Emigrated from other villages around or in the neighbourhood of Heimbach, (Kur)Hessen, Ziegenhain County, Germany to Canada/USA

Doing research in the emigration of people of your family in the generations befor you can find a öot of information that gives you an impression that the emigration of the individual wasn't only a question of his economical situation and the chance he saw for his life in the future.

There are often relations to others which may have influenced him in his decision to emigrate.

So there come in addition a pull effect when the people heard positive news from other people of their family or neighbours who already emigrated some years before and got a better life or at minimum a chance to a better life after immigration to Canada or US.

And on the other hand that reduced the risk of emigation since they often got a destination to head for and where they could have a support after arrival, often a first place to stay and to work, a starting point and therefore less ambiguity in the new world.

 

In the folling I provide information about such circumstances as I came across during my research. Not everything is documented in records but oral tradition, heard from people I had contact with in my family surroundings or in Michigan

Trümner lines

 

There are a lot of emigrants from this line from Schiffelbach, a neighbouring village to Heimbach, only about 3 miles away following the road over the hill and in the next valley but belonging to another county and not to the villages of the Gilserberg Township. However that doesn't stop the family relations although Schiffelbach had two different religiouos communities, the reformed evangelical and in addition the lutheran. That's because of historical reason as the nobilitys religious belonging was connected with the patronage law. And the nobility changed sometimes in the past. In general there was a kind of border line between reformed evangelical and lutheran. To the north and therefore the Gilserberg Highland were reformed evangelical area and to the south lutheran. But often enclaves exists on both sides as it was with Schiffelbach.

The surname Trümner (with that spelling) is a very unique one according to a map with a survey of 1890 and concentrated around Schiffelbach as its presumably origin in the times the inherited surnames evolved also in regular population and were not only characteristic among nobility.

Therefore you will find nearly everytime you are researching the ancestors of a Trümner from villages in that area of Gilserberg highland or around a trace back to Schiffelbach.

Or in other words and from other perspective, many of the immigrants of the first generation in upper Canada or later moved on to US with surname Trimner, Truemner, Tromner may have roots in Gilserberg Highland or at least in Schiffelbach.

 

 

Other lines

 

And there are a lot of family relations whith other families from Schiffelbach e.g. Pletsch, Balzer, Herrlich, Otto, Lingelbach, etc.

But beyond the Trümner line as an example that phenomenon can be found for nearly every other emigrant if looking deeper in his details (as far as possible)  like family relation, neighborhood, school class, etc.

 

Thiel line

The Thiel line spreads in more than one main line in Gilserberg Highland as Stephan Thiel, born 1693 at Florshain (same as his his brother Johannes Thiel, born 1698), moved to Sachsenhausen and married there and later after death of his wife again moved to Heimbach to marry again a second wife. So finally he established a Sachsenhausen line and a Heimbach line of Thiel descendants. From both lines they spread to other villages with the next upcoming generations.

That resulted in emigration of Thiel descendants, relatives to each other, from Sachsenhausen, Heimbach, Gilserberg and Moischeid to Ontario and in a second step (or later directly) from there to Michigan (Osceola County) in the first immigrant generation.

 

Regarding the emigrants from Gilserberg Highland there are often connections to family surnames like

 

Schmidt,

Sengelaub,

Wagner,

Ruppert,

Homberger,

Nebe,

Knauf

 

and many others. I listed above only the ones for which I have from my family perspective a link or story (tradition, myth) behind them.