WimelbachGL,
see Wimmelbach.
Wimlingrimbach(?)GL,
is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank
FSL, was in the state of Erbach
and was homeUC to a Heisel? family.
Wimmelbach/Wimelbach,
BamburgGL: is some 13 miles SSE of the city of Bamburg,
Bavaria and said by the Kamenka
FSL to be homeUC to a Kerner/Kenaer/Kenner
family.
WimmerFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Weinheim, Kurpfalz.
Later spelled Winner.
Wimpfen(?)GL,
Oesterreich: an unidentified
place said by the Dobrinka FSL to
be homeUC to a Schwend?
family. This may be Bad Wimpfen in Baden-Wuerttemberg,
some 6 miles NW of Heilbronn
city, but I am not aware of any lands held by Austria
near Heilbronn.
WindFN:
said by the Brabander FSL to be
fromUC Botersinks?, Blumenfeld. I could not
find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
Windecke?FN:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Boregard
FSL to be fromUC Rosslau.
Spelled Wiedecke in 1798 (Mai1798:Mv1152).
WindeckerFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Erenga, Isenburg.
The Buedingen ML says that
this man married a Koch woman in
1766 (Mai&Marquardt#458).
WindemannFN:
an orphan boy listed by the Boregard
FSL in the Oper? household.
I could not find him in the 1798 Volga censuses.
WindemuthFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Weiden?, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate?] with Schaefer step-children in the household.
For 1798 see Mai1798:Nb08, Mv1151.
WindemuthFN:
said by the Phillipsfeld FSL to
be fromUC Weissenhasel,
[Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate].
He married a Hilt woman in 1766 in Luebeck
(Mai&Marquardt#176).
Her name was spelled Heldt in 1798 (Mai1798:Pp17).
For the rest of 1798 see Bs21, Hb02.
Winden(?)GL,
Wittenberg: an unidentified place
said by the Krasnoyar FSL to be
homeUC to a Haar family.
Later spelled Haag.
WinderFN:
see Winter.
Windesheim,
Mittelpfalz: this was in Kurpfalz
3 miles N of Bad Kreutznach, and
said by the Galka FSL to be homeUC
to a Baum family.
Windheim?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Ober-Monjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Heppner/Huebner/Hoepfner family. There
are five Windheims in Germany.
WindheimGL,
Franken: an unidentified place
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be homeUC to Dorzweiler
and Gipson? families.
WindheimGL:
also see Winkeim.
WindholmFN:
see Windholz.
WindholzFN:
said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Regesnburg.
The Rosslau ML says this Windholm
man married a Gerber woman in
1765 (Mai&Marquardt#832).
She apparently died before reaching Graf
and Windholz had remarried with her brother or nephew in tow.
Windigstein
OstGL, Flck.:
an unidentified place said by the Kamenka
FSL to be homeUC to a Palaery/Palaeri?
family. This probably is
Windigsteig, Austria, some 62 miles NW of Vienna.
Windhof
GL: see Windsdorf.
WindorfGL,
[Kur-]Bayern: is 31 miles WSW of Passau
city, and said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Haas
family and possibly to a Kaster
family.
Windsdorf,
Lothringen: an unidentified place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Bontemps/Bontag/Bundan
family. Might be Windhof, France
some 6 miles SSE of Zweibruecken
city.
Windsheim
Imperial CityGS: this realm was centered on the city of that
name, with territory mostly to the N of the city.
WingenGL,
Weissenburg [Amt], Elsass: this town
is some 5 miles W of Wissembourg
city. Incorrectly said by the 1816 Neudorf
census (#83) to be homeUC to
the Rohrbach family . Proved
by the GCRA as home to the
Eckmann/Ettmann
and Frei/Frey
families that went to Kassel
and to the Gutmueller/Guthmueller
family that settled in Neudorf.
Winick/Winicke/WinikFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Dreihof(?).
WinickeFN:
see Winick.
WinikFN:
see Winick.
WinkeimGL,
Franken: an unidentified place
said by the Seibert family (Warenburg
colony) chart to be homeUC to a Seibert
family. There seem to have been
three Windheims in the Franconian part of Bavaria.
Also see Winkheim.
WinkelausFN:
see Winkelhausen.
WinkelhausenFN:
said by the Ernestinendorf FSL to
be fromUC Ruttershausen?.
Spelled Winkelaus in 1769 (Mai1798:Mv564
and maybe 1798 (Pb39?).
WinkelmannFN:
said by the Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC Anspach (no
locality mentioned) and to have married in Oranienbaum
the widow Holdt(Gold?).
