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"Earliest Ancestors"

Per FamilySearch

Earliest mitochondrial ancestor (maternal clan)

• Pope - Strenke (1923) - Richard (1902)
• Demers (1875) - Bosse (1853) - Roy dit Lausier (1823)
• Senechal (1787) - Therioux (1759) - Cormier (1722)
• Leblanc (1683) - Hebert (1656) - Lefranc (1613, France, d. in New France after 1686)

Earliest Y-Chromosome ancestor (paternal clan)

• Carol "Casey" Kies - Jesup, IA
• Nicholas Kies - Kehlen, Luxemburg, b. 1807 and his son, Peter, b. 1842, to Iowa in 1857 via Sheboygan, WI
• Petrus Kies - Kehlen, LUX - b. 1768
• Peter Kies - Luxemburg - b. c. 1710

• Johann Jacob Kiess - Pleiningen to Schegen vs Remich, LUX d. 1762 -
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen,_Luxembourg (Schengen is the far SE corner of LUX where France, Germany, and LUX meet)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remich (Remich is a few miles north of Schengen, both on the west bank of the Moselle River)
    • In 1687 the Remich' town fortifications were demolished by the army of Louis XIV.
• Georg Kiess - Moehringen, Neckerkreis/Biberach, Wurttemberg, b. 1633 - there is a Moehringen in Unlingen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlingen which is along the Danube River in the northwest part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biberach_(district) just a few miles from Riedlingen
• Conrad Kiess - Moehringen, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg, b. 1601 - one of the parts of Stuttgart is also called Moehringen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart-M%C3%B6hringen (district just to the west of Pleiningen)
• Johannes Kies - Pleiningen, Stuttgart, Wurttemberg - m. 1600, d. 1628 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plieningen
• Konrad Kiess - Moehringen, Neckerkreis, Wurttemberg, b. 1556 - ? https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Neckarkreis vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein-Neckar-Kreis
  • Alternate Genealogist, has Hans Konrad with parents Johann "Hans" Kiess 1519-1592 and Margarita Neuffer 1532-1589), siblings Veit, Georg, Hans der Junger
  • Johan "Hans" - b. Moehringen, Neckarkreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (died same place)
  • Married in 1555, Möhringen, Neckarkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Margarita Neuffer - Born 22 November 1532 - Münsingen, Reutlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
  • https://gw.geneanet.org/trebor1352?lang=en&pz=michael+neil&nz=mcnulty&p=konrad&n=kiess
• Hans Kiess B: c. 1530 Moehringen (?), Riedlingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, D: 1592 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riedlingen village on the Danube River

So 1530-c. 1700 in Wurttemberg (at least 270 yrs). Then c. 1700-1857 in Luxembourg (about 150 yrs). Then 1857-present in Iowa/Wisconsin (over 150 yrs).

National Origins

• 62.5% Germanic
  • 25% Luxembourg (Kies + Schaefer, paternal GGPs, Catholic)
    • 6.25% West Prussian (Schmidt/Schmidt, Church of Christ)
    • 6.25% Hesse Darmstadt (Neuman/Arnold, Lutheran? +/-Seimons 4xGGF French-speaking Alsace 1.5%)
    • 6.25% German (Farni, Catholic)
    • 6.25% Alsace-German-speaking (Schmitt, Catholic)
  • 12.5% Prussian (Strenke, maternal GGPs, ?)
• 25% English (Pope, maternal GF, a 3xGGM and a 4xGGM w/ Dutch surnames, ? some Scots-Irish per family lore?)
• 12.5% French-Canadian (Richard, maternal GGPs, Catholic)

Immigrations

Kies - PGF - Kehlen, Luxembourg (1854, via Sheboygan, WI like brothers?)

• Schanck - Luxembourg (ditto)
• Miller/Muller - Luxembourg (1851, via WI)
• Machen - ditto?

• Schmidt - GGM - West Prussia (1881, on the "Australia")
  • Schmidt - ditto (Schmidt's spouse also a Schmidt)
  • Neuman - Hesse Darmstat (1861)
  • Arnold - ditto
  • Siemens - France? (before 1860)

Schaefer - PGM - Luxembourg (1847, via Canada)

• Kauten - Luxembourg (1866)

• Farni - GGM - Germany (1839, via Ohio)
  • Schmitt - Alsace (1847)
  • Weis - ditto

Pope - MGF - Southern England (by 1642 marriage, John Pope)

• Clark - ?

• Swinson - GGM - Canada (by 1868 birth of child) - England (before 1849 birth of child)
  • Smith - ?

