfalz: (Heller8, Schneider11);
from Burbach,
Darmstadt: (Blau19);
from Colmar,
Elsass: (Ganser16 and
possibly Graf16a);
from Darmstadt:
(Stahlmann36);
from Dinkelsbuehl,
Schwaben: (Trap[Trapp]49);
from Eberstadt,
Darmstadt: (Kreutzer17);
from Ebingen,
Wuerttemberg: (Strasser53);
from Eichenborn,
Nassau-Weilburg: (Engelmann31
and possibly Flach31a);
from Erschten
Hellbrunn?, Holstein: (Schwimle64);
from Fischbach,
Falkenstein: (Merk[Moerck,Merck]32);
from Frankfurt-am-Main:
(Reibich[Rossbach??]54);
from Freiwalde,
Preussisch-Schlesien: (Sommer51);
from Grebenhain,
Alsfeld: (Kruse20);
from Grebenhain,
Darmstadt: (Wiel[Will]29);
from Griesheim,
Frankfurt-am-Main: (Lohmann38);
from Guestrow,
Mecklenburg: (Sasse46 and
perhaps Eckardt[Eckhardt]46a);
from Hasselborn,
Nassau: (Belz[Beltz/Betz]60);
from Hof,
Bayreuth: (Gerwelheim?50
and possibly Antor50a);
from Kiel,
Holstein: (Althausen66, Stern34);
from Kirsbach,
Kurpfalz: (Engel63);
from Klauswetz?,
Mecklenburg: (Lass[Laas]37);
from Kloster,
Boehmen: (Horn45);
from Koenigsberg,
Brandenburg: (Bitter30);
from Koenigsberg,
Darmstadt: (Bruek[Brick]28,
and possibly Kous?28a);
from Koenigsberg,
Preussen: (Wikster?[Vigek?]42);
from Krumbach,
Darmstadt: (Hermann[Herrmann]9);
from Krusenfeld?,
Mecklenburg(Vorrath[Vorath]67);
from Kundenschburg?,
Hessen-Kassel: (Kohl55);
from Langenhain,
Darmstadt: (Schmidt7);
from Loch,
Kurpfalz: (Ritz23);
from Merenberg,
Nassau-Weilburg: (Deis2);
from Nassau-Idstein:
(Schumann26);
from Niederhof,
Darmstadt: (Laub1);
from Niederkirchen,
Zweibruecken: Jung44);
from Ober-Ramstadt,
Darmstadt: (Bichner[Bruechner]3,
Hinkel22, Kuhlmann5,58, Rothgang[Rottenheiser?]4);
from Rappoldshofen-bei-Neustadt-an-der-Aisch,
Bayreuth: (Kolb56);
from Rosenfeld,
Wuerttemberg: (Stuertz[Stuetz]27,
and possibly Mueller27a);
from Rossdorf,
Darmstadt: (Busch10, Franz13, Friedrich14, Schaefer15,
Simon57);
from Roth,
Hessen-Kassel: (Kahler21);
from Saryhausen?,
Wuerttemberg: (Ludwig40);
from Schmiedeberg?,
Sachsen: (Hermann[Herrmann]43);
from Schwanheim,
Darmstadt: (Eberlein6);
from Serapen?,
Kurpfalz: (Seiler39);
from Sommersdorf,
Ansbach: (Leikam33);
from Stuttgart?,
Wuerttemberg: (Full?68);
from Tennig?,
Ansbach: (Weber12, and
possibly Braun12a);
from Vollerwiek?,
Holstein: (Benedickt[Benedict]24);
from Waldgirmes,
Darmstadt: (Zubiks[Zubick]62);
from Waltz?,
Nassau-Idstein: (Aulmann35);
from Wetzlar:
(Hinkelmann61, Roth25);
from Zwickau,
Sachsen: (Hepfner65).
LaubachFN:
according to the Krasnoyar FSL
there was a Laubach orphan living with an Armbruester
family that was fromUC Homburg,
Darmstadt.
LaubachFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be a
step-son living in the Lehr
household.
LaubachGL:
an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Metzer/Metzler
family.
LaubachGL,
Buedingen[sic]: said by the Krasnoyar
FSL to be homeUC to a
Griesmann family. Laubach is
only 18 miles NNW of Buedingen
city, but it was the seat of its
own state, Solms-Laubach and it
did not belong to Buedingen or Isenburg.
LaubachGS:
short for the independent state of
Solms-Laubach County which was seated in the town of Laubach, which is some 13 miles ESE of Giessen
city. The
Lang wife of a Bastron man was from Laubach;
the couple went to Frank.
Said by the Grimm FSL to be homeUC (no locality mentioned) to a Worms
family, but the Buedingen
ML says that this Wurm man fromUC
Freyenseen married a Gruen
woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquard#501).
Said (no locality mentioned) by the Koehler
FSL to be homeUC to a Diel
family; the Buedingen ML said the
family was from Hoechst in the
Wetterau (Mai&Marquardt#709);
Hoechst probably was in Hanau
County, just S of Solms-Laubach
County lands. Said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be homeUC to Baecker, Diel, Eckart/Eckardt,
Eusel, Felsinger, Fischer,
Fritz, Hessler, Idt,
Jaeger, Keller, Kins?,
Kraus, Kuenzler, Lenz,
Meier, Pfeifer, Pieh, Schad, Schaefer, Schetz,
Schneider, Schreiner, Wieser,
and perhaps Schneider and Zimmer families.
LaubeFN:
see Lauwe.
LaubeVV:
an alternative name for LauweVV.
LaubenGL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC to a Bleier
family. Said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Gruendler family and possibly to Hesslich and Wahl orphans
as well. There are 3 such places
in Germany and 1 in Poland.
Laubenheim,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Keller FSL to be homeUC to the Martin and Philipp{Adam}
families. This might be either 3
miles S of Bingen town, or what
is now the neighborhood on the southern edge of Mainz city.
Laubuseschbach,
[Wied-]Runkel [County]:
is 10 miles E of Runkel town, and
was said by the Leitsinger FSL to
be homeUC to a Neuhof
family.
LauchFN:
said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC
Hanau (no locality mentioned).
LauchnerFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL to be
fromUC Untersteinbach,
Bamberg [Bishopric].
For 1798 see Mai1798:Dl22 (where the maiden name of frau Lauchner is given as Schumann),
Hz34; also spelled Leichner (Ps15). According
to a Woehrd ML this man fromUC
Wolkenstein, Bamberg, married in 1766 a Winter
woman of Aalen, Swabia (Stumpp says this is now Aalen, Wuerttemberg) (Mai&Marquardt#818).
LauchnerFN:
see Winter of Lauwe.
LauckFN:
said by the Doenhof FSL to be
fromUC Gelnhausen (no
locality mentioned).
LauckFN: also see Leik.
LaudaGL,
[Wuerzburg Bishopric]: is some
18.5 miles SW of Wuerzburg city,
and said by the Kano FSL to be
homeUC to a Nuss
family.
LaudenbachGL,
Bergstrassen: an unidentified place said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to an Bengler
family. There is a Linnenbach, Hesse, in the Bergstrassen
area – I don’t see anything else with a closer spelling.
LaudenbachGL,
is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank
FSL, was in the Freie Adelprovinz der
alten Ritter(?) and was homeUC to a Schapf(?)
family. There are numerous
Laudenbachs and Lautenbachs in Germany.
This may well have been Lauterbach,
see below.
LaudenbachGL,
Mannheim [Amt], Baden: is some 11
miles NE of Mannheim city, and
said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census to be homeUC to the Schell
family.
LauerFN{Jakob
s/o Elis.}: listed by the Bergdorf
1816 census with no origin (KS:665)
but said by KS:353) to have been
from Kayh, Herrenberg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
However, the GCRA
has proven their origin in Ehrstaedt,
Sinsheim [
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