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Ku-Kzz
Kubach,
Braunfels [sic?]: said by the
Warenburg FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Dein family.
I could find
no Kubach in former
Nassau-Braunfels
Principality
lands, but there was
one nearby in
Nassau-Weilburg
Principality
lands 8.5 km SW of
Braunfels townl.
KuchFN:
listed in
KS:345 as having
come to
Glueckstal from
Entringen, Tuebingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. The
GCRA proved this
origin using
FHL 1,475,173;
see their book for
detail.
KuchFN:
see also
Koch and
Kuhn.
KuebelFN:
see
Niebel.
Kuebelstein,
Bamberg
[Bishopric]:
is 11 miles NE of Bamberg
city, and was said
by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Hoffmann family.
Kuebler FN:
was wife of
Benignus.
Kuechen-bei-Waldkappel,
[Hessen-Kassel
Landgraviate]:
is 18 miles SE of
Kassel city, and was
said by the
Phillipsfeld FSL to homeUC to Berge and Jung families.
Kuechen, Witzenhausen [Amt?], [Hessen-Kassel
Landgraviate]:
KS121 says
Berg{Christian} leftUC
here to go to
Russia.
I could not
find him in any
published FSL.
Kueff(en)FN: see Kuff.
Kueffer{A.Margaretha}:
married
Bauert{J.Tobias}
on 14 May 1766 in
Luebeck on their
way to Russia
(KS120,
Mai&Marquardt#150). I
could not find them
in any published
FSL.
KuehnFN:
said by the 1798
Lauwe census to
be the maiden name
of frau
Triol [this
couple had
originally settled
in
Balzer] (Mai1798:Lw30).
KuehnFN:
said by the
Caesarsfeld FSL
to be fromUC
Bruenn.
KuehnFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Zuerich, Schweiz
with a
Klein wife fromUC Amsterdam.
A
Luebeck ML says
this
Kuhn man married
in 1765 a
Klein woman
(Mai&Marquardt#42).
KuehnFN:
said by the
Mueller FSL to
be fromUC
Echzell.
KuehnFN:
said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be fromUC
Aschaffenburg.
KuehnFN:
said by the Rosenheim
FSL to be fromUC
Lommatzsch, [Kur-]Sachsen. For a possible
1798 see
Mai1798:Mv2486.
KuehnFN:
also see
Kahn.
Kuehnberger{Margaretha}:
she is listed in the
Volmer FSL (#42)
as frau
Zorn{Benedict}.
Brent Mai says
they married on 4
February 1764 in
Landau-in-der-Pfalz, but his source does not seem to be mentioned.
Go to
http://cvgs.cu-portland.edu/origins/z/zorn_volmer.cfm.
KuelpeFN see Kilb.
Kuelsheim, Bamberg
[Bishopric]:
an unidentified
place said by the
Dietel FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Zaper/Sapper family. There was
a place of this name
within the realm of
Windsheim
Imperial
City, just N of that city, 33 miles
SW of
Bamberg city.
Kuelthau/Kiltau/Kilthau/KildauFN
said by the
Kautz FSL to be
fromUC
Hasslock/Hassloch,
Kurpfalz.
KuelzGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Pfeiffer FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hoefner family.
Kuhlburg says
the state is Mainz.
There is a
Kuelz some 34 miles
W of Mainz
city.
Kuemler: see
Kifler and Kraft of
Enders.
KuemmelFN:
said by the
Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Reisch.
KuemmelFN:
see also
Kimmel.
Kuemmeling{Margaretha}:
Danish records say
she was wife to
Buecking{Ambrosius} (EEE p.365, see that for more detail).
KuemmerleFN:
she married
Haas in
Glueckstahl and was proven by the
GCRA to be from
Stetten, Brackenheim [Amt],
Wuerttemberg using
FHL 1,184,750;
see their book for
detail.
KuempelFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Schlitz marriage
records 1762-1767;
see
Flegel trip.
KuenhausenGL,
[Kur-]Sachsen:
an unidentified
place said by the
Bauer FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Gussfeld?
family.
This might be
Kuhlhausen,
Sachsen-Anhalt,
some 19 miles NE of
Stendal.
Kuehnholz{J.
Heinrich}FN:
this family was
listed in the 1798
Stephan census
with
Mahler as the
maiden name for the
wife (Mai1798:Sp2),
but I cannot find
them in any FSL.
Kuehnreich{Caspar
& A.Margarethe}: the
Pleve version of the
Stahl-am-Karaman FSL
(#45b) said these
were orphans living
in the Seibel
household.
KuenstlerFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Wiesbaden,
Hessen.