Strenke/Strünke - MGM - Prussia (1890, via New York)

• Wolters - GGM - ditto

Richard

• Richard - GGM - Canada (between 1881-1894) <- France (1652, Michel Rene Richard dit Sansoucy 1630 & Andre (mother/step-mother left in France? died before they left?))
  • 4th GGP (4th-great-grandparents on Richard line):
  • Babineau - after c. 1660 birth of child in France, Joseph Antoine Babineaux and Louise Bourdages
  • Leblanc - before 1645 marriage, France, Daniel LeBlanc 1623 and Francoise Gaudet 1623
  • Leger - before 1693 marriage, presumably France, Jacques Léger dit LaRosette 1668?
  • Demers/Dumais - before 1654 marriage, France, Jean Demers 1633 and Jeanne Voidy 1637
  • Beaucage/Baillargeon - 1648, France - Mathurin Baillargeon 1626 and Marie Metayer 1631
  • Bosse/Bassie - before 1762 marriage, France - Jean-Baptiste Bossé 1734 and Marie-Madeleine Pelletier 1732 (but her parents are 2nd generation Quebecois so was born on a trip back to France?)
  • Roy - before 1668 second marriage, France - Antoine Roy 1635 and Marie Major 1637

Other Interesting Ancestors

Richard line

• Pesseley - Major Isaac Pesseley 1604 (10th GGF - Richard -> Babineau -> Gadereau -> Pitre -> Pesseley)

• Lejeune - MicMac?
  • Edmee Aimee LeJeune 1624 - sister of below, 9th GGM x2 on Richard line, x3 on LeBlanc line, 11th GGM on Roy line
  • Catherine Jeanne LeJeune 1633 - sister of above, 11th GGM on Leger line

History Timeline

Thirty Years War - 1618-1648

The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) devastated the city of Stuttgart,[49] and it would slowly decline for a period of time from then on.[25] After the catastrophic defeat of the Protestant Heilbronn League by the Habsburgs at Nörlingen in 1634, Duke Eberhard III and his court fled in exile to Strasbourg, abandoning the Duchy to looting by pro-Habsburg forces. The Habsburgs once again had full reign of the city for another four years (c. 1634-38), and in that time Stuttgart had to carry the burden of billeting the pro-Habsburg armies in Swabia. Ferdinand III, King of the Romans, entered the city in 1634 and, two years later in 1636, once again attempted to re-Catholicize Württemberg.[50] The next year, the Bubonic plague struck and devastated the population.[51] The Duke returned in 1638 to a realm somewhat partitioned to Catholic factions in the region, and entirely ravaged by the war. In the Duchy itself, battle, famine, plague and war reduced the Duchy's population of 350,000 in 1618 to 120,000 in 1648 – about 57% of the population of Württemberg.[52] Recovery would be slow for the next several decades, but began nonetheless with the city's first bookstore in 1650 and high school in 1686. (Wikipedia)

Acadian Civil War (1635-1654)

fought between competing governors. Governor Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour (a Protestant) had been granted one area of territory by King Louis XIV, and Charles de Menou d'Aulnay (a Catholic) had been granted another area. The divisions made by the king were geographically uninformed, and the two territories and their administrative centres overlapped. The conflict was intensified by personal animosity between the two governors, and came to an end when d'Aulnay successfully expelled la Tour from his holdings. D'Aulnay's success was effectively overturned after his death when la Tour married D'Aulnay's widow in 1653 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acadian_Civil_War

• Pope - by 1643 - Southern England

• Leblanc - France (c. 1645) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_LeBlanc_(settler)

• Richard - bef. 1652 - from France (1652, Michel & Andre (mother/step-mother left in France? died before they left?))
  • Demers/Dumais - Normandy France (before 1658)
  • Bosse/Bassie - Normandy France (before 1662)

King Philip's War (1675–78)

• members of Pope line fought in Battle of Narraganset

Remich, Lux, demolished (1687)

In 1687 the Remich' town fortifications were demolished by the army of Louis XIV.

• Johann Jacob Kiess & Anna Breuning moved from Pleiningen, Wurttemberg to Schengen, Remich, LUX by 1700

Siege of Port Royal - 1710

Port Royal conquered by England as part of Queen Anne's War - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Royal_(1710)

Deportation of the Acadians - 1755, 1758

Between six and seven thousand Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia to the lower British American colonies. Some Acadians eluded capture by fleeing deep into the wilderness or into French-controlled Canada. The Quebec town of L'Acadie (now a sector of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) was founded by expelled Acadians

After the Siege of Louisbourg (1758), a second wave of the expulsion began.

