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Europe / Re: I am stuck and am looking for help re: German ancestory - KUCHEL
« on: Monday 26 November 18 23:44 GMT (UK) »
Many villages in South Australia were named after places in the Old Country.
Just Googling "Langmeil South Australia" would find history of that place and lead to finding that this Langmeil was close to Züllichau (actually it was within the district with the same name that surrounded that city).
State Library of South Australia has some great stuff on place too especially if you can find their Manning collection online.
Back in 1931 W Iwan wrote about those who left Silesia, Posen and the Mark of Brandenburg: "Um des glaubens Willen nach Australien". David Schubert has translated this as "Because of their Beliefs". This gives the names of people who applied for/received permission to leave. And some great supporting history. If your people may have left from these areas before 1845 it is worth consulting this book. (Has some maiden names for wives.)
Kuchels J.Georg KUCHEL and his wife Anna Dorothea nee SEIF(F)ERT had four sons.
On a slightly later ship "Zebra" 1838 came several NITSCHKE families (and more on the "Skjold" in 1841). They descended from Johann Gottfried NITSCHKE and Johanne Dorothea nee KUCHEL who married at Kay, Kreis Züllichau in 1771.
Recent DNA testing shows a close connection between Je Dorothea NITSCHKE nee KUCHEL and J Georg KUCHEL. Although it is too soon to know exactly what this connection was.
There may be other KUCHEL links through the distaff sides of yet other emigrants.
Just Googling "Langmeil South Australia" would find history of that place and lead to finding that this Langmeil was close to Züllichau (actually it was within the district with the same name that surrounded that city).
State Library of South Australia has some great stuff on place too especially if you can find their Manning collection online.
Back in 1931 W Iwan wrote about those who left Silesia, Posen and the Mark of Brandenburg: "Um des glaubens Willen nach Australien". David Schubert has translated this as "Because of their Beliefs". This gives the names of people who applied for/received permission to leave. And some great supporting history. If your people may have left from these areas before 1845 it is worth consulting this book. (Has some maiden names for wives.)
Kuchels J.Georg KUCHEL and his wife Anna Dorothea nee SEIF(F)ERT had four sons.
On a slightly later ship "Zebra" 1838 came several NITSCHKE families (and more on the "Skjold" in 1841). They descended from Johann Gottfried NITSCHKE and Johanne Dorothea nee KUCHEL who married at Kay, Kreis Züllichau in 1771.
Recent DNA testing shows a close connection between Je Dorothea NITSCHKE nee KUCHEL and J Georg KUCHEL. Although it is too soon to know exactly what this connection was.
There may be other KUCHEL links through the distaff sides of yet other emigrants.