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From: "john" <>
Subject: Re: PML Search: HAEGER & HAGER - Hessian Soldiers
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:14:36 -0400
References: <200510262036.j9QKaIZH031080@pml.rootsweb.com>

Listed in my "GUIDE to find your Hessian ancestor:

Haeger, Georg, A-B, S#19, replacement recruit 1782.
Hager, Heinrich, A-B, S#19, replacemnet recruit 1782.
Hager, Heinrich, K-7, S#133,8v1997, D2-5/1782 & 6/1783
Hager, Johannes, S#401, not found in German military files,
(probably soldier in British Regt.)
For sources and quotations check
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/
Good luck in your research,
John Merz

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Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 4:36 PM

> Source:
> Subject: Spelling of Hager vs Hagar
>
> There have been many duplicate messages on the HAGAR and HAGER message
boards, and perhaps I can help to clear up some of the confusion.
>
> The original German name was Hager, or more likely Heger or Haeger, and
there are many other spellings as well. There are Hagers living today in
the Hanau district of Germany.
>
> When the Hagers came to America in the 1700s and 1800s, they settled
mostly in the mid-Atlantic area, from New York down through North Carolina.
Other Hagers settled in England in the 1600s, and many of them ended up
spelling their name Hagar, not Hager. Some of those Hagars came to America
in the late 1600s and settled in the New England area. Many of their
descendants retained the spelling Hagar, others changed to Hager.
>
> The English clerks who recorded their arrival in the immigration records
did not speak much German, and just recorded what they heard. Hager and
Hagar were both common spellings of the same names, and some records showed
Hauger, recognizing the German pronunciation of Hager comes out "Hah-ger",
without the long "a". In German, Heger is pronounced like Hager with a long
"a". So it is no surprise that the names Hager and Hagar are interchanged.
>
> In many cases, the descendants changed the spellings to suit themselves,
both from Hager to Hagar and vice versa.
>
> If anyone would like a further discussion of the spellings and
pronunciation, please contact me, and I'll send you an excerpt from the book
"The Hager Chronicles" which discusses those differences in detail.
>
> Bill
>
> William A. Brobst, Curator and Editor
> "The Hager Chronicles", 2004
> Hager Family Historical Registry
> 6072 Currituck Road, Kitty Hawk, NC 27949
> 252-261-3068
> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=hager
>
>
>

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