Obelies(?)GL,
Ridelsch(?): an unidentified
place said by the Dobrinka FSL to
be homeUC to a Kaltenschnee
family. This might be Ober Lais? which is some
8 miles WNW of Mauswinkel.
ObenauerFN:
listed by the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:661,
388, 664) without origin and with a Fischer
pseudonym. Origin in Nieder-Floersheim, Worms
[Amt], Hesse was proven by the GCRA
using FHL(1,475,714).
See their book for more details.
ObenauerFN:
Curt Renz
has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Niederfloersheim, Worms Kreis,
Hesse.
OberaltertheimGL,
[Castell County]: is some 9 miles
SW of Wuerzburg city, and said by
the Lauwe FSL to be homeUC
to Schatz and possibly Kerner
families.
Oberamt: was an administrative unit in a duchy or Kingdom.
Today it would be called a district.
An Oberamt consisted of
the city where it was located and for which it was named, as well as the
surrounding villages, all of which were called Oberamt places.
Oberappenfeld(?)/OberhaltfeldGL, Hessen-Kassel:
is some 26 miles S of Kassel, and said by the Kratzke FSL to be homeUC to a Lisberg family.
OberauGL:
is some 9 miles ESE of Friedberg,
Hessen, and said by the Buedingen
ML to be near Fri[ed]berg, Hessen
and to be homeUC to a Schmitt
woman who married in 1766 a Daubert
man fromUC Huette in
1766; later the couple went to Jagodnaja
Poljana (Mai&Marquardt#716).
Oberaula,
[Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: is 10 miles W of Bad Hersfeld, and was said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to a Kreutzmueller family. Kuhlberg
said this was in Hessen.
Oberbaldingen,
Oefingen parish, Donaueschingen
[Amt], Baden: is 5 miles
NE of Donaueschingen city, and
was proven by the GCRA
to be home to a Hingster/Hengstler
family that settled in Neudorf.
OberbergGL,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Goebel
FSL to be homeUC to a Kaiser
and possibly a Happel family.
OberbergerFN:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
fromUC Warendorf.
Ober
BessingenGL: is some 10 miles ESE of Giessen and said by the Mueller
FSL to be homeUC to a Karf?
family.
Ober
BessingenGL: also see Oberpesin.
Oberbrennbach?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Martin
family.
OberbruedenGL,
Backnang [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
2.5 miles E of Backnang city, and
proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Trefz family
that went to Bergdorf and to the Brozel
family some of whose members were in Glueckstal
for a time. See the GCRA
book for details.
OberdarmstadtGL,
Hessen-Darmstadt: said by the Kolb
FSL to be homeUC to a
Wuerttemberger family. This
may be Ober Ramstadt, Hessen
some 5 miles SE of Darmstadt
city.
Oberdiebach?GL,
Kurmainz: is 21 miles WNW of Mainz
city, and said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt{Christoph}
family.
OberdorfGL:
an unidentified place said by the Ernestinendorf
FSL to be homeUC to a Damm40
There were many Oberdorfs in Germany but it seems likely that this
one was 6 miles NE of Hanau city, and was then in Isenburg-Buedingen
County.
Oberdorf(?)GL,
Elsass: said by the Bauer
FSL to be homeUC to a Wolf
family. This probably is the
Oberdorf some 12 miles due S of Mulhous in Alsace.
OberdorfGL,
Wuerttemberg: I think he meant Oberndorf
which is some 32 miles SW of Reutlingen,
Baden-Wuerttemberg.
OberdorfVV:
according to Teri Helzer, about 1828 a German colonist from Kamenka colony named Becher/Baecker
founded a hamlet, which was called Becker/Baeker/Bekker’s Khutor.
It was also known as Kuptsov/Kupzovo named for a Russian peasant who lived there.
In 1852, after the arrival of other colonists, the name was changed
to Oberdorf.
OberdorfeldenGL,
Hanau County: some 6 miles NW of Hanau
city. See Grosendorfel.
Oberelz?GS:
an unidentified country; see Schmierlach.
Oberentrecht?GS:
an unidentified country.
Oberesterhof?GS:
a spelling used by the Brabander
FSL for the Hohenzollern Principality;
see Sigmarigen.
Obergard
FN: see Eberhard.
Obergart
FN: see Eberhard.
Obergruppenbach,
Heilbronn [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
proved by the GCRA
as home to the Daiss
and Martin{J.Martin} families
that went to Glueckstal.
