[31] Some Pennsylvania Dutch live in the historically Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking areas of Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Were going to start up Ancestry.com so maybe well learn the rest of the story? Ek would be nice and short to sign lol. Shetler=Stettler The extensive Steeves clan descends from this group. Esh= schi The genealogy and family research site of Kris Hocker. After Napoleon entered the picture, last names were mainly based on occupation or location. Erik, when I click on recent comments, the comment I click on disappears and I cannot read it or respond to it. The war began in 1688 as Louis XIV laid claim to the electorate of the Palatinate. 3. If your great grandmother was shunned, that means at one time she would have been a member of the church, and then sinned (according to the churchs opinion) and did not show evidence of repentance. Pastorius and citizens of Germantown criticized the racial lines of slavery. For a sidebar in my Amish business book I tallied up the names in Daviess Co, and found that 6 surnames accounted for nearly 90% of the families there. [92], Before World War II, the Nazis established pro-Nazi German-American Bunden which sought to gain the loyalty of the German-American community, emphazing German-American ties to the "Fatherland". [6], The Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Pennsylvania Amish Country, and the Ohio Amish Country are heavily associated with them. If you are close, you could visit there and browse their archives where they have oodles of genealogical materials. [40], This group of Mennonites was organized by Francis Daniel Pastorius, an agent for a land purchasing company based in Frankfurt am Main. An example is if a child's father is named "Dirk" then the baby's last name would be "Dirksen" if they are a boy or "Dirkdochter" if they are a girl. Roeber, A. G. "In German Ways? The American Riegsecker name comes from the Swiss family name of Rgsegger, per Dr Delbert Gratz, in his book, Was Isch Dini Nahme? "Plain" meaning Amish and Mennonite and those who wore plain dress, and . Jonas. Because both Yiddish and the Pennsylvania Dutch language are High German languages, there are strong similarities between the two languages and a limited degree of mutual intelligibility. 200.50 . In Kentucky there is a Davis Amish Furniture. [108][109] Calvinist Palatines and several other denominations were also represented to a lesser extent.[110][111]. Here is a conversation of two businessmen describing Germantown, the capital of Pennsylvania Dutch urban culture in 1854: The Chairman: "How important is Germantown? Below is a quotation of Benjamin Franklin's complaints about the Palatine refugees in his work Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind (1751): Why should the Palatine boors be suffered to swarm into our settlements, and by herding together establish their language and manners to the exclusion of ours? [24][25], These European Germans immigrated to Pennsylvania Dutch cities, where many came to prominence in matters of the church, newspapers and urban business. Nicholas Stoltzfus (1719-1774) is believed to be the common ancestor of all those with this name among Amish and Mennonites today. Among immigrants from the 1600s and 1700s, those known as the Pennsylvania Dutch included Mennonites, Swiss Brethren (also called Mennonites by the locals) and Amish but also Anabaptist-Pietists such as German Baptist Brethren and those who belonged to German Lutheran or German Reformed Church congregations. I myself was born a Yoder, married a Miller and am now married to a Kauffman. Get in touch! Others later moved to other locations in the general area, including a hamlet they founded, German Mills, Ontario, named for its grist mill; that community is now called Thornhill, Ontario, in the township that is now part of York Region. It was taken from the Province of Pennsylvania, then the Sovereign State in Confederation. 10. It also contains a large amount of entries from the Midwest, every U.S. state, and several foreign countries. For information about Ohio Amish contact: Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center Just as the Pennsylvania Dutch are traced to Pennsylvania, the Black Dutch follow a specific migration patter settling in the Upper South. I wonder if she was Old Order River Brethren? ago. I know that Pa. Dutch is Amish connected. Just curious. Pennsylvania Dutch surnames may have more dramatic surname changes than later German immigrant waves, possibly because they had more time for spelling standardization. They're actually descendants of 17th- and 18th-century German-speaking immigrants in William Penn's colony. Samuel R. Zeiser, "Moravians and Lutherans: Getting beyond the Zinzendorf-Muhlenberg Impasse", Learn how and when to remove this template message, 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, "Pennsylvania's Crazy Quilt of German Religious Groups", "Chapter Two The History Of The German Immigration To America The Brobst Chronicles", "American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates", "PA Amish Lifestyle How the community of Amish in PA live today", "Historic Germantown Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia", "Germantown Mennonite Settlement (Pennsylvania, USA) GAMEO", "German Settlement in Pennsylvania: An Overview", "Von Heer's Provost Corps Marechausee: The Army's Military Police. Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning. Amish bearing this name spell it Yoder; GAMEO gives the following historical alternatives:Ioder, Joder, Jodter, Jotter, Yoeder, Yother, Yothers, Yotter. Is there any other place you know of that the will might be online? One of the best genealogy tips, in general, is to hold all information loosely until you have enough sources to be sure. Henry Muhlenberg (17111787) founded the Lutheran Church in America. Check with the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, at the link I put above. [67] The Marechausee also provided security for Washington's headquarters during the Battle of Yorktown, acted as his security detail, and was one of the last units deactivated after the Revolutionary War. Pennsylvania Volunteers, Pennsylvania Dutch companies sometimes mixed with English companies. Some members of the two communities formed the Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference. Thanks for letting me know Mark. I recently updated to a different one. 1 Sarah and Jonas were both underage as of 19 October 1829. First of all, we can quickly dispose of the "Pennsylvania Dutch" misnomer. Dutch last names are everywhere - from the city of Amsterdam to surrounding Holland and the country called The Netherlands. For information about southern Iowa Amish contact: Iowa Mennonite Museum and Archives Yoder - A Swiss-origin name apparently derived from the name "Theodore". Pennsylvania Dutch became mainly a spoken language, and as education came to only be provided in English, many Pennsylvania Dutch became bilingual. Joseph Stoll notes: Between 1732 and 1806, 38 persons bearing the nameKnig arrived in Philadelphia. My mother told me she was a very strong but gentle woman. 715 Ave. D You can imagine how it sounded here. 27. The highest class of people that can be served in such a community, probably of the whole American Union, is a resident in Germantown. (lol) Pennsylvania Dutch people follow multiple different religions like Lutheran, German Reformed, Anabaptist, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. Is this an amish name and what is Pennsylvania dutch. [65] Because the provost corps completed many of the same functions as the modern U.S. Military Police Corps, it is considered a predecessor of the current United States Military Police Regiment. [14], Waves of colonial Palatines from the Rhenish Palatinate initially settled in the Carolinas, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. The thunder and flashing of the cannons could be heard for 25 miles. Everyone is from the old or new order so have the same few last names. Henry served as one of the administrator's of Jacob's estate. [30], Literary German dissapeared from Pennsylvania Dutch life little by little, starting with schools, and then to churches and newspapers. My husband does remember his father saying that the name was Muller and changed to Miller and that they came from Germany. Also seen in Allen County, but not common outside of Swiss communities. Kline= Klein The first family ancestor must have been a documented resident of one of the 26 Western Pennsylvania counties (or in the appropriate section of the parent county) by 31 December 1810. His father, Daniel spoke dutch. It would translate to "son of" or "daughter of". His father was Amish, at least one sister is still Amish, and his brother is the one remaining Amish Riegsecker that I know of. Due to this historical bond there are several mixed-faith cemeteries in Lehigh County, including Allentown's Fairview Cemetery, where German-Americans of both the Jewish and Protestant faiths are buried. [66] During the Revolutionary War the Marechaussee Corps were utilized in a variety of ways, including intelligence gathering, route security, enemy prisoner of war operations, and even combat during the Battle of Springfield. David Luthy, Yesterdays and Years: Fisher Family History, Family Life,October 1995. They are also culturally related to the New York Dutch. They also sometimes leave out the verb in phrases turning "the trash needs to go out" in to "the trash needs out" (German: der Abfall muss raus), in alignment with German grammar. [30], An early group, mainly from the Roxborough-Germantown area of Pennsylvania, emigrated to then colonial Nova Scotia in 1766 and founded the Township of Monckton, site of present-day Moncton, New Brunswick. Ill keep my eyes open for any Riegseckersin Shipshewana when Im there next week(this is like a treasure hunt!). 