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Thuringen surnames
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #20: Nature ~ 10th Great Grandfather Johann Andreas Koppels ~
This week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge is Nature. My feature ancestor for this week is my 10th great grandfather Johann Andreas (Hanschen) Köppels.
For the past few weeks I have been discovering more and more ancestors in Thüringen, Germany. With actual images of church records my Ancestry subscription pays for, I have traced back 5 more generations in a branch of my 3rd great grandmother’s Marie Louise Köppel’s ancestry. I have previously written about my immigrant 3rd great grandmother in this prior post and the fact that her father owned mills. For further clarification, she was the mother of my 2nd great grandfather Frederick “Fritz” Eckebrecht.
So long story short, I found a bunch of new ancestors in the area around Sondershausen, Thüringen, Germany. And just on Friday, I found out that my 9th great grandfather on a connecting branch was the Schultheiss (magistrate) in a little town near Sondershausen called Berka in 1705.
Back to the featured ancestor ~ My 10th great grandfather Johann Andreas Köppels was born around 1639, possibly near Sondershausen, Germany. His father may have been named Hans Paul and could be the man with that name that worked at Sondershausen Palace as a smith. His mother’s name is unknown at the time of this writing.
Around 1662 Johann Andreas married my 10th great grandmother Susanna Margaretha. Her last name is unknown. Unfortunately, the marriage records for Sondershausen start on Ancestry after Johann Andreas and Susanna Margaretha started to baptize their children in the 1660s.
In early 1666, when Susanna Margaretha gave birth to my 9th great grandfather Hans Abraham, Johann Andreas was a harness-maker at Sondershausen Palace and a linen weaver. Harnesses require cowhide and linen comes from the flax plant. Both professions rely on nature, don’t they?
Count Anton Günther I was the count at the palace at that time.
All in all, Johann Andreas had at least 15 children to at least 2 wives. I counted at least 12 of them to my 10th great grandmother Susanna Margaretha.
At the time of his death in 1726, while my 9th great grandfather Hans Abraham was working as a brewer at Sondershausen Palace, Johann Andreas was recorded in the church death records as being a Meister Leinenweber (master linenweaver.)
If you would like to read more about Sondershausen Palace in English, some history of the structure is featured by clicking here.
It has been enjoyable finding these revelations in Sondershausen in my ancestry. I look forward to digging deeper into these newly discovered branches and sharing more about them.
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My Thüringen and Niedersachsen Surnames and Place Lists – Updated 5/14/23
Thüringen, Germany
- Schwarzburg: Eckebrecht, Schutz, Grabe
- Grossmehlra: Eckebrecht, Dorre, Hinse/Heise, Grabe
- Clingen: Dorre, Mästrad, Muhlstadt, Engelhardt
- Rockstedt: Dorre, Engelhardt
- Hohenebra: Seebuss
- Berka: Beckern
- Wollersleben: Eckebrecht
- Koerner: Koppel, Grabe
- Rothenberg bei Neustadt: Koppel
- Sondershausen: Koppels, Seebuss, Kronenberg, Krohnenberg, Beckern
- Vieselbach: Gerbing/Gorbing, Engelbrecht, Wizlaber
- Obernissa: Korner
- Niederzimmern: Nicolai, Topf
- Utzberg: Nicolai, Hildebrand
- Grossmolsen: Hildebrand
- Gutendorf: Topf, Zipprodt
Niedersachsen, Germany
- Grossen Molzen: Wizlaber
- Hannover: Kirsch, Fehlig
- Sankt Andreasberg: Kirsch, Kutscher, Schroder, Geselle
- Grohnde: Fehlig, Mahlstedt, Wedekin/Widekin(sp?)
- Borry: Fehlig
- Marienrode: Fehlig
Links
Louis F. Kirsch, born in Hannover in 1862
Fritz Eckebrecht, born in 1848 in Schwarzburg
Louise Gerbing, born in 1836 in Vieselbach
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