OberhaltfeldGL:
see Oberappenfeld.
OberhardFN:
see Eberhard.
OberhardtFN:
see Eberhard.
OberhartFN:
see Eberhard.
OberhausenGL,
Hessen: said by the Kraft FSL
to be homeUC to a Hopp
family. This probably is the
Oberhausen which is some 11 miles NE of Giessen
city.
Oberhausen,
Kirn [Amt], Rheinpfalz:
probably was Oberhausen-bei-Kirn
1mile NNW of Kirn town and 40
miles SSW of Koblenz city, and
the GCRA found sources to
indicate that it was homeUC to
the Helm family that settled in Neudorf.
Oberhausen,
Koblenz [Oberamt], Rheinpfalz:
probably was 17 miles ENE of Koblenz
city, and was said by both the 1816 Neudorf
census (#43) and KS:301 to have
been homeUC to
the Helm family that settled in Neudorf.
Oberhausen,
Kreuznach [Kreis], Rheinpfalz:
probably was 5.5miles SW of Bad
Kreuznach, 12.5 miles E of Kirn
town and 40 miles SSE of Koblenz
city.
OberhausenGL,
Kurtrier: an unidentified place said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to Geker/Hecker/Heckert?,
Kraemer, Niklus?, and Walkenbach
families. This might be the same
place as the next entry, but some 40 years earlier.
Oberhausen-bei-Kirn,
Kirn [Amt], Rheinpfalz: is
1mile NNW of Kirn town.
The GCRA found some
indication that the origin of the Helm family was here prior to their going to South Prussia before
settling in Kassel and Neudorf.
OberheimGL,
Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Dietel
FSL to be homeUC to a
Kleemann family.
Oberhoechstadt,
Kurmainz: is 17 miles NE of Mainz
city, and was said by the Leitsinger
FSL to be homeUC to Glock,
Russ, and Seibolin families. Said by the Preuss
FSL to be homeUC to Hiltmann
and Kempf families.
OberhofGL:
an unidentified place said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC to a Hoppermann
family. There are at least 19
Oberhofs in the Germanies.
OberhofenGL:
an unidentified place said by the Keller
FSL to be homeUC to a Fletschinger
family. Kuhlblerg said this was
in Mainz.
OberholsteinVV:
was an alternative name for DinkelVV.
OberjettingenGL,
Boeblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 13 miles SW of Boeblingen
town, and proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Roll family
that went to Bergdorf; see
their book for more details. Evidently
the Amt jurisdiction switched from Boeblingen
to Herrenberg after the family
emigrated.
OberkalbachGL,
Brandenstein: is in Hesse, 6
miles NE of Elm.
Oberkirch/OberkircheGL:an unidentified place said by the Kamenka
FSL to be homeUC to a Gerling
family. This may well have been
the Oberkirch, Baden-Wuerttemberg,
some 3.4 miles SW of Trier.
OberkircheGL,
see Oberkirch.
Oberkleen,
[Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate]: is 8 miles SSW of Giessen
city, and was said by the Ernestinendorf
FSL to be homeUC to Becker{J.Jacob}
and Stumper?/Stumpf families.
Ober
KlingaGL: an unidentifed place said by the Buedingen
ML to be homeUC to a Scharmann
man; he later went to Huck. Another
source says he was from Oberklingen
near Dieburg (Mai & Marquart
#522). There is an Ober Klingen some 11 miles ESE of Darmstadt and 5.6 miles SSE of Dieburg.
Ober
KlingenGL: see Ober
Klinga.
Oberklinten(?)GL,
is an unidentified locality which according to the Frank FSL was in the state of Kurpfalz
and was homeUC to a Weber family.
OberlahnkreisGL,
Hesse: was an administrative
District that centered on Weilburg
town on the Lahn river.
Ober
LaisGL, [Nidda Amt,
Hessen-Darmstadt]: is 4 miles E of Nidda,
and 8 miles N of Buedingen.
Said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL possibly to be homeUC to Daubert,
Fischer, Kaiser, and Wert/Wuertz/Werth/Wirth
families (pp.29, 30, 33, 34). Said
by both Pleve and Kromm versions of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be homeUC to Luft,
Schaefer, and Scheuermann families, plus 3 Appel
and three Ruhl families;
Stumpp concurred regarding the Appel,
Fischer, Ruhl, Schaefer, and Scheuermann families; Kromm says it may
be that the Fuchs family came
fromUC here as well.