WinkerFN:
said by the Louis FSL to be fromUC
Wien, Oesterreich. In 1798 the family name may have been rendered Winkler
(Mai1798:Mv1557)??
Winkheim
GL, Franken: an
unidentified place said by the Seibert
family (Warenburg colony) chart
to have been homeUC to the Seibert
family. Might this have been Weinheim?
Also see Winkeim.
WinklerFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Salgen, Bavaria.
WinklerFN:
also see Winker.
WinnendenGL,
Waiblingen Oberamt, Wuerttemberg: is some 5 miles NE of Waiblingen,
Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to a
Laemmle family that settled in
Hoffnungstal leaving home in 1827. Proven
as origin to the Froehlich family that went to Kassel.
Incorrectly said by the 1816 Neudorf
census (#25) to be homeUC to
the Siegle{Johannes} family that settled in Neudorf. See the GCRA
book for more.
WinnerFN:
see Wimmer.
Winner?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Hening?
family. There is a small town in
Belgium by this name.
WinnweilerGL:
a town in Falkenstein County.
WinschuFN:
said (no locality mentioned) by the Caesarsfeld
FSL to be fromUC Rosslau.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
WinselFN:
listed in the Pobochnaya FSL so
may have been from Darmstadt
state.
Wintelz?GL,
Nassau: an unidentified place
said by the Brabander FSL to be
homeUC to a Meiser
family.
WinterFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Kosswig, Brandenburg.
I did not identify his 1798 whereabouts.
WinterFN:
said by the Goebel FSL to be fromUC
Oberroth, Kurmainz.
Later spelled Winder (Mai1798:Gb40,
42).
WinterFN:
according to a Woehrd ML this
woman of Aalen, Swabia married in 1766 a Lauchner
man; he settled in Hoelzel (Mai&Marquardt#818).
The Lauwe FSL said a Winter man
was fromUC Eschach?, Olenburg?.
WinterFN:
said by the Husaren FSL to be
fromUC Aschaffenburg.
The 1798 Husaren census
gives his wife's maiden name as Schmidt
(Mai1798:Hn9).
WinterFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Anhalt-Zerbst
(no locality mentioned).
WinterFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Frankfurt-am-Main
(no other locality mentioned).
WinterFN:
said by the Lauwe FSL to be fromUC
Eschach?, Olenburg?.
WinterFN:
the 1798 Norka census gives this
as the maiden name of the wife of an Isenburger Mueller
(Mai1798:Nr87).
WinterFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schlitz
marriage records 1762-67 and in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767; see Flegel trip.
WinterFN:
see also Wanter.
WinterbachGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Haas
family.
WinterbachGL,
Schorndorf [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 2 miles W of Schorndorf city
and might have been homeUC to Nuding{Christian}
who sent to Glueckstal.
See the GCRA book for
detail.
WinterbachGL,
[Wuerttemberg Duchy?], Schwaben:
said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC
to a Kunz family.
This probably is 12 miles E of Stuttgart
city.
WinterbachGL,
Zweibruecken: is some 3 N of Stambach
and is the place where the Artzer
who went to Seewald married and
where his children were born.
WinterbergFN:
see Winterburger?.
WinterbornGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Wagner
family.
WinterburgGL,
Kurpfalz: said by the Bauer
FSL to be homeUC to a Hohl
family. This probably is
Winterburg, Rhineland-Palatinate,
some 29 miles WSW of Mainz city.
Winterburger?FN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be a
young man in the Lehmann household.
In 1798 the family name was spelled Winterberg
(Mai1798:Mv2207).
WinterhalterFN:
see Jordan and Winterholder.
WinterhausenGL,
Bavaria: is some 6 miles SE of Wuerzburg
and was in the 1760’s a part of Hohenlohe
County physically separated from the main body of the county.
In 1972 the Flegels found
mention of the following families in 1762-67 Winterhausen church marriage
records: Appold, Bender, Conrad,
Duerbig, Duerr, Engel, Engelhard, Fasselman, Fell, Forckel, Forster, Fromm,
Fuchs, Glier, Hahn, Hamm, Heinrich, Henning, Hess, Kaestner, Koch, Loblin,
Lutz, Napert, Pfeiffer, Reichenbach, Richter, Scharger, Schilling, Schmidt,
Schneider, Schreiner, Schwnkert, Senger, Seyboth, Sichart, Staudt, Unger,
Weickert, Wiegner, and Zenckert.
WinterholderFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Herchenau.
