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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PfaeffingenGL, Herrenberg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 6.5 miles SW of Herrenberg city, and was proven by GCRA to be home to the Welt/Velde girls and Hoechs family that went to Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more detail.  This is the same place as the next entry.

PfaeffingenGL, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 4.5 miles W of Tuebingen city, and was proven by GCRA to be home to the Meier{Christian} family that went to Glueckstal as well as to the Lauer woman who was frau Richert in Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more details.  This is the same place as the previous entry.

Pfafenmoisbakh/Pfaffenwiesbach(?), Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Preuss FSL to be home to a Meibach family.  Pfaffenwiesbach, Hesse is some 27 miles NE of Mainz city.

PfaffFN: proven by Judy Remmick to have migrated from Imsbach, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria to Moersfeld, Kircheimbolanden Amt, Rheinfalz; then via Ulm (as transfer point) to Torschau, Batschka, Hungary of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; later they migrated to Worms, Odessa, S. Russia with Duc de Richelieu.  See her work at http://www.remmick.org/Pfaff.Genealogy/Page15.html#Johann.

PfaffenheimGL: is 26 miles due W of Frieburg city, and said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to a Sommer{Heinrich} family.

PfaffenhofenGL: an unidentified place said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be homeUC to a Boehm family.  In Germany and Austria there are at least 16 Pfaffenhofen!

PfaffenhofenGL, Wuerttemberg: is some 12 miles SW of Heilbronn city, and said by the Dreispitz FSL to be homeUC to a Meier family.

PfaffenrohtFN: see Pfaffenroth.

PfaffenrothFN: said by the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be fromUC Nidda.  Kromm version says the man was from Berstadt, near Nidda (pp. 30, 34).  This Pfaffenroht man from the area of Darmstadt married in Luebeck in 1766 a Birl woman from the same area (Mai&Marquardt#275).

PfaffenwiesbachGL, [Waldbott Barony]: is 6 miles W of Friedberg city, and said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to an Anfang family.  Said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt{Johannes} family.  Said by the Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Lauer widower.

PfaffenwiesbachGL, Hesse: also see Pfafenmoisbakh.

PfaffenzellerGL, Bassenheim Barony: near Schmitten, Hesse.

Pfahlbronn parish, Welzheim [Amt], Schwabisch Gmuend, Wuerttemberg: was 3.5 miles SE of Welzheim town.

PfalzGS: usually in the 1760’s was short for Kurpfalz.

PfalzGS: said by the Stumpp version of the Balzer FSL to be homeUC of Karl and Robertus families; the Pleve version says Kurpfalz.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Belowescher Kolonien FSL to be homeUC to Berg, Buchmiller/Buchmueller, Markstaetter, Massold, Meiermann, Nordheimer, Schoellhorn, Ulrich, and Webert families.  Said (no locality indicated) by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL to be homeUC to Bengel, Detterer, Kern, Kindsvater, Michel, Mueller, Mueller, Ruff, Schlag, Seibel, Simon, and Stahlmann families.

PfalzengrafenweilerGL, Freudenstadt [Amt]. Wuerttemberg: is some 7.5 miles NE of Freudenstadt city, and proven by the GCRA to be home to the Rath family that went to Bergdorf; see their book for more details.

PfalzgrafenweilerGL, Freudenstadt Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is some 7 miles ENE of Freudenstadt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to Schmidt/Schmid families that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.

Pfalz-Neuburg DuchyGS: this duchy held lands on both banks of the Danube almost as far W as Guenzburg and as far E as Reichertshofen just S of Ingolstadt city; it also held extensive lands on the Knaab river just N of Regensburg city, as well as farther N just W of Neustadt-an-der-Waldnaab.  Its seat was Neuburg some 49 miles SSE of Nuernberg city in present-day Bavaria. This duchy was independent during 1505-1742.  In 1742 it was folded into Kurpfalz making it the fathermost outlier of that country.  From 1777-08 the duchy was under Bavarian control, and in 1808 it disappeared, completely submersed into the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Pfalz-Simmern Principality or Palatinate-Simmern PrincipalityGS: see Simmern.

Pfalz-Zweibruechen DuchyGS: see Zweibruechen.

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

PfannenstielFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Buedesheim, Kurtrier. 

PfannenstielFN: said by the Mariental FSL to be fromUC Manderscheid, Kurtrier.  

PfannenstielFN: see Fanmispel.