2022 Sandbox Networks Inc. All rights reserved. They share cultural similarities with the Mennonites in the same area. Hessian prisoners were subsequently treated well, with some volunteering for extra work assignments, helping to replace local men serving in the Continental Army. They are better off this way. The first Palatines in Pennsylvania arrived in the late 1600s but the majority came throughout the 1700s. More than half of their number was sold into indentured servitude. The name is pronounced in Pennsylvania German as hush-tetler. In fact I added it in the bottom bit on additional common names. Troyer- Hans Treyer or Dreier was one of the first Anabaptists executed (was drowned with two others in Bern in 1529). In the Battle of Trenton, the Hessian force of fourteen hundred men was quickly overwhelmed by the Continentals, with only about twenty killed and one hundred wounded, but one thousand captured. [22][23], American Palatines continued to use their language as a way of distinguishing themselves from later (post-1830) waves of German-speaking immigrants to the United States. Isabella Aitken Smith (1893-1962) 10. Your use of the site indicates your agreement to be bound by our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. If the warrant date is 1733 or later, follow these instructions. Lifestyles of Early Pennsylvania German Immigrants - A Pennsylvania Dutch Genealogy Lifestyles of Early Pennsylvania German Immigrants Part I: Hearth and Home Kris Hocker on 7 Aug 2016 Names, dates, and places, as difficult as they can sometimes be to find, only tell a small fraction of the story of our German immigrant ancestors. These suffixes make the name translate to "son of Dirk" or "daughter of Dirk" in Dutch. Stefanie is an experienced parenting writer and has published works in other publications such as Motherly. Just in case you or anyone reading this arent quite sure how to do so, depending on your browser here are 2-step instructions on how to do that for Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-clear-your-browser-cache/, I cleared the browser, but cant read the rest of your comment because I cant get to it. The Middlefield, Ohio, Amish settlement (4th largest Amish settlement in the world) seems to have surnames similar to those in Holmes County, including Yoder, Miller, Weaver, and Gingerich. Thanks Mark! Does the Davis name have any Anabaptist history? [69][Note 2] These jgers proved essential in the "Indian style" warfare in America. John B. Stoudt "The German Press in Pennsylvania and the American Revolution". [80], The Fancy Dutch came to control much of the best agricultural lands in all of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth. In England and Germany, this is known as goose flesh (goose bumps and gnsehaut ). The Pennsylvania Dutch name has caused confusion in recent times, as the word "Dutch" has evolved to associate mainly with people from the Netherlands. Phone: 319-656-3232. Anglo-Americans created the stereotypes of "the stubborn Dutchman" or "the dumb Dutchman", and made Pennsylvania Dutch the butt of ethnic jokes in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, though these stereotypes were never specific to the Plain Folk; most of the Pennsylvania Dutch people in those centuries were Church people. [104] Peter Reesor and brother-in-law Abraham Stouffer were higher profile settlers in Markham and Stouffville. In some places they (the Plain Dutch) live in the same way as their ancestors. [4], Historically, "Dutch" referred to all Germanic dialect speakers (e.g. Hendriks, Hendriksen, Hendrix - Henry's son Heuvel, van den - From the hill, mound Hoebee, Hoebeek, Van Hoebeek, - Common last name Hoek, van de - (corner, sandbar=cape) from the corner; Hoek van Holland as landscape term Hoff, van het - (servant) from the court Kleij, van der - (Kley, Cleij, Cley) Clay Loving the stories behind the names, in any event. [102][98][103], From 1800 to the 1830s, some Mennonites in Upstate New York and Pennsylvania moved north to Canada, primarily to the area that would become Cambridge, Kitchener/Waterloo and St. Jacobs/Elmira in Waterloo County, Ontario, plus the Listowel area adjacent to the northwest. [47], In colonial Pennsylvania, Palatines lived between Iroquois settlements and the two peoples "communicated, drank, worked, worshipped and traded together, negotiated over land use and borders, and conducted their diplomacy separate from the colonial governments". In the town halls in Dutch cities liberty bells were hung, and from the "Liberty Bell" placed in Philadelphia by Pennsylvania Dutchmen, on July 4th 1776, freedom was proclaimed "throughout all the land and to all the inhabitants thereof." 3. I have a great grandfather from Germany with a sir name if Hummel. Alphabetically by surname, these files consist of newspaper announcements of anniversaries, marriages, and obituaries*; correspondence between researchers and staff; family Bible records; family history notes; and other miscellaneous items pertaining to a given surname. [67], Hesse-Kassel signed a treaty of alliance with Great Britain to supply fifteen regiments, four grenadier battalions, two jger companies, and three companies of artillery. German Jews and German Christians held "quite ecumenical philosophies" about interfaith marriage and there are recorded instances of marriages between Jews and Christians within the German community. Mom Generation Three (Grandparents) 4. "[82], The Pennsylvania Dutch had a strong dislike for New England, and to them the term "Yankee" became synonymous with "a cheat." Many German cultural practices continue in Pennsylvania to this day, and German remains the largest ancestry claimed by Pennsylvanians in the census. I love reading Amish Fiction Books. Another way of spelling it was Oesch, though I dont think any Amish bear that version of the name today. Write me whether you did get it and don't forget to write back. They descend from