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Wianse?, [Kur-]Sachsen: an
unidentified place
said by the
Reinhard FSL to
be homeUC
to the
Reinhardt
family.
Wibstrand(?)/Wiebstrant(?)GL,
Finnland; an
unidentified place
said by the
Kratzke FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Fabrizius
family.
WichslerFN:
see
Wikeler.
Wicht{Jacob}:
said by the
Recruiter Beauregard
list to have come
fromUC
Nassau-Usingen [Principality]
going to
Schaffhausen in
1768 (Lk119);
which would likely
make them among the
Schaffhausen
first settlers.
For 1767 see
T2329-2333.
In 1798 one
son was still in
Schaffhausen (Mai1798:Sh18)
and the other had
moved from
Schaffhausen to
Bettinger
(Bt10).
WickartFN:
see
Wickert and
Wickhardt.
Wickenberg?: an
unidentified place
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Schreiber
family.
Kuhlbereg
said this was in
Ungarn but I
can’t find it there.
WickenrodtGL:
see
Wittenrot.
WickerauGL:
see
Wieckerau.
WickertFN:
said by the
Kraft FSL to be
fromUC
Miesenbach?, Zweibruecken. Also
spelled
Wichart.
WickhardtFN:
said by the
Louis FSL to be
fromUC
Hosenfeld, Fulda.
In 1798 the family
name was spelled
Wickart (Mai1798:Ka135,Mv1573).
WidemannFN:
said by the
Phillipsfeld FSL
to be fromUC
Ansbach [Margraviate], no locality mentioned.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga censuses.
WiderspahnFN:
said by the
Walter FSL to be
fromUC
Kelengar, Hanau (Harvey Wederspahn’s family chart).
See
Wiederspahn.
Widiu?FN:
said by the
Brabander FSL to
be fromUC Vitry,
Champagne,
[Frankreich]:.
I could not find
this family name in
the 1798 censuses.
Widlein?FN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Maschbach?.
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga censuses.
WidrichFN:
see
Wieterich.
WiebeFN:
said by the
Orloff FSL to be fromUC Waldorff, Elbing Amt.
WiebeFN{Duerck},
{Heinrich}: said by
the
Rosenort FSL to
be fromUC
Mielentz,
Marienburg Amt.
WiebeFN:
said by the
Tiege FSL to be
fromUC
Zeuerschekampf/Zeyerskampen,
Elbing Amt.
WiebelsheimGL,
Kurpfalz-Leiningen:
an unidentified
place said by the
Bauer FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Vogt family.
This may be
Wiebelsheim then in
Kurtrier just E
of the
Kurpfalz border
(but not in either
Kurpfalz or
Leiningen) some 19 miles SSE of Koblenz
city.
Wiebstrant(?)GL,
see
Wibstrand.
Wiechert FN:
said by the
Schwed FSL to be
fromUC
Himburg.
I could not
find them or any
likely descendants
in
Mai1798.
WieckerauGL,
Elbing: this is
probably Wickrowo,
Poland,
which was in
East Prussia some 13 miles ESE of
Elbing city.
Said by the
Orloff FSL to be homeUC to the Froese and Penner{Johann}
families.
Also spelled
Wickerau.
WiedebergFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Christinen(?),
Daenemark.
WiedeckeFN:
see
Windecke.
Wiedemach?FN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Sachsen (no
locality mentioned).
I could not
find this family in
the 1798 Volga censuses.
WiedemannFN:
said by the
Doenhof FSL to
be fromUC
Wuerttemberg (no
locality mentioned).
WiedemannFN:
said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be fromUC
Kilmeis?,
Schwaben.
WiedemannFN:
also see
Wendemann and
Wittmann.
Wiedemeier{Gertrude}:
may have settled
first in
Dehler, married
Herr
Suess in
Preuss, moved to Neu-kolonie,
and later married
Herr
Sauer of
Koehler (Mai1798:Mv1890(1896)
and Kl80).
WiederauGL,
Sachsen: said by
the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
an
Andreas family.
This might be
some 10 miles NNW of
Chemnitz, or
some 11 miles SSW pf Leipzig.
WiederholdFN:
see
Wiederholt.
WiederholtFN:
said by the
Messer FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned).
). In 1798 the
family name was
spelled
Wiederhold (Mai1798:Ms74).