OberleinachGL,
Wuerzburg: is some 7 miles NW of Wuerzburg
city, and said by the Goebel FSL
to be homeUC to a Kaes
family.
OberlieserFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Medebach.
Oberlind(?)GL:
an unidentified place said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to a Heider?
family. There at least 3
Oberlinds in Germany.
Obermoersbach?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Holstein
FSL to be homeUC to a Feuerstein
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in [Kur-]Mainz. The only
Obermoersbach I can find was 15 miles SW of Siegen city, then in Sayn-Hachenburg
County.
Obermohr,
[Pfalz-Lautern Principality]: is 11 miles WNW of Kaiserslautern
city, and was said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Bepler/Pepel family.
Ober-MonjouVV:
aka Kriwowskoje, Obermonjou, and Obermunjour,
was a German Catholic village on the eastern side of the Volga founded in
1767. The FSL is published in
Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.III, pp. 289-310.
According to this, the first settlers were from the following places
with the family names shown here in parens. If a name is in italics it comes
from the Kuhlberg lists. If a
family name occurs more than once among the first settlers, given names in
{} brackets follow the family name. The
number after a name is its FSL household number:
from Adelsberg:
(Neubauer{Christoph}11,
{Michael}86);
from Albstadt?, Schwaben: (Schuetz54);
from Allendorf:
(Brehm{Johannes}20);
from Alzey,
Wuerzburg[sic]: (Geist23);
from Aremind?:
(Schmidt{Joseph}56 and possibly Stupart/Stuppert{Johannes}56a);
from Arfurt,
[Kurrier]: (Kuntz58);
from Auma,
[Kur-]Sachsen: (Ludwig6);
from Bamberg
[Bishopric]: (Brehm{Peter}33,
Strecklein/Stecklein8, Wenger88);
from Beckum?:
(Wenimherr79);
from Bellingen?,
Luxembourg: Leinen69);
from Benschelent?,
Dessau: (Hauptmann93);
from Bermel,
[Kur-]Mainz: (Wendemann/Wiedemann49
and possibly Dreher/Trerin49a);
from Besers?/Besseringen?, Mainz:
(Bartis/Bertus73);
from Bietigheim:
(Goering74);
from Birgel:
(Siekart30);
from Breitenguessbach,
Bamberg [Bishopric]: (Leribel61
and possibly Sack61a);
from [Isenburg-]Buedingen [County?]: (Doerfler22);
from Busendorf:
(Unrein24);
from Camberg?,[Kurtrier]: (Giebler62);
from Denkendorf:
(Thaeler19);
from Denklingen:
(Hemann?82);
from Dorheim:
(Bisl/Biehl/Pihl44);
from Drien?,
[Kur-]Trier: (Thueringer28
and possibly Wendler/Wendeler28a);
from Einbach:
(Lammer/Limmer36);
from Elfershausen:
(Sell87);
from Gatscha?,
[Oesterreich?]: (Fuchs/Funk50
and possibly Duchscherer/Tuchscherer50a);
from Geiselbach,
[Kurmainz]: (Krapp/Krapf34);
from Gerolzhofen?,
[Wuerzburg Bishopric]: (Waldheuser/Waldgener?/Waltgeiser38
and possibly Seifert38a);
from Gerstheim?,
Wuerzburg[sic?]: (Rumbach52);
from Gohr:
(Silberhorn/Silberngon7);
from Graben:
(Koch25);
from Graefenroda,
[Sondershausen-Ruolstadt County?]: (Kohl27);
from Hoechst,
[Friedberg Imperial City?]: Dechaut/Dechant64);
from Kammerforst:
(Boese31, Brull{J.Adam}84,
{Johannes}47;
from Kanth,
Schlesien: (Konrad/Konradi?76);
from Karling:
(Esperein/Oesterlein4 and
possibly Blumberger4a);
from Klasid?:
(Abt67);
from Konstanz,
[Imperial City and Bishopric]: (Schenk92);
from Kosswig,
[Kurbrandenburg]: (Walter{Charlotta}94);
from Langendorf:
(Fleischmann18);
from Laubach:
(Metzer/Metzler10);
from Lauben:
(Gruendler16 and possibly Hesslich16b
and Wahll6a);
from Leidendorf:
(Bersa/Berzi&Bertz37,
Schneider{Georg}39);
from Leiningen
[County]: (Neuheim/Nauheim53,
Neulist51);
from Limburg:
(Weimar/Weimer12);
from Malsbach?,
[Regensburg Imperial Abbey?]: (Spaar42);
from Meisendorf?,
Bamberg[sic?]: (Spister/Speister2
and possibly Spindt2a);
from Merdershein?,
Bayreuth[sic?]: Wulf57);
from Nadlinger?
