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h e nineteenth century witnessed the arrival of some 30 million immigrants to America, with Ireland and Germany providing by far the largest group. In the first half of the century alone, Getmany-in particular Prussia-accounted for twenty percent of this new population. Of this German migration, close to 1 million made application to emigrate at Wuerttemberg. Naturally, this emigration/ immigration process generated records as countries attempted to keep track of who was leaving and where they were going. Most of these records have lain hidden in foreign archives and few have been indexed, as was the case with the Wuerttemberg emigration records. The Wuerttemberg Emigration Index presents the first comprehensive indexing of the microfilm records of this vast and previously inaccessible body of important primary source material. This collection, filmed at Ludwigsburg, contains the names of approximately 60,000 persons who made application to leave Germany from the late eighteenth century to 1900. This first volume, containing 11,500 names, provides the historian and genealogist alike with a valuable access tool to this storehouse of information. The information supplied on each person includes: name, date and place of birth, residence at time of application and application date, and microfilm number.

THE WUERTTEMBERG EMIGRATION INDEX Volume Three

THE WUERTTEMBERG EMIGRATION INDEX Volume Three

By Trudy Schenk and Ruth Froelke

Ancestry Incorporated Salt Lake City, Utah .

1987

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 85-052453 ISBN Number 0-916489-25-6 (Hardbound) ISBN Number 0-916489-26-4 (Paperback)

Copyright © 1987 by Ancestry Incorporated All Rights Reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the Publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages for a review. First Printing 1987 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America

Acknowledgements

n compiling this book and preparing the manuscript for publication, we wish to express our appreciation to Hans Erwin Froelke for his valuable assistance. Our appreciation is further directed to the staff of the European Reference section of the Genealogical Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for their encouragement of our endeavor to get this first volume completed and for free use of their equipment. Finally, we express appreciation to the Wuerttemberg archive officials who made the microfilming of the Ludwigsburg Wuerttemberg emigration records possible.

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recall a conversation which took place four or five years ago at the so-called "professional genealogists table" in the cafeteria of the LDS Church Office Building in Salt Lake City. Someone said, ''Wouldn't it be nice if there were an index to the Wuerttemberg emigration registers?" We all murmured in agreement, shuddered a bit at the thought of the amount of work involved, and switched the conversa· tion to more congenial topics. Fortunately, at a nearby table where German was the language of luncheon conversation, three of our professional colleagues decided to do something more than indulge in wishful thinking about the Wuerttemberg registers. The initial results of their. labor are in your hands. Why have professional genealogists and others knowledgeable about German-American genealogy so eagerly awaited the publication of this index? Perhaps the best way to explain this is to cite an example. The name of Otto Walter, born in Ravensburg, Wuerttemberg, in 1832 will appear in Volume II of this work, as will that of his brother Karl, born in 1828. Otto Walter's descendants, like so many Americans of German extraction, wanted to know where he had come from in the Old World. They retained Trudy Schenk to find his exact birthplace. The case proved to be unusually difficult. According to one family story, Otto came from Wuerttemberg. But another story said his brother Karl emigrated to California from the neighboring German state of Baden. Still another family story said the brothers were from a place called "Oldhouse." This led Mrs. Schenk to search the parish registers of every village in Baden and Wuerttemberg named Altheim, only to come up empty on all counts. The U.S. Census returns listed only Wuerttemberg or Germany. Since Otto died before 1900, his year of emigration was not known. The naturalization papers of both brothers merely listed Wuerttemberg. All the other available American sources failed to provide the village of ong1n. The key to solving the problem proved to be the Wuerttemberg emigration registers. During the preparation of this index, Mrs. Schenk found Otto Walter's name in the emigration registers of Oberamt Ravensburg. But until the publication of this volume, these registers were almost totally inaccessible to the genealogist. One faced the