PfannensteilVV: an alternate name for MarientalVV.

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

PfeffingenGL, Balingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 5 miles ESE of Balingen city, and believed by the GCRA to be the birthplace of the Stauss colonist who went to Glueckstal.

PfefterFN: see Fefter.

PfeifFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Bonbach(?), Sulz, Lobbach.

PfeifFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Darmstadt (no locality mentioned).  Later spelled Pfeiff.

PfeiferFN:  listed in the Bergdorf 1816 census (KS:661, 393) without origin.  Their origin in Neusatz, Neuenburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg was proven by the GCRA using FHL(1,056,826).  See the GCRA book for more details.

PfeiferFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Bruchkoebel, Hanau.

PfeiferFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach.  Later spelled Pfeiff.

Pfeifer{Jakob}FN: said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#15) and KS:393 to have come fromUC Besigheim, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg.   However, the GCRA proved that was not the origin.  Instead, the GCRA believes him to be fromUC Niedermohr, Kaiserslautern [Amt], Rheinpfalz.  See their book for more.

PfeiferFN: said by the Paulskaya FSL to be fromUC Sankt Goar.

PfeiferFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Orb.  The 1798 Pfeiffer census says his wife's maiden name was Jaeger (Mai1798:Pf40).

PfeiferFN: said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to be fromUC Schellbach, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate].  A Luebeck ML says that in 1766 this Pfeiffer man married a Reiss woman; another source says Reisz (Mai&Marquardt#188).  In 1798 the maiden name of frau Pfeifer was given as Reis (Mai1798:Pp12, 02).

PfeiferFN: said by the Schwed FSL to be fromUC Rietesel(?), Lauterbach.

PfeiferVV : a variant spelling of  PfeifferVV.

PfeiffFN; see Pfeif or Pfeifer.

Pfeiffer{Bernhard}:  died in Glueckstal and was proven by the GCRA to be from Besigheim, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg using FHL 1,184,892; see their book for detail.

PfeifferFN: this family name was found recorded in Haiger parish records during the years prior to 1767, in Schotten parish records for many generations prior to 1767, and in Winterhausen marriage records 1760-1769; see Flegel trip.

PfeifferVV (aka Fajfer, Feifer, Gnilushka, Gniluska, Gniluschka, Gvardeyskoye,or Pfeifer): a Russian German village of the Roman Catholic faith situated on the western side of the Volga, founded in 1767.  Its  FSL is now published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.III, pp. 377-402.  According to this, the first settlers were from the following places with the family names shown here in parens. A name within square brackets following a family name is an alternate spelling usually from a later source.  Origin information which Prof. Pleve derived from the Kuhlberg lists is italicized.  The number with the name is their household number in the FSL:

from Achern: (Deible[Deibek])49;

from Arnstein: (Dresser88);

from Arnstein, Wuerzburg: (Keberlein[Keberle]86,87, Konrad92, Lambrecht83, Ziegler100);

from Aschaffenburg: (Amrhein[Amrein]75, Arnhold28, Essler24a, Happel32a, Kuehn15, Mallad99, Phillip2a, Pietz[Pietsch]29a, Roth1a, Samer[Sommer]32, Schwind[Schwindt]2, Stegmann93, Stricker[Strecker]24, Stumpfnagel78, Weigel7);

from Beauchene, Frankreich: (Souffle84);

from Bonn: (Schwed81);

from Elters?: (Lohmann29);

from Florenberg?: (Stroemel63a);

from Freiburg: (Brueh[Bruhl]40, Gut[Guth]48, Kisner103);

from Freudenberg: (Kamm21,22);

from Fulda: (Heil97, Ifland[Iffland]42, Imert50, Koehler38, Lindner[Linder]44, Roeder73, Schmidt101, Schoenfeld76);

from Gemuenden?, Wuerzburg: (Heilmann82);

from Gross Steinum?, Mainz: (Weigan[Weigand]68);

from Hammelburg: (Nickling107);

from Hammelburg, Franken: (Klebeckspiss[Klebenpies]72, Koehler62);

from Hanau: (Dresser?[Dieser]35);

from Hannover: (Mehm[Mem?]64, Strang[Strack]67);

from Hilders, Wuerzburg: (Grentz[Gretz/Krentz]90, Mensing[Mensinger]89);

from Isenburg: (Brant43);

from Koblenz: (Wagner33);

from Koenigstein: (Eckermann3);

from Kuelz, Mainz: (Hoefner[Hoeffner]17);

from Lauterbach: (Suppes[Subers?]13);

from Lauterecken an der Glan, Pfalz: Eckler91);

from Lohr am Main: Thomaa[Domme]71);

from Mainz: (Heinrich41);

from Mannheim: (Kaufamnn26, Naumann94);

from Mergentheim: (Erlichhaeuser109);

from Michelstadt: (Breit77);

from Neuberg am Wald, Mainz: (Gulder1);

from Neuburg: (Jacob106);

from Neustadt, Pfalz: (Eberle96);

from Neustadt, Wuerzburg: (Dippel[Tippel]102);

from Nottingham, England: (Dar25);

from Orb: (Alles27, Arnhold[Arnold]16, Frank9, Heim18, Heiss98, Klauser14, Pfeifer6, Schetzel10, Thesch[Desch]12, Ulrich8);

from Orb, Mainz: (Herr23);

from Pfaffenhofen: (Boehm104);

from Posda?, Schweiz: (Dinkel19);

from Raron?, Schweiz: (Kelbermater54);

from Sachsen-Meiningen: (Wachtmeister[Wachmeister]74);

from Salmuenster, Fulda: (Koehler[Keller]65;

from Schoenborn?, Pfalz: (Spahn61);

from Schweinsberg, Fulda: (Burgardt59);

from Seligenstadt, Mainz: (Urschlauer31);

from Steinheim, Mainz: (Holzmeister[Holtzmeister]80, Tege70);

from Unnamed: (Baer[Bahrwirt?]45, Brenta79, Guldich25a, Heim61a, Herrmann67a, Rechaer?94a, Rubteschel?44a, Waler?51a);

from Villach, Oesterreich: (Schmal37);

from Weinsheim: (Wagner5);

from Werdenberg, Wuerzburg: (Zengraf[Zenkgraf]105);

from Wernborn bei Usingen:(Ikes[Ikers]60);

from Wertheim, Franken: (Etzel55);

from Woerth am Main, Mainz: (Degent?[Dechant]30);

from Wuerzburg: (Bechert39, Dittmaier52, Elheim[Ehlhein]52a, Fischer4, Kappes[Kippes]56, Keberlein[Keberle]66, Kesner46, Kirchner53, Konrad[Konradi]20, Leth[Lehl]108, Lutz47, Ramann36, Reser[Retter]69, Risch[Riesch]58,95, Schaefer34,85, Schiemer[Schirmer]57, Schubert51, Ulrich11, Ziegler63). 

PfeifleFN: in 1819 two families settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa; family records found by Curt Renz in Gottelfingen, Freudenstadt parish, Wuerttemberg.

PfeifnerFN: said by the Mueller FSL to be fromUC Hannover.  In 1798 this family name is rendered variously as Fraigefer and Greifert, and the wife's maiden name is given as Brahm (Mai1798: Ml21).

PfeilerFN: said by the Holstein FSL to be fromUC Meinzing(?).

PfenningFN:  this was the maiden name of frau Sommer{Conrad}, according to the 1798 Brabander census (Mai1798:Bn34).

PferdsbachGL bei Buedingen, Hessen: according to the Frank FSL, it was in the state of Isenburg and was homeUC to Lapp families.  Said by Stumpp to be homeUC to the Gutmann man who in 1766 in Buedingen married a Geyer woman; by 1767 the couple was in Kutter (Mai&Marquardt#498).  Pferdsbach evidently is no longer a separate village but is a subdivision within Buedingen city.

PferdsfeldGL, Kreuznach [Amt], Pfalz: is 11.5 miles W of Bad Kreuznach, and the GCRA proved the Schwind couple married here before going on to Hungary and Glueckstal.  See the GCRA book for more detail.

PfitzerFN: was in Glueckstal for a time and said by KS:394 to be from Duerrmenz, Vaihingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.  This origin was proven by the GCRA using FHL 1,184,962; see their book for detail.  Also spelled Pfuetzer.

PfitzerFN: Curt Renz has found the church records for this Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in Duerrmenz, Maulbronn Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.  Stumpp, p.524, says they arrived in Russia in 1805.

PflugFN: said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC Wiesbaden with a Zimmermann step-son in the household and the wife’s maiden name [surely her previous married name] was given as Zimmermann.  I could not find neither these Pflugs in the 1798 Volga censuses.

PflugFN: the GCRA proved this the maiden name of Frau Springer (1816 Kassel #16), and using FHL#770,206 proved her origin in Oberseebach, Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass.  See their book for more.

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

PforzheimGL, Baden: is some 16 miles SE of Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg.

PfrischbachGL, Hessen: see Frischbach.

Pfrondorf GL, Tuebingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 3 miles NE of Tuebingen city, and was said by the 1816 Bergdorf census to be homeUC to a Redenbach family.  The GCRA found in FHL(probably 1,457,432) the mention of a Roethenbach family but did not look for the birth records of the Bergdorf settlers.  The name was also spelled Reidenbach.

PfuetzerFN: see Pfitzer.

Pful?FN: said by the Seewald FSL to be fromUC Bernkastel, Trier.  A later spelling was Puhl.

PfullingenGL, Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 2 miles SE of Reutlingen city, PfullingenGL, Reutlingen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is some 2 miles SSE of Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to Beck, Haring/Hering and Rothmann families that settled in Gueldendorf, Odessa.  It was incorrectly said by the 1816 Bergdorf census to be homeUC to the Goetz family. And mistakenly said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Ruehle family.  The GCRA has proven this origin to be incorrect in both cases.  See their book for more detail.

PfundnerFN: said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC Cham, Bayern.

Pfundner FN: the Herzog FSL says his wife fromUC Pilsheim-bei-Schmidmuehlen, Bayern.  Apparently she had been an Arnst widow.

PhilippFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Roth, Maltes?GL, Wuerzburg [Bishopric]:.

Philipp{Carl}FN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Fauerbach. For 1798 see Mai1798:Bb5, 38.

Philipp{Christian}FN: said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to be fromUC Naugen?.  For 1798 see Mai1798:Er14.

PhilippFN{Peter}: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Hattersheim, Kurmainz, with Leindecker orphan girls of his married sister??

PhilippFN{Adam}: said by the Keller FSL to be fromUC Laubenheim, Kurmainz.  For 1798 see (Mai1798:Nk49).

PhilippeFN: said by the Franzosen FSL to be fromUC Bessan, Frankreich.

PhilipperFN said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC Amereli(?), Dauphin(?), Frankreich.

PhilippsenFN: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be fromUC Albek, Daenmark.

PhilippsteinGL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Kunz family.  Kuhlberg said this was in Nassau, so this is likely the same place as the next entry.

PhilippsteinGL, Nassau-Weilburg: is some 4.6 miles E of Weilburg city, and said by the Bangert FSL to homeUC to a Gath? family.

Philips EichGL: is now within Dreieich, Hessen.

PhillipFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg. 

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

PhillipsfeldVV: was a German Lutheran village on the eastern side of the Volga founded in 1767. The  FSL is published in Pleve, Einwanderung …, vol.III, pp. 403-412.  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 Altenmoor, [Holstein Duchy?]:  (Grebe14);

from Amberg: (Hinsch/Gansch44);

from Ansbach [Margraviate]: (Widemann46);

from Bernburg, Hessen: (Reis12, and possibly Bock12a);

from Berod, Hessen: (Kaufmann37, Metzger38);

from Bischausen-bei-Waldkappel, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]:  (Wilhelm9 and possibly Ludwig9a);

from Friedewald: (Beier(J.Heinrich}20, {Maria}19/Beyer, Damm/Dan22);

from Friedewald, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Eschenbrenner/Aschenbrenner3, Merhardt/Marquardt2, Mueller21);

from Frielingen, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Keil30);

from Gesau, [Schoenburg County, Kursachsen?]:  (Tischer15 and possibly Koch15a);

from Grossmannsrode, [Hersfeld Principality, Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate?]: (Voelker40);

from Heringen, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Knatz18, Sommer10, Wagner24);

from Hessen-Kassel [Landgraviate]: (Schroeder/Schraeder1);

from Hetzbach, Hessen: (Haar43);

from Hirschfeld[/Hersfeld PrincipalityGS, Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate?]: (Held/Heldt{Michael}25, {Herman}42, Lies11);

from Hofgeismar, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Hose/Gose4, and possibly Erchardt4a);

from Iba, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Thomas7, and possibly Schneider{Kaspar,etc}7a);

from Ketzeman?: (Goebel27);