Wuerzburg[sic?]: (Nuernberger17);
from Nassau:
(Wilhelm68 and possibly Esslauer68a);
from Nervgenstal?,
Mergenthal[?]: (Model59);
from Netlangen?,
Wuerzburg: (Brant3);
from Neudorf:
(Roth46);
from Neukirchen,
[Nassau-Weilburg Principality]: (Kessler55);
from Niederbrechen,
[Kurtrier]: (Schuj/Schuvie66);
from Nordheim:
(Arnemann89);
from Obermoersbach?,
Mainz[sic?]: (Feuerstein60);
from Obermohr,
[Pfalz-Lautern Principality]: (Bepler/Pepel65);
from Obernzenn?,
[Seckendorff Barony?]: (Mueller45);
from Oberwaldstedt?,
[Kurmainz?]: (Fischer77
and possibly Rupp77a);
from Ockstadt:
(Mathis/Mattias75, Schuhmann78,
Sennt/Selbeck?43, and
possibly Diehl{Friedrich}43a);
from Oppertshofen:
(Sollbach5 and possibly Kirchturm5a);
from Orlich?,
Trier: Hertling/Gertling29);
from Paris,
Frankreich: (Koenig81);
from Pfaffenwiesbach,
[Wallbott Barony]: (Lauer95);
from Rabachan?:
(Weber48 and possibly Krueck48a
and Stupart/Stupert{Katharina}48b);
from Rastatt,
[Baden-Baden Margraviate]: (Himmel/Huemmel13);
from Reischenschlerch?:
(Vogel35 and possibly Lenkof/Leikam35a);
from Resfenberg?,
Bassenheim: (Waldschmidt80);
from Riol:
(Schaller41 and possibly Hessemar/Gesmer?41a);
from Roedern?:
(Diehl{Katharina}15);
from Ronneburg:
(Arzt85);
from Schoeneberg:
(Marqua/Marquardt90);
from Sondersfeld,
[Kurbayern]: (Doeringer/Doehring/Doering71);
from Starkstadt?,
Mainz: (Aumueller26);
from Tiefenthal:
(Fuschsner32);
from [Kur-]Trier: (Zimmermann91);
from Umkirchen?:
(Ditrich70);
from Wien,
Oestrerreich: (Sommer83
and possibly Pauly83a);
from Wiesbach:
(Kranewitz/Krannewitter63);
from Wiesbaden,
Mainz: (Boos/Boes{Michael}9);
from Wiesthal,
Franken: (Matheas/Matasch&Mattias72);
from Windheim?:
(Heppner/Huebner/Hoepfner40);
from Wuerzburg
[Bishopric]: (Grenzer/Krentzer1,
Muench/Mink14,
and possibly Burger1a);
from Zeisdorf,
[Kursachsen?]: (Betz21).
ObermonjouVV:
an alternate name for Ober-MonjouVV.
ObermunjourVV:
an alternate name for Ober-MonjouVV.
ObermundstadtGL,
(might be Ober-Mockstadt which is
7 miles NW of Buedingen),
according to the Frank FSL, was
in the state of Isenburg and was
homeUC to a Stamm family.
Obermusbach,
Freudenstadt [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is 3 miles NE of Freudenstadt
city, and was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Bohnet/Bonnet
family that settled in Neudorf.
ObernauGL:
said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC
to a Kraz? family.
There is one Obernau 15 miles WSW of Reutlingen, one 3 miles SSW of
Aschaffenburg, and one 18 miles WSW and one 24 miles SW of
Siegen.
Obern
BreidenbachGL: is some 6 miles SSW of Alsfeld,
Hessen. Said by the Buedingen Births and Deaths record to be in the district of Romrodt
and to be homeUC to a Helwig
man; he and his wife later went to Kraft
(Mai&Marquardt#1218).
OberndorfGL:
see Oberdorf, Wuerttemberg.
OberndorfGL,
Oberentrecht?: an unidentified
place said by the Brabander FSL
to be homeUC to a Brandecker
family. There are an even one
billion Oberndorfs in the Germanies!
ObernhausenGL,
Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter:
is some 2 miles N of Gersfeld, Hessen
and was the birthplace of some of the children
of the Zitzmann colonist who went
to Frank.