KuenzlerFN:
said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to
be fromUC
Laubach.
Kuenzler FN:
said by
the
Ober-Monjou 1798
census to be the
maiden name of frau
Aumueller (Mai1798:Om38).
Kueregiso?GL,
[Kur-]Koeln: an unidentified place said by the Brabander FSL to be homeUC to a Beil family.
KuernbachGL,
Bretten [Amt],
Baden:
is 6.5 miles NE of
Bretten city,
and was
proven by the
GCRA to have
been a homeUC
to the
Sifferman family
before it went to
Bergdorf.
Kuernbach Amt,
Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate: this is the same place 50-some years
earlier.
It then held
half interest in the
Kuernbach
Condominium.
Kuernbach
Condominium: shared by entities: Kuernbach Amt,
Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate and
Gueglingen Amt,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy]
KueselGL, Aufhaussen: an unidentified place said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Kraft family.
There is one
Kusel in the
Rhineland-Palatinate,
some 19 miles N of
Zweibruecken;
and two Kuesel in Sachsen-Anhalt NE of
Magdeburg,
one some 20 miles
and one some 46
miles away.
KuesterFN:
see
Kister.
KuestrinGL:
this might be Kuestrin-Kietz, Brandenburg, some 50 miles E of Berlin
center.
See
Tuchland.
KufeldtFN:
said by the
Urbach FSL to be
fromUC
Dessow[sic?],
Mecklenburg.
For 1798 see
Mai1798: Sw1,3 and 5.
KuffFN:
a
Luebeck ML says
this woman in 1765
married a
Raeuscher man;
by 1766 this couple
was in
Katharinenstadt;
Stumpp spelled her
name
Kueff(en)
(Mai&Marquardt#20).
KugelFN:
said by the
Caesarsfeld FSL
to be fromUC
Heiligkreuzsteinach.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga censuses.
KuhfeldFN:
said by the
Urbach FSL to be
fromUC
Tessin(?)/Tesil,
Mecklenburg.
KuhlFN:
said by
Wagner1 to be
the maiden name of
the 1760
Dudelsheim bride
of
Scheidt{J.Adam}
[who settled in
Moor]; names of
her parents are
given.
KuhlFN:
said by the 1798
Balzer census to
be the maiden name
of frau
Schneider{Heinirch}.
Wagner1 concurs
and names her
father.
KuhlFN:
according to the
Buedingen ML a
Kuhl woman
fromUC
Birstein
married in 1766 a
Juncker man;
by 1767 this couple
was in
Krasnoyar (Mai&Marquardt#559).
KuhlFN:
said by the 1798
Laub census to
be the maiden name
of frau
Roth (Mai1798:Lb12).
KuhlFN:
the 1798
Norka census
says this was the
maiden name of the
wife of one of the
Hessian
Schaefers (Mai1798:Nr198).
KuhlFN:
the 1798
Norka census
gave this as the
maiden name of frau
Kaiser{Peter},
she having been the
widow of
Schaefer{G.Heinrich}
(Mai1798:198).
Kuhl{Christina
E.}:
said to be
the actual maiden
name of
Bachman{J.Heinrich}’s
wife, which is
listed as
Kel? in
Mai1798:Nr67.
Kuhlberg0100:
would be entry #0100
in Ivan Kulberg’s
Lists of Colonists
to
Russia
in 1766, as
edited by Igor Pleve,
Saratov,
2010.
KuhlhausenGL:
see
Kuenhausen.
Kuhlhausen, Krzepice Amt, Kalisch Kreis,
Posen Dept, South
Prussia,
later
Warsaw Duchy: aka Herzogt?,
nka Weglowice,
Slaskie,
Poland, 11 miles
W of
Czenstochau.
Found by the
GCRA to have been associated with Auer, Fischer,
Ginger,
Harr, Kirschmann,
Klauss,
Knoedler, Notz,
Veil,
Walz and Wetzler
families.
See the
GCRA book for more on these families.
Kuhlhausen-bei-Warschau,
Krzepice Amt:
was nowhere near Warsaw
and refers to the
same place as the
previous entry.
Kuhlhausen KolonieGL,
Iwanowice Amt, Suedpreussen: an unidentified place said by the
GCRA to have
been a jumping off
point for many
colonists, like
Knoedler, going
to
South Russia.
Where Michael
Fischer lived and held office before proceding to
Bergdorf; see
the
GCRA book for more.
KuhlmannFN:
said (no locality
mentioned) by the
Kutter FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg.
KuhlmannFN:
said by the
Laub FSL to be
fromUC
Ober-Ramstadt, Darmstadt.