from Ketzeman?, Hessen: (Klotzbach28);

from Koenigsheim: (Trautwein14);

from Kuechen-bei-Waldkappel, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: Berge8, Jung26);

from Lingelbach, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Schaefer32, Schmidt33);

from Machtlos, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]:  (Wiederholt/Wiederhold35);

from Mehlis, [Kursachsen]: Anshuetz36);

from Mellinghausen, [Hoya County, Kurbraunsweig?]: (Hilgenberg/Hildenberg5);

from Nenterode-bei-Wernswig?, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate?]: (Behm17);

from Niederscheld, [Nassau Dillenburg Principality]: (Ringel13);

from Oberaula, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Kreutzmueller23);

from Raboldshausen, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Kaiser6);

from Schellbach, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Freund16, Pfeifer29, Toepfer45;

from Weissenhasel, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: (Hopp/Kopp41, Windemuth39);

from Woelkershain-bei-Remsfeld, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]:   (Schneider{Michael}34).

PicardFN: see Bickert.

Picardie: that part of France that includes the Somme river valley (and neighboring areas) down to the shores of the English Channel.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Koehler FSL to be homeUC to a Lossel family.

Picardi?, Frankreich: said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Pagnon family.  This apparently refers to the same part of France as mentioned in the previous entry.

Pichel FN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Kilian.

Pikburg?, Daenemark: an unidentified place said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Maimre family.

PiehFN: said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be fromUC Laubach.

PiekFN: said by the Kromm version of the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL to be have come fromUC Allerbach, Zweibruecken at Birkenfeld later than the first settlers (p.137).  Scheuerman spelled it Piek.

PielFN: see Pril.

PiermasensGL, Pfalz: is some 27 miles E of Saarbruecken, Saarland, and was said by KS:487 to be homeUC to the Will  family that went to Glueckstal.   Was home to an Eider family that settled in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia;  KS:523, says Piermasens was in the County of Thalsueden.

PiermasensGL, Piermasens [Amt], Pfalz: Proved by the GCRA to be home to the Hahn family in the Kassel 1816 census (#10).

PietschFN: see Bitsch and Pietz.

PietzFN: the GCRA’s prefered spelling for Pitz{Friedrich} of Kassel.

PietzFN: said by the Pfeiffer FSL to be fromUC Aschaffenburg.  Later spelled Pietsch (Mai1798:Pf30).

PietzFN: also see Bitsch and Pitz.

PihlFN: see Bisl.

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

Pikotn?, Bamberg [Bishopric]: an unidentified place said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Mehfelder family.

PikusFN: said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC Pommern (no locality mentioned).

PilenFN: said by the Leitsinger FSL to be fromUC Bamberg [Bishopric] (no locality mentioned) with a Friedritz orphan in the household.   I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

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

PilleFN: included in the Bettinger FSL but no place of origin was given.  According to a Rosslau ML this man married a Lehmann woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#918).

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

Pilow?GL: an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Wolter family and possibly to a Gonohorn? family. Kuhlberg said this was in Halle.  There was no Halle country that I can find but there was a Hall Imperial City (23 miles E of Heilbronn city), now known as Swabaeishch Hall, which controlled considerable lands to the SW, N and E of Hall city itself.  There was a Tullau some 1 mile SW of Hall city.

Pilseranstof?GL: an unidentified place said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Schon family.

Pilsheim-bei-Schmidmuehlen, Bayern: is some 17 miles NW of Regensburg, and said by the Herzog FSL to be homeUC to a Krastel and probably an Arnst family.

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

PineckerFN: said by the Moor FSL to be from Isenburg. The family name was spelled both  Pinneker and Pinnecker in 1798 (Mai1798:Mo55/45). Bonner he was baptized, married his Lutz wife, and their elder children were baptized in Buedingen, Isenburg[-Buedingen County].

Pingensheim?GL: an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to a Wanter?/Winter family.  This probably was Bingensheim, Hessen-Darmstadt, some 4 miles ENE of Friedberg city.

PinkFN: said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC Saargemuend, Lothringen.  In 1798 his wife’s maiden name was given as Freschmann (Mai1798:Mt1).

PinneckerFN: see Pinecker.

PinnekerFN: see Pinecker.

PinnstadtGL: said by a Luebeck ML to be the home of a Mueller man who in 1766 married a Keyser woman; later this couple went to Stahl-am-Karman (Mai&Marquardt#221).  There is a Pannstedt, Lower Saxony some 19 miles SSW of Bremen.

