Hans Neu ¹

  General Notes:

John Friedrich Nye, emigrated from Luxembour in 1849 and Peter Neu,emigrated from Dusseldorf, Germany in 1858 and settled in Barton, Wisconsin.

There were undoubtedly relationships between some of these persons in Germany, though proof is yet to be examined. Almost all of those whose place oforigin ______ came from a relatively small area within a radius of less than 25 miles....the Neus in south Germany were a long way from the Nyes of Denmark to the north, it is not impossilbe thatthey had a common heritage; the meaning of both is equilvalent to the English "new" and there are interesting similarities in the coats of arms of each.

Correspondents have suggested that they may be realted to Marshal Michael Ney, Napoleon's premier minister. Although no direct descendants of Marshal Ney was known to have come to America, he may have been related to some of the Neus or Neys who did. He was born in 1769, son of Peter Ney, a cooper, at Saargon on the river Saar in the Palatinate. His native language was German.

The earliest known records of the ancestors of Johan Nicholas and Johan Adam Neu are to be found in the Parish book of the Kleinich Evangelical Church in Kleinich, a village still extenet in the Bernkastle-Kues area near the south bank of the Mosel River eight kilomters southwest of the City of Traben-Tarbach. The original Parish book, which is held in the Staatsarchive at Koblenz, includes baptisms, marriages and burials for the period1593-1798 and the first Neu record is that of the family of: Hans Neu, the elder buried 9/26/1597.

There are additional Neu records from the church at Kleinich and other Palatinate towns (available on film) which have yet to be translated and studied.Researchers of Neu family history are encouraged to do so.

This except comes from a Family genealogy published in Indiana, sent tothis research by Mae Nigh of Oklahoma and which was sent to her by herdaughter who resides in Shelby County Indiana.

Hans Neu, the elder is listed as a Burger (citizen) of Kleinich.

Hans married Efen Unkn about 1590 in Kleinich, Germany. (Efen Unkn was buried on 13 Aug 1617 ¹.)