My German Palatinate, Saarland, Alsace-Lorraine, France, and Swiss Anabaptist Surname and Place Lists – POST UPDATED 7/20/19

 

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The German Palatinate

• Nunschweiler: Leies/Lais/Layes/Leis/Leyes, Bold, Pfeiffer, Scheid (originated in Loutzviller, Moselle), Bauer, Burkhart, Conrad (originated in Schweyen, Moselle)
• Knopp-Labach: Bold, Becker
• Rodalben: Scheid (originated in Loutzviller, Moselle), Buchler, Becker, Hauck/Hocque/Hock/Hoque/Huekh, Bisser(in), Helfrich/Helferich/Helferig, Helf, Hoh
• Vinnigen: Hauck, Kolsch (originated in Moselle)
• Leimen/Merzalben/Leiningen: Reber, Helfrich/Helferich/Helferig (in Leimen before and after the Thirty Years War according to 850 Jahre Leimen.  See also Die Helfriche)
• Mauschbach: Conrad, Steu/yer, Pfeiffer, Kempf, Burkhart, Ziegler
• Grosssteinhausen: Pfeiffer, Kempf, Schaefer, Engel
• Kirchenarnbach: Bisserin
• Leichelbingen (Monbijou): Ziehl
• Hornbach: Ziehl
• Beidershausen: Stuppi/y, Muller, Rubli
• Niedershausen: Stuppi
• Oberhausen: Rubly/Rubli, Schwartz, Leyies/Leies/Layes/Leyies-Trauden/Traudi
• Bechhofen: Rubli
• Zweibrucken: Schwartz
• Weselberg: Buchler/Bugler, Wilhelm
• Weisbach: Leies
• Contwig: Leyies/Leies/Leyies-Trauden/Leyies-Traudi/Traudi, Rubeli, Bevell/Buffel, Stein, Finck
• Messerschwanderhof: Rubeli/Reubal/Ruble
• Harsberg: Buchler/Bugler, Wilhelm
• Thaleischweiler: Bauer, Matheis, Pfeiffer/Pfeifer, Simon, Ganter/Gander, Han, Becker
• Martinshohe: Becker, Mueller
• Massweiler: Moraux, Simon, Gander
• Lemberg: Hauck, Kuntz, Schneider
• Wachenheim, Alzey-Worms: Schuttler

Saarland*

• Saarbrucken: Kempf, Ludt, Hufflinger
• Burbach: Gans, Hufflinger

*My Kempf ancestors from Grosssteinhausen, RP are possibly descended from the Saarbrucken Kempfs in the Saarland.  

Moselle, Lorraine, France

• Loutzviller: Bittel, Scheid(t), Conrad
• Schweyen: Conrad, Stauder
• Volmunster: Bittel, Ziegler, Zeigler Huber, Stauder, Stauder dit Le Suisse
• Haspelscheidt: Fabing/Faber
• Sarreguemines: Bittel
• Roppeviller: Schaub dit Bittel
• Bliesbruck: Stauder dit Le Suisse
• Leiderschiedt: Weyland
• Urbach: Faber, Champion 
• Petit-Rederching: Faber, Faber dit Schoff Jockel
• Bitche: Faber

Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France

• Niederbronn: Kuntz, Conis
• Memmelshoffen: Kuntz, Cuntz, Cuntzen
• Cleebourg: Cuntzel, Cuntz, Contz, Cuntzen, Cunze, Cunz

 

Bernese Anabaptist Refugees to the Palatinate

• Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach, Bern: Rubeli/Strubel (from Langnau), Muller – Rubeli and Muller migrated to Fischbach, RP and lived in Messerschwanderhof and Contwig.  The Rubeli were related to the Gungerich Anabaptists of Diessbach.  See: Mennosearch.com and Der Tauferlehrer Christian Gungerich von Oberdiessbach (1595-1671) und der Streit um Seinen Nachlas by Hanspeter Jecker.
• Oberdiessbach, Bern: Gungerich/Gundrich/Gungery, Schindler
• Langnau, Bern: Strubel, Vogt

My DNA matches the Rubeli descendants that emigrated to Pennsylvania before the Revolution.  They used Ruble and Ruple in America.  See also this former blog post for sources and references on the Strubel/Rubeli:  The Anabaptist Rubeli of Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach, Switzerland.

See also: My Anabaptist/Mennonite/Canton Bern, Switzerland Surname List

Links to my Palatinate Immigrants and Refugees on Ancestry.com

Christian Rubeli – Mennonite Refugee to the Palatinate

Anna Muller – Mennonite Refugee to the Palatinate

Emilia Bold Leies

Elisabetha Scheid Bold

Johannes Leies

Peter Leies – Palatinate Immigrant that died at Antietam

 

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Grandma Ferraro’s French Connection

LORRAINE, FRANCE – Uncle John was right.  He mentioned several times in his research that there may be a tie in his Catholic ancestry to Alsace-Lorraine.  There definitely is a tie to Moselle, Lorraine in northeastern France where some of his Catholic ancestors lived in the late 1600s.  Grandma’s ancestor Jean Michel Conrad was born in 1697 in Schweyen, Lorraine and was baptized in the parish in Loutzviller, Moselle on December 3rd.  He is a 7th great grandfather to me.

Jean Michel was the son of Jean Gregor Conrad and Elisabeth Stauder.  His grandmother was Elisabeth Bruderle from Bliesbruck, Moselle.  Bliesbruck looks like quite the little, cute town with a Gallic-Roman archaeological park nearby that has re-enactments, and has an abundance of locally dyed wool if you would like to Google it…

The descendancy chart:

 

Those in red were all born in Moselle.

Moselle archives made parish records available online.  This is Jean Michel’s baptismal record:

Godparents were Jean Michel Mayer and Anna Maria Mousain

Schweyen is less than one mile from Hornbach, Germany where Jean Michel married 7th great grandmother Anna Apollonia Ziehl, daughter of Johann Christian Ziehl, a hofbestander zu Leichelbingen (farm manager in Leichelbingen) and Anna Maria Barbara from Dietrichingen.  Jean Michel and Anna Apollonia raised a family on a farm in the hamlet Monbijou that was part of nearby Leichelbingen, Germany.  It may have been the farm her father managed.  Doesn’t Monbijou sound French to you?  Their son, our ancestor Johann Jakob Conrad, died when a wagon drove over him.  Mamma mia!

I imagine that Jean Michel and Anna Apollonia spoke a Germanic language.  Also, Lorraine appears to be part of the German Empire in 1700.

So now Grandma’s Catholic side has ancestral ties to France and the Anabaptists of Canton Bern, Switzerland.  I am still hoping to find the origin of her maiden name.

Related:

Uncle John’s Grave

Leies Discoveries

The Anabaptists

Next up:  Who is the Daddy?