Re: RENZIEHAUSEN / RENCEHAUSEN / YARDLEY; HAN,DEU > USA or AUS; 1780- On 9 May 1999 11:28:51 GMT, robert_tornow@gmx.de (Robert Tornow) wrote: >RENZIEHAUSEN / RENCEHAUSEN / YARDLEY; HAN,DEU > USA or AUS; 1780- > >Did I locate the origin of all RENZIEHAUSENs? I don't think so. In 1689 there lived a family Rantzihausen in Willershausen (Daniel R., he had a wife and 4 children). > >The earliest RENZIEHAUSEN in my ancestry lived about 1780 as foreman of >the local turners guild in Willershausen (today part of Kalefeld, county >Northeim, Lower Saxony). I know of some descendents emigrating to the US >and to Australia. As I know there was no turners guild in place for Willershausen. > >I'm interested to find descendents of the RENZIEHAUSEN family. >Maybe the name was anglicized (to RENCEHAUSEN, RANCEHAUSEN or something >else). > Robert, I would try to lookup the following books: authors : Max Burchard & Herbert Mundhenke title : Die Kopfsteuerbeschreibung der Fuerstentuemer Calenberg-Goettingen und Grubenhagen von 1689 pub.info : Verlagsbuchhandlung August Lax, Hildesheim 1962 The name Rantziehausen, Rentziehausen, etc. is mentioned at least in Volume 6 and Volume 7. I would try "Schubert's Trauregister fuer Suedniedersachsen" too. and another source: authors : Heiko Jaekel and others title : Willershausen am Harz, Umrisse einer Dorfgeschichte pub.info : Heimatverein Willershausen, Willerhausen 1998 HTH Heinz -- Heinz Bredthauer, Spitzerfurth 15, D-25355 Barmstedt, +49-4123 6302 Heinz.Bredthauer@t-online.de (Heinz Bredthauer)