One of these men married in 1766 in Schlitz
an Unkefug woman; Schulze says the place is now known as Hoerganau
(Mai&Marquardt#745).
The name was spelled Winterhalter
in 1798 (Mai7198: Mn32).
The other married in 1766 in Schlitz
a Damer woman of Engelroth;
Schulze said the place is now called Engelrod
(Mai&Marquardt#746).
WinterhollerFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Hoergenau(?) .
Might this be Winterholder from Herchenau?
WintersteinGL:
an unidentified place said by the Boaro
FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt
family. There is at least one
Winterstein in Bavaria and one in
Thueringen.
WinterwerberFN:
according to a Luebeck ML this
woman married a Kerl man in 1766
(Mai&Marquardt#101). See
Carl of Boregard.
WintzenheimGL:
see Witzenheim and Winzenheim.
WinzenburgGL:
said (no other place mentioned) by the Lauwe
FSL to be homeUC to a Mauch
family. There is a Winzenburg,
then in Hildesheim Bishopric, now
Lower Saxony, some 15 miles S of Hildesheim
city. Another was in Oppeln
Duchy and is now known as Wiecemierzyce, Poland,
some 139 miles ENE of Prague.
WinzenhausenGL,
Ludwigsburg [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 8.5 miles NNE of Ludwigsburg
city, and was said, evidently mistakenly, by the 1816 Glueckstal census to be homeUC to the Kapp
family.
WinzenheimGL,
Alsace: Said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to a Meier family.
Must be Wintzenheim either
21 miles N of Mulhouse, or 12
miles WNW of Strasbourg.
WiplerFN:
see von Wipler.
Wirges,
Kurmainz [sic]: said by the Dehler
FSL to be homeUC to a Minor/Minder?
family. Kurmainz here surely is
a mistake for Kurtrier.
Same place as the following entry.
WirgesGL,
Kur Trier: is 11 miles NE of Koblenz
city and 12 miles NW of Limburg-an-der-Lahn.
Said by the Brabander FSL to be
homeUC to two Haber{Johannes}
and {Anna Maria} households. Said by the Preuss
FSL to be home to a Becker
family.
Wirges,
[Kur-]Trier: said by the Dehler
FSL to be homeUC to a Gauersmann
family. Same place as the
previous entry.
Wirlikrulbach(?)GL,
is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank
FSL, was in the state of Erbach
and was homeUC to a Flath family.
WirschweilerGL:
see Weinichweler.
Wirsitz,
Posen Province, Warsaw Duchy:
is now Wyrzysk, Bydgoszcz, Poland
and was 53 miles NNE of Poznan
city. It was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Redmann/Rettmann,
Teske{Christian}, and Wert/Wirt
families that settled in Neudorf.
WirtFN:
said by the Dehler FSL to be fromUC
Wernborn, Kurmainz.
WirtFN:
also see Wert.
WirthFN:
said by the Bangert FSL to be
fromUC Zuzenhausen,
Kurpfalz.
WirthFN:
said by the Stumpp supplement to the Dietel
FSL to be fromUC Waltenberg
County (no locality indicated).
Dona Reeves-Marquardt
found the birth records in Mettenheim, Wartenberg church books.
WirthFN:
said by the Jagodnaja Poljana FSL
to be fromUC Nidda in
the state of Hessen.
WirthFN:
said by the Neidermonjou FSL to
be fromUC Breitenbach.
I could not find this family in the 1798 censuses.
WirthFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schlitz
marriage records 1762-1767; see Flegel
trip.
WirthFN:
also see Wert, Werth, Werz, Wuertz, and Wurtz.
WirtheimGL:
probably is the village some 3 miles ENE of Gelnhausen,
and said by the Grimm FSL to be
homeUC (no locality mentioned) to a Axthelm
family.
WirtzFN:
said by the Schuck FSL to be fromUC
Shter(?), Briel/Breyell(?). Later
spelled Wertz.
Wischef(?)GL,
Maehren: an unidentified place
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be homeUC to a Richter
family.
Wiseritz(?)GL,
BoehmenGL: said by the
Boaro FSL to be homeUC
to an Albutin? family.
There was a Weseritz, now Bezdruzice, Czech Republic.
WisgemannFN:
said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Macht.
Wisinheim?
GL, Romenburg?: an
unidentified place said by the Brabander
FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt{Anton}
family. There were places with
names similar to Wisinheim in Leiningen County, Kurpfalz, and Elsass.
WissembourgGL,
Alsace, some 20 miles W of Karlsruhe.
See Werzenburg.