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formidable task of reading through hundreds of reels of microfilm containing unindexed records written in difficult (for the novice virtually indecipherable) gothic script. It should be stressed that this index does not confine itself to emigrants destined for North America. One can find names of individuals headed for the four corners of the earth, e.g. Australia, South America, and even Russia. In fact, many families left Wuerttemberg in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for a new life on the steppes of southern Russia. But by the 1870s the threat of serving in the Czar's army caused many of them to look elsewhere for a permanent home. Tens of thousands resettled on the Great Plains of North America. With the passage of time, their descendants have become interested in the saga of the Germans from Russia. But since archives in the Soviet Union do not respond to genealogical inquiries, the quest often seemed quite hopeless. Now, with the publication of this index, many families of German-Russian descent will be able to trace their ancestral lines back to Wuerttemberg. In summary, the publication of this index rates as a milestone in German emigrant genealogy. By using it, the family historian can avoid years of futile effort. Volume I is at hand and I eagerly await those to follow.

Richard W. Dougherty, Ph.D.

Introduction

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he Wuerttemberg emigration records are a unique collection of papers and documents on applicants who filed for permission to emigrate from Wuerttemberg during the nineteenth century. These records are not alphabetized nor are the pages numbered, which makes a search through them complicated and time consuming. In many cases, as many as eight pages were written on one person, including a birth certificate or a family record, military release, and renunciation of citizenship rights. Often the handwriting in these documents is almost indecipherable for even an experienced German researcher. It is almost impossible for a layman to search through these records successfully. Emigrants leaving without permission are, of course, not listed at the time of emigration. Yet many of these emigrants, later in life, after having arrived in the land of their destination, sent word back to the Wuerttemberg state and town officials renouncing their citizenship rights. Such repudiation is also documented in the Wuerttemberg emigration records. There were as many as 800,000 people who emigrated to_other parts of the world from Wuerttemberg since the late seventeenth century, including the period after World War II. A great number of those who emigrated to the German colonies in the Russian Empire, came to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, a significant percentage of all German emigrants to North America have come from Wuerttemberg. This volume of alphabetized names, containing such vital records as birthdate and place of origin, is a vital work for the genealogist and family historian researching their German heritage. All information included in this volume of the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index has been extracted from the original Wuerttemberg emigration records filmed at Ludwigsburg and available on microfilm at the Genealogical Society of Utah in Salt Lake City. Although all of the records were handwritten by German speaking people, the spelling of names varies from one document to the other. In cases where applicants used their own signature, that spelling was used. The user of this book should be aware of an anglicized spelling change in the United States and check out several spelling possibilities. All names listed are spelled in the most common German way. For instance IX

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a man's name "John" in America can be shown as "Johann" or even "Hans." Place names are all spelled as they will be listed in a German gazetteer or located on a German map. One important fact should be observed when using a modern map of Germany or a map of Wuerttemberg: Within the last twenty years small villages have merged and often a new name was designated. For example, the village of Kaltenwesten in Oberamt Besigheim does not exist on any map or German gazetteer. It can only be located in conjunction with the village Neckarwestheim. Therefore, it is advisable to consult older maps in trying to locate a given area. The original Wuerttemberg emigration records were compiled according to the Oberamt to which the applicant belonged. An Oberamt is roughly equivalent to a district town (or county seat in America). The country of destination for each emigrant is given and regions such as Maehren (Moravia), Siebenbuergen (Transylvania), Rumaenien (Romania), Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia, which were all part of the Austrian empire, are designated as Austria. The actual emigration record gives more details on each single applicant. Some names may be diffi.cult to locate because of peculiarities in the German language. German surnames that carry an "Umlaut," i.e. a modified vowel (a, 6, ii), have been changed to their English equivalents; thus a= ae, 6 = oe, ii= ue are indexed as such. Surnames composed of two or more distinct words have been alphabetized under the final word. Thus, von Vogel is found as Vogel von. When a family or husband and wife applied jointly, the entry would be as follows: Knoedler, Johann & F, with all children listed in alphabetical order if their names were given on the application. The wife would be listed under both her married and maiden name. In a case where children may have left at an earlier time, and if such a notation is made on the application, these children will be listed with the family leaving later. In such an instance, the "Emigration" column will read "bef. 1856" (if this happens to be the date the family is making application). Occasionally the recording official will give the actual date for the early emigrants, but not their names. The reader is advised to follow every lead and check the microfilm originals for possible additional information. In case of a widow with children or a single woman with an illegitimate child, the listing will appear as follows: Widmann, Heinrike & C. A widow also may be listed as Widmann, Heinrike & F. The date of application for emigration should not be assumed to be the date of emigration. In several cases, 'emigration was not granted until some time later, or the emigrant had already left secretly before that date.