Obernhausen,
Kurtrier: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Keller/Keiler family.
I can find 5 Obernhausen in Germany, none of the five on lands that
were then Kurtrier.
Obern-OhmGL,
[Lauterbach?]: is some 11 miles W
of Lauterbach town, and said by
the Buedingen ML to be homeUC
to a Weidhardt man who in 1766
married a Schwing woman; by 1767
this couple was in Karasnoyar;
Stumpp said this place was near Alsfeld,
Hessen (Mai&Marquardt#597).
Obernubel?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Wernerhold
family. Said by Kuhlberg to be
in Hessen..
Obernzenn?,
[Seckendorff Barony?]: is 11 miles NNW of Ansbach city, and was said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Mueller family.
OberolmGL:
is some 5 miles SW of Mainz city
center, and said by Stumpp to be near Mainz
as well as homeUC to the Kaemmerer
man who married in 1766 a Voelcker/Voelker
woman in Buedingen; by
1767 this couple was in Goebel (Mai&Marquardt#357).
Oberolm was a possession of Mainz, but I do not believe it was
considered part of Kurmainz.
Also see Grosserlach.
Oberpesin(?)GL,
Zorn(?): an unidentified place
said by the Dobrinka FSL to be
homeUC to Vogel
families. This might have been Ober Bessingen, Solms-Braunfels, some 3 miles E of Lich
town.
Oberpfalz:
is the Upper Palatinate, which today is the part of Bavaria NE, E and SE
of Nuremberg.
OberramstadtGL:
said by the Kamenka FSL to be
homeUC to a Schaefer
family. There is an Oberramstadt
in Bavaria 6 miles WNW of Ansbach
and an Ober-Ramstadt, Hesse 5 miles SE of Darmstadt city. It is
probably the latter; see the following entry.
Ober-RamstadtGL,
Darmstadt: is some 5 miles SE of Darmstadt
city, and said by the Laub
FSL to be homeUC to Bichner,
Hinkel, Kuhlmann, and Rothgang
families.
Ober-RamstadtGL,
Hessen: also see Oberdarmstadt and Ramstadt.
OberrauGL:
see Friedberg.
OberritterFN:
the Buedingen ML says this woman
from Schlirbach married a Richter
man in 1766; by 1767 this couple was in Norka
(Mai&Marquardt#693).
Ober
RodenGL, Hessen:
see Oberroth, Kurmainz.
OberrohnGL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to an Aitrich
family. Kuhlberg said this
was in Riedesel. The
only Oberrohn I can find is some 9 miles SW of Eisenach
city, and was then apparently in either Eisenach
Duchy or Eisenach County …
The Riedesel evidently had
married into the ruling family in Eisenach.
OberrothGL,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Goebel
FSL to be homeUC to Nadler,
Winter, and perhaps Leonhard families.
V. Kirchmier of Cologne, Germany says this is the old name for Ober-Roden
which in 1478-1803 belonged to Kurmainz
and is today in the district of Roedermark, some 10 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main.
OberotterbachGL,
Doerrenbach [Amt], Bergzabern [Oberamt],
Rheinpfalz: is 1 miles SSE of Doerrenbach
town. Using FHL#193,120 and 193,818 it was proven by the
GCRA to be home to the Ketterling
family that settled in Kassel.
Oberunstadt?,
[Kur-]Bayern: an
unidentified place said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Retenmeier
family.
ObersabelrothGL,
Darmstadt: an unidentified place said by the Warenburg
FSL to be homeUC to a Doring,
and possibly a Backer family.
OberschlettenbachGL,
Bergzabern [Amt], Rheinpfalz: is 7
miles NW of Bad Bergzabern.
The GCRA found indications
that the Miller{G.Peter, J.Philip}
family was there before going to Kassel.
Both the 1816 Kassel census (#24)
and KS:310 incorrectly stated
this was homeUC to the Hof
family that settled in Kassel.
Oberschgogen?,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Dehler FSL to be homeUC to a Scheierling widow.
ObersdorfGL,
Kurpfalz: an unidentified place said by the Kolb
FSL to be homeUC to a
Minch family. Later spelled Mink.
Ober-SeemenGL,
Gedern Amt, Stollberg County: is 9 miles NE of Buedingen,
6 miles E of Nidda, and said by
the Kromm and Stumpp version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to possibly be homeUC to a
Langlitz family.
