John Rathbone immigrated from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts in the 1620s. Some descendants moved to Ohio, New York, California and elsewhere.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Wynne (and variant spellings) families who came from England and Wales. The Winns descend from the House of Gwydir who left Wales in the 16th century to settled in London. Some Wynns immigrated to Virginia in the 1600s. focus is on (but not limited to) the family of John Wynne (d. 1772) of York County, Virginia. John married Anne, and had a son, Lewis Charles Wynne in York...

Wilhelm Lehr (1831-before 1900), a Confederate soldier in the Civil War, married Anna Elisabeth Bernhausen (1831-1888) in 1855 in Austin County, Texas. They had eight children, 1856-1874, born in Fayette and Austin, Counties, Texas. He married 2) Caroline Kobra in 1889 in Washington County, Texas. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of their son, William M. Lehr (1867-1929) lived in Texas and elsewhere. Includes the Baugh, Lytle, Schilling and...

Heinrich Fetzer, son of Heinrich Fetzer and Regina Ammon, was born in 1856 in Neuburg, South Russia. He married Katharina Gruebele in 1879 and they had eleven children. He died in 1914 in North Dakota.

Peter-Paul Selig, son of Joannes Selig and Joanna Oesterle, was christened 29 June 1792 in Stein, Hohenzollern, Prussia. Peter married Johanna Geiger 30 Jan 1815. They had twelve children and many of their descendants live in Germany. Joachim Selig, brother of Peter-Paul Selig, was christened 29 Dec 1789 in Selig. He married Maria Magdalena Bummler, daughter of Johann Georg Bummler and Maria Anna Kirner, on 9 Jan 1821 in Stein, Germany. They had...

Samuel Sluts (1782-1821) married Rachel Plummer in 1808. After she died, he married Sarah Hague in 1810.

Paul Melger was born in Wisconsin in 1824. In 1861 he married Helen Kettenhofen who had come from Germany. They had six children before Paul's death in 1879. The majority of their descendants still live in Wisconsin, however several families live in California and elsewhere. Includes Melger, Dittmeyer, Zimmerman, Schilling, Schible, Prepster, Gall, and related families.

Genealogy of Johann Georg Heiduk (Heyduck) (1842-1918), who was born in Söllingen, Baden, Germany to Jacob Friedrich Heyduck and Catherina Barbara Raepple. He married Caroline Kretzmeyer (1845- 1888) 1864 in Marion Co., Illinois. She was a daughter of Frederick Kretzmeyer and Elizabeth Singleton. They had five children. 1. John George Heyduck (1869-1923), married Susan Rebecca Woods 1892 in Centralia, Ill. 2. Albert Lambert Heyduck (1876-1931), married...

Johann Gottfried Schilling (1802-1881) married Anna Rosina Lange in 1822 at Langmeil, Prussia and, as Lutherans, were subject to religious persecution by the crown princes or kings of Prussia. Eventually they joined with other Lutherans and decided to immigrate (via England) to Adelaide, South Australia in 1838. They soon settled at Klemzig, and in 1842 moved to Angaston, also buying land at Moculta, South Australia. Descendants and relatives lived...