Saturday, February 19, 2011

Kornthal Families sailing on the ship NUREMBERG

Several families who settled around Kornthal Church arrived in New Orleans Mar 23, 1861 aboard the ship NUREMBERG sailing from the port of Harve, France. These families were all from the village of Weingarten and had attended the same Evangelical Reformed church in Weingarten. The church records were preserved in the Protestant Church Archive in Speyer and a microfilm copy is available. These families include Bernhard, Duerkheimer, Foehr, and Sauerbrunn. They were related through marriage in Weingarten and some of their descendants intermarried in America.
  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A note on spelling of the names- in the church records Bernhard and Sauerbrunn are spelled the same as we spell them now. I have not found the Bernhard surname spelled Bernhardt when referring to our ancestors. There are many unrelated families who spell the name with "dt", but I have not found links between them.

In the German records Duerkheimer is spelled with an "umlaut u" - Ü - making the German spelling Dürkheimer. This spelling is difficult to pronounce for most non-Germans so it led to the large number of different spellings found in American records. Substituting "ue" for Ü is common and accepted practice in Germany. That is how  Duerkheimer came into common use in Union County.

Similarly, the name Foehr was spelled Föhr in Germany and was pronounced "Fair", thus leading to some records showing the name as Fehr. Substituting "oe" for ö is common and accepted practice in Germany.


Weingarten Evangelical Reformed Church where our ancestors worshipped, married, had their children christened, and were buried, viewed from the north
 Weingarten is located on the left (west) bank of the Rhine River about 10 miles (16 km) west-southwest of Speyer.  Weingarten translated means literally "Wine Garden" and is translated as "Vineyard".  While researching Weingarten I discovered that there are at least five villages in Bavaria and Baden so named. It was confusing at first but once the correct names were found, it became obvious which was the correct village.

Arms of the village of Weingarten
Part of the confusion came from stories I had heard that Weingarten was in Bavaria. Bavaria is located in the mountainous south part of Germany, east of the Rhine River. Our Weingarten is WEST of the Rhine. It turns out that the Kingdom of Bavaria controlled the area around Weingarten from about 1800 to 1874, but it was never a tightly integrated part of the Kingdom. Many laws and customs were different west of thew Rhine in what is called the Pfalz region.

List of Kornthal immigrants from page 7 of the passenger manifest of the ship Nuremberg, arriving at New Orleans from Harve, France 23 Mar 1861:

167
DurkheimerDaniel
38
168
DurkheimerEva
38
169
DurkheimerJacob
16
170
DurkheimerValentin
9
171
DurkheimerPeter
4
172
HellmerJoh.
26
173
SauerbrunnJacob
45
174
SauerbrunnA. Maria
44
175
SauerbrunnGeorge
16
176
SauerbrunnEva
15
177
SauerbrunnThomas
14
178
SauerbrunnFred ^c
12




184
FehrFr ^k
42
185
FehrElise
42
186
FehrPeter
19
187
FehrEva
17
188
FehrMarie
15
189
FehrCath.
10
190
FehrElise,
7



194
SauerbrunnVal ^n
27
195
SauerbrunnCh ^ana
27
196
SauerbrunnG ^ge
4
197
SauerbrunnThomas
2
198
SauerbrunnVal ^n
3 mo.


201
BernhardPeter
55
202
BernhardSuzanna
39
203
BernhardMichel
28
204
BernhardAdam
10
205
BernhardPeter
9
206
BernhardJacob
3

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