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

PirmasensGL, Pirmasens AmtGL, Rhinepfalz: is some 11 miles SE of Zweibruecken city. Proved by Curt Renz to be home to the Eider family that settled in Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia.  Said by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#36) and KS:487 to have been be homeUC  to the Will{Kaspar} family.

Pirmasens AmtGL, Pfalz: seated in Pirmasens city, this was a District administrative center. 

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

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

PischeldorfGL, Pfalz is an unidentified locality said by the Seewald FSL to be homeUC of Hartmann and Wolfgang families.

Pischki FN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Carcassonne, Languedoc, Frankreich.  I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.

PischkiFN: also see Bischke.

PisterfeldFN: see Bisterfeld.

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

PitschFN: see Bitsch.

Pitz{Friedrich}FN: listed in the 1858 Kassel census (#211) with no origin, but KS: 395 said this family came fromUC Hungary (no locality indicated).   Also spelled Bitsch, Buetz and preferably Pietz.  See the GCRA book for more.

PitzFN: also see Bitsch.

Pivir?FN: the 1798 Norka census gives this as the maiden name of the wife of an Isenburger Derr (Mai1798:Nr43).

Piver(?)GL, is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank FSL, was in the state of Hannover and was homeUC to a Mueller family.

PlattenGL is some 20 miles NE of Trier, and is said by the Seewald FSL to be homeUC of aTikhin? family.

Plattner/Blattner?FN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Reez(?)/Retz.

PlatzFN: said by the Volmer FSL to be fromUC Bril/Bruehl(?).  Later spelled Blatz.

PleidelsheimGL, Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is some 4 miles N of Ludwigsburg city, and has been verified by the GCRA as the origin of the Grill and Hafner families that went to Bergdorf.  KS:349 gave this place as an alternative origin for the Kurrle family that went to Bergdorf.  It was also proven by the GCRA to be home to Abel{Regina} who immigrated to Kassel.

PleimFN: see Pleisch.

PleiningenGL, Stuttgart parish, Wuerttemberg: is a southeastern suburban area of Stuttgart.

PleinisFN: see Pleisch.

PleischFN: listed by both the 1816 Neudorf census (#68) and KS:395 with no origin.  Using FHL#493,207, the GCRA proved their origin in Kellenbach, Simmern [Kreis], Preussen Rheinland.  See the GCRA book for more.     Also spelled Pleiss, Pleim, and, correctly, Pleinis.

PleissFN: see Pleisch.

Plekenberg CountyGS: this could be Blankenburg County which existed somewhere in the Saxon area.

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

Pless/Bless?FN: said by the Kamenka FSL to be fromUC Heilbronn am Neckar.

PlessGS, Silesia, Prussia: is now Pszczyna, Poland, 57 miles S of Czestochowa city; origin was proven here for the widow Zenker who died in Glueckstal.

PlettenbergGL, [Mark County]: is 24 miles NNW of Siegen city, and said by the Boregard FSL to be homeUC to a Schoeneberg family and possibly to the Hirschs.

PletzendorffGL, Tiegenhoff Amt: now Ploynik, Poland, and was 1.5 miles NE of Tiegenhoff city.  Said by the Orloff FSL to be homeUC to an Epp family.  Also spelled Pletzendork.

PletzendorkGL: see Pletzendorff.

Pligner/Wigner?FN: the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel FSL fails to give a place of origin for this family.

Plochingen, Esslingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is 4 miles ESE of Esslingen-am-Neckar, and was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Raile family that settled in Neudorf.

PlockFN:  said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Gerstrung.

PlokwetFN: see Plucket.

Plopdorf(?)GS,said by the Dinkel FSL to be homeUC to a Rebensdorf family.

PlucketFN: said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC Isenburg (no locality mentioned).  Spelled Plokwet in the 1775 census.  Later spelled Pluket (Mai1798:Nr223).

PluemerdorfFN: said by the Kolb FSL to be fromUC Regensburg.

PluketFN: see Plucket.

PobingerFN: said by the Brabander FSL to be fromUC Bobingen, Augsburg [Bishopric], in the Schwaben area.  Spelled Bobinger in 1798 (Mai1798:Bn33).

