| Family Name | Birth/Death | Town | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bauer geb. Küffner (Kueffner) | 1820/1892 | Gottsfeld | Bayreuth |
| Bauer | 1807 | Bühl | Bayreuth |
| Beren | Hille | Minden-Lübbecke | |
| Betz | 1818/ | Truppach | Bayreuth |
| Boehm geb. Schlicht | 1794/1862 | Frankenberg | Bayreuth |
| Brinkman geb. Raven | Affinghausen | Diepholz | |
| Buhrmeister | 1814/ | Preußen | |
| Cramm geb. Schwerz (Schwarz) | 1806/ | Barntrup | Lippe (Detmold) |
| Cramm | 1806/1887 | Haueda | Kassel |
| Dersch | Caldern (Kreis Marburg an der Lahn) | Marburg-Biedenkopf | |
| Dick | Monzingen | Bad Kreuznach | |
| Druschel | 1833/ | Wallroth (Kreis Schlüchtern) | Main-Kinzig-Kreis (Hanau) |
| Engelbrecht | 1821/1887 | Prebitz | Bayreuth |
| Escher | 1826/1886 | Wimmers (Thun) | Bern Schweiz |
| Feiler | 1822 | Affalterthal (Egloffstein) | Forchheim |
| Freiberger | 1811 | Windischenlaibach | Bayreuth |
| Fischer | 1822/ | Windischenlaibach | Bayreuth |
| Fritz | 1808/1854 | Plochingen | Esslingen |
| Fuchs | Glauberg | Wetteraukreis (Friedberg) | |
| Geyer | 1840/ | Großgartach | Heilbronn |
| Günther geb. Aue | Unterbillingshausen | Göttingen | |
| Heberlein | Hainbronn | Bayreuth | |
| Heinlein geb. Weigel | 1824/ | Mistelbach (Oberfranken) | Bayreuth |
| Heinlein | 1818/ | Fischbach (Weidenberg) | Bayreuth |
| Heit | Mostviel (Egloffstein) | Forchheim | |
| Held | 1826/ | Affalterthal (Egloffstein) | Forchheim |
| Hempfling | Bronn (Oberfranken) | Bayreuth | |
| Herr | Wiesbuch (Stadtsteinach) | Kulmbach | |
| Hörath (Hoerath) | 1809/ | Birk | Bayreuth |
| Jung | 1813/ | Hirschthal | Pirmasens |
| Jung geb. Weber | 1815/ | Schönau (Pfalz) | Pirmasens |
| Kanzler geb. Krauß (Krauss) | Blankenburg (?) | Augsburg | |
| Kanzler | 1811/ | Trebatsch | Baaskow |
| Keller geb. Küffner (Kueffner) | 1811/1880 | Gottsfeld | Bayreuth |
| Keller geb. Friedrich | 1809/1892 | Langenreuth | Bayreuth |
| Keller | 1816/1847 | Preußling | Bayreuth |
| Kreß (Kress) | 1801/ | Wallroth (Kreis Schlüchtern) | Main-Kinzig-Kreis (Hanau) |
| Krüger (Krueger) | Gosen | Fürstenwalde | |
| Lambeck geb. Heberlein | 1842/ | Weidensees | Bayreuth |
| Lambeck | 1836 | Burg (bei Magdeburg) | Burg |
| Leistner | 1829/1883 | Langenreuth | Bayreuth |
| Lippert | 1803/ | Bieberswöhr | Bayreuth |
| Lottes geb. Hörath (Hoerath) | 1826/ | Frankenberg | Bayreuth |
| Lottes | 1820/ | Zips | Bayreuth |
| Mann | 1795/1863 | Losau | Bayreuth |
| Nützel (Nuetzel) | 1833/ | Funkendorf | Bayreuth |
| Petri | Hessen | ||
| Pöllein (Poellein, Poehlein) | /1866 | Birk | Oberfranken |
| Preuß (Preuss) | Altencreußen | Bayreuth | |
| Rapp geb. Caspar | Vielbronn (Odenwald) | Michelstadt | |
| Rössler (Roessler) | Württemberg | ||
| Roos | 1838 | Schönborn | Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (Bad Ems) |
| Russ | Sobernheim | Bad Kreuznach | |
| Schauß geb. Schütz (Schuetz) | Laurenburg | Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (Bad Ems) | |
| Schauß (Schauss) | Schönborn | Rhein-Lahn-Kreis (Bad Ems) | |
| Scheerle | Hohenhaslach | Ludwigsburg | |
| Schmied | Kassel-Hessen | ||
| Schönebach (Schoenebach) | 1821/1855 | Witzenhausen | Werra-Meißner-Kreis (Eschwege) |
| Smith (Schmidt) | Ost-Friesland | ||