KuhlthauFN{Just}:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
fromUC
Hessen (no
locality mentioned).
The 1798
Norka census
says that the family
name was
Kildau and that
the maiden name of
his wife was
Stebler (Mai1798:Nr63).
KuhlthauFN{Nicolaus}:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
fromUC
Hessen (no
locality mentioned).
The 1798
Norka census
says that the family
name was
Kildau and that
the maiden name of
his wife was
Kratserber? (Mai1798:Nr207).
KuhnFN:
Bonner proved this the maiden name in Huettenegsas, Isenburg County,
of the mother of
Herr
Zieg who settled
in
Balzer.
KuhnFN:
said by the Stumpp
supplement to the
Dietel FSL to be
fromUC
Darmstadt (no locality indicated).
KuhnFN:
said by the
Goebel FSL to be
fromUC
Seligenstadt,
Kurmainz.
KuhnFN:
said by the
Grimm FSL to be
fromUC
Friedberg (no
locality mentioned).
KuhnFN:
said by the
Herzog FSL to be
fromUC
Ebernburg.
KuhnFN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
[Wied-]Runkel [County].
Kuhn/Kuch/Koch/KunzFN{Lorenz}:
T512 & 513
record his and his
wife {Anna Margreta}’s
transport from
Oranienbaum to
the
Volga
during which she
died.
Said by the
Norka FSL #178
to be fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned),
his wife now being
{Gertrude}, who
Ruth Schulz
identified as the
Kessel widow of
Weitzel{Christoph} who also had died on the trip to the
Volga. She also
found his family
name spelled a
Kunz in the 1775
census and
Kuch in the 1768
FSL.
Judy Curtis
says this family
name is
Koch in the
orginal Russian
translation; however
, it continues to be
spelled
Kuhn in all known 1798 entries (Mai1798:Nr41, 175 and 204).
Kuhn{J.Heinrich}FN:
said by the
Schoenchen FSL
to be fromUC
Momberg, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate], with Ebel step-children in the household.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Wm11.
KuhnFN:
said by the
Straub FSL to be
fromUC
Neukirchen,
Nassau-Weilburg [Principality].
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Sr18.
A
Friedberg ML
said
this man from
UC
Neukirchen, Nassau-Weilburg
married a
Moser woman in
1766 (Mai&Marquardt#325).
KuhnFN:
also see
Kaun and
Kuehn.
KuhnleFN:
the
GCRA
established
that this was the
maiden name of the
second frau
Gugle of
Bergdorf and,
using
FHL 1,056,991,
that she was from
Endersbach,
Waiblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
See the
GCRA book for a
bit more detail.
KujakFN:
said by the
Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Bruhl.
KukkusFN:
said by the
Kukkus FSL to be
fromUC
Alsbach, Kurpfalz.
KukkusVV
(aka
Neubrabant, Neu-Brabant,
Volskoye, Wolskoje)
is a Lutheran German
village on the
eastern side of the
Volga.
Its FSL has
been published in
Pleve,
Einwanderung …,
vol.II, pp.463-473.
According to
it, the first
settlers were from
the following places
with the family
names shown here in
parens. The numbers
after the family
names are the
household numbers
from the FSL:
from
Albig, Kurpfalz: (Boos16,
Gaul15);
from
Allendorf, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Gerlach8,
Johannes33,
Stahl28, Volk29);
from
Alsbach, Kurpfalz:
(Kukkus1,
Reitz25);
from
Asslar, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Forschauer47);
from
Bechlingen, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Becker5,31,37,
Isheim7);
from
Biskirchen,
[Solms-]Braunfels [Principality]: (Busick/Busek49,
Engelmann32,
Klapper/Klepper49,
Schwab30, Schweizer11);
from Boddin,
Brandenburg:
(Mell20);
from [Solms-]Braunfels [Principality]:
(Gerhard26);
from
Bueblingshausen, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Reinhard34);
from
Dierdorf, Nassau:
(Berger40,
and possibly
Gruenwald40a);
from
Ennerich, Runkel: (Ilberg?/Ulberg45);
from
Ettringen, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Seib13);
from
Hachenburg, Kurpfalz: (Kaun?/Kuhn10);
from Hanau:
(Ohl51,
Pohl70);
from
Hessen: (Albrecht21);
from
Hirschhausen[sic]: [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Debus3,
Goetz2, and
perhaps
Muen?2a);
from
Holzhausen, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Kloss50);
from [Kroeffelbach,
Solms-Braunfels
Principality]: (Busick/Busek49,Goetz2);
from
Kurpfalz: (Jaeger4);
from
Lehnheim(?), [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Schinckel46);
from
Loehnfeld/Lengfeld, Kurpfalz: (Hoefner23,
Maser/Maaser24,
Schaefer22, and
maybe
Houg?23a);
from Maastricht,
Holland:
(Bakler70);
from
Marbach(?),
Isenburg: (Wetter44);
from
Niederbiel, [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Mittelhof36);
from
Niedershausen(?), [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Mueller17);
from
Niederweiler, Baden-Durlach: (Weigand43);
from
Raubach, Isenburg: (Hergenroeder19);
from
Rohrbach, Kurpfalz: (Herzog6);
from
Selzen, Kurpfalz:
(Rosenthal18);
from
Soerth(?),
Baden-Durlach: (Hertel42);
from
Tanhalzen(?), [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Dittenbier50b);
from
Ulm(?), [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Weber35);
from
Vechta: (Esslau69);
from
Wenings(?),
Isenburg:
(Krumm38);
from
Weilrod(?), [Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]: (Feil48);
from
Werdorf(?),
[Solms-]Braunfels
[Principality]:
(Heinrich39, Kuhlmann14);
from Wiesbaden,
Nassau:
(Goetz41);
from Worms:
(Heiland12);
from
Zeiskam,
Kurmainz: (Baum50a).
