I did it, I did it, I did it! I am so pleased to have finally located the Karls in the 1850 census. This has been a great last 10 days or so of work in the census for me. As noted earlier, I located our family in the 1860 and 1870 censuses—no one had a last name of “Karl”, which is why they were hard to find.
For the last four nights, I have been going through the various townships in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, which is where our Karls settled. I knew that they had arrived in New York City aboard the ship Leander on 27 May 1850, so there was a possibility they might have gotten to Ohio quickly enough to have been enumerated there in the census. And sure enough they did! By three months after their arrival in NYC, the family had made it to Buck Township in Tuscarawas County. (I found this after looking page-by-page through ten other townships.) Even if there had been an index, I would have never found them—they are listed with the last name “Charles”, which Daddy said is a very plausible cognate for “Karl”.
And before anyone asks, how do I know it’s them? Same reason as stated in an earlier entry—all the names are what I expect (except for one I thought would be Maria—she is listed here as Ann M.), all the ages are correct, and no one is missing. There is one person living in the household whom I did not expect—one Barbara Renson, an 18-yr-old female. Dad suggested this might be a relative of Elisabeth, Johann’s wife (we thought her last name was Rentz, and that’s pretty close).
Yippee!!!
Posted by elizabeth at May 20, 2003 09:44 PMCongratulations! That's very exciting. Who's or What's next in line for your geneology research?
Posted by: Jfer on May 21, 2003 08:50 AMElizabeth, what a stellar job you are doing! I remmeber Daddy telling me/us that Charlemagne is our ancester. Of course, I believed that to be Gospel-truth for years. He must have been doing the extrapolation of Charles to Karl.
CHARLES m English, French
Pronounced: CHAR-ulz (English), SHARL (French)
From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". The most noteworthy bearer of this name was Charles the Great, commonly known as Charlemagne, a king of the Franks who came to rule over most of Europe. Several Holy Roman Emperors bore this name, as well as kings of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Hungary.
Elizabeth, what a stellar job you are doing! I remember Daddy telling me/us that Charlemagne is our ancester. Of course, I believed that to be Gospel-truth for years. He must have been doing the extrapolation of Charles to Karl.
http://www.behindthename.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?terms=charles&nmd=n&gender=both&operator=or
CHARLES m English, French
Pronounced: CHAR-ulz (English), SHARL (French)
From the Germanic name Karl, which was derived from a Germanic word which meant "man". The most noteworthy bearer of this name was Charles the Great, commonly known as Charlemagne, a king of the Franks who came to rule over most of Europe. Several Holy Roman Emperors bore this name, as well as kings of England, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Hungary.
Sorry about the double/repeated entries. How to delete the one posted at 01:01 PM? I'm making such a mess of this family site!
Posted by: Leah on May 21, 2003 01:05 PMIn German, Charlemagne is knows as "Karl der Grosse", or Charles the great.
Unfortunately, word "karl" in English, which as Leah said once meant "man" (probably a freeman, i.e., not a serf and also not a member of the nobility) has devolved to "churl".
Posted by: Patrick on May 22, 2003 05:11 AMFantastic! You should be very pleased and we should all be very proud of you! I am.
Posted by: Kathleen on May 22, 2003 05:24 PMI came across your website and your investigation into the origins of your Karls family, which you say emigrated from Germany in 1850. Can you tell me specifically from where they emigrated? My Karls clan came over in 1852 from a set of small towns in the Eifel (specifically, Duppach) in the Rheinland area of western Germany, near the Belgian border. Our branch settled in Wisconsin. If we can make a link to geographies close to each other, we may have a distant connection.
Posted by: Ed Karls on June 27, 2003 01:02 PM