Hi,
Is there anyone on this list researching the HOUNTZ family? My
gg-grandfather was Anselm HAUNTZ and I am wondering if the Hauntz family later from
Dearborn County and Hountz families from Ripley County are related. I remember my
grandmother saying that "somehow we are kin" referring to the Hountz
families.
Here is my latest clue, but I need help to make the connection.
My gg-grandfather (Anselm Hauntz) apparently made a return trip to Germany
as he appears on a passenger list into Baltimore on 22 Jan 1875. Three other
Hauntz names also appeared on that list (spelled Haunss). One was Mathias
Haunss, age 32. At the time Anselm was a resident of Jefferson County,
Kentucky, but he later moved to Indiana. (He appears on the 1880 census in Kentucky,
but his son George was born in Indiana in 1882 and all later records for him
are in Indiana.)
On a listing of St. Pius Cemetery is one Mathias HOUNTZ, born about 1854 and
died 1918. On an 1884 map of Franklin Township, Ripley County, Anselm
Hauntz and Mathew Houtz (sic) own farms that are separated by only two other
properties.
Has anyone found the parents of Mathias Hountz? Is he perhaps the Mathias
Haunss who came to America with Anselm, Wilhelm, and Friedrich Haunss on the
steamship Nurnberg in January 1875?
Thanks for your help,
Cathy McGuire
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