Dear Hans, Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:41:41 -0600 To: Hans Leibbrandt From: "Vernon D. Leibbrandt" Subject: Leibbrandt family genealogy Thank you for the information concerning you line of the Leibbrandt family genealogy. Your message prompted me to see if we had a common ancestor. I compared the information that you provided with that on my family. No names in the family line appear to be the same as near as I can tell. Perhaps our information doesn't go back far enough to reveal a common ancestor. I am wondering whether our families came from a group of families in Swabia where the name was rather common around 1000 A.D. My basis for this conclusion is from "The German-Russian Branch of the Lauffen-Markgroeniger Leibbrandts," an article by Dr. Georg Leibbrandt in the September 1981 issue of Heritage Review Vol. 11, No. 3, a publication of the "Germans from Russian Heritage Society," Box 1671, Bismarck, North Dakota, 53502 USA. The following paragraph comes from that article: "...The family name dates back to the Old High German given name Luitprant (Luit = man; prant = sword) which literally means: 'He who excels above all others.' It was a known name of one of the Lombard Kings. At the end of the ninth century there happened to be a deacon in Swabia by this name to whom was given a chapel at Brenz by King Ludwig, and about (year) 1150 a Luitprant gave a donation to the Most Holy Monastery in Schaffhausen. The name, in general probably was quite common. However, as a family name it had its origins in the region of Swabia and from there spread in recent times to the German language areas (of Europe), as well as abroad. The family name in Wuerttenberg, even up to the present time is prevalent in these towns: Leonberg, Weissach, Kleiningersheim and Schwaigrern . More recently it could be found in Stuttgart. The descendants of the Leibbrand's from Wuerttemburg, who have emigrated to many countries (North America, South Africa, Ukraine, Switzerland, Holland and Poland), have for the most part maintained fond attachments to their old homeland...." The Leibbrandt family line from which my family comes has been traced back to 1554 when Jerg Leyprand was born in Lauffen, Germany. The family line from this origin is as follows: Jerg Leyprand (born 1554 (um 1544?), Lauffen, Germany) died 10. 10 1609 Lauffen am Neckar--> Abraham Leyprand (born April 6, 1580, Lauffen, Germany) --> Issak Leipprand (born Nov 13, 1614) --> Hans Jakob Leipprand (born July 21, 1643) --> Johannes Leipprand (born Dec 27, 1704, Bonningheim, Germany) --> Johann Ulrich Leibrand (born Sept 12, 1735, Markgroningen, Germany)--> Johannes Leibbrandt (born November 29, 1762, Markgroningen, Germany) --> Immanuel Jakob Leibbrandt (born October 8, 1805, Unterweissach, Wurttenberg, Germany) --> Johann Adam Leibrandt (born March 25, 1861, Hoffnungstal, Ukraine, Russia)--> Karl Gottlieb Leibbrandt [my grandfather] (born August 3, 1884, Hoffnungstal, Ukraine, Russia). Vernon D. Leibbrandt The following paragraphs are from a Leibbrandt Family article and tell the story about how my family came to the USA: "Immanuel Jacob Leibbrandt's father Johannes Leibbrandt was the trek leader of a large group of families who left South Germany in 1817 to float down the Danube river in barges on their way to settle in the Caucasus in anticipation of the second coming of Christ in His 1000 year reign on earth to begin before the year 1836. At the city of Izmail on the Danube Delta the entire Leibbrandt family perished of typhus plague excepting twelve year old Immanuel Jacob. He obtained a parcel of land when Hoffnungstal was established in 1819. At that time he was only 14 years old. He was the principle founder of the Lutheran church built in 1842 in Hoffnungstal, Ukraine, South Russia. All of the USA immigrants coming from Hoffnungstal, Ukraine, South Russia were baptized in this church. Immanuel Jacob Leibbrandt came to America in 1884. He first settled in Aurora, Nebraska then later moved (about 1886) to a farm in the Ash Creek Community about 10 miles southeast of McCook, Nebraska where he died at the age of 95 years..." Perhaps this is more than you ever want to know about my family line, or perhaps you already have knowledge of these facts. I hope that they are of interest to you. Keep in touch. Vern Leibbrandt ======================================================================== Vernon D. Leibbrandt, Ph.D. Department of Animal Sciences phone: 608-263-4312 1675 Observatory Drive fax: 608-262-5157 Madison, WI 53706-1284 ========================================================================