Germans who settled Pennsylvania during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, primarily from the Palatinate, but also other German-speaking areas, such as Baden-Wrttemberg, Hesse, Saxony, and Rhineland in Germany as well as the Netherlands, Switzerland, and France's Alsace-Lorraine region. [81], Pennsylvania Dutch regiments composed a large portion of the Federal Forces who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. There were two major ways in which the change of names took place.1 The first was the translation of a German name to its English equivalent. One of the first guys I ever dated was Koenig, though I doubt he was of Amish ancestry. Stoltzfus The most common Pennsylvania Amish surname. Pennsylvania German, also called (misleadingly) Pennsylvania Dutch, 17th- and 18th-century German-speaking settlers in Pennsylvania and their descendants. Over sixty percent of the immigrants who arrived in Pennsylvania from Germany or Switzerland in the 1700s and 1800s were Lutherans and they maintained good relations with those of the German Reformed Church. The Pennsylvania Dutch (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch), also known as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group native to Pennsylvania and other American states. Image: Amsterdam, Capital of the Netherlands, Popular Dutch Last Names on FamilyEducation: De Van, Van den Berg. Pennsylvania is a state located in the northern part of the United States. ", Mr Hasten: "It is a very rich community and is the finest district around Philadelphia. We are converts to the Beachy church. They ran many newspapers, and out of six newspapers in Pennsylvania, three were in German, two were in English and one was in both languages. . I still have many Amish relatives, especially on my mothers side. [50], The Pennsylvania Dutch had been the first outspoken community against slavery, beginning with the community of Germantown and its founder Francis Daniel Pastorius, who organized antislavery protests in 1688. Osterhout is a Dutch surname derived from Oosterhout. Sources: The Nazi propaganda effort failed spectacularly among the Pennsylvania Dutch, as the Pennsylvania Dutch maintained a distinct culture and history completely separate from the German-American identity. [65] Six of the provosts had even been Hessian prisoners of war prior to their recruitment. [5], The Pennsylvania Dutch maintained numerous religious affiliations; the greatest number are Lutheran or German Reformed with a lesser number of Anabaptists, including Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren. When Napoleon acquired the Netherlands, this changed. Learn more. The digital files that appear here represent only a . Great additions! Meritt G. Yorgey, a Pennsylvania Dutchman who grew up during the height of anti-German sentiment, remembers the instructions of his father: "Don't ever call yourself "Dutch" or "Pennsylvania German". 'Aaldenberg' means 'old mountain.' 2. They came to America from Switzerland, Germany, and the eastern parts of France or wherever the German language was spoken before 1800. The Amish side said that means to not eat regular meals with them. The differences between the two approaches led to permanent impasse between Lutherans and Moravians, especially after a December 1742 meeting in Philadelphia. Im surprised not to see my name on the list. [55][56][57], Some Palatines attempted to escape their indentured servitude and became runaways. Among the Southern Maryland plain communities, Swarey was also a common name. Many are on the list but at least 3 or 4 are pretty uncommon here. that seems to be quite prevalent in Pennsylania. Black Dutch (genealogy) Black Dutch is a term with several different meanings in United States dialect and slang. As the descendants of Palatines,[22] Fancy Dutch people were mostly of Lutheran and Reformed church congregations (non-sectarians), as well as Roman Catholics. 150 Dutch Family Names With Their Meanings 1. Thats funny Stephanie, I guess that keeps you in line. But that all varies from family to family. What about the surname Esh? Scott, Shetler would definitely make a list of Amish names. [61], Frederick Muhlenberg (17501801), a Lutheran pastor, became a major patriot and politician, rising to be elected as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.[62]. H.T. Phone: 330-893-3192. Me Generation Two 2. [59] Heinrich Miller of the Holy Roman Principality of Waldeck (1702-1782), was a journalist and printer based in Philadelphia, and published an early German translation of the Declaration of Independence (1776) in his newspaper Philadelphische Staatsbote. Maybe in the upper part of the state, but def not the Susquehanna Valley/Lancaster, etc. A Swiss origin name. It is a distinctly separate city. [63], Pennsylvania Dutch were recruited for the American Provost corps under Captain Bartholomew von Heer,[64][Note 1] a Prussian who had served in a similar unit in Europe[65] before immigrating to Reading, Pennsylvania prior to the war. New Englanders referred to the Hollandic Dutch language spoken by the Holland Dutch as "Low Dutch" (Dutch: laagduits), and the Palatine German language spoken by the Palatine Dutch as "High Dutch" (German: hochdeutsch).

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