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Early Alsace settlers linked to Frederick County families
Local readers learn from CALVIN SCHILDKNECHT how Annette Burgert’s book traces Alsace origin families in Frederick County. The account lists Firestone Wetzel Matthews King Fisher and others, noting migrations from Diedendorf and Gundershoffen to Pennsylvania and Maryland, with church records and monuments cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alsace
Haver
Firestone
Wetzel
Mathias
Library of the Historical Society of
Frederick County
France
Germany
America
Annette K Burger T
Myerstown
Picton Press
Camden
Wissembourg
Frederick Friends
Schifferstadt
Emi Thomas
Ernst Wagner
Barbara Fritchie
John Nicholas Hauer
Diedendorf
Nicholas
Otlo Hauer
Peter Hauer
Catherine (Guth
Lancaster
John Nicholas
Catherine
Barbara
Frederick
John Casper Fritche
Mt Olivet
Lutheran Church
Muhlenburg
Monocacy
Martin Wetzel
Nicholas Wetzel
Ohio River
Jacob
Lewis
Burgert
John Jacob Mathias
Mathews
Anna Margaret
Apples Church
Thurmont
Gundershoffen
Niedeborn-les-Baines
Michael Jung (Young
Anna Maria
Maria Barbara
Jacob Matthews
George
Henry
Philip
John
Margaret Valentine
Magdalena Firer
Catherine Stull
Mary Flowers
Barbara Ambrose
Abraham Koenig (King) Jr
Anna Maria Weimer
Hans Adam
Maria Eva
Hofen
Eva
Thomas Fisher
Kings and Fishers
Littlestown
Kingsdale
Adams County
Annette Burgert
Beney
Bene
Bohn
Cuntz
Diefenbach
Heckenthorn
Humbert
Kern
Kuntz
Miler
Mueller