The Anna Kraft of Grossingen may be Anna KRATT of Trossingen. >From: Jillaine Smith <jillainedc@yahoo.com> >Date: Sat May 28 12:28:26 CDT 2005 >To: NYERIE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NYERIE] From Schwenningen (Wrtbg) to Buffalo, NY >[Surnames covered in this email: BENZING, MEIER, STEGMANN, SCHLENKER, >SCHRENK, STROHM, MUELLER, WUERTHNER.] >[Towns covered: Schwenningen, Schura, Trossingen, Grossingen, Friedenstadt, >Buffalo] > >As some of you may know, one of my Buffalo branches is the JAUCH family of >Schwenningen. In researching my emigrator's history, I learned of the story >of the 1847 subsidized emigration of Schwenningen's poor to the U.S. (See >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine/rt/1847Emigration.htm if >you want to know more about this story.) > >Not only is it a fascinating story in and of itself, but my ancestor, >Andreas JAUCH (b. 1800), appears to be one of the emigres. As a result of >this fascination, I took on trying to find out where the 1847 emigres >settled in the U.S. (the above web site attempts to do this). A number of >them settled in Buffalo. > >Initially, I examined census records. But recently, I have begun reviewing >the microfilm of the St. Stephens Evangelical Church in Buffalo, NY which >recently became available. Several Schwenningen families are documented in >this church, but not all of them are on the ships list, so that means that >either some of them arrived earlier and that's why some of the 1847 emigres >made their way to Buffalo, or perhaps they followed shortly after. > >QUERY: Is anyone on NYERIE-L researching these folks? I have also posted to >the Rottweil-Tuttlingen regional list. (Apologies to those here who are on >both.) > >Here are the Buffalo Schwenningers I have found so far through St. Stephens >church records (which blissfully, by the way, list the town of origin on >many of their 1850s and 1860s records): > >1. Andreas WUERTHNER, with wife Christina and several children. They are on >the list of 1847 emigres,. At least three of their sons (Jakob, Christian >and Andreas) married (respectively: Anna LINK of Schura, Gertrant RAHL? of >Prussia, and Anna Katharina MUELLER of Schwenningen) and started having >children. Anna K. Mueller may be the daughter of 1847 emigre Christian MUELLER. > >2. Johannes SPECK and Anna BENZING -- both of Schwenningen, probably born >in the 1820s -- are having children in the mid-late 1850s in Buffalo. >Johannes does not appear to be from the 1847 list, but Anna might be the >daughter of Catharina who came over with two daughters. There is also >another Benzing (Jakob) family in Buffalo that is not on the 1847 >emigration list from which Anna may have sprung. > >3. Erhard MUELLER and Margaretha HAUK (she of Baiern) are having children >early 1860s; Erhard might be son of 1847 emigre Martin/Conradt MUELLER. > >4. Jacob MEIER and Maria ROTHFUSS (she of Friedenstadt, Wrtbg) are having >children mid 1860s in Buffalo; he might be the son of Johannes MEYER, Anna >Maria MEYER (who may have been an emigrating widow), or Philip/Andreas >MAHER-- all three on the 1847 list. > >5. Johann Martin SCHLENKER and Katharina STRO(H)M (she of Trossingen) are >having children in the mid 1860s in Buffalo. There were no Strohms on the >1847 list (and besides, she's of Trossingen). > >6. Georg SCHLENKER was married to Ursula WUERTHNER. She might be an older >daughter of 1847 emigre Andreas Wuerthner; I don't know who Georg might be >tied to. There is a much younger Georg Schlenker, son of 1847 emigre Jakob, >also in Buffalo, but this George is not the right age. > >7. Another Schlenker family is Jakob SCHLENKER and Barbara SCHLENKER both >of Schwenningen, having children in the mid 1860s in Buffalo. There is an >1847 emigre by this name, but older, b. 1815, who at least in 1850 was >married to a Mary. So if this is the same guy, Mary died and he remarried >Barbara and had another set of children. Or perhaps it is another Schlenker >altogether. > >8. There are at least two STEGMANN families in Buffalo, originally from >Schwenningen. There is no such surname on the list of 1847 emigres. >Specificially, there is a) Johann George STEGMANN married to Anna KRAFT of >Grossingen. (Trossingen?) having babies in 1867, and a year later, b) >another Johann Georg STEGMANN married to Ursula MAIER both of Schwenningen. >Possibly the same Stegmann, but the time frame is awfully tight, and I saw >no death record of Anna Kraft. [I have yet to review the marriage records; >that's next.] Ursula Maier could be the daughter of 1847 emigre Johannes >MEIER. > >9. Katharina SCHRENK, wife of Jakob MEIER both of Schwenningen, died in >1869 with a birth date listed of 30 Oct 1803. There is a widow Katharina >Meier on the 1847 emigre list. This could be her. There is no Jakob Meier >on the list. > >Do any of these families connect to you? > >Sincerely, > >-- Jillaine Smith >Washington DC > > > >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine > > > >==== NYERIE Mailing List ==== >To contact the List Administrator: Dick Rose <dtrose@cox.net> >See the Archived Messages at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > >============================== >Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for >ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx