They have enough learning to be happy and righteous. Joseph Stoll, Amish and Mennonite Family Names (Parts 1-4), Family LifeDec 1968, Jan 1969, Feb 1969, Mar 1969. Grubb, Farley. French expansionism forced many Palatines to flee as refugees. [26][27][28], Due to strong anti-German sentiment between World War I and World War II, the use of the Pennsylvania Dutch language declined, except among the more insular and tradition-bound Plain people, such as the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites. [36], The Plain Dutch are descendants of refugees who left religious persecution in the Netherlands and the Electoral Palatinate. Wondering if theres some Amish ancestry? [16][17][18][19][20] Do me a favor and if you notice anything similar happening when posting comments in the near future, let me know here or drop an email to . [98][99] Some still live in the area around Markham, Ontario,[100][101] and particularly in the northern areas of the current Waterloo Region. I love reading Amish Fiction Books. Is this an amish name and what is Pennsylvania dutch. To be honest, the Scripture is not specific as to whether not to eat refers to the Lords Supper, or whether it means any eating. the genealogy & family research site of Kris Hocker, The genealogy and family research site of Kris Hocker. Colonial Germans, or as they are better known, the Pennsylvania "Dutch" (a misnomer of Deutsch, or German), make up one of the founding groups of European settlement of North America. Jonas. 2. I know Ive never had any relatives at all in Indiana, only in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and a few, long ago, in Virginia. 6. My parents were both from the Amish. Oh and yes, Jacob Beiler/Boiler/Byler who youve listed up there is my who knows HOW many greats-grandfather lol. Newspapers can be an invaluable source of historical information to put our ancestors lives in context. Yoders sounds delicious! [70], German-speaking armies could not quickly replace men lost on the other side of the Atlantic, so the Hessians recruited Black people as soldiers who became known as Black Hessians. They are better off this way. Just as Fancy Dutch or their descendants no longer speak the Pennsylvania Dutch language with any regularity (or at all, in many cases), they are not necessarily religious anymore, meaning that calling them "Church Dutch" is no longer particularly apt, although even among those that no longer regularly attend any church, many remain cultural Christians. Some other common Amish names in Lancaster County are King, Fisher, Esh, Lapp, Zook, Schmucker, and Beiler. These Pennsylvania Dutch were usually Plain Dutch Mennonites or Fancy Dutch Lutherans. [71], General Washington's Continental Army had crossed the Delaware River to make a surprise attack on the Hessians in the early morning of December 26, 1776. This compilation is a usefulresource for the family genealogist with ancestors who lived in Dauphin or the surrounding counties in the very early 1800s. Phone: 330-893-3192. A conservative Mennonite will socially shun stronger than a liberal Amish family might. [106][107] Other settlers of that era were of the Moravian Church while a few were Seventh Day Baptists. Is that not dumb? The Koenig descendants of the immigrant Samuel Koenig were Amish. Check with the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, at the link I put above. Scotch= Schoch, these familynames occur in all the Swiss Places the Amish did leave, Sible= Schuble from Beuron in Baden Wrttemberg Germany. , , . Many German cultural practices continue in Pennsylvania to this day, and German remains the largest ancestry claimed by Pennsylvanians in the census. Documents / Surnames. The Fancy Dutch population generally supported the Patriot cause in the American Revolution; the nonviolent Plain Dutch minority did not fight in the war. The genealogy and family research site of Kris Hocker. Many are on the list but at least 3 or 4 are pretty uncommon here. Here is the Dutch last names list. [4], Historically, "Dutch" referred to all Germanic dialect speakers (e.g. Isabella Aitken Smith (1893-1962) 10. Muhlenberg's view of church unity was in direct opposition to Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf's Moravian Church approach, with its goal of uniting various Pennsylvania German religious groups under a less rigid "Congregation of God in the Spirit". 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. His father, Daniel spoke dutch. , . My mother told me she was a very strong but gentle woman. "[82], The Pennsylvania Dutch had a strong dislike for New England, and to them the term "Yankee" became synonymous with "a cheat." I have checked some geneology my mother had done and cant find any Amish names in that report she gave us. Go to Membership. A Swiss origin name. [30], Literary German dissapeared from Pennsylvania Dutch life little by little, starting with schools, and then to churches and newspapers. But I was just curious about the name. It was taken from the Province of Pennsylvania, then the Sovereign State in Confederation. [38] None of the Frankfurt Company ever came to Pennsylvania except Pastorius himself, but thirteen Low Dutch (South Guelderish-speaking) Mennonite families from Krefeld arrived on October 6, 1683, in Philadelphia. Fischer (Alsatian, German origin) meaning "fisher". It is because of this tie to a specific . 12 Feb 2021. For information about southern Iowa Amish contact: Iowa Mennonite Museum and Archives [108][109] Calvinist Palatines and several other denominations were also represented to a lesser extent.[110][111]. Kris Hocker. [22] Of note, the Amish and Mennonites came to the Rhenish Palatinate and surrounding areas from Switzerland, where, as Anabaptists, they were persecuted, and so their stay in the Palatinate was of limited duration.[37]. The issue has plagued the Anabaptist movement since its beginning. Here is the letter of a Pennsylvania Dutch soldier from the 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: . Black Dutch (genealogy) Black Dutch is a term with several different meanings in United States dialect and slang. Margaret was born in Somerset Co. PA. Roop is my family name. I am surprised as there are likely over 500k descendents of immigrant Jacob, prominent as they are in the midwest states. Dad 3. Instead, they relied on patronymics. "Plain" meaning Amish and Mennonite and those who wore plain dress, and . My step-grandfather was a Troyer born and raised in Middlebury, IN. Some people say that the Pennsylvania Dutch are not smart, because they aren't so knavish and tricky as some of the Yankees. There were a number of Anabaptists of this name in different parts of Switzerland. Miller is most common in the Midwest; a few Millers may be found in Lancaster County, however. According to the 2010 United States Census, it ranks as the 13,330th most common name out of 160,975 last names, occurring 2288 times in the sampled data. Some people say, the Pennsylvania Dutch are behind the times. Gyssler= Gisler I use expressions such as redd up the table which is an amish term. Another way of spelling it was Oesch, though I dont think any Amish bear that version of the name today. [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. #4, #6, and #10 all in my background! [77] These men were both hunted by the British for being deserters and by many of the colonists as a foreign enemy. 40 . The FamilyHart Online Genealogy Database is at FamilyHartDB.com ( Updated Monthly) Christian Swarey was born 1789 in Germany and died 1864 in Pennslyvania. , . Pennsylvania Dutch surnames may have more dramatic surname changes than later German immigrant waves, possibly because they had more time for spelling standardization. What are other common surnames in the Geauga Amish settlement? 4. 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. The question is the spousal surnames: Moser, Geissbuhler, Danner, Gyssler, Wagler, Knopf, Kline, I would think that they married in the faith, but did not see these names. He required the Dutch to use a common family name instead of the original system they were using. [33][34], The Fancy Dutch descend from Palatines who left the economic conditions and devastation in the Rhenish Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire[35] after the Thirty Years' War; their number included Catholic Palatines, who had already established three Catholic parishes in 1757. I recently updated to a different one. Castle Matrix is the home of Thomas Southwell, the landlord who brought the Palatines to Limerick. Blue Gate is owned by a Riegsecker, who also owns lots of other businesses in Shipshewana. By 1697 the war came to a close with the Treaty of Ryswick, now Rijswijk in the Netherlands, and the Palatinate remained free of French control. Esh= schi [12], Dutch in the English language originally referred to all Germanic dialect speakers. Huh, and an uncle (via marriage) by the last name of Dreyer wonder if related to who you mentioned above; all I really know about him, family-wise, was that his background was mostly German, and he was a wonderful guy who left before his time (heart attack in his early 50s). Graber- Another name common among Swiss Amish, but also seen in non-Swiss communities. I checked in the Amish genealogy data-base and the book Amish and Amish-Mennonite genealogies and found no listings. Mark L. Louden: Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language. 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. Indeed, New Englanders were the rivals of the Pennsylvania Dutch.[81]. Mom Generation Three (Grandparents) 4. Its meaning varies and such differences are contingent upon time and place. They moved from Leacock Twp, Lancaster, PA, to Fulton County PA, to Huntington County, PA, to Adams County IN. Nearly all of the regiments from Pennsylvania that fought in the American Civil War had German-speaking or Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking members on their rosters. Osterhout is a Dutch surname derived from Oosterhout. Ill keep my eyes open for any Riegseckersin Shipshewana when Im there next week(this is like a treasure hunt!). Thomass fathers name was Henry Sible, who came from Byron, Germany. ago. 3. [30], There was rampant social & employment discrimination for anyone suspected of being German. 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. married to a man with that last name. 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. The prejudice is now mostly a fossil of the past, the subject of consciously clichd jokes rather than true spite or discord ("laughing with rather than laughing at"), now that assimilation is widespread. I do wonder how many total last names are currently represented within the Old Order Amish. Both sides would excommunicate for sin after conversion, the difference was in whether to not eat socially with the excommunicated. These suffixes make the name translate to "son of Dirk" or "daughter of Dirk" in Dutch. The database contains over 1 million names online, mostly of Pennsylania Dutch extraction from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. In fact I added it in the bottom bit on additional common names. I think the Indiana communities of Daviess County and Adams County are probably about the worst (or best, depending how you see it) when it comes to repetitive last names. Just like the people of the Netherlands most native Germans were fair skinned. [64] The Marechaussee Corps was often not well received by the Continental Army, due in part to their defined duties but also due to the fact that some members of the corps spoke little or no English. King- Along with Fisher and Beiler the most common Lancaster name following Stoltzfus. Arcadia Publishing, 2004, p.16. Her familys surname was Szczech, but was changed to Shack by the immigration officials on this side of the pond. The name is derived from a place, Rgsegg, which is a hill shaped like a back. [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. It also contains a large amount of entries from the Midwest, every U.S. state, and several foreign countries. [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. The Mennonites also excommunicate, but tend not to shun socially as strong as the Amish. The Pennsylvania Dutch today speak English, though some still speak the Pennsylvania Dutch language among themselves. Among the least common we find Lee, Bawell, Gascho, Neuenschwander, Jantzi, Ropp, Brandenberger, and Albrecht. . Dutch last names are everywhere - from the city of Amsterdam to surrounding Holland and the country called The Netherlands. Jacob Beiler (1698-1771), ancestor of most Amish Beilers/Bylers, arrived in America on the Charming Polly (not to be confused with the Charming Nancy) in 1737. German Jews often lacked a trade and thus became peddlers, selling their wares within Pennsylvania Dutch society. Spelling variants are quite common, almost the norm, for German names that were anglicized. They can't speak good English, and they don't want to speak Dutch. Interesting list. I was told that my great grandmother was Amish. H.T. [31] Some Pennsylvania Dutch live in the historically Pennsylvania Dutch-speaking areas of Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. . 1 Sarah and Jonas were both underage as of 19 October 1829. [81] The 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment also had a high percentage of German immigrants and Pennsylvania-born men of German heritage on its rosters; the regiment's K Company was formed with the intent of it being an "all-German company."[87][88][89]. . Updated on September 24, 2018. In September, I . Further, I can report that we had a big battle that lasted 8 days and cost the lives of many of our men; the other side lost three men for each one of ours. Immigrants to British America first founded the borough of Germantown in northwest Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in 1683. Get in touch! and Switzerland, they settled primarily in the southeastern section of Pennsylvania, where they practiced any of several slightly different forms of Anabaptist faith . Ive been doing a lot of genealogy research lately and so far every Amish Shetler Ive met has been a relative! [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. The one constant on research of the Black Dutch is that they trace to the Upper South, appearing in Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and North and South Carolina. [69][Note 2] These jgers proved essential in the "Indian style" warfare in America. Something is wrong either with our computer in the office or on the server or whatever. 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. May the Lord be with you always. , , . Many of the early German settlers of America (e.g. In regards to them, there are some who are slow- in matters of the church. Pennsylvania German, also called (misleadingly) Pennsylvania Dutch, 17th- and 18th-century German-speaking settlers in Pennsylvania and their descendants. I know that Pa. Dutch is Amish connected. 