OberseebachGL,
Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass: is some 3.5
miles SE of Wissembourg city and proven
by the GCRA to have been one of
the homes of the Bender family
that went to the Glueckstal
colonies, and to be home to the Rindel/Riddell
family that went to Bergdorf.
Also proved by the GCRA
as the home of Frau Springer
(1816 Kassel #16), née Pflug, and to be where of the last children were born of the first Reuter/Reuther/Reiter settler in
Neudorf prior to leaving for
Russia. The GCRA
also proved this to be the
home of a Hofwald woman who
became frau Peter Hofer, and
proved it the birthplace of some of her Hofer
children who settled with their parents in Neudorf.
See the GCRA book for more details on each of these families.
ObersinnGL,
Wuerzburg: said by the Krasnoyar FSL
to be homeUC to a Mueller family.
Wuerzburg
here apparently is a mistake: in the 1760’s Obersinn was a part of the Thuengen
Barony, not of the Wuerzburg
Duchy.
OberstFN said by the Roethling
FSL to be fromUC Koponwuen(?),Wuerzburg,
Bavaria.
OberstadtGL,
Schwaben: an unidentified place
said by the Brabander FSL to be
homeUC to a Rach
family.
ObersteinGL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Hahn{Georg}
family. There were at least 4
Obersteins in the Germanies.
OberstenfeldGL,
Ludwigsburg parish, Wuerttemberg: is some 9 miles NE of Ludwigsburg,
Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to a Hepperle
family that settled in Gueldendorf,
Odessa.
OberstenfeldGL,
Marbach [Amt], [Ludwigsburg Overamt],
Wuerttemberg: is some 5.5 miles
NNE of Marbach town, and was proven
by the GCRA, using FHL#1,187,126
to be home of Doering/ Deuring,
and of his Nafzger wife, that
went to Bergdorf and Kassel. Proved
as origin to the Hamann family
that went to Glueckstal by the GCRA.
See the GCRA book for more
detail.
ObertFN{Renard}
and {Georg}: said (no locality indicated) by the Brabander
FSL to be fromUC Languedoc.
For 1798 see Mai1798:Bn05 {Renard} and Sm59 {Georg}.
ObertFN:
also see Hober.
Obertaunus:
the Taunus Mountains run ENE from
Bingen on the Rhine to just north of Frankfurt-am-Main.
Ober-UlmGL,
Mainz: some 5 miles W of Mainz
city and said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be homeUC to a Kaemmerer man who was sent here as an 1812 prisoner of war (p.137).
OberurselGL,
Kurmainz: is 6 miles NW of Frankfurt-am-Main
centre, and said by the Keller
FSL to be homeUC to Birsack{Johannes},
{Philipp} families. Said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to a Schmidt
family.
OberviechtachGL:
is some 61 miles E of Nuernberg,
Bavaria.
Oberwaldach,
Freudenstadt [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
said by KS:298 to have been homeUC
to a Heier family.
The GCRA says there was no church in Oberwaldach, it was in Tumlingen.
Oberwaldstedt?:
said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be
homeUC to a Fischerfamily
and possibly to their Rupp
brother-in-law. Kuhlberg said
this was in [Kur-]Mainz. This probably is Oberwoellstadt
then in Kurmainz, 2 miles S of Friedberg
city center.
Oberwidermus,
Isenburg[-Meerholz County]:
Bonner
proved this the origin of Kraeuter/Krauter listed
in the Balzer FSL (#81).
Now known as Alt-Wiedermus, Hessen,
4 miles SW of Buedingen city.
OberweierGL,
Rastatt [Amt], Baden: is some 4
miles E of Rastatt city, and said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be a possible homeUC to the Schaible
family. See the GCRA book for
more detail.
Oberweld?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Graf
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Sachsen.
OberwetzGL,
Braunfels: is some 5.4 miles SE of Braunfels
city, and said by the Bangert FSL
to homeUC to an Otto
family.
Ober
WintersheimGL,
Darmstadt: said by the Kraft
FSL to be homeUC to a Sauerwein
family. This may be
Oberwiddersheim some 10 miles NE of Friedberg,
Hessen.
OberwittighausenGL:
is in Baden-Wuerttemberg some 11
miles SE of Wuerzburg, Bavaria,
and said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Friedrichsen
and possibly a Weinberg family.
Oberwoellstadt,
Kurmainz: is 2 miles S of Friedberg
city center.
OberzellGL,
[Hanau County?]:
Betty Schmoll says research done for her in Germany says her Alt
and Vogel ancestors who went to Norka
came from here and from Weichersbach.
