---- "Michael L. Oddenino" <oddlaw@pacbell.net> wrote: > Does anyone have any data on Anna Barbara MEYER, wife of Hans George UTZ? Michael, Anna Barbara Maier is one of my favorite ladies of the early 1700. I have spent considerable reading and reading the Huffenhardt church records, as well as surrounding church records, to learn as much as possible about the Maier, Utz, and Volck families. Cathi gave a very good report about Anna Barbara Maier. That is all that is really known so far about the lady, herself. However, reading the church records and studying the history of the area gives one a marvelous feel for the lady and her children, both Volck and Utz. I was working on a study to about these folks. It was mainly to prove the surname Elisabetha, wife of Johann Dietrich Weber, aka Peter Weaver, I established ten reasons for believing such. I also have two more now, but I can not spend as much time composing as I need to. I believe without question that Anna Barbara (Volck) Utz, nee Maier, was the morther of Louisa Elisabetha Volck who became the wife of Hans Dietrich Weber, aka Peter Weaver. Hans Dietrich Weber's wife shows up in the Hebron Communion list as Lobis Elisabetha Weber. Lobis is the way it looks at first glance in the actual Communion book in the vault at the Bank in Madison. However, the more I study it the more I am certain that what looks very much like a 'b' is really a Germanic form of the 'u'. Then the ending letter that is assumed to be an 's' may just be two letters--an 's' and an 'e'. Thus, this would then be Louise Elisabetha (Volck) Weber. I need to find time to organize the material that shows Lobis appears in various records in the United States for what was actually Louise, Lewis, and other derivitives of Luis. If you have not heard, there is actually a small "mountain", really just a rise of sorts like the Iowa rolling hills, called Utzberg. This is on the Wagenbach Hof. The Utz came after the 30 year war to Wagenbach. However, Utzberg appears to be an ancient name on the Wagenbachof, This may suggest that the Utz family may have been there before the 30 year war and then returned later. Unfortunately, records from the church of Huffenhardt does not show any Utz in their earlier records. At least I haven't seent them. 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