According to the
Buedingen ML
this man fromUC
Niedergruendau
married in 1766 a
Heil woman
fromUC
Unternaubel (Mai&Maarquardt#707).
WiederholtFN:
said by the
Phillipsfeld FSL
to be fromUC
Machtlos, [Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate].
Spelled
Wiederhold in
1798 (Mai1798:Pp18,
Pl21).
Wiedermus: see
Altwidermus.
WiederichFN:
also see
Wieterich.
WiederkehrFN:
said by the
Laub FSL to be
fromUC
Appenrod, Darmstadt.
In 1798 the
family name was
spelled
Witterker and
the wife’s maiden
name was given as
Jokal/Jokel?
(Mai1798:Lb36).
WiedermusGL,
[Isenburg-Buedingen
County]: is now
called
Altwiedermus,
Hessen, is some
5 miles SW of
Buedingen, and
is said by
Buedingen
church records
to be homeUC
to
a
Hohnstein man;
he later settled in
Norka (Mai&Marquardt#1207).
WiedermusGL,
[Isenburg-Buedingen
County]:
see
Altwiedermus.
WiederrichFN:
Curt Renz
has found the church
records for this
Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia, family in
Hunspach,
Weissenburg Kreis,
Elsass.
WiederspahnFN:
the
Walter Research
Group has
confirmed in local
parish records that
this family, listed
in the
Walter FSL, came
from
Gelnhaar, Isenburg
(now
Hessen).
Exit
records are said to
indicate that while
the wife and
childlren were born
in
Gelnhaar where
the family lived
when it left for Russia, the father had been bornUC
in
Usenborn (Auerbach).
Wiederwellstadt?/WiederwoellstadtGL,
Solms: go to
Niederwoellstadt.
Wied-Neuwied CountyGS
: a county, often
refered to simply as
Neu-Wied, whose
lands extended
northerly
from
Neu-Wied town.
[Wied-]Runkel
[County]GS: this state, popularly referred to simply as
Runkel, was
seated in the town
Runkel which is
some 25 miles E of Koblenz
city and some 29
miles NW of
Frankfurt-am-Main.
Some of its
territory lay to the
N and E of
Runkel town, but
at least as much lay
N of
Coblenz
in somewhat
scattered pieces at
Dierdorf and N and
W; at Grenzhausen
and E of Grenzhausen;
and a small piece to
the W of Herschbach
but not including
that town.
Said (no
locality mentioned)
by the Pleve version
of the
Balzer FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Spaeth family.
Said (no
locality mentioned)
by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be homeUC
to
Bisterfeld,
Kuhn, Voeller, and
perhaps
Schaefer
families.
Said (no
locality mentioned)
by Kuhlberg to be
homeUC to
a
Dietrich family
and possibly a
Hillegbich?
family.
Wieg(er){Helene
K.}:
daughter of {Johann}
fromUC
Fuerth in Bavaria
married
Foerst{J.David}
on 30 April 1766 in
Woehrd (Mai&Marquardt#588). I
did not find them in
any published FSL or
in
Mai1798.
WiegandFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Tann marriage
records 1762-1767;
see
Flegel trip.
WiegandFN:
also see
Weigand.
Wiege(?)GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Reinhardt
family.
This might be
in Picardie,
France,
some 72 miles SW of
Brussels,
Belgium.
Wiegener?FN:
said by the
Dietel FSL to be
fromUC
Minirzel(?),
Kurpfalz. Spelled
Wegener
(Mai1798:Dg6) and
Weg (Sd28) in
1798.
WiegenerFN:
said (no locality
mentioned) by the
Warenburg FSL to
be fromUC
Magdeburg
[Duchy].
They surely
died prior to the
1798
Volga
censuses.
Wieger: see
Wieg.
WiegnerFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Winterhausen
marriage records
1760-1769; see
Flegel trip.
WiehlFN:
said by the
Kraft FSL to be
fromUC
Eket(?),
Friedberg.
WiehlFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Schotten parish
records for many
years prior to 1767;
see
Flegel trip.
WielFN:
said by the
Laub FSL to be
fromUC
Grebenhain, Darmstadt.
In 1798 spelled (Mai1798:Ps40).
Wielkibor,
Czenstochau, South Prussia: the GCRA said it was aka Hochberg
and was associated
with a
Dollinger family
in 1803.
This proably
is nka Wielki Bor 3
miles W of
Czestochowa,
Poland.