After 1764, many exiled Acadians finally settled in Louisiana, which had been transferred by France to Spain at the end of the French and Indian War. The demonym Acadian developed into Cajun, which was first used as a pejorative term until its later mainstream acceptance.

Britain eventually moderated its policies and allowed Acadians to return to Nova Scotia. However most of the fertile former Acadian lands were now occupied by British colonists. The returning Acadians settled instead in more outlying areas of the original Acadia, such as Cape Breton and the areas which are now New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

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By 1755, the descendants of Daniel and Francoise LeBlanc had created the largest family in Acadia. Le Grand Dérangement (The Great Expulsion) of the 1750s scattered this huge family to the winds. Since most of the LeBlancs lived in the Minas settlements, dozens of them fell into the hands of the British in the fall of 1755 and ended up on ships bound for Maryland, Virginia, and other English colonies down the Atlantic seaboard. Many LeBlancs were exiled to France and then about 1785, along with Acadian families carrying other surnames, left aboard ships for then Spanish Louisiana; some of these LeBlancs gave testimony in France to a Catholic Priest who carefully recorded their oral testimony of who their ancestors were (since the Catholic and Civil records were unavailable, destroyed, or lost due to their mistreatment by the British authorities). LeBlancs were among the first families of Acadia and some of the earliest Acadians to find refuge in Louisiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_LeBlanc_(settler)

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My Richard ancestors spent several generations in Richibuctou, New Brunswick after the expulsion.

• Jean Baptiste Richard (1718-1796) and Francois Girourard (1722-1803) , 6th great-grandparents - were born in Port Royal, Nova Scotia but ended up in Richibuctou. Five of their children were born in Acadia up to Marie in 1764. Their final child, Francois, was born in Richibuctou in 1770. Marie and Francois married Allain siblings.
• Joseph Richards and Felicite Gaudet/Goudet (5th great-grandparents) also were born in Port Royal, Nova Scotia but ended up in Richibuctou along with their many children. All their children were born in Nova Scotia, but got married in Richibuctou and most are documented to have died there. Four of their children married four Babineau siblings.

Rene Richard 1688 (Rene, Michel, Andre) uncle of Jean Baptiste Richard (1718-1796) was born 1688 in Port Royal, Acadia, and died December 26, 1776 in Quebec, Canada.

He married Marguerite Theriot daughter of Claude Terriot and Marie Gautrot on January 12, 1711/12 in Port Royal, Acadia. Witness: Rene Richard, Marguerite Terriot, Michel Richard, Pierre Lanque Acadian Church Records Volume III Port Royal 1702-1721 Register of Baptism, Marriages and Deaths of the parish of St. Jean Baptiste of Port Royal beginning in the month of Sept 1702.

Rene and Marguerite were deported to Massachusetts in 1755, and rejoined other members of the family in Quebec after 1766. Later they came to Becancour, QC.

Rene escaped deportation (?) and finally reached Becancour, where he died in 1776.

• per Family Search

Revolutionary War - 1776-1783

Simeon Pope (1761-1848) - In 1779, the Weare soldiers, mustered by Col. Moses Kelley 20 July 1779, included Simeon Pope who "lived in Henniker" (would have been 18 yo)

War of 1812

Farni- Germany (1839, via Ohio)

Mexican-American War - 1846-48

• Schmitt - Alsace (1847)
• Weis - ditto

• Schaefer - Luxembourg (1847, via Canada)

• Siemens - France? (before 1860)

• Kies, Nicholas & Peter - Kehlen, Luxembourg (1854/1857, via Sheboygan, WI like brothers?)
  • Schanck, Anna Marie - Luxembourg (ditto)
  • Miller/Muller, Elizabeth - Luxembourg (1851, via WI)
  • Machen - ditto?

Civil War

Calvin W. Pope, Sr (1821-1883) - gap in children between 1862-1866, but 40 yo at start of war

• • Neuman - Hesse Darmstat (1861)
  • Arnold - ditto

• • Kauten - Luxembourg (1866)

• • Clark - ?

• Swinson - Canada (by 1868 birth of child) - England (before 1849 birth of child)

• Smith - ?

• Schmidt - West Prussia (1881, on the "Australia")
  • Schmidt - ditto (Schmidt's spouse also a Schmidt)

• Richard between 1881-1894 - from Canada to US (between 1881 Candadian Census-1894 WI Marriage)

• Strenke/Strünke - Prussia (1890, via New York)
  • Wolters - ditto