A Search for Names

AHSGR, Work Paper No. 13, December 1973

Research In Hesse
By Arthur and Cleora Flegel

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From earlier study, we were aware that the city Fulda lay on the principal route of Volga bound emigrants traveling north to Luebbeck for transporation to Russia. Hoping the mamrriage lists would be especially plentiful, we hurried there, arriving in the late afternnon…
…Names from marriage lists of Tann 1762-1767 (MY NOTES: This is in no way a complete list. The following contains only family names which may or may not be blood relatives. I will expand this list later on, need be.):

Johann Heinrich Wagner / Magdalena Völger
Johann Georg Wagner / Eva Pilger
Sebastian Hartung / Susanna Gröning
Johann Schmidt / Maria Wagner
Samuel Wagner / Anna kath. Thiel

…Our next stop was Schlitz, to the northwest of Fulda. This community boasts a Lutheran Church dating from 1512…At Schlitz we found marriage lists of young couples actually enroute to becoming Russian immigrants… The following lists were submitted to Dr. Karl Stumpp and are printed in more detailed form on page 498 of his book, “The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763-1862.”

…Other marriages taking place in Schlitz during the years 1762-1767 follow. Although it does not state that any of these emigrated, some very possibly did (MY NOTES: This is in no way a complete list. The following contains only family names which may or may not be blood relatives. I will expand this list later on, need be.).

Joh. Conrad Habicht / Anna Elisabeth Weber
Joh. Friedrich Weber / Anna Marg. Heyl
Joh. Christian Thöt / Anna Maria Weber
Jean Francois Obry / Anna Elis. Becker
Lorenz Becker / Anna Elisabeth Dickert
Joh. Jacob Wagner / Anna Elis. Greitzer
Joh. Georg Becker / Anna Marg. Kroh