I notice in my research the name Hans and am wondering if Hans in Mecklenburg
is short for Johann? or is it short for something else, or is it just Hans or Hanns?
According to the faq page at Dieter Garlings website there is a list of first names in
Mecklenburg with the common abbreviations. Hans is not one of them. See the FAQ at:
http://www.eMecklenburg.de/index.html
I had a family from Southern Australia email me on an Engel family that immigrated to
Australia from the Neukirchen parish near Buetzow. I have looked in the parish records
and confirmed Johann Engel. There is a note on his birth of "To Australia 1860"
Name: Johann Joachim ENGEL
Sex: M
Birth: 23 Aug 1833 in Reinstorf, Buetzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Christening: 25 Aug 1833 Neukirchen, Buetzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Death: 5 Nov 1911 in Lyndoch, South Australia
Emigration: 14 Apr 1860 Hamburg, Germany on ship Magdelina
Event: Christoph Moller God Father
Event: Johann Joachim Kuhnn God Father
Event: Sophia Maria Konning of Reinstorf God Mother
Father: Joachim Albrecht ENGEL b: 29 Oct 1793 in Neukirchen, Buetzow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Mother: Charlotte Elisabeth JUERSS b: Abt 1795 in Radegast, Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany
Marriage 1 Wilhelmina BECKER b: 1843 in Prussia
Married: 18 Jul 1862 in Hoffnunstall, Lyndoch, South Australia
Children
1. William Albert ENGEL b: 8 Feb 1881 in Lyndoch, South Australia
For more details on the parents and line of Johann Joachim Engel see:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=vortex&id=I2769
Also there are more in the Lyndoch area of South Australia,
According to her note:
In the Barossa Valley in South Australia I noticed the names related to you. Several Germans settled here
after leaving Germany to follow Pastor Kavel due to religious persecution and there are quite a number of
people here with the same surnames that you have listed e.g. Schroeder, Lehmann, Lange, Bruhn, Hinze -
the Barossa has a high number of Lutheran Germans. As I said the area has several Germans, I can
remember as a child people only speaking German to one another in the stores.
If anyone has any families from Australia that are linked back to the old duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
from Neukirchen near Buetzow, particularly the Engels please let me know.
Fritz