KulalyVV:
a variant of
the Russian name for
SchwabVV.
Kulberg: see
Kuhlberg.
KulmGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hermann family.
Kuhlberg said
this was in
Ansbach.
There were
some 11 Kulms in the
Germanies, but none
that I can find on
lands that had been
that of
Ansbach Margraviate.
KulmBV,
Bessarabia:
aka
Culm, nka
Podgornoye.
Founded in
1815, 67 miles S of
Kischinev the
Bessarbian capital,
and 67 miles N of
Akkerman the
district capital on
the Black Sea.
KulmitzGL:
Culmitz is some 24
miles NNE of
Bayreuth city, and said by the
Louis FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Hamalka family.
Kultz in the
Ober Pfalz: is 43 km ESE of
Amberg and 6 km
SSE of
Oberviechbach,
both in
Bavaria.
Aka
Kulz.
Kulz-bei-Oberviechbach:
is 6 km SSE of
Oberviechtach. Also Kultz.
Kulz ueber
Oberviechbach: is 6 km SSE of
Oberviechtach
and said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Gulder family.
Also
Kultz.
Kulz-bei-OberviechbachGL:
is some 3 miles SE
of
Oberviechtach
(not
Oberviechbach), Bavaria,
KulzfeldGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Galka FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Steinert family.
Kulzfeld(?)GL, Heilbronn:
an unidentified
place said by the
Dobrinka FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hafele family.
As nearly as
I can tell, all of
the lands
Heilbronn controlled were within a few
miles of the city.
Kumba?: listed
in the 1798
Seelmann census
(Sm57) but I could
find this family
name in no FSL.
KumlerFN:
said by the
Kamenka FSL to
be fromUC
Freistadt,
Pfalz.
Kummel?FN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Waserschlech(?).
KummerFN:
see
Kaemmer, Kommer and Krimer.
Kummerhausen(?)GL,
was an unidentified
locality which
according to the
Frank FSL was in the state of
Nuernberg and
was homeUC
to a
Saalmeier family.
KummersheimerFN
said by the
Kautz FSL to be
fromUC
Mutterstadt,
Kurpfalz.
KumpalloFN:
he was said by the
Louis FSL to be
fromUC
Bernkastel,
Kurtrier and his wife to be from Meisenheim, Zweibruecken. There was a Schaefer stepson living in the household.
Kumpelstadt(?)GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Reinhard family.
KumpfFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Schlitz marriage
records 1762-1767;
see
Flegel trip.
KumpfenFN:
a
Schlitz ML says
this woman married a
Blum man in 1766
(Mai&Marquardt#737).
They think
this couple may have
settled in Norka; I
think they may have
been the couple that
settled in
Boregard,
intitally recorded
there as
Blun.
Kunbach(?)GL,
Pfalz: an
unidentified place
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Werner family.
Kundenschburg?GL,
Hessen-Kassel:
an unidentified
place said by the
Laub FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Kohl family.
Kunerot(?)GL,
was an unidentified
locality which
according to the
Frank FSL was in the state of
Isenburg and was
homeUC to
a
Ruppel family.
KunkelFN:
said (no locality
mentioned) by the
Kutter FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg.