Wielkie JeziorkeGL:
as best I can tell
this was not another
name for
Hohensalza.
WielstFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Korbach.
WienGL:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to be homeUC to a Meier family. Said by
the
Warenburg FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Molko family.
Surely the
same as the next
entry.
WienGL, Oesterrieich: is
Vienna, Austria,
said by the
Goebel FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Anger family.
Said by the
Hoelzel FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hoelzel family.
Said by the Kano
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Gedeke family.
Said by the
Katharinenstadt FSL to be homeUC to a
Wagner family.
Said by the
Leitsinger FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Pachtrech
family.
Said by the
Louis FSL to be homeUC to a Winker family. Said by
the
Ober Monjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Sommer family
and, possibly though
much less likely, a
Pauly family.
WienerFN:
said by the
Bauer FSL to be
fromUC
Crumstadt, Hessen-Darmstadt. For
1798 see
Mai1798:Br36.
Wiencken{A.Sophia}:
a
Luebeck ML
recorded her 16
October 1765
marriage to
Caspar{Johann}
(Mai&Marquardt#41
and
KS124).
I could not
find this couple in
any published FSL or
in
Mai1798.
WiensFN:
see
Wiensz.
Wiensz FN
{Wilhelm}: said by
the
Orloff
FSL to be
fromUC
Berwald.
Also spelled
Wiens.
WienszFN{Duerck}:
said by the
Orloff FSL to be fromUC Muensterburg, Tiegenhoff Amt.
Also
spelled
Wiens.
Wiensz {Johann}
FN:
said by the
Orloff FSL to be fromUC Siemensdorff, Marienburg Amt.
Also spelled
Wiens.
WienszFN{Johann}:
said by the
Tiege FSL to be
fromUC
Schoenesee,
Tiegenhoff Amt.
WienszFN{Claasz}:
said by the
Tiege FSL to be
a friend living with
the
Toews{Abraham}
family.
WieraGL:
see
Werda.
Wierner: see
Werner.
Wiersdorf?,
Kurmainz[sic?]: an unidentified place said by the
Seelmann FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Pfeifer family.
I found four
Wiersdorfs but none
in lands that were
then
Kurmainz.
WiershausenFN:
said by the1798
Warenburg census
to be the maiden
name of frau
Nickel{J.Peter}.
WiesbachGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Kranewitz/Krannewitter
family.
There are at
least 3 such
placenames in Germany.
Wiesbach, Bassingheim Barony: near
Schmitten,
Hesse.
Wiesbach, Pfalz-Zweibruecken Duchy: is some 5 miles N of
Stambach and has
parish records which
include the
Artzer family
that went to
Seewald.
Wiesbaden,
[Nassau-Usingen
Principality]:
is some 19 miles WSW
of Frankfurt city
center, and said by
the Kano
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Pflug family and
possibly to a
Zimmermann
family. Said by the
Mariental FSL to
be homeUC
to the wife of Herr
Marquart. Said
by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hammel family.
Said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL to be homeUC to a Boos/Boes{Michael}
family; Kuhlberg
[mistakenly] said
this was in [Kur-]Mainz.
Said by the
Warenburg FSL to be homeUC to Todt10 and possibly Haussorg?
families.
WiesbadenGL,
Frankfurt-am-Main:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Bager family.
Either Wiesbaden or Frankfurt
must be a mistake.
WiesbadenGL,
Hessen: said by the Katharinenstadt
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Kuenstler
family.
It was not in
the 1760’s in
Hessen, but was
in the
Nassau-Usingen
Principality.
WiesbadenGL, Nassau[-Usingen
Principality]:
is some 19 miles
WSW of
Frankfurt-am-Main
and was in the 1760s
the seat of the
princes of
Nassau-Usingen.
Said by the
Kraft FSL to be homeUC to a Koch family. Said by the
Kratzke FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Mueller/Miller family. Said by
the
Kukkus FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Goetz family.
Wiesbaden,
Nassau-Usingen
Principality:
this city has been
owned by one or
another of the
Nassau
houses since the 12th
century (except for
a few years in the
13th).
It was made
their major princely
capital in 1744.
Wiese{Barbara
E.}:
married
Friedrich{Martin}
9 April 1766 in
Rosslau
(Mai&Marquardt#
926).
KS129 and 164
evidently mistakenly
say the year was
1765.
I could not
find them in any
published FSL.