| Vogel geb. Gräfin (Graefin) | Schnabelwaid | Bayreuth | |
| Vogel geb. Müller (Mueller) | Thuisbrunn | Bayreuth | |
| Vogel | 1829/ | Bieberswöhr | Bayreuth |
| Weigel | Funkendorf | Bayreuth | |
| Winkelmann | 1823/1907 | Nottuln (?) | Coesfeld |
| Wirsing | Waltershausen | Gotha | |
| Wohlleb | 1819/ | Gottenheim | Breisgau/Hochschwarzwald (Freiburg) |
| Zahn geb. Lange | 1806/ | Molschleben | Gotha |
| Zahn | 1814/ | Bienstädt | Erfurt |
| Zimmermann | Buempliz | Bern Schweiz |
Discussion. Kratzburg Church is located on Indiana Highway 545 about one-half mile south of the town of Fulda in Harrison Township. St. Peter's Church is located abut two miles east of Lamar, Indiana and is located on County Road 1175E now renamed St. Peters Church Road in Huff Township. Both churches are served by one pastor, who resides in the parsonage at St. Peter's. Copies of the records of both churches are maintained in the office in the church at St. Peters. Microfilmed copies are maintained in the Spencer County Public Library at Rockport and the Lincoln Heritage Library in Dale. The records are mostly in German. Parts are plainly written and relatively easy to make out, and other parts are exceedingly difficult. Parts of a few pages are torn off. Trinity Kratzburg has periods of years without any entries. It is not that pages are missing, but rather it appears events were recorded elsewhere.
Many of families named in this document came from a small area in Oberfranken located in and around the towns of Creußen and Pegnitz south of Bayreuth. Many of the German-Lutheran families of Boone and Harbison Township in Dubois County also came from this same area. See Jasper Area Indiana History, 1989, for histories of some of these families.
The manuscript Keller and Allied Families, 154 pages, written by Herman F. Keller (Aug 14, 1905 - Dec. 1, 1990) from Kratzburg, may be useful to those researching in Trinity. It is available in the genealogical collection at the Rockport Public Library.
Many Oberfranken families are known to have come on the Barque Bashaw of Boston, which arrived at New Orleans from Bremen, Germany on November 3, 1845 (passenger list date).
My purpose in making this list was simply to be of service to those researching their families. Some of the names in the records are easy to read and spelled correctly, but many others are hard to read and are not spelled correctly. Being able to read German, I thought I would be in a position to help others by compiling this list of places named in the records. Moreover, it was interesting and challenging. I probably did not find every place name in the records.
Names with (?) are only educated guesses. They are the best I could find using "wild card" searches of the German place name database via the Internet. Where the records have Phillronn, for example, I came up with Vielbronn; for Nuttel I came up with Notteln. (There is a Nuttel in Oldenburg, but not Westphalen.) My impression is that often the names were spelled by the pastor based on how he understood the pronunciation. The main concern for me was to find a place located in the German kingdom, duchy or province shown in the records, as this part of the name was probably always correct.