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ABBREVIATIONS A-dam Augsb. Austral Bessar D-dorf Darmst F-burg Frank£. Hannov. Holst Kreuzn. L-burg Landsb. M-burg M-heim N.-Amer Neck Nuer.

=Amsterdam = Augsburg = Australia = Bessarabien = Dusseldorf = Darmstadt = Freiburg = Frankfurt = Hannover = Holstein = Kreuznach = Luxemberg = Landsberg = Mecklenburg =Mannheim = North America = Neckarsulm = Nuertingen

Nuernb. Offenb. Oldenb. Palest Pommer Pr.-Pol Regb. Rhld. Rus-Pol S. Afri S.-Amer S.-Russ Slovan Switz. Thur. W.-Prs W.-Russ West£.

= = = = = =

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Nuernberg Offenburg Oldenburg Palestine Pommerania Prussia Poland Regensburg Rheinland Russia-Poland South Africa South America South Russia Slovania Switzerland Thuringia West Prussia West Russia Westphalia

ABBREVIATIONS OF OBERAEMTER = DISTRICT TOWNS Aal Bal Bckn Bes Bib Bib Boeh Brck Cal Can Crls Eh Ellw Essl Frd Gld Gmd Goep Grb Gsl Hdh

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -

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Aalen Balingen* Backnang Besigheim Biberach Blaubeuren Boeblingen Brackenheim Calw* Cannstatt Crailsheim Ehingen Ellwangen Esslingen Freudenstadt* Gaildorf Gmuend Goeppingen Gerabronn 'Geislingen Heidenheim

Herr Hlbr Hll Hor Kntl Kreh Kzs Leon Lph Ltk Lud Marb Mibr Mrg Muens Nag Nbg Nds Ner Nuert Obd

= Herrenberg* = Heilbronn =Hall = Horb = Knittlingen = Kirchheim = Kuenzelsau = Leonberg = Laupheim = Leutkirch = Ludwigsburg = Marbach = Maulbronn = Mergentheim = Muensingen = Nagold* = Neuenbuerg = Neckarsulm = Neresheim = Nuertingen = Oberndorf

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Oehr Rav Rdl Rtb Rtl Rtw Schd Slg Slz Speh Stu

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Oehringen Ravensburg Riedlingen Rottenburg Reutlingen Rottweill Schorndorf Saulgau - Sulz* - Spaichingen - Stuttgart

Tett Tueb Tutt Ulm Ur Vaih Wbl Wlds Wng Wnsb Wlz

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Tettnang Tuebingen Tuttlingen Ulm Urach Vaihingen Waiblingen Waldsee Wangen Weins berg Welzheim

*This indicates that the records for this Oberamt are contained in this volume. It does not mean that every record has been extracted, for new records are being added constantly. The compilers have made every effort to extract an Oberamt as completely as possible, but it cannot be assumed that it is one hundred percent complete. Check every volume of the index for the particular surname you are researching. Listed below are the Oberamts contained in previous volumes. Volume One = Backnang; Besigheim; Biberach; Blaubeuren; Boeblingen; Brackenheim; Calw; Horb Volume Two

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Nagold; Nuertingen; Rottenburg; Rottweill; Schorndorf

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