Wiesen, [Hessen-]Darmstadt
[Landgraviate][sic?]
an unidentified
place said by the
Warenburg FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Saalfeld family.
There were
several Wiesens in
German-speaking
lands but I could
not find one that
was then in
Hessen-Darmstadt.
Wiesen AmtGL, Bern: said by
the
Kano FSL to be homeUC to a
Rothe family.
Was Wiesen a
district within
Bern Kanton in Switzerland?
Wiesendorf,
Bamberg
[Bishopric]:
is 13 miles S of Bamberg
city, and said by
the
Hoelzel FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Hagen{Johannes}/Haagen
family.
WiesensteigGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Kano
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Schotter family.
This probably
was in
Kurbayern some 10 miles SE of
Kirchheim-unter-Tech
city.
WiesentalVV:
was an alternate
name for
StraubVV.
WiesenthauGL,
Ansbach: is some
3 miles ESE of
Forchheim city, and
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Markus family.
Wiesepans?
GL, Nassau:
: an unidentified
place said by the
Fischer FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Dotz? family.
Wieser?FN:
said by the
Krasnoyar FSL to
be fromUC
Laubach.
WiesmerFN:
see
Wiesner.
Wiesner/WeisnerFN:
his wife is said by
the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be a
Horn fromUC Freiberg.
Wiesner{Friedrich+w+5c}:
Kulberg84
said they were fromUC
Zweibruecken.
Not found in
T. Said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL (#162) to be
fromUC
Zweibruecken (no
locality mentioned).
WiesnerFN{J.Gottlieb}:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Rassnitz.
Wiesner{Kasper}:
listed at #87 in the
1775
Schilling census
is a likely first
settler there.
Kulberg1603 said
he was fromUC
Isenburg (no indication which one, and no locality mentioned).
WiesnerFN{J.Weigand}:
said by the
Schwab FSL to be
fromUC
Rodenbach.
For 1794 and
1798 see
Mai1798:Mv2684, Sb 24, 25, and Gk37; also spelled
Wiesmer (Gb48).
WiesnerFN:
also see
Weiser and
Wiessner.
WiessnerFN:
said by the
Volmer FSL to be
fromUC
Memmingen.
Later
spelled
Wiesner.
Wiesst/WiestFN:
birth records found
in Erlenbach by
Harold Wiest and
relatives; family
traced back through
the Palatinate to
Switzerland
about 1598.
Settled in
Rohrbach, Odessa in 1809.
WiesteinGL,
Mainz: see
Wistein..
Wiesthal, [Kurmainz]: is 12 miles ENE of
Aschaffenburg
city, and was said
by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be homeUC
to a
Matheas/Matasch&Mattias family. Kuhlberg
said this was in
Franken, which
was not then a
political entity,
but a regional one
mostly indicating
northern Bavaria.
WieterichFN:
listed by both the
1816
Neudorf census
(#80) and
KS:485 with no
origin.
Using
FHL#717,097,
the
GCRA proved
their origin in
Hunspach,
Sulz [Amt], Elsass.
See the
GCRA book for
more.
Also spelled
Wiederich and
Widrich.
WigandFN:
see
Weigandt.
Wigner?FN:
see
Pligner.
Wikansdol?GL,
Sachsen: an
unidentified place
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Maiwald family.
WikelerFN:
listed in the
Bergdorf 1858 census (KS:666,
486) without origin.
Origin in
Schwieberdingen,
Ludwigsburg
[Amt],
Wuerttemberg
was proven by the
GCRA using
FHL(1056,754 &
1,056,758) following
his birth in
Markgroeningen,
proven using
FHL(1,056,750).
See the
GCRA book for
more details.
Also spelled
Wichsler and Wixler.
Wikster?FN:
said by the
Laub FSL to be
fromUC
Koenigsberg,
Preussen. In 1798 it was
spelled
Vigek? (Mai1798:Lb20).
Wilburgstetten [Oberamt, Wuerttemberg Duchy]:
is 4 miles SE of
Dinkelsbuehl
city centre. This
place seems to have
been the principal
town in a small
exclave of the
Werttemberg
Duchy (its easternmost holding?) just SE of the lands of
Dinkelsbuehl
Imperial City.
WildFN:
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
fromUC
Beckenau?,
Wittenberg. In 1798 the
maiden name of his
widow, then frau
Buss, was given as
Witt (Mai1798:Lw18).
