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From: "John Vignoles" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] STAEL family from Luberon to Emden via Holland.
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:58:48 -0000
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2629.1167861960.506.huguenots-walloons-europe@rootsweb.com>


Hi Jeannette,

Snip <John, have you tried searching on misspellings in the census? It seems
to me to be a name for ripe for mistranscribing.>Snip

It certainly is. I have kept the spelling wide open on the UK Census search,
looking at STAEL; STAHL; STEIL; STEELE among others. Nothing there seems to
fit with the St John's Wood story. That is why I want to try and work it
from Emden.

John Vignoles wrote:-

I am trying to track a family by name of STAEL. Apparently the family
originated in the Luberon, and fled to Holland in the early 17th century as
they were "of the reformed church". They finally settled in Emden, where a
descendant by name of Egbertus Leonard STAEL died in the mid 19th century.
His widow, Johanne Stael, nee Kerkow, then emigrated to Britain with her two
sons, the younger being Johann Friedrich Stael, who is believed to have been
born in Emden about 1845. According to family tradition, they settled in St
John's Wood, where the young JFS trained as a pharmacist, before emigrating
to Bahia in the late 1860's. Strangely, I can find no trace of them in the
UK Census. Can anyone suggest a way to locate Egbertus Leonard Stael in
Emden?



John Vignoles.

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