Kunkel{J.Georg}:
said by Recruiter
Beauregard’s list to
have been fromUC
Leibi (Lk120). For 1767
see
T2963-2966,
Not found in
any FSL and I could
not find them or any
likely descendant
associated with any
Volga
colony.
Kunkel{Johannes}:
said by Recruiter
Beauregard’s list to
have been fromUC
Leibi (1). Not found in any FSL and I could not find them or any
likely descendant
associated with any
Volga colony.
Kunsonheim(?)GL, Wittenberg:
an unidentified
place said by the
Bauer FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Schlotterbeck
family.
KunstFN:
see
Kunz.
Kuntersbleim?GL,
Leidinsk?: said
by the
Enders FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Britenfeld?
Family.
KuntzFN:
said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be fromUC
Arfurt,[Kurtrier]. For 1798 see
Mai1798:Om1, 48,
74, Zg9).
KuntzFN:
said by the
Preuss FSL to be
fromUC Mainz.
KuntzFN:
this family name was
found recorded both
in
Herborn and in
Kroppach
marriage records
1762-1767; see
Flegel trip.
KuntzFN:
also see
Kunz.
Kuntzmann
FN: see
Kunzmann.
KunverskikheneGL, Laubach County:
said by the
Walter FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Sommer family.
This place is
identified by the
Walter Research
Group as
Gonterskirchen.
KunzFN:
said by the
Boregard FSL to
be fromUC
Fanhausen? or
Freihausen?. Spelled
Kuntz in 1798 (Mai1798:Zr11,12).
KunzFN:
said by the
Graf FSL to be
fromUC
Kail, Kurpfalz.
Later spelled
Kunst (Mai1798:Gf42) and
possibly
Kuntz(Lz23)??.
KunzFN:
said by the
Graf FSL to be
fromUC Luxembourg
(no locality
mentioned).
For a
possible 1798 see
Mai1798:Lz23.
KunzFN:
said by the
Jost FSL to be
fromUC
Winterbach,
Schwaben. In 1798 the name was spelled Kunst (Mai1798:Jo16).
Kunz FN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
Philippstein.
KunzFN:
also see
Kuhn.
Kunzdorf?, Luxembourg:
an unidentified
place said by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Weber{Peter}
family.
KunzelmannFN:
said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be step-sons in
the Mainz
household.
I could not
find them in the
1798
Volga
censuses.
KunzhausenFN:
said by the
Jost FSL to be
fromUC Ulm,
Schwaben.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga censuses.
KunzhausenGL,
Anspach: see
Gunzenhausen? Ansbach.
KunzmannFN:
said by the
Anton FSL to be
fromUC Heidelberg
Oberamt, Kurpfalz. Spelled
Kuntzmann in
1798 (Mai1798:An22, 24, 38, Br67.
KunzmannFN:
said by the
Schaefer FSL to be fromUC Weinheim, Kurpfalz.
In 1788 and
1798 spelled
Kuntzmann (Mai1798:Mv2517,Rh6(where
the wife’s maiden
name was given as
Kraft) and
Sw14).
Kupe?FN:
said by the 1798
Boregard census
to be the maiden
name of frau
{Friedrich}Baumann.
KuptsovVV:
see
Beker’s Khutor.
KurbayernGS:
was the country
under the control of
the Elector/Grand
Duke of Bavaria.
Kurbburg(?)GL,
see
Kirburg(?).
KurbrandenburgGS:
the
Brandenburg
Electorate,
controlled in
the 1760s by the Kingdom of Prussia.
KurbraunschweigGS: (the English name is Electoral Hannover)
was a very large
country, often
refered to simply as
“Hannover”
and somewhat
loosely controlled
1714-1837 by the
English kings who
were of the House of
Hannover.
These
extensive lands
stretched S from the
North Sea and lower
Elbe (just E of
Hitzacker) to the
drainage areas of
the Alter river and
the lower Leine and
lower
Weser
rivers. It was
easily ten times the
size of the
Braunschweig Duchy.
Kurfuerstentum
HannoverGS:
is
Kurbraunschweig.
Kurfuerstentum PfalzGS:
is a longer form of
Kurpfalz.
KurkoelnGS:
was the term applied
to the extensive
lands controlled by
the Elector of
Koeln, aka Cologne.
These lands
stretched from
Holland
south mostly, but
not exclusively, in
a wide band along
the W bank of the
Rhine river towards Coblenz on the
S.
Usually
referred to simply
as
Koeln or Cologne.
Kurland
DuchyGS: (aka
Courland) an
independent country
in what is now Latvia, then controlled by a German
elite with most
everything but
farming totally in
German hands.
