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casper yauch b.1841 germany ancestry query

casper yauch b.1841 germany ancestry query

Posted: 5 Jun 2009 7:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
helping his ggson find out the religion of this german family. casper 's wife was mary and they had several children in PA.married in 1871 PA butler ,county.
appear in 1900,1910 and 1920 census only/lists german as language and blacksmith as occup.
trying to find if any jewish roots here.(adam yauch of the group beastie boys is jewish by birth)
. any help on this would be great....cannot find on any immig.list -came 1856-8 port unknown

Re: casper yauch b.1841 germany ancestry query

Posted: 6 Jun 2009 11:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Jauch, Yauch
I found him in the 1880 census (as Yaugh-- this surname is misspelled a LOT in census records):
Pennsylvania > Butler > Petrolia > District 61

It indicates his birth place as Wuerttenberg, which was largely Protestant.

This name -- both Caspar and Jauch/Yauch -- is common in a town I'm researching -- Schwenningen. And many Jauchs were blacksmiths. And in fact, there is a Caspar Jauch ("J" pronounced like a "Y" which is why it was frequently changed so after emigrating to the U.S.), born October 14, 1841. And the church records in Schwenningen indicated he emigrated about 1855.

This sounds like quite a possibility for your friend's ggson. If so, I have his ancestry back to the 1600s. See:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&d...

(Where you see last names in ALL CAPS, those are direct-line ancestors of mine, and where the ggson and I have common ancestry-- i.e., we're distant cousins.)

Not likely Jewish, however.

-- Jillaine Smith
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jillaine
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