ObetzFN:
said (no locality mentioned) by
the Jost FSL to be fromUC Dessau. I could not find
this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
ObholzFN:
said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC
Bitsch, Lothringen. In 1798 the
family name was sometimes spelled Abholz
or Opholz (Mai1798:Ls9,Mt5,13).
OblingerFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Zweibruecken
(no locality mentioned).
ObraurangelGL,
Luxembourg [Duchy]: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Dossier family.
ObrechtFN:
see Albrecht.
ObreyFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schlitz
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel
trip.
ObrigheimGL
bei Gruenstadt: is 13 miles NW of Mannheim city, and according to a
contemporary pastor was home to the Schlund
man who married a Matteas woman
in 1768 and lived in Bauer
(Mai&Marquardt#1243).
OchsFN:
said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC
Tunbahc?, Kurtrier.
OchsFN:
also see Aks, Oehs, or Oxt.
OchsenbachGL,
is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank
FSL, was in the state of Wuerttemberg
and was homeUC to a Betz family.
This might be the same place as the following entry.
OchsenbachGL,
Brackenheim [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 6 miles SW of Brackenheim
city, and the
GCRA proved this home to the Lang{Andreas)
family that settled in Kassel.
OchsenfurtGL,
Dessau: an unidentified place said by the Bettinger
FSL to be homeUC to a Schlehe
and possibly a Richter family.
There is an Ochsenfurt, Bavaria, some 10 miles SE of Wuerzburg.
Ochsenfurt,
Wuerzburg [Bishopric]: is
10 miles SE of Wuerzburg city,
and said by the Hoelzel FSL to be
homeUC to a Metz
family.
OchsenhausenGL:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
homeUC to a Rittmann
family. There is a place of this
name some 22 miles S of Ulm city
in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
OchsenhirtFN:
said by the Messer FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
OchsnerFN:
according to Steven Hahn this family from Edenkoben
settled in Worms, Odessa.
OckelFN:
said by the Boregard FSL to be
fromUC Kornbach. The 1798 Boregard census
gives the wife’s maiden name as Meingott
(Mai1798:Bo09).
OckelFN:
also see Ogel.
OckstadtGL:
seems to have been in a tiny barony, possibly of the same name, just W of Friedberg
Imperial City. Said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to Mathis/Mattias, Sennt/Selbeck?, and Schuhmann
families, and possibly to Diehl{Friedrich}.
Odenheim,
Bruchsal [Amt], Baden:
is 7.5 miles NE of Bruchsal city,
and was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Unger family
that settled in Neudorf.
OdenwaldGL
is a famous old forest in southeastern Hesse.
Said by the Messer FSL to be homeUC to an Brunner family.
Odessa:
a city around which were many Russian German villages on the Black Sea
and to the north of it.
OechsleFN:
see Oexle.
Oefingen
parish, Donaueschingen
[Amt], Baden: is 1.3 miles E of Oberbaldingen
village.
Oehningen
AmtGL, Wuerttemberg:
this place is on Lake Constance some 7 miles SSE of the city of Singen and
was a District administrative center.
OehringenGL,
[Hohenlohe County/Principality]:
now in Baden-Wuerttemberg, is
some 13 miles ENE of Heilbronn
city and 73 miles SE of Frankfurt-am-Main.
Said by both the Stumpp and Pleve versions of the Balzer
FSL to be the homeUC of Tehele/Tebele
and Volz families; proven
by Bonner as home to the Volz/Voltz family.
OehringenGL,
Oehringen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: proven
by GCRA to be home to the Breloas
family that went to Glueckstal.
See the GCRA book for more details. This
is the same place as the previous entry, but is 40 some years later.
Oehringen
[Amt]GL, Wuerttemberg:
is 13 miles ENE of Heilbronn
city, and was a District administrative center. KS:478
said a Weidner man came toUC
Neudorf fromUC Ohringen
[Amt], Wuerttemberg; no
locality mentioned; no other information available at this time.
The same place as the previous entry.
OehsFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Hessen (no locality mentioned).
Later spelled Ochs (Mai1798:Pb38),
Oelsberg?GL,
[Kur-]Trier: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Dornhof family.
OeslauGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Ribling?
family. This may have been in
the Coburg Duchy, 3 miles NE of Coburg
city.
OesterleinFN:
see Esperein.