Its capital
was
Mitau. It was absorbed
by Russia in 1795.
Said (no
locality indicated)
by the
Grimm FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Engel family.
KurleFN:
see
Kurrle.
KurmainzGS:
was the name applied
to the scattered
lands controlled by
the
archbishop-princes
of Mainz, electors
of the
Holy Roman Empire.
These, at
various times,
included
Mainz city,
lands south of the
city, lands around
Bingen (west of
Mainz city at
the bend of the
Rhine), a long,
narrow slice
northeast of the
city up to
Koenigsstein in Hesse,
and extensive lands
in
Hesse east from
Seligenstadt on
the north and from
Heppenheim on
the
Bergstrasse on
the south, and much
more. Said (no
locality indicated)
by the
Dehler FSL to be
homeUC to
Faeling? and
Schneider
widows.
Said (no
locality mentioned)
by the
Keller FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Jbel family.
[Kur-]MainzGS: (no locality was mentioned in the following
references): said by
the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be homeUC
to
Goebel,
Neff, and
Sack families. Said by
the
Reinhard FSL to
be homeUC
to frau
Rolof.
Said by the
the
Rohleder FSL to be homeUC to Paul{Michael}, {PeterAnton}, and Walter families, as well as to the wives of Mohr{Nikolaus} and Rohleder{J.Konrad}.
KurmannFN:
said by the
Seelmann FSL to
be fromUC
Steinfeld,
Elsass. I did not locate
them or any
descendants in
Mai1798.
KurpfalzGS:
(Kurfuerstentum
Pfalz is a
longer form, and it
is sometimes
shortened to just
Pfalz) from 1708
(there is a great
deal of earlier
history too) to
1778, these were the
lands of the
Palatinate Elector
which extended W of
the Rhine river and
Sof
Bingen town,
then SE in a
scattered way E
across the Rhine not
quite as far as the
city of
Heilbronn, having its broadest holdings in the lower Neckar river
valley.
West of the
Rhine,
there usually were
12 Kreis
(districts):
Alzey,
Bacharach,
Frankenthal, Germersheim,
Lauterecken,
Lautern (aka Kaiserlautern),
Kreuznach (aka
Bad Kreuznach),
Neustadt-an-der-Weinstrasse,
Oppenheim,
Simmern, Stromberg, and
Veldenz.
In 1778
Kurpfalz was
absorbed into Bavaria
and was then known
as
Rheinpfalz.
KurpfalzGS:
None of the
following references
mentions a locality:
said by one or both
versions of the
Balzer FSL to be
homeUC to
Bauer, Blitz, Busch,
Busick/Busiek,
Decker, Eichner, Geist, Gropp,
Haupt?,
Heckmann, Heft,
Herzog, Hoffmann,
Huber, Kolb, Ritter,
Robertus, Scheck,
Spaeth, Steinepreis/Steinpreis,
and
Stoehr families.
Said by the
Pleve version of the
Balzer FSL to be
homeUC
to
Merkel and
Scheck families;
the Stumpp version
says
Pfalz.
Said by a
Luebeck ML to be homeUC to a Schmidt woman who in 1765 married a Koenig man; they settled in
Boregard (Mai&Marquardt#1176).
Said by the
Doenhof FSL to be homeUC to Andres, Bauer,
Becking,
Eichhorn, Gomer,
Queissner,
Schenkel, Stoll, and
perhaps
Hack families.
Said
by the
Hoelzel FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Habetitz family.
Said by the
Huck FSL to be homeUC to Bohl, Frei, Herr?,
Leinschmidt,
Scheuermann/Schermann?,
Schneider,
Schwabauer, and
Strupp families;
in addition a
Hein orphan was
living the
Frei s and may
have been from
Kurpfalz too.
Said by the
Enders FSL to be homeUC to a Kraft family. Said
by the
Kukkus FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Jaeger family.
Said by the
Kutter FSL to be homeUC to a Kraemer family.
KurpfalzGS:
None of the
following references
mentions a locality:
said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Fritzmann
family.
Said by the
Messer FSL to be homeUC to Beckel, Lorenz,
Meiserling,
Meng, Messer,
Schmall,
Schmidt, Schwan,
Weber, and
possibly
Brauer,
Just and Schulz families.
Said by the
Moor FSL to be
homeUC to
Bender,
Bickert, Eberhardt,
Guwst?,
Hehn, Moor,
Scherf,
Schneider, Schremser,
Wagner,
Zeltenreich, Zimmermann,
and possibly
Bamberger,
Hubert, and
Stelwa? families. Said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Harer family.