WildFN:
listed by the 1858
Neudorf census
(#152) with no
origin and said by
KS:486 to have
been
fromUC
Schorndorf, Waiblingen [Amt],
Wuerttemberg. This
family was not
treated by the
GCRA.
Wild FN:
also see
Will.
Wild and Rhein
(aka
Wild und Rein)
County: this small country whose territories were scattered roughly
around a line
starting about 13 km
W of
Alzey and
extending W some 70
more km.
WildbachGL,
Wittenberg: an
unidentified place
said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
an
Ekspel? family.
WildbergGL,
Calw parish, Wuerttemberg: is some 5 miles S of Calw, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and was home to a
Dengler/Dangler
family that settled
in
Gueldendorf, Odessa.
Wildberg,
Wuerttemberg [Duchy]:
said by the
Urbach FSL to be
homeUC
to a
Kaempf family.
This is the
same place as the
previous entry,
except 50 years
earlier.
WildeFN:
said by the
Neidermonjou FSL
to be fromUC
Nieder Weisel.
I could not
find this man in the
1798 censuses.
WildenseeGL,
Erbach County:
said by the
Walter FSL to be
homeUC to
Ament and
Beidenkopf families.
Wildensee,
Bavaria is some
19 miles NE of
Erbach, Hessen.
Wildenstein AmtGL,
Erbach County:
said by the Kromm
version of the
Jagodnaja Poljana
FSL to be homeUC
to a
Voelker family;
the Pleve version
only mentions
Erbach.
Kromm says
this was near
Rhonstadt, which
does not seem to be
the case.
The town of
Wildenstein is some
18 miles NE of
Erbach city and
is 2 miles W of
Wildensee
village,
Bavaria.
Wilecker{Margarethe}:
married
Feckenbusch{J.Georg}
20 May 1766 in
Rosslau (
Mai&Marquardt#976 and KS127).
KS145
has her as
Milecker{Margaretha
Johanne}.
KS142 has Leckenbusch{J.Georg}
1765.
Wilmersdorf: an
unidentified place
said by
Kulberg152 to
have been homeUC
to
Rohlmann{Joseph+w}.
There are at
least 9 such place
names in present-day
Germany, most of
them in
Brandenburg
state.
One of them
was a borough in
Berlin.
None appear
to have been
associated an
independent
political entity in
the mid- 18th
century.
WilgerFN:
said by the
Cheisol FSL to
be fromUC
Trier, no
locality given. For
1798 see
Mai1798:Ls45.
WilhelmFN{Johannes}:
said by the
Bauer FSL to be
fromUC
Luebeck.
This couple
probably died before
the 1798 census.
WilhelmFN:
a woman said by the
Belowescher Kolonien
FSL to be fromUC
Danzig (no
locality mentioned)
and to have married
in
Oranienbaum,
Steger.
WilhelmFN{Christian}:
said by the
Dreispitz FSL to
be fromUC
Seifhennersdorf,
Sachsen.
Wilhelm{Christina}:
Kulberg65 said
she was single from
Elbingen
and went to
Saratov. I did not find
her in
T, or in any
FSL.
WilhelmFN{Friedrich}:
said by
Kuhlberg4943 and
the
Huck FSL to be
fromUC
Hanau (no
locality or country
identified).
WilhelmFN{Philipp}:
said by the
Kolb FSL to be
fromUC
Luetzelhausen, Hanau.
The
Buedingen ML
says this man
married a
Schmidt woman in
1766 (Mai&Marquardt#369).
WilhelmFN{J.Jacob}:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned).
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Nr78.
WilhelmFN{Johannes}:
said by the
Norka FSL to be
fromUC
Isenburg (no
locality mentioned).
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Nr16.
WilhelmFN{Peter}:
said by the
Ober-Monjou FSL
to be fromUC
Nassau (no
locality indicated)
with an
Esslauer orphan
girl in the
household.
Wilhelm FN{Bernhard}:
said by the
Phillipsfeld FSL
to be fromUC
Bischausen-bei-Waldkappel,
[Hessen-Kassel Landgraviate],
with a
Ludwig orphan in the household.
Wilhelm{J.Ludwig}FN:
is not
identifed in the
1772
Pobochnaya first
settlers’ and was
discharged with
passport from there
in 1793 (Mai1798:Mv2330).
