Cary, it could also be that the Motz family was one of the families who emigrated from Austria. Several stopped off first for a few years in the area around Ansbach and then moved further west to the Kraichgau. Elke -----Original Message----- From: germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:germanna_colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Cary Anderson Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:40 PM To: germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: [GERMANNA] Motz/Lang 1717 of Bonfeld I have more exact data regarding Johannes Motz who came in 1717 group to Germanna. I started reading the microfilm of Bonfeld church records and found the birth of a son of Johannes Motz. I didn't have time to get into the marriages and deaths. But this will be much easier when I get back to the family history center. One of the first book I purchased on German immigration has been on my book shelf since sometime in the 1980s! I even had the page marked, but don't know what track I got off. The book: Annette Kunselman Burgert, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EMIGRANTS FROM GERMAN-SPEAKNG LANDS TO NORTH AMERICA: VOLUME: I, THE NORTHERN KRAICHGAU (Breinigsville, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvaina German Society, 1983, pp 262-263. 383. Motz, Hans _________, 1717 > > Bonfeld emigrant list: Hans Motz with wife. BONFELD LUTHERAN KB [Kirchenbuch/churchbook] married 28 February 1716 Johannes Motz, son of the late Galli Motz, citizen at Ditzingen, Leonberger Ambts, and Maria Apollonia, daughter of Johann Leonhard Maubars, citizen at Hecklingen [Hechlingen] in the Markgrafschaft Anspach, near Gunzenhausen. They had: 1. Johann Simon b. 28 Oct. 1716, d. 29 Oct. 1716. p263: American records: This immigrant has been identified by Klaus Wust as a passenger on Captain Scott's ship from London to Virginia in 1717. (HEBRON CHURCH REGISTER, 1750-1825, Madison, VA., Vol. 1, by George M. Smith, Introduction by Klaus Wust, p. XII.) Hecklingen is some distance from Ditzingen as well as Bonfeld. Ditzingen is just north of Stuttgart and Hecklingen is guite a distance east. It is about 70 miles east, southeast of Bonfeld. So neither Johannes Motz nor his wife Maria Apollonia Maubars were born in Bonfeld. Both families, I suspect, migrated there after the horrible 1708 great freeze. There is a list of emmigrants from Bonfeld taken from a church register of Bonfeld. Briefly, 6 families left in 1710. 23 families left in 1717 4 families left in 1727 4 families left in 1738. This is 37 families in all. Bonfeld is still a rather small village not too far from Schwaigern. There is no Lang in the Bonfeld emigrants list. So, I think it is back to square one for the George Lang. I thought that he was the only one with no village identified the last time I looked at the old list. However, there are Langs in the Bonfeld church records. I think I even may have spotted a Walck, but don't know for sure. It may be Welck, buyt Welck is a form of Welcker which becomes Walk or Walke. I can see how someone from that area of Germany coming over to Germanna, Virginia, could get Hans Martin Walck's surname confused and spell it as they had known a similar name back in the old barony--Walke. There is only one time it is spelled Walke in Germanna area that I have found and I believe it was in connection with some dealing with a Wilhite from Schwaigern which is only a hop, skip, and jump from Bonfeld. Cary The great freeze of 1708 began a mass migration to try to find a way to survive. Does anyone know what Bonfeld had that would attract people from afar. I do know that der Kraichgau is one of the warmer spots in Germany. Cary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message