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From: Horace Ory <[email protected]>
Subject: [ALS-LOR-L] Re: ALSACE-LORRAINE-D Digest V00 #516
Actually, the Folse/Foltz family was of German origin (Hohenecken/Ramstein).
Others included Ackerman (Greffern and Schwarzach in Baden, Beinheim in
Bas-Rhin), Albrecht (Heidelberg, Baden), Antoni/Bernard (Schweigern,
Baden), Baumgartner (Kleinsachsenheim, Wurttemberg), Bayer (Bruchsal,
Baden), Bellome (Bollviller, Haut-Rhin), Belsom (Bourbach-le-Haut,
Haut-Rhin), Bergmeyer (Tiefenbach, Baden), Berenhardt (Schillersdorf,
Bas-Rhin), Betz Waibstadt, Baden-Wurttemberg), Bopff/Bopp (Speyer,
Rheinland-Phalz), Brantan (Huningue, Haut-Rhin), Burckel (Batzendorff,
Alsace), Callender/Kallender (Obergempern, Baden), Crestmann/Kr.. (Fort
Lewis, Bas-Rhin), Distelzweig (Seltz, Bas-Rhin), Edelmayer (Mannheim,
Baden-Wurttemberg, GE; Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin; Steinsfurt and Reihen,
Baden at various times), Edinger/Hettinger (Mosbach, Baden), Ettler dit
Colmar (Colmar, Haut-Rhin), Fischer (Karlsruhe, Baden), Flick (Buhl, Baden),
Frederich (Rotenberg, Baden-Wurttemberg; Wilwisheim, Alsace), Graber
(Huningue, Haut-Rhin), Heidel (Neunkiechen, Wurzberg), Helfer (Lembach,
Alsace), Himel (Stebbach, Palatinate; Steinbach, Baden-Wurttemberg),
Hoffman/Ockman (Haguenau, Bas-Rhin), Houbre/Oubre (Kraichgau, Baden),
Jacob (Kirrwiller, Bas-Rhin), Matern (Haguenau, Bas-Rhin), Philippi
(Ingwiller, Alsace), Rauch (Sinzheim, Baden), Reblogel (Lampertsloch,
Bas-Rhin), Reinhard (Ingwiller, Bas-Rhin), Rommel (Kirchardt, Baden),
Schaaf/Schoff/Chaufe (Keffenach, Bas-Rhin), Schaffer (Ingwiller, Bas-Rhin),
Schantz (Hichhausen, Baden), Schmidt (Isnay, Baden-Wurttemberg), Stelly
(Alberhausen, Wurttemberg), Strumpfle (Ottersweier, BAdun-Wurttemberg),
Troxler (Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin), Vesperman (Ingwiller, Bas-Rhin),
Waguespack (Artolsheim, Bas-Rhin), Weber/Webre (Gamhurst,
Baden-Wurttemberg), Weyrich (Siersthal, Moselle), Wich/Weig (Stebbach,
Baden), Wichner/Vicknair (Hagenau, Bas-Rhin or nearby in Sinsheim,
Baden), Willig (Walheim, Haut-Rhin), Zeringue (Huningue, Haut-Rhin).
This information is from A. J. Robichaux, Jr., "German Coast
Families: European Origins and Settlement in Colonial Louisiana,"
Hebert Publications, Rayne, LA 1997. This excellent book gives much
more detail on the origins and history of the German settlers.
> Subject: [ALS-LOR-L] first alsace-lorrainers in Louisiana, USA
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:05:17 -0600
> From: Margaret Moreland <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
>
> Hi fellow listers,
> Thought you might like to see this.A translation from the French
> L'Observateur Louisianais, Vol 5, Num 11, Nov. 1896 submitted by Mrs.
> Ronalde McClure
>
> In 1722, the Chevalier D'Arensburg, a Swedish officer, was in
> Alsace-Lorraine to recruit 250 Germans for the Co. of the Indies. These, he
> conducted to Louisiana as colonists, and settled in the location of
> Bonnet-Carre, known as the German Coast. Navigators on the Mississippi
> River reckoned the distance to be twenty-two, but not more than twenty-five
> miles from New Orleans.
>
> In 1766, a total of 216 Acadians found their way to the German Coast as
> exiles from Canada, and joined the first colonists of 1722.
>
> The inhabitants of the area still bear French and German names. Of German
> origin they are: Keller, Troxler, Haydel, Himel, Waguespack, Schexnayder,
> Kinler, Becnel, Muntz, Weber, Kerr(Caire), Zoeringen, Hahn, Rixner,
> Wickner,etc.
>
> Of Acadian or French origin they are: St. Amand, St.-Cyr, St. Martin, St.
> Pe, Boutte,Fortier, Trepagnier, Bethancourt, Trudeau, Brou, Poche,
> Bourgeois, Folse, Baudouin, Friloux, Champagne, Marin, Delery, Massicot and
> Cambre,etc.
>
> It seems that in certain areas of the world the French and German people are
> destined to live together.