PobochnayaVV (aka Pobochnya, or Pobotschnaja): a Russian German village of the Lutheran and Reformed faiths situated on the western side of the Volga.  It was founded in 1772.  All the information below has been provided by Laurin P. Wilhelm, the AHSGR village coordinator.  According to Prof. Pleve the settlers came from  Darmstadt.  Whether they had lived in this city or state, or whether they had gathered here from distant points to begin their journey is so far unknown.  Unfortunately the first settlers list provides no information as to origins, so in the following I will simply list (for now) the families names (which often include maiden names of wives or unmarried female heads of household) as given in the 1772 List, a translation of which Laurin has provided.  As usual the households are numbered; I have placed an f indicating a maiden name before household numbers where that is appropriate:

Appel21; Brach5; Dillmanf30; Emrichf26; Evgel[?]f17, Falk29; Gelmut[Helmut]f21; Gerhartf7, Gerkhered[Hergert]f4; Gerlachf8, Keller26,f15; Kalkopff3, Knak13; Krum23; Lalb[?]f16, Lamm18; Miller32; Neldlingf5; Niesper28; Oshewald[Oswald]f2; Otto25; Popp24,f10; Rutti[Rudi]11; Schaefer1; Schlegel15,16; Schmidt12; Schneiderf18,3,6,6f,7,8,17; Schukartf9; Schumacher9; Seltzf13; Simmelf12; Stein27; Straub20; Thiel10; Wagner14,22; Weingaertnerf19; Wellef11; Wilhelm31; Winself20,19; Wittig2; Zavina[?]f31.

PobochnyaVV : an alternate spelling for Pobochnaya.

Pobotchino: a daughter colony of Pobochnaya located in western Siberia.

PobotschnajaVV : an alternate spelling for Pobochnaya.

PochinnayaVV: is a Russian name of KratzkeVV.

PodchinnyyVV: is a Russian name of KratzkeVV.

Podolia: a region mostly that was mostly in present-day Ukraine, roughly bounded by a line from Balta W to the Dniester, NW along the Dniester to the Zbruch river due S of Tarnopol, an irregular line from Tarnopol ENE to just S of Berdychiv, from there SE along the N border of Vinnytsaya province, through Cherkaska province to the northern boundary of Kirovohadska province at the Dnieper river, briefly S following the Dnieper, then W generally following the southern boundary (but often a bit S) of Kirovohadska province back to Balta.  Thus it was S of Volhynia and of the Kiev Region, and E of Galicia.

Podosin(?)GL, Hohensolms: an unidentified place said by the Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Schinf family.

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

Poduch?GL, Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Mariental FSL to be homeUC to a Wenzele family.

PoenitzGL, Anhalt-Dessau: is some 2 miles SE of Dessau city and is now spelled Poetnitz, and according to Anhalt-Dessau archives the home of  a Pahn-Karst woman who married in 1766 in Rosslau a Hanke (Mai&Marquardt#1097,902).   See Hancke of Orlovskaya.

PoetnitzGL: see Poenitz.

PoghausenGL: see Pokhausen.

PohlGL: these sisters, who married men of Glueckstal and Kassel, were proven by the CGRA, using FHL 247,6328, to be from Klingenmuenster, Bergzabern [Amt], Pfalz.  Also spelled Bohl.  See the GCRA book for detail.

PohlFN: said by the Katharinenstadt FSL to be from Hanau with a Bakler wife fromUC Maastrict.  A Luebeck ML says this man married in 1765 a Berckler woman (Mai&Marquardt#43).

PohlFN: also see Boell.

Pohl-GoensGL, Hesse: is the place in whose 1726 church records (LDS microfilm) Jack Morkel found the baptismal record of the first Morkel settler in Huck.

PohlmanFN: said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC Malkhin, Mecklenburg.  The Walter Research Group has confirmed in parish records that this was a Pohlman family from Malehin, Mecklenburg.

Poitiers, Frankreich: is 183 miles SW of Paris and said by the Franzosen FSL to be homeUC to a Ribos? family.

PokhausenGL: said by the Dobrinka FSL to be homeUC to a Geier family.  This may be Poghausen in Lower Saxony, some 46 miles NW of Bremen city center.

PolandGS: see Polen.  Said (no locality mentioned) by the Merkel FSL to be homeUC to a Hoffmann family.  Said by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Torno family; the GRCA believes they, like many others who came south towards the Black Sea, were from the Netze River valley in Posen province. Said by both the 1816