WissmannFN:
the maiden name of the widow Lauer
who came to Bergdorf from
Neckarzimmern, Mosbach [Amt], Wuerttemberg
as proven by the GCRA using
FHL 1,189,217. See the GCRA
book for detail.
Witebsk,
Polen: nka Vitsyebsk, Ukraine,
58 miles SE of Polozk, and said by the Husaren
FSL to be homeUC to Kamlowski/Kamlovski
and Lankiewiez families.
WitenbekFN:
see Wittenbeck.
WitmanFN:
see Wittman.
WitnaFN:
said by the Hoelzel FSL to be
fromUC Fell, [Kur-]Trier, with his Busch
wife and mother-in-law in the household. I could not find this family in the
1798 Volga censuses although Pleve said he found it under Vitois,
I could not.
WittFN:
said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC
Kiel, Holstein.
WittFN:
said by the 1798 Lauwe census to
be the maiden name of frau Buss, the former frau Wild
(Mai1798:Lw18).
Witt?GL,
Sipachisch?: an unidentified
place said by the Dreispitz FSL
to be homeUC to a Rupp
family.
WittebergeGS:
an unidentified country; see Lanz.
WittelshofenGL:
is some 7 miles ESE of Duenkelsbuehl.
It is said by the Woehrd ML to be near Duenkelsbuehl
and to be homeUC to the Schnabel woman who in 1766 married
a Lachert man; by 1767 this
couple was in Boaro; Stumpp
spells it Wittershofen (Mai&Marquardt#787).
WittenbeckFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Eckersdorf,
Bayreuth one with a Schrieber
wife fromUC Brandenburg
and the other with a Goetsch
wife. According to a Rosslau ML one of these Wettenbach
men married in 1765 a Schreiber
woman (Mai&Marquardt#877).
Also spelled Witenbek.
WittenbergGL:
an unidentified place said by the Pleve version of the Balzer FSL to be homeUC to a Kiselmann family. Said
by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC
to Hahn and Heidemann families. Said
by the Doenhof FSL to be homeUC
to a Roeber family.
Said by the Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to Hartmann, Lutz{J.Georg},
and Olgaten? families.
Wittenberg(sic.)GL,
Kurpfalz: said by the Bauer
FSL to be homeUC to a Reis?
family. A
contemporary pastor says Reis and his Knobloch
wife were in Mettenheim, Wartenberg,
where they had a daughter confirmed in 1763 (Mai&Marquardt#1248). So
Wittenberg here should be read as Wartenberg.
WittenbergGL,
[Kur]sachsen:
a city now in Sachsen-Anhalt some
53 miles SW of Berlin, was where
Martin Luther started the reformation; a former Duchy which in the 1760’s
had been subsumed by Kursachsen.
Said by the Boaro FSL to be homeUC to a Hahn family. Said by the
Lauwe FSL to be homeUC
to a Goeringen family, and
possibly to a Schmidt family.
Said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Nickelson family.
WittenbergGS:
sometimes this should be read as Wartenberg, e.g. see MeisenheimGL,
Wittenberg; sometimes it should be read as Wuerttemberg,
e.g. see Waltenbuch, Wittenberg.
Except for the Galka FSL which uses it in a very odd way: most localities it
mentions as being in an apparently fictional Wittenberg country were widely scattered in Kursachsen, and one was in an isolated piece of Kurpfalz
11 miles ESE of Darmstadt city
– all seeminly unrelated and not near the city of Wittenburg,
Kursachsen.
WittenbergerFN:
said by the Walter FSL to be fromUC
Landauk, Frants.
WittenbornGL:
an unidentified place said by the Paulskaya
FSL to be homeUC to an Eif
family. Kuhlberg
said this was in Hessen. I do not find
such a place but there was a Wittgenborn
in Isenburg some 7 miles E of Buedingen
city.
Wittendorf
GL: an unidentified place said by the Bettinger
FSL to be homeUC to a Danecker
and possibly to a Richter family.
Wittendorf,
Freudenstadt [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is 4.5 miles SE of Freudenstadt
city, and was proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Eberhard/Eberhardt{Matthaeus,Friedrich,Georg}
family that settled in Neudorf.
Wittenrot?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Wurst
family. This might have been Wickenrodt
some 26 miles WSW of Bingen city.
WitterkerFN:
see Wiederkehr.
Wittershausen,
Horb [Amt], Wuerttemberg:
is 9 miles SSW of Horb-am-Neckar,
and was proven by the GCRA
to be home to a Kammerer/Kamerer
family that settled in Neudorf.
WittershofenGL:
see Wittelshofen.
Wittgenborn?GL,
[Isenburg County]: is 7 miles E
of Buedingen city, and said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Koehler{Ludwig}
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Isenburg.
WittgenbornGL:
also see Wittenborn.
Wittgenstein-Berelburg
CountyGS: was a small country extending from near the
headwaters of the Eder river to near the headwaters of the Lenne river on
the southern edge of Westfalen Duchy.
WittichFN:
listed in the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:668)
and in the Glueckstal 1816 census
(KS:675), without origin,
although KS:488 says they were
fromUC Tuebingen, Wuerttemberg. However,
the GCRA found sources indicating
that this family was in Zweibruecken,
Pfalz in 1780, in Niedershausen, Oberlahnkreis
[Amt], Hesse somewhat later, in Peterswardein/Petrovaradin,
Neusatz (Novi Sad), Hungary
in 1797, and in Hellefelde, Posen
Province, Suedpreussen in
1801, all before ending up in in Bergdorf.
See the GCRA book for more
detail.
WittigFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Wachbach with Stein stepsons in the household.
WittkeFN:
said by the Kratzke FSL to be
fromUC Stralsund, Schwedisch Pommern.
WittlichGL,
Kurtrier: said by the Mariental FSL
to be homeUC to Dinkel,
Kappes, and Martis
families. Same place as the next
entry.
WittlichGL,
Trier: is some 20 miles NE of Trier
city, and said by the Volmer FSL
to be homeUC to a Roskopf/Grosskopf?
family.
WittigFN:
listed in the Pobochnaya FSL so
may have been from Darmstadt
state.
WittmannFN:
said by the Herzog FSL to be fromUC
Regensburg.
WittmannFN:
said by the Holstein FSL to be
fromUC Nelzinei(?), Darmstadt. Later also
spelled Wiedemann.
WittmannFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
Reinberg.
For 1798 see Mai1798:Wm24.
WittmannFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Hammerstein, Kurpfalz.
WittmannFN:
Frank Jacobs says Prof. Pleve says a [unnamed] FSL says such a family came
fromUC Reischburg, Austria.
Wittmayer
FN: said by KS:488 to have
gone to Glueckstal; the GCRA thinks he may have come from Pforzheim, but does not confirm him in Glueckstal; see their book.
WittmerFN:
arrived in South Russia in 1819; later settled in Gueldendorf,
Odessa; family records found by Curt
Renz in Eppinen, Eppingen Amt, Wuerttemberg.
WittwaegerFN,
see Wittwerger.
WittwaengerFN,
see Wittwerger.
WittwergerFN
said by the Frank FSL to be fromUC
Aurach(?), Wuerttemberg. Later
spelled Wittwaenger. The Buedingen ML said the Wittwaeger
man fromUC Auerach
married a Leonhard woman fromUC
Sprenglingen in 1766; later the
couple moved to Frank (Mai&Marquardt#638).
Doris
Evans says this man’s origins were
confirmed in research done by Ruth Froelke for the Frank Research Fund: he
was born 1743 in Sprendlingen.
WittziengenGL:
an unidentified place said by the Warenburg
FSL to be homeUC to a Diener
family.
Witzbarch(?)GL,
is an unidentified locality which, according to the Frank
FSL, was in the state of Erbach
and was homeUC to an Olt family.
WitzelFN:
this family name was found recorded inboth Schlitz
and in Tann marriage records
1762-1767; see Flegel trip.
WitzenhausenFN:
said by the 1798 Orlovskaya
census to be the maiden name of frau Wagner
(Mai1798:Or49).
WitzenheimGL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to an Auze
family. There was a Wintzenheim 21 miles N of Mulhouse,
and one 12 miles WNW of Strasbourg,
and a Winzenheim 1.5 miles N of Bad
Kreuznach.
WixlerFN:
see Wikeler.
Wnikat?GL:
an unidentified place said by the Boregard
FSL to be homeUC to a Neumann
family.
Wochern,
Lothringen: an unidentified place said by the Hoelzel FSL to be homeUC to a Schmidt{Nikolaus} family. There
was a Wochern, Luxembourg, some
14 miles SE of Luxembourg city
and only 2 miles N of the Lothringen border.
WoehrdGL:
is a neighborhood within Nuernberg,
Bavaria where several colonists on their way to Russia married.
The ML is in Mai&Marquardt
#765-830.
WoelferlingenGL,
[Wied-Runkel County]: is some 17
miles NE of Koblenz city, and
said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be
homeUC to a Kraemer
family. Kuhlberg said this was in the state of Runkel.
Woelkershain-bei-Remsfeld,
[Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate]: an
unidentified place said by the Phillipsfeld
FSL to homeUC to a Schneider{Michael}
family. See Remsfeld.
WoerlitzGL:
is now in Sachsen-Anhalt some 9
miles WSW of Wittenberg city, and
said to be homeUC to
the Roenecke family that went to Boaro
(Mai&Marquardt#1140).
ReinhardFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Kumpelstadt(?).
Spelled Reinhardt in 1798
(Mai1798: Mn02).
WoerlizGL,
DessauGL: this surely is the same place as the previous
entry. Said by the Boaro
FSL to be homeUC to Bauer
family (a Woehrd ML says he was
fromUC Geroldshofen (Mai&Marquardt#794)). Said
by the Orlovskaya FSL to be homeUC
to a Konrad family.
Woerner
FN: see Werner.
Woerth
[Amt]GL, Elsass:
is some 11 miles SW of Wissembourg
city and was a District administrative center.
Woerth-am-MainGL,
Bavaria: see Verg.
Woerth-am-MainGL,
Mainz: is some 12 miles S of Aschaffenburg
in Bavaria and said by the Pfeiffer
FSL to be homeUC to a
Degent? family.
WoeschbachGL,
Baden-Durlach is 7.7 miles E of Karlsruhe
and is said by the Roethling FSL
to be homeUC to a Konrad
family.
WoessingenGL,
Karlsruhe [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 10 miles E of Karlsruhe city
and proven by the GCRA
to be home to the Huft family
which went to Bergdorf;
see their book for more details.
WogauFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Kloster
Leichtstaedte(?)/Leuchstadt, Warenburg/Ballenheim.
WohlenderFN:
said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC
Gerden(?) (no locality mentioned).
Wohlschleier?FN:
said by the Anton FSL to be fromUC
Zweibruecken, Kurpfalz.
Later spelled Wohlschleger.
Wohlschleger:
see Wohlschleier.
WohnbachGL,
[Solms-Hungen]:
where
the father of the Trupp man who
went to Frank died.
Wolet?FN:
said by the Dreispitz FSL to be
fromUC Hefnerhessel, Wittenberg. In 1798 the
family name was spelled Volet (Mai1798:Dr12).
WolfFN:
said by the Bauer FSL to be fromUC
Oberdorf(?), Elsass.
WolfFN:
a widower said by the Belowescher
Kolonien FSL to be fromUC Isenburg
(no locality mentioned) who married a Bartholomaius
woman.
Wolf
FN {Elias}: listed in the Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:667,
490) without origin. Origin
in Weinsberg, Heilbronn
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg
was proven by the GCRA using FHL(1,346,065-6).
See the GCRA book for more
details.
Wolf
FN {Matthias/Friedrich}: listed in the Kassel
1816 (#1) census and in KS:490
without origin, but said by the Bergdorf
1858 census (#172) to have been from Schanbach,
Esslingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
However, using FHL(756,807-9
and fiche#068,791-3) the GCRA
proved the family’s origin in Rountzenheim,
Roppenheim parish, Bischweiller
[Amt], Elsass and their briefer stay in Sessenheim. This
family first settled in Kassel (KS:685)
and later Bergdorf.
WolfFN:
said by the Boaro FSL to be fromUC
Schleiz, Sachsen.
I could not find this family in the 1798 Volga censuses.
WolfFN:
a stepson listed by the Boregard
FSL in the Risch household.
WolfFN:
said by the Doenhof FSL to be
fromUC Darmstadt (no
locality mentioned).
Wolf{J.Fried.}:
married in Glueckstal and origin
in Unterlenningen, Kirchheim
[Amt], Wuerttemberg was
proven by GCRA using FHL
1,055,827; see their book for detail.
WolfFN:
said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Mannheim, Kurpfalz.
WolfFN:
said by the Graf FSL to be fromUC
Zindenfels, Kurpfalz.
WolfFN:
said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
Wolf
FN: said by the Hildman FSL
to be the maiden name of frau Weiss.
Wolf
FN: said by the Jost FSL to
be fromUC either Hamburg
or Homburg.
WolfFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Statzbach(?),
Wuerzburg with a Keifer wife
fromUC Eisenheim.
In 1798 his wife is listed as a Fetzer
(Mai1798:Ka65).
WolfFN:
said by the Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Habicht.
WolfFN:
said by the Kraft FSL to be fromUC
Weiler, Isenburg.
The Buedingen ML says this
Wolff man was fromUC Weiler-an-der-Nahe
and married in 1766 a Paul woman
(Mai&Marquardt#682).
WolfFN:
said by the Kratzke FSL to be
fromUC Stendal/StedalGL, Brandenburg.
WolfFN:
the Rosslau ML says a Wolf woman married a Hahnhart
man in 1766, no origin given for either; by 1767 this couple was in Kutter;
Stumpp says the wedding was in 1765 (Mai&Marquardt#978).
WolfFN:
said by the Mariental FSL to be
fromUC Mainz (no
locality mentioned).
WolfFN:
given as the maiden name of Bott in
the 1798 Mueller
census (Mai1798: Ml08).
WolfFN:
said by the Moor FSL to be fromUC
Isenburg (no locality mentioned).
Wolf
FN: said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be fromUC [Hessen-]Darmstadt. For 1798 see Mai1798:
Nm30,44.
WolfFN:
said by the Norka FSL to be fromUC
Hessen (no locality mentioned).
The 1798 Norka census says
his wife’s maiden name was Paul
(Mai1798:Nr115).
WolfFN:
said by the Preuss FSL to be fromUC
Ateleng(?), Kur Trier.
WolfFN:
this family name was found recorded in Schlitz
marriage records 1762-1767 and in Schotten
parish records for many generations prior to 1767, and in 1700s Berstadt
parish records; see Flegel trip.
WolfFN:
also see Wulf.
WolfGL:
an unidentified place said by the Neidermonjou
FSL to be homeUC to a Soring
family. Kuhlberg said this was
in Hessen.
This probably was the same place as the next entry.
Wolf,
Isenburg-Buedingen County: is 1.5 miles NW of Buedingen city. Bonner
proved this the baptism place of the Bingel and Gruen men, as
well frau Gruen and frau Lutz/Lotz
(both nee Hart), all of whom
immigrated to Balzer.
He also proved it where both Herr Gruen
and frau Guren (nee Hart) were baptized; this couple settled in Kutter. And
he proved it to be where frau Jaekel (nee Sorberger)
was baptized; this couple settled in Moor.
WolfartFN:
said by the Kano FSL to be fromUC
[Anhalt-]Zerbst [Principality] (no
locality mentioned). Spelled
Wolfhart and Wolfert in 1798 (Mai1798:Kn27,35).
WolfenGL,
Sachsen: this city is 11 miles S of Dessau
city.
WolfenbuettelGL:
said by the Kano FSL to be homeUC to a Hesse family. This
probably was in Brunswick Duchy
some 7 miles S of Brunswick city.
WolferFN:
arrived in South Russia in 1819; later settled in Gueldendorf,
Odessa; family records found by Curt
Renz in Bonlanden, Stuttgart parish, Wuerttemberg.
Wolferborn/WolfferbornGL,
Isenburg[-Birstein County?]: is
some 4.5 miles NE of Buedingen. Bonner
proved that the Schlegel/
Schleuchert man
who married the Goetz woman in Luebeck
and settled in Balzer (FSL #101)
was baptized here. Said
by the Buedingen ML to be homeUC
to a Frick man who married a Loos
woman in 1766; the family later went to Huck
(Mai&Marquardt#614). Bonner
proved that the Roeder man who
went to Messer was born here in
1726.
WolfertFN:
see Wolfart.
WolffFN:
see Wolf.
WolfgangFN:
said by the Seewald FSL to be
fromUC Pischeldorf, Pfalz.
WolfhagenGL:
said by the Orlovskaya FSL to be
homeUC to a Goetz
family. Kuhlberg said this was in the state of Kassel
so it must be the same place as the next entry.
WolfhagenGL,
Hessen-Kassel: is some 12 miles W of Kassel
city, and said by the Dinkel FSL
to be homeUC to a Walter
family.
WolfhartFN:
see Wolfart.
WolfsheimGL,
Frankreich: an unidentified place said by the Dinkel
FSL to be homeUC to a Raab
family. The Buedingen
ML says this man married a Michel
woman in 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#497).
This might be Wolfisheim some 4 miles W of Strasbourg.
WolfsoeldenGL,
Backnang [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 4 miles SW of Backnang city,
and was said to have been the homeUC of the brother of the Eichholz
who went to Glueckstal.
Wolkenstein,
Bamberg [Bishopric]: is
18 miles SE of Bamberg city, and
said by a Woehrd ML to be homeUC
to Lauchner, who settled in Hoelzel
(Mai&Marquardt#818).
WolkowoVV:
a variation of the Russian name for SchaffhausenVV.