Wilhelm{Konrad}FN:
even though
old enough he is not
listed in the 1772
Pobochnaya first
settlers’ list but
moved from there to
Krasny Yar in 1777 (Mai1798:Mv2323(77),Ks33).
Wilhelm{Peter}FN:
listed with
his wife ({Margareta
Zavina} her maiden
name not given) in
the 1772
Pobochnaya first
settlers’ list
(pb31) with no
origin mentioned ;
for a son in 1771
see
Mai1798:Mv2323;
for 1798 see
Mai1798:Pb14,24,27,33
and
Ks31.
WilhelmFN{Andreas}:
said by the
Reinwald FSL to
be fromUC
[Isenburg-]Meerholz [County].
For 1788,
1797 and 1798 see
Mai1798:Mv2402,
2423, Ks10, Rh15,
Rw47 and 55.
WilhelmFN{Andreas}:
possible early
settlers of
Zuerich said to
be fromUC
Fronhausen (Lk4).
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Zr41.
Wilhelm{Margaretha
E.)FN:
this stepdaughter of
Rau{Johannes}
left
Zuerich in 1785
and may have been an
early settler there.
She may have
been listed at
T2447?
In 1798 she
was at
Mai1798:Or54.
WilhelmFN:
this family name was
found recorded in
Herborn marriage
records 1762-1767;
see
Flegel trip.
WilhelmFN:
also see
Wilhelmi and
Willhelm.
WilhelmiFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Konstanz, Schwaben.
Later spelled
Wilhelm (Mai1798:Ka116).
WilhelmiFN:
his wife was said by
the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Stadthagen,
Luzembourg.
WilhelmiFN:
said by the
Koehler FSL to be the maiden name of frau Dreschsler.
Wilhelmsburg,
Hamburg [Imperial City]:
was immediately S of
Hamburg city,
and was said by the
Stahl-am-Tarlyk
FSL to be homeUC
to the
Brunckhorst
family.
WilkFN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Hamburg (no
other locality
mentioned).
WilkeFN:
said by the
Bettinger FSL to
be the maiden name
of frau
Busch.
Wilke? FN:
according to the
Bettinger FSL
two orphaned
Wilke? brothers
of frau
Busch were
living with the
Busch family
that had come fromUC
Kiel.
In 1780 they
were referred to as
Welker (Mai1798:Mv235) but I could not find them in Mai1798es.
Will{Peter}FN:
listed by the 1816
Glueckstal
census (KS:674,
677, 486) with no
origin; however,
KS:487 said he
came fromUC
Schafheim,
Dieburg [Amt],
Hessen, thence
to
Neu Verbas,
Hungary, and
that his father {Kaspar}came
from
Pirmasens,
Pfalz, thence to
Torschau, Hungary.
Also spelled
Willner.
WillFN:
not found in an FSL
but was in the 1775
Grimm census
#72.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Gm140, Br37, Mo69 and possibly Br27 and Kf30.
Will{Gottlieb}FN:
listed by the 1816
Neudorf census
(#106) with no
origin.
Not treated
by
GCRA.
Will{Kaspar}FN:
said by both the
1816
Neudorf census
(#36) and
KS:487 to have
come fromUC
Pirmasens,
Rhinepfalz via Torschau,
Ungarn.
See the
GCRA book for a
bit more.
Will{A.Katharina}FN:
said by the
Schwab FSL to be
a widow in the
Urich household.
No trace of
her in
Mai1798.
Will{J.Peter}FN
said by the
Schwab FSL to be
fromUC
Hoexster[sic].
I could not
find members of this
family in
Mai798.
The
Buedingen ML
said
this man fromUC
Hoechst in the Wetterau
married in 1766 a
Ros widow
(Mai&Marquardt#611).
WillFN:
said by the
Straub FSL to be
fromUC
Kroeffelbach,
Nassau[-Weilburg Principality].
Also spelled
Wild in 1796,
1797 and 1798 (Mai1798:Mv2021,Mv2870,Sr43,40,50,Sg66
and Wr66).
WillFN:
also see
Konrad,
Wiel and Wild.
Willbach,
Kurmainz: an unidentified place said by the Cheisol FSL to be homeUC to a Haale/Halle family.
Willberegein(?)GL:
see
Willebadessen.
WilleFN:
said by the 1798
Balzer census to
be the maiden name
of frau
Becker{Weil}.