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. [75] These included Nicholas Bahner(t), Jacob Trobe, George Geisler, and Conrad Grein (Konrad Krain),[76] who were a few of the Hessian soldiers who deserted the British forces after being returned in exchange for American prisoners of war. Raber=Rber . , , .[85]. ? 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." They are not so quick on the tricks that many rascals use, but that is not necessary. [14], Waves of colonial Palatines from the Rhenish Palatinate initially settled in the Carolinas, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. I dont doubt its rare among the Amishits not too common around here, either. They don't allow their children to speak Pennsylvania Dutch or to read it, and are embarrassed that they have Dutch blood. What about the surname Esh? Where do we find so prosperous and beautiful farms as those of the Pennsylvania Dutch? [115] Historically, Pennsylvania Dutch Christians and Pennsylvania German Jews often had overlapping bonds in German-American business and community life. 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. You will also find below several categories of Dutch names along with their meanings. Some of Thomass siblings names were: Mary, Phebe, Elisabeth, John and Lewis. Loving the stories behind the names, in any event. The first Palatines in Pennsylvania arrived in the late 1600s but the majority came throughout the 1700s. Stop by Yoders Meat and Cheese Shoppe if you have time or have never been there. Other common Amish names include Hershberger, Schlabach, Hochstetler, Zook, Mast, Lapp, Schmucker, Schrock, Gingerich, and Weaver. kauffman, mast, shrock, miller, hochstetler, swartzentruber, troyer, eash, kline, keim are all popular in Holmes Ashland Wayne & Knox County Ohio. 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. There are some Swareys in the New Order settlement in Salem/Rosebud, Indiana, also. I will look into the Old Order River Brethen. My older daughter is Palatine), and is the origin of the group's name in English, the Pennsylvania "Dutch". The Pennsylvania Dutch were not really people of Dutch descent or lineage at all. Aden B. Raber, Rabers Almanac (2013). Its interesting to see the most (and least) common names in all of the plain folks. We are the sons and daughters of the Pennsylvania Dutch. They are on the east edge of Lancaster, PA. Due to shared German heritage and abundance of land, many Hessian soldiers stayed and settled in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country after the war's end. They also maintained their Germanic architecture when they founded new towns in Pennsylvania. He is not Amish but I am sure he has Amish roots. , , . Learn More. Hostetlers Amish Society says there are 126 family names, but the last edition is 20 years old (at the time, there were only 144,000 Amish). Phone: 319-656-3232. They are also culturally related to the New York Dutch. Most frequently seen in northern Indiana. 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. To add on to Marcuss comment, it was apparently originally spelled Schware, and one source I have says that it is believed that Christians grandson, also named Christian (b. [29][30], The Pennsylvania Dutch live primarily in the Delaware Valley and in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, a large area that includes South Central Pennsylvania, in the area stretching in an arc from Bethlehem and Allentown in the Lehigh Valley westward through Reading, Lebanon, and Lancaster to York and Chambersburg. They are not among the most common Amish names, but definitely alive among the Amish today. German Jews arriving in Pennsylvania often integrated into Pennsylvania Dutch communities because of their lack of knowledge of the English language. It includes an every name index in the print version. Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of us Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion. So how did patronymics work? Detwiler=Dtwyler McMurry, Sally, and Nancy Van Dolsen, eds. 4460 W. 100 S. that seems to be quite prevalent in Pennsylania. Read Beilers will here. Several varied groups of multiracial people have sometimes been referred to as or identified as . 3. It is often said that most people with Amish or Amish Mennonite connections, west of Lancaster County, Pa., are descendants of the pioneer Jacob Hochstetler family. They have the best farms and the best and newest machines, and they go to good schools. The war began in 1688 as Louis XIV laid claim to the electorate of the Palatinate. It must be working now, as I could get right to the comment. I took an ancestry test a year ago and it states that I have genetic community links to the Amish areas in Ohio,Illinois, Indiana or South Iowa. The capital is Harrisburg and it is divided into 67 counties. Marrying someone outside the faith would have been an example of something that would have caused her to be shunned.