WollendorfFN:
see Fallendorf.
WollishofenUC,
Zuerich [Amt], Schweis: is now a
neighborhood in southern Zuerich
city, and is suspected by the GCRA
as homeUC to the Stotz
wife of Keller{J.Jakob} of Glueckstal;
see their book for detail.
Wollmar?GL:
said by the Mueller FSL to be
homeUC to a Knobloch
family. Mai
and Marquardt say the place name reads Valme
(510). Kuhlman gives the state
as Riedesel.
There is a Wollmar some 11 miles NNW of Marburg
an der Lahn. There is a Valme some 23 miles NW of that Wollmar.
WolmarGL,
Livland: is now called Valmiera,
Latvia, some 63 miles NE of Riga
city. Said by the Jost FSL to be homeUC to a Brenner and possibly to a Meier
family.
WolskojeVV:
a variation of the Russian name for KukkusVV.
Wolter?FN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Alsfeld with a
Seiftenberg step-son living in the household.
In 1798 the family name was spelled Walter
(Mai1798:Pl31).
WolterFN:
said by the Paulskaya FSL to be
fromUC Pilow? with two
orphan Gonohorn? boys in the
household.
WoltericheFN:
the family name of the wife of a Diederich
man who went to Frank (Mai&Marquardt#1322).
Womtag(?)GL,
Laubach: an unidentified place said
by the Pleve version of the Jagodnaja
Polyjana FSL to be homeUC to a Baum
family. Kromm thinks this may be
Lombach, Wuerttemberg, or Mohnbach,
Hanau County.
WonderFN:
see Bender.
WormsBV: a southern Russian German village near Odessa. Destination of
the Pfaff
family which Judy
Remmick proved to have originated in Imsbach,
Rheinpfalz.
WormsFN:
said by the Grimm FSL to be fromUC
Laubach (no locality mentioned).
Also spelled Werm.
WormsGS:
in the 1760’s there were two countries called Worms and the various FSL do
not give enough information to identify which is referred to.
One was the city itself which is some 36.8 miles SSW of Frankfurt-am-Main and
was then an Imperial City, i.e. an independent country with its own lands
with villages and towns, some separated from the city. The other was the Worms
Bishopric which controlled even more lands with villages and towns,
scattered out in all directions from the city except due W and NW. These
lands were surrounded by Kurpfalz lands in all directions except N where Hessen-Darmstadt
lands lay. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Dietel FSL to
be homeUC to a Urich
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Goebel FSL to
be homeUC to a Kasson
and perhaps a Frick family. Said
(no locality mentioned) by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC to a Meier
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Koehler FSL to
be homeUC to Preis, Warle and possibly Hermann
families. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Kukkus FSL to
be homeUC to a Heiland
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Merkel FSL to
be homeUC to a Becker
family. Said (no locality
mentioned) by the Volmer FSL to
be home to Eter?, Gertner/Gaertner, and Graf
families.
WormsGL, Hessen-Darmstadt: is some 20 miles SW of Darmstadt city. Worms
had passed to the control of Hessen-Darmstadt
in 1815 and the city was an Amt administrative center.
WormsbecherFN:
said by the Katharinenstadt FSL
to be fromUC Friedenwald,
Marburg.
Woronesch:
see Riebensdorf.
WoydFN:
see Voit.
Wreschen
Kreis, Posen Department, Warsaw
Duchy: nka Wrzesnia, Poland,
28 miles ESE of Posen.
Wriezen,
Prussia; nka Frankfurter Vorstadt, Brandenburg 34 miles from Berlin
city centre; the GCRA said it was
near Berlin and that the Torno
family which came from there was not related to the one that settled in the
Glueckstal colonies.
WudFN:
maiden name of 3nd? wife of Kossman,
per Goebel FSL.
WuenschFN:
said by the Galka FSL to be fromUC
Pappenheim [Barony]. Spelled Wunsch
in 1798 (Mai1798:Fk34, 45, 57). The
Buedingen ML said this Wunsch
man married in 1766 a Weisheim
woman (Mai&Marquardt#402). The 1798 Galka census gave her maiden name as Weigand (Mai1798:Gk34).
WuertingenGL,
Reutlingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg: is
some 6.5 miles SE of Reutlingen
city, and was erroneously said by the 1816 Glueckstal
census to be homeUC to the Werner
family.
Wuertsburg
PrincipalityGS: in Bavaria;
see Wuerzburg Principality.
WuerttembergGS:
a major German Duchy in the 1760’s whose seat was Stuttgart and which
was later a Kingdom 1806-1919.
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