Reingardt Surname

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Hello,

     I have two questions.

     1 .We have heard that our surname, Reingardt, is Dutch in origin. Can
anyone kindly tell me it this is true, and if at some time people moved to
Hanover from the Netherlands?

        The name has been spelled this way at least since my
great-grandfather came here to the township of Yorkville, in Kendall County,
in the state of Illinois in the late 1850s.

    2 My great-grandfather was Georg Reingardt, born in 1831 in Hanover. He
married Johanna Leifheit (born 1833) of Amelslausen, Germany, in rural
Yorkville, in Kendall County, Illinois in 1859. Johanna had two younger
sisters named Karoline and Wilhelmine, who came here a little later.

        Georg was very active in starting the German Lutheran Church in
rural Yorkville, along with many other people from the same area of Germany:
Bretthauers, Merkels, Biertizs, Hardekopfs, Riemenschneiders, and several
other large immigrant families

       A man named Christ or Christian Reingardt of Hanover, born in 1830,
settled in nearby DeKalb County in 1872 with his wife Fredericka Wishmeena
and his four children, all born in Germany—Hanover, as far as I know.. At
least one child is listed as born in Markholdendorf.

       I wonder if any of these names are familiar to subscribers to this
list.

       I would like to know if these two men were brothers and even more, if
we can locate their town and trace their fathers and mothers, especially
Georg’s.

        I would be very grateful for any advice on how to do this.

Thank you.

Lin

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Hello Lin,

        I have a large atlas of Germany. I think the names of the towns
that you have may be misspelled. There are only 20 persons with the name of
Reingardt in the phone book in Germany. There are several around the city
of Dassel.

   The map shows a Amelsen which is near the town of Dassel. There is a
Markoldendorf which is very near to Amelsen. Very nearby, but closer to the
town of Einbeck, is the town of Anderhausen. There are also the towns of
Ammenhausen and Ammensen north of Einbeck . These are tiny towns for the
most part.

   If you are near an LDS center, you can find church records from Dassel
and Einbeck. You are lucky if you can order those records!

   The Netherlands border is pretty far from those towns where the
Reingardts are or were. Perhaps you can find that out from church records.
Good luck!

Barbara