Said by the
Norka FSL to be homeUC to Bruu[Brun/Bruhn],
Jacoby,
Jeder[Soeder/Seder],
Pekar, and
Rothau[Rotau/Rodau]
families.
Said by the
Schuck FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Janson family.
Said by the
Schulz FSL to be homeUC to frau Kostianiz/Kosnitz [maiden
name
Maier] and to
frau
Brenner.
Said by the
Straub FSL to be homeUC to a Schlamp? family. Said by
the
Urbach FSL to be
homeUC
to frau
Schulz{ChristianF.}.
KurrFN:
arrived in South
Russia in 1819;
later settled in
Gueldendorf, Odessa;
family records found
by
Curt Renz in
Schwaigern, Brackenheim Oberamt, Wuerttemberg.
KurrleFN:
said by the
Bergdorf 1858
census (KS:666)
to have been from
Gross-Bottwar, Ludwigsburg
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
This origin was
verified by the
GCRA using
FHL(1,187,184) and
using
FHL(1,055,809)
they also found that
the family had
earlier been in
Kaltental,
Stuttgart
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg.
.
See the
GCRA book for
more detail.
KS:349
gave
Pleidelsheim,
Ludwigsburg
[Amt]
as an alternative
origin.
Also spelled
Kurle.
KursachsenGS:
Electoral Saxony 1356-1806.
Kursdorf?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Kano FSL to be homeUC to the
Gottfried{Peter}family.
There were
several possible
variations of
Kursdorf in the
Germanies, and this
place is probably
the same as the
Gondorf from
which the other
Kano
Gottfried was said to have come.
KurtFN:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
fromUC
Zerbst (no
locality mentioned).
Spelled
Kurth in 1798 (Mai1798:
Bx39).
KurthFN:
see
Kurt of
Boaro.
[Kur-]TrierGS: with no locality mentioned: said
by the
Degott FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Groeber family.
Said
by the
Hoelzel FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Redel/Riedel
family.
Said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Zimmermann family. Said
by the the
Rohleder FSL to
be homeUC
to frau
Ertle as well as
to the
Glassmann,
Kapp/Rapp?,
Weber{Johannes},
and possibly
Jung families.
KurtrierGS:
literally, the holdings of the
Imperial Elector os
Trier.
No locality
mentioned in any of
the following: said
by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Pilen family and
possibly to a
Friedritz
family.
Said (no
other locality
mentioned) by the
Mariental FSL to
be homeUC
to the wife of Herr
Schunk.
Said
by the
Preuss FSL to be
home to a
Kelner/Koelner/Kellner?
family.
Aka Trier.
KurtzFN:
said by the 1798
Balzer census to
be the maiden name
of frau
Schneider{Conrad}
(Mai1798:Bz3).
KurtzFN{Georg}said
by the
Doenhof FSL to
be fromUC
Riedesel (no
locality mentioned).
KurzFN{Jacob}:
said by
KS:349 to have
leftUC
Elchesheim,
Rastatt [Amt], Baden forUC
Glueckstal.
Not in the
1816 census and no
comment by
GCRA.
KuschFN:
see
Husch.
Kuschedole,
Poland:
an unidentified
place which the
GCRA found
associated with a
Lang family.
Could this
have been Koziedoly
16 miles S of
Inowroclaw,
Poland?
Kusel [Oberamt]GL,
Rheinpfalz: was
16 miles NW of
Kaiserslautern
city, and was
district office for
Hefersweiler.
This is the
same place as the
next entry, but 50
years later.
Kusel, [Pfalz-]Zweibruecken [Duchy]:
is some 20 miles N
of
Zweibruechen
city, and was said by the Seewald
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Hiltenberger/Hildenberger
family.
Said by the
Straub FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Dubhorn family.
Said by the
Volmer FSL to be home to a
Mosmann family.
Kusfel(?)GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Naumann family.
KussmaulFN:
listed in the
Bergdorf
censuses (KS:661, 667) without origin.
Said by
KS:350 to have
been from
Moetzingen,
Boeblingen [Amt], Wuerttemberg.
This origin was
verified by the
GCRA using
FHL(1,475,197).
Evidently the
Amt jurisdiction was
switched to
Herrenberg
sometime after the
Kussmaul family
left.
See the
GCRA book for
more detail.
KustarevaVV:
a version of the
Russian name for
LeitsingerVV.
KustarewoVV:
a version of the
Russian name for
LeitsingerVV.
Kustig{Barbara}
FN: in 1798
she is was said to
have come from
Rosenheim
(Rw13) but I
cannot find her in
any FSL.
