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From: "John Knarr" <>
Subject: ROLAND family in Europe
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:24:17 -0500

David Roland--
As you may already know there is an IGI record for Johannes Roland,
christening Mar 18, 1691, in Munster, Haut-Rhin, France; parents Johannes
Roland & Sara Schwartz. These surnames strike me as good Mennonite names. Do
you happen to know how old your Hans Roland was when he died? I have
researched my Knorr roots in Switzerland & the Alsace. The Mennonites did
congregate & pass through the Munster area, near Colmar. The Knorrs had
anabaptist background in area between Solothurn & Bern in this time frame,
1600s. A Knoerr was Mennonite bishop in region between Zurich & Bern. My
Knoerr ancestor migrated from a village near Bern/Solothurn to a
German-speaking area in the Alsace near Diedendorf. In the parish registers
of Switz. & Alsace I can keep my eyes open for presence of the Roland
family.

As you probably also know, there is a Roland family referenced in Annette
Burgert's Eighteenth Century Emigrants, Vol. II: The Western Palatinate. The
family is referenced on p. 275 as being from Lambsborn/Lammsborn. In the
Burgert study, other families from Lambsborn included Ankeney/Agne,
Binckel/Binkely, Hochstettler, Trautmann/Drautman, Leibrock. Now many of
these families had settled in the Lambsborn region, having migrated from the
Canton Bern, according to Burgert. Are you familiar with any interaction
between the Rolands and these other family surnames?

I might be of greater assistance if you can give me the age of your Hans
Roland at his death, and the names of his children.

Good luck in your Roland Roots search!
--John Knarr

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