Thanks again for the responses to my JEKEL surname questions. I should have
mentioned that my family follows the Catholic faith.
Is there any possibility of me writing to any specific archive or office in
Germany that might have emigration records from the 1847 time period? Were
these records kept at any central location? Or, would locating a record of
this sort be dependent upon knowing the place the family departed from?
Thanks again for your insights.
Joe
Thanks again for the responses to my JEKEL surname questions. I should
have
mentioned that my family follows the Catholic faith.
Is there any possibility of me writing to any specific archive or office
in
Germany that might have emigration records from the 1847 time period?
Were
these records kept at any central location? Or, would locating a record
of
There was no central archives where individual emigration records
were/are kept in Prussia. The passport applications were kept at
the Landratsamt (Kreis). If Schlesien was the province he came from,
it was probably a Kreis in the Oppeln district where most of the
Catholics lived in Schlesien.
Hello again,
a few more thoughts and questions which might help you on (or not ):
-There was a famine in Germany in the years 1846/47. In which parts of
Germany did this lead to massive emigration?
-In the 1880 census one of the Jekell sons stated that he was from
Wuerttemberg. There is a variant spelling of the Jekell name on your
website: JAEGLE, this is the exact rendering of how Swabians/Wuerttembergers
would pronounce the name JAECKLE which is very common in the south of
Germany - more than a thousand hits in the telephone directory. (The JAEGGLE
name can also be found in the south).
Here you can find an archive of Wuerttembergers that emigrated to the US:
http://www.auswanderer.lad-bw.de/cgi-bin/main.pl?link=recherche
The Suchformular gives you 3 Jaeckles, Johannes, Philip and Josef that
immigrated to the US in 1852 from Schwenningen.
But no JAECKLEs in 1847.
Schwenningen in 1847/1852 was either ( I couldn't find out) in or in the
close proximity of the Duchy of Hohenzollern which became part of Prussia in
1850!! (The Sigmaringen line of the Hohenzollern are Catholics, so would
their subjects be in 1847).
-At the above website it is suggested that southerners chose ports in
Holland (or Belgium) when they departed for the US.
Puzzling, isn't it?
Regards
Lutz Szemkus
Your Wu:rttemberg connection makes me think that your Jeckels
may have been Schwenkfelders who migrated to Penna. The Schwenkfelder
library (at Pennsburg??) has info on Yeakels etc.They all came
from Schlesien. Check the web for Schwenkfelders
The Mennonite Encyclopedia has an article on Schwenkfeld, probably also
the Enc.Britannica (www.britannica.com)