KutcheraFN:
see
Kutscher{J.Georg}.
Kutonin?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Keller FSL to be
homeUC to
an
Acqua family.
Kuhlberg said
this was in Mainz.
Kutscher?{Caspar}FN:
said by the
Ernestinendorf
FSL to be fromUC
Atzenhain, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate].
Spelled
Kutscher in 1798
(Mai1798:Er4,
5).
Kutscher{J.Georg}FN:
said by the
Ernestinendorf
FSL to be fromUC
Stangenrod, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate].
Spelled
Kutchera in 1798
(Mai1798:Bx31,
Bs28).
Kutscher?{Johann}FN:
said by the
Ernestinendorf
FSL to be fromUC
Stangenrod, [Hessen-Darmstadt Landgraviate].
Spelled
Kutscher in 1798
(Mai1798:Er12).
Kuttendorf?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Baum family.
There was a
Kuttendorf now
called Chotin-ves in
the
Czech Republic some 32 miles NNE of Prague.
KutterVV
(aka
Brehning, Brenning,
Karamysh, Neumann,
Parafej Chutor,
Pfaffenkutter,
Popovka, Popowka)
is a German village
of the Reformed
faith on the western
side of the
Volga.
Its FSL has
been published in
Pleve,
Einwanderung …,
vol.II, pp.475-497.
According to
it, the first
settlers were from
the following places
with the family
names shown here in
parens.
As in
Huck, the
Russian clerk here
almost never
recorded localities
of origin, but
usually recorded
only the region or
state.
A number
which follows a
family name in the
following is the
household number in
the FSL:
from
Braunfels: (Maul);
from
Ekartshausen,
Isenburg[-Buedingen
County]:
(Niedenthal9);
from
Friedberg: (Ickes);
from
Friedberg(?): (Honecker);
from Hanau:
(Bechtholt/Bechtold,
Brehning/Brenning,
Forbach?/Vorbach,
Horch, and
possibly
Ruhl);
from
Hessen: (Beckel, Boehm, Engelbrecht);
from
Isenburg: (Diel, Dietz, Engel15, Faust,
Frank, Fuss,
Gruen81, Gutmann, Haas, Hack, Hagelganz, Hanhardt, Helhorn, Herdt, Hicks?,
Hild/Hilt25,
Huck, Kaufmann,
Kirschner, Klein,
Knis, Kuhlmann,
Kunkel,
Licht/Lich2a,
Loch/Lach,
Lohrey/Lurj16, Loos2, Lorenz, Mueller, Nazarenus, Neumann, Niedenthal9, Orsulet, Reichert, Reifschneider14,18,19,22,
Reinecke, Rieger,
Roehrich, Roth,
Ruppel, Schenk,
Schmick, Schmidt,
Schneider,
Schroeder, Stuerz,
Traut, Trey, Wagner,
Weigand, Wetzel,
and possibly
Beltz, Fuchs,
and
Hergert);
from
Kurpfalz: (Kraemer);
from
Leisenwald,
Isenburg[-Waechersbach County]:
(Altvater17,
Engel18,
Hild/Hilt25,
Licht/Lich2a,
Lohrey/Lurj16,
Loos2,
Reifschneider14,18,19,22);
from
Lorbach,
Isenburg[-Buedingen
County]: (Nazarenus67);
from
Pommern: (Beki?);
from
Wolf,
Isenburg[-Buedingen
County]:
(Gruen81,
frau
Gruen (nee
Hart)58);
from
Wuerttemberg: (Heinz);
from
Wuerzburg: (Goetz, Jorg?, Kroll);
Kutverlet?FN:
see
Guttperl.
Kutzenhausen,
Sulz [Amt],
Elsass: was 1.5
miles W of
Sulz town, and
was proven by the GCRA to be home to the Martel
family that went to
Kassel.
KuxhausenFN:
said by the
Holstein FSL to
be fromUC
Bergen.
Kuxhausen{J.Wilhelm}:
KS:82 and nnn
say this party of 4
fromUC
Berens(spelling?)
in 1764 was sent on
to the
Saratov area as
part of
the group of
colonists
transported under
the command of
Captain
Paykul and Cornet
Rehbinder.
I have not
found them in any
published FSL.
KuzovoVV:
see
Beker’s Khutor.
KwimbachFN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Leniter?.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga
censuses.
Kwindt: see
Quindt.
Kyusen(?): an
unidentified place
said by the
Merkel FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Metz family.
This might be
one of two
Kausen in the
Rhine-Palatinate:
one 18 miles W of
Dillenburg, one
9 miles NNE of
Koblenz.
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