George With More Info on German Meinhards

George Shares This:

It's been quite a while since we went over Alexander's research many years ago. And all of that is somewhere at home - so I'm working from memory. I haven't looked at in quite a while - but remember that there was a discrepancy between it and the Michael Meinhard family history that we had from family records. The discrepancy was that the family documents included information about Simon, Michaels gr.gr.grandfather(?) and his son (Johannes?) owning & operating a mill/bakery at Metz.
But, later, Jacob, grandson of Simon, was back in Siegen owning the bakery there. But the lineage that Alexander had put together tied Michael to a family that was always in Siegen - and not to Simon. There were two distinct Meinhards with the same name, born a year or so apart (either the above Johannes or Jacob, I can't remember which) - one in Siegen and one in Metz. (Metz is quite a distance from Siegen). It looked like Simon had probably originally been from Siegen - but how he tied into the line further back was unclear.
I had suggested to Alexander that he research the Meinhard records around Metz. Hopefully what he has found establishes that link somehow. I would be interested in seeing what he has come up with.

I believe that Michael & family came to the U.S. (Troy Grove, Illinois) in 1853 - including his father, Jacob. Although it appears likely that two of the sons had come here somewhat earlier to live and to locate land where they could settle. The Vitts came at about the same time - but settled in Missouri.

George
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