OesterreichGS
is Austria. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Boregard FSL to
be homeUC to a Schon
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Franzosen FSL
to be homeUC to Braun
and Lefebvre families.
OestreichFN:
see Osterreich.
OestringenGL,
Bruchsal [Amt],
Baden: is 8 miles NE of Bruchsal
city, and the GCRA proved origin here for the Foerderer family that spent time in Glueckstal.
OetisheimGL,
Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
about 5 miles NE of Pforzheim.
The GCRA indicates that Rudolf{Christian}
received a pass from here to Taurien Province in 1831.
Both the 1816 Kassel census (#51), and KS:411
mistakenly said this was homeUC to the Rudolph{Daniel} family.
Oettingen
CountyGS: this sizeable county by held lands surrounding but
not including the Imperial Cities of Noerdlingen and Bopfingen.
OettlingGL,
Baden-Durlach: said by the Louis
FSL to be homeUC to a Ziegelmeier
family. This might be Ettlingen?
OexleFN:
listed by both the 1858 Kassel
census (#237) and KS:388 without
origin. More often spelled
Oechsle. See the GCRA
book for more.
Off/AffFN:
said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC
Ruppertsburg(?)GL, Laubach.
OffenbachGL:
an unidentified place said by both versions of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be homeUC to Leinweber
and Litzenberger families.
Said by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be homeUC to two Baer
families. Said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to frau Felsing.
OffenbachGL,
Dillkreis, [Nassau-Dillenburg Principality]: is a small municipality some 42 miles NW of Buedingen and 6 miles SE of Dillenburg.
Said by KS:123 to be homeUC
to a Buchner family, while the
Stumpp version of the Balzer FSL
says they were Isenburgers.
Isenburg-Offenbach was a
whole different place.
OffenbachGL,
Isenburg[-Birstein Principality]: city some 4.4 miles ESE of Frankfurt-am-Main,
Hesse, and some 20 miles SW of Buedingen.
Said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer
FSL to be homeUC to Blitz,
Kaiser, Kalbin, Kleinfelder, Koehler, Mesinger/Messinger, Neugard/Neuhard,
Rutt, Schlegel, Schleuger, Sinner, Tirol, and, possibly, Scheidt
families. Said by the Stumpp
version of the Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL it may have been homeUC to Leinweber
and Litzenberger families;
according to the Kromm version it may have been homeUC to Lahnert and Lautenschlaeger
families. Said by the Keller FSL
to be homeUC to a Mathius
family. Said by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC both to the Herdt
man and to the Zipp woman whom he
married in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#473);
by 1767 this couple was in Moor; Bonner
proved Herdt was baptized here.
OffenbachGL,
[Isenburg-Birstein Principality]:
said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC
to a Zindel family.
Kuhlberg said this place was in Isenburg.
OffenbachGL,
Kurpfalz: Said by the Volmer
FSL to be home to a Huss family.
This is the same place as the next entry.
OffenbachGL,
[Kur-]Pfalz:
this is Offenbach-an-der-Queich, some 13 miles SW of Speyer city. Said by the
Stumpp version of the Jagodnaja
Poljana FSL to be homeUC to Leinweber
and Litzenberger families; Kromm
agreed as regards Litzenberger,
but thougtht Leinweber just might
have been from Kreuznach.
Offenbach-an-der-QueichGL:
see Offenbach, Kurpfalz.
OffenbachGL,
Landau [Amt], Rheinpfalz: is 3
miles E of Landau-in-der-Pfalz.
The GCRA
confirmed this origin for the Doerr
family that settled in Kassel.
This is the same place as the previous three entries some four
decades later.
Offenburg
[Amt], Baden: the city is
11 miles SE of Strasbourg city.
Offendorf,
Bischweiler [Amt], Elsass:
s 4 miles SE of Bischwiller town, and was proven by
the GCRA to be home to the Walz{Daniel
family that settled in Neudorf.
OffenhausFN:
see Aveliuss.
OffmanFN:
this family name was found recorded in Herborn
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel
trip.
OfmanFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Kerschveld[Gersfeld]GL,
Freie Adelprovinz der alten Ritter.
Shown by the Walter Research Project to be Hoffmann.
Ofterdingen,
Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is 7.5 miles S of Tuebingen city,
and mistakenly said by KS:385 to
be homeUC to the Neuschler
woman who went to Glueckstal; see
the GCRA book for detail.
Oftersheim?GL,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place
said by the Keller FSL to be homeUC
to a Gebhard family.
The only Oftersheim I can find was in
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