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From: "Sue" <>
Subject: [PACAMBRI] List of Cambria/Blair immigrants from Wallersdorf-area, Bavaria, Germany
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:17:49 -0600

In working on my Forster/Foster family genealogy, I noticed that many of the
names I was finding in my Wallersdorf, Bavaria, Germany research were the
same names I was finding in my Cambria County and Blair County catholic
research. So, although in its infancy, I began to list the names of those
Wallersdorf-area people who emigrated to Blair County, Pennsylvania and
Cambria County, Pennsylvania sometime in the 19th century. This list does
not include all Bavarian-born parishioners, but only those from Wallersdorf
or its nearby villages that I have found in my research.

As a note, sometimes emigrants listed a "larger" neighboring village's name
as their "homeland" instead of the actual name of their village, as many of
their villages were very tiny. It is a lot easier to find Straubing, a city
on the map, rather than Rossbach, a tiny village on the map.

I hope this list will give other genealogists clues as to their ancestors
village of origin. We might learn that our ancestors were neighbors on both
sides of the ocean. Also, this list is not complete, in that, I am still
finding more names common to both places. If I wasn't so busy with my
Forster genealogy work, I would love to research our "family" of names
below.

Records from:
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA
Surname Firstname Date of record Homeland

1 Blos Veronica 1887 Landau Bavaria
2 Brobst Joseph 1887 Plattling Bavaria
3 Bruner Magdalena 1887 Osterhoffen Bavaria
4 Brunnhuber Joseph 1900 Plattling Bavaria
5 Egerdorfer Franciska 1883 Rossbach Bavaria
6 Geiger Joseph 1884 Bernried Bavaria
7 Gertinger George 1873 Straubing Bavaria
8 Glasshauser Crescentia 1886 Deggendorf Bavaria
9 Glasshauser Joseph 1886 Deggendorf Bavaria
10 Ittlinger Theressia 1873 Straubing Bavaria (Sebastianus
Ittlinger/Idlinger was born in Wallersdorf; see #46 below)
11 Karl Xavier 1882 Plattling Bavaria
12 Kellerbauer Maria 1883 Rossbach Bavaria
13 Kellerbauer Michael 1883 Rossbach Bavaria
14 Kremer Allina 1873 Wallersdorf Bavaria
15 Krueger Joannes 1869 Wallersdorf Bavaria
16 Kruger Joseph 1871 Wallersdorf Bavaria
17 Laschinger Carolina 1882 Plattling Bavaria
18 Loeb Hildeberd 1873 Straubing Bavaria
19 Lohmer Joseph 1881 Wallersdorf Bavaria
20 Lutz Jacob 1887 Osterhoffen Bavaria
21 Meyer Maria 1888 Osterhoffen Bavaria
22 Obermeyer Aloysius 1873 Wallersdorf Bavaria (The Obermeyers are
plentiful in the Wallersdorf records)
23 Obermeyer Catharine 1881 Wallersdorf Bavaria
24 Obermeyer Maria 1882 Deggendorf Bavaria
25 Obermeyer (Ubermeyer, Obermeier) Josephus 1869 Wallersdorf Bavaria
26 Ortmeyer (Ordmeier) Victoria 1869 Wallersdorf Bavaria
27 Pfefferkorn Maria 1884 Passau Bavaria
28 Pfefferkorn Mathias 1884 Passau Bavaria
29 Pfeil Theresia 1869 Wallersdorf Bavaria
30 Rajsu Theresia 1873 Wallersdorf Bavaria
31 Ruttensteiner Maria 1887 Plattling Bavaria
32 Schraff Joseph 1882 Wallersdorf Bavaria
33 Schraff Maria 1882 Wallersdorf Bavaria
34 Sechstetter Catherine 1873 Straubing Bavaria
35 Shutz Joseph 1888 Osterhoffen Bavaria
36 Steindel Hermann 1869 Wallersdorf Bavaria
37 Sterninger (Steininger) Anna 1884 Bernried Bavaria
38 Stremmel Chlotilde 1869 Wallersdorf Bavaria
39 Strohmeier Joannes 1887 Landau Bavaria (Joannes was actually born in
Pilsting)
40 Weismann Lorence 1882 Deggendorf Bavaria
41 Zallner (Zollner) Carolina 1887 Straubing Bavaria (I believe the
Zollners originated in Wallersdorf)

Records from:
St. John The Evangelist Church, Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania, USA

42 Meindl Mathiam 1857 Dingolfing Bavaria
43 Schmid Annam 1857 Gottfrieding Bavaria

Records from:
St. Benedict's Catholic Church, Carrolltown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania

44 Fischer Theresia 1857 Wallersdorf Bavaria
45 Heider Maria 1856 Moosfürth Bavaria
46 Idlinger Sebastianus 1857 Wallersdorf Bavaria
47 Krois Jacobus 1856 Wallersdorf Bavaria
48 Krois Sebastianus 1857 Wallersdorf Bavaria
49 Sellingen Othilia 1857 Wallersdorf Bavaria
50 Strohmaier Joannis G. 1856 Pilsting Bavaria
51 Walker Theresia 1857 Bogen Bavaria

Records from:
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving in New York, 1820-1897: 27 August 1852,

52 Forster Martinus 1852 Wallersdorf Bavaria
53 Schätz Anna Maria 1852 Niederviehbach Bavaria

For a more complete record, please consult the following books:

Karl Wolf, Wallersdorf Vom Gestern Zum Heute*,
(Eichendorf, Germany; Eichendorf Verlag, 1996)
*This book contains Wallersdorf census records for 1768, 1792, 1808, 1840,
1936
Many of the names found in the list above can be found in these census
records.

Jennie Amrhein et al, comp., Blair County Genealogical Association,
St. Mary's Church Records, Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania:
Deaths and Marriages, Tombstone Incriptions 1862-1888
(Altoona, PA: Blair County Genealogical Society: 1987)

Reverand Albert H. Ledoux, comp.,
Catholic Vital Records of Central Pennsylvania, Vol. III, 1850-1857
(Altoona, PA: By the comp: 1994)

United States. Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving in New York, 1820-1897: 27 August 1852,
(Washington, D.C.; National Archives, 1957-1958, 1963, 1970).

This list compiled by Susan P. (Foster) Nola 1998, 1999

Sue Nola
Salt Lake City, Uta

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