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near the Black Sea . FN= German family name.
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List.
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the Germanies.
GS= one of the
German states.
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researcher who has
verified one or more
German origins.
UC= unconfirmed.
VV= a German Volga
village.
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QadeFN:
see
Quade.
QuadeFN:
the
GCRA found
records indicating
that this family was
fromUC
Heidelberg, Baden
and was in
Kassel
from 1822 to 1842
when it went to
Arcis,
Bessarabia.
Also spelled
Qade and Quady.
See their
book for more.
A possibly
related Quade is
mentioned in
KS:396.
QuadyFN:
see
Quade.
Quant{Michael}FN:
his daughter was
listed in
Susannental in
1790 as going to
Graf
to marry (Mai1798:Mv1877)
however I could not
locate a Quant in
any FSl, and the
daughter’s maiden
name is given as
Bader in
Graf in 1798(
Mai1798:Gf38). Perhaps
she was the widow of
an unknown
Bader born after
the
T list was done?
QuastFN:
said by the Kano
FSL to be fromUC
Moitzfeld.
The 1798 Kano
census gave frau
Quast’s maiden name
as
Auerbach (Mai1798:Kn23).
QueckbornGL,
[ probably
Hessen-Darmstadt
Landgraviate]:
is some 11 miles E
of
Giessen, Hessen. Said by the
Ernestinendorf
FSL to be homeUC
to
Reis{Johannes},
and possibly
Reis{Johann,Conrad}
and
Reis{Maria}
families.
Said by the
Buedingen ML
to be homeUC
to
a
Schmidt woman
who married a
Krueger man in
1766; by 1767
this couple was in
Goebel (Mai&Marquardt#515).
Said by the
Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Springel family.
Quedlinburg [Abbey]: this small country centered around the city of the same name
which was 12 km SSE
of
Halberstadt
city, throughout the
18th
century disputed its
independence from
Kurbrandenburg
which claimed it had
purchased it in the
previous century.
Said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Jarke? family.
Said by the
Stephan FSL to be homeUC to a Wesch family.
QueisnerFN:
see
Queissner.
QueissnerFN:
said by the
Doenhof FSL to
be fromUC
Kurpfalz (no
locality mentioned).
Later spelled
Queisner.
QuellendorfGL,
[Anhalt-]Dessau
[Principality]:
is some 23 miles SW
of
Wittenberg
city, and said by
the
Boaro FSL to be
homeUC to
Fessel,
Koenig, and
Paris families. Said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Passel family.
QuellendorfGL,
[Anhalt-Dessau
Principality]:
is 6 miles SW
of Dessau
city, and
according to
Anhalt-Dessau records abstracted by Dr. Waeshke and annotated
by Dr. Lippert,
a
Wartmann family movedUC fromUC
Oster-Nienburg
in 1754 to
Quellendorf (Mai&Marquardt#1169).
From there
they moved to
Paulskaya. Said by
the Kano
FSL to be homeUC
to two
Tenerkauf
families.
QuellendorfGL:
also see
Wallendorf.
QuenzerFN:
in 1819 settled in
Gueldendorf, Odessa; family
records found by
Curt Renz in
Hoffenheim, Sinsheim
parish, Wuerttemberg.
Stumpp,
p.599, mistakenly
lists this family as
Ganzer.
QuerfurtGL/GS,
[Kursachsen]:
from just after 1635
– 1746 this was a
small country
centered on the town
of the same name
situated some 16
miles SW of
Halle
city.
In 1746 it
was absorbed by
Kursachsen but
kept on for some
administrative
purposes.
It was said
by the
Orlovskaya FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Weise family.
Querfurt, [Kur-]Sachsen: said by the
Pleve version of
Stahl-am-Karaman
(#15) to be homeUC
to
Straub{J.Christian}.
Said by the
Urbach FSL to be homeUC
to
Zahn family.
Same place as
the preceding entry.
QuestenbergGL,
Stolberg
County: is some 9 miles SE of Stolberg
city; see
Ottenberg.
QuindtFN:
said by the
Boaro FSL to be
fromUC
Zerbst (no
locality mentioned).
Spelled
Quindt in 1777
when his wife's
maiden name is give
as
Koch, and in 1798 (Mai1798:
Mv291,Dr42). Gary
Martins found that
this name was also
spelled
Kwindt.
QuindtFN:
also see
Quint.
QuintFN:
said by the
Louis FSL to be
fromUC
Bernkastel,
Kurtrier. In 1798 the family name was spelled Quindt (Mai1798:Ls11,17).
QuintFN:
said by the
Phillipsfeld FSL
to be the
mother-in-law in the
Schaefer
household.
In 1766 this
name seems to have
been spelled
Kind (Mai&Marquardt#183).
QuiramFN:
listed by the 1816
Kassel
census (#90) without
origin, and by
KS:397 as having
come fromUC
Polen.
The
GCRA thinks they
probably came via
West
Prussia;
see their book for
more.
Updated 10/2012
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