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Germany in 1850

Germany in 1850

Nancy Williams (View posts)
Posted: 12 Jan 2005 5:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GFELL / MATTMUELLER
What happened in Baden around 1850's that brought alot of Germans to Ohio and why did they stay in the Huron Co. area? Was there a connection in that area?

Re: Germany in 1850

Posted: 26 Jan 2008 6:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
Nancy, there was the 1848 Baden revolt to overthrow the Duke which was crushed by Prussian troops. That, along with poor weather and crop failures for several years, and over population led not only to immigration but aslo caused the State and communities to "export" the poor and unwanted citizens. My ancestors from the Scherzheim / Lichtenau area of Baden were part of that large movement.

Many came to Ohio via the Hudson River and the Erie Canal and tended to settle in a community of their own.

Lee Fessler

Lee Fessler

Re: Germany in 1850

Posted: 3 Dec 2009 1:12PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Schmit, Smith
My Schmit/Smith ancestor came from Baden in the 1840's by steam ship to New Orleans, up the Mississippi to the Ohio River and to Cincinnati. So I think that must have been a popular route also. There he met the Thrasher family and married a daughter before coming to new land in Illinois.
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