Ms Larissa Rininsland -

Hallo, hope this reaches you. I am directly descended from Philipp Troemner and his wife Anna Catharina Rininsland of Gombeth. Philipp was a 'Dragoner', died in the U.S. in 1778 while serving with Hesse-Kassel Field-Jaeger Korps, 2nd Co of Kapt Johann Ewald. Their son George, was a blacksmith in Kleinenglis, followed by his son Hermann. My gr-grandfather Conrad, son of blacksmith Hermann Troemner, emigrated to the U.S. in 1860. I have only learned this recently through requests to the EKKW Landeskirchliches Archiv.

The Rininsland family in Kleinenglis must have been close to the Troemner family there. Perhaps because the widow of Philipp Troemner, Anna Catharina geb.Rininsland may have taken her child(ren?) to Kleinenglis where she had family.

If you are from that area, old Amts Fritzlar, Felsberg, Homberg(Efze), please reply. I am finding many Rininsland and Troemner's had emigrated to U.S. from that area.


Thank you, and hope this message gets through.

Gary Troemner
Okinawa, JAPAN