WillebadessenGL,
[Paderborn
Bishopric]: is
some 13 miles SE of
Paderborn city
and said by the
Mariental FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Linenberg
family.
Said by the
Neidermonjou FSL to be homeUC to Muehl and Taub families.
At one time Pleve
had rendered one
family
Mull, and the
place
Willberegein(?).
Willez(?)GL,
is an
unidentified
locality which,
according to the
Frank FSL, was
in the state of
Schlitz and was
homeUC to
an
Eisenach family.
There is a
Wolletz in
Brandenburg and
a Willatz in
Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Willging/WillkingFN:
Doris Evans says that research done by Anneliese Micheiwski for
Doris confirms his
origins: the Vilquin
lived in Genonne/Sedan,
France; at least one
went to Otterberg,
Germany; a Wilckin
went to Erlenbach,
Germany; a Wilking
went to
Kaiserslautern and
on to Tscherwenka,
Hungary; finally two
Wilking went to
Teplitz, Bessarabia.
WillhelmFN:
according to a
Woehrd ML this
woman fromUC
Waechtersbach,
Isenburg married
in 1766 a
Frasz man;
the couple moved to
Boregard (Mai&Marquardt#825).
Also spelled
Wilhelm.
Willingen?GL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Kano FSL to be
homeUC to
a Kuhlberg said this
place was in
Pfalz.
There were at
least 3 Willigens in
the Germanies; not
one in lands held by
Kurpfalz as best
I could find.
WillmanFN
said by the
Frank FSL to be
fromUC
Harpeshausen(?),
Hannover.
WillmandingenGL,
Reutlingen Oberamt,
Wuerttemberg: is
some 8 miles SSW of
Reutlingen,
Baden-Wuerttemberg,
and was home to a
Sauter/Sautter
family that settled
in
Gueldendorf, Odessa.
WillmandingenGL,
Wuerttemberg: is
some 8 miles SSW of
Reutlingen city,
and said by the
Lauwe FSL to be
homeUC to
Gaurer?,
Wagner, and Wechlein
families.
Willmann{Georg
Henrich}:
said to be
fromUC
Harpeshausen,
Bobenhausen [Amt]
he married
Bosseler{Magdalena
Sophia} in
Buedingen on 24
June 1766 (Mai&Marquardt#710).
Frank FSL #84
said he was widowed
and that
Harpeshausen
was in
Hannover.
KS122 and 164
spelled it
Harpertshausen,
saying it was near
Dieburg. The
bride died prior to
the
Frank FSL #84.
Willmann{J.Ernst}:
according to
the
Messer FSL (ms37) he was from
Isenburg and
arrived in
Messer on 18
June 1767.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Ms23).
Wagner1
found in
Duedelsheim, [Isenburg-Buedingen County] the records of his 1727 birth and the names of his
parents.
In 1798 the
wife’s maiden name
was given as
Keim (Mai1798:Ms65).
WillmannFN{Philippine}:
A
Luebeck ML says
she married
PoppF{J.Konrad}
on 31 May 1766. (Mai&Marquardt#1188).
He must have died
very soon, because
according
to the
Messer FSL
(ms36)
she arrived in
Messer on 18 June 1767 as the wife of Ochsenhirt{Jacob}.
For 1798 see
Mai1798:Ms23).
WillnerFN:
see
Will.
Willsbach,
Loewenstein, Erbach [County]:
the Pleve version of
the
Schaefer FSL
(#57) says this was
home to
SchaeferFN{Philipp}.
WilmersdorfGL:
an unidentified
place said by the
Kano FSL to be
homeUC to
a
Hahn family.
There were at
least 9 Wilmersdorfs
in the Germanies.
Wilsbach?, [Hessen-]Darmstadt [Landgraviate]:
is 16 km NWof
Giessen city and
was said by the
Warenburg FSL to
be homeUC
to a
Boehmersheim
family.
Wilsberg?,
Lothringen: nka Vilsberg 27 miles NW of Strasbourg city, and was said by the Leitsinger FSL to be homeUC to a Trun family.
Wilteig?FN:
said by the
Katharinenstadt
FSL to be fromUC
Korbach.
Wiltendorf?FN:
the
Grimm FSL says
there was a step-son
of this name in
Roeder household
that came from
Weimar, Sachsen.
WiltheisFN:
said by the
Paulskaya FSL to
be fromUC
Seeheim? With a
Schrenz? orphan boy fromUC Sachsen in the household.
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