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From: C / K Hofmann <>
Subject: Re: CHILDREN NAMED..LUTHERA
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 08:33:07 -0700


Charles Recker wrote:
>
> I have an ancestress in Glandorf [formerly Kingdom of Hanover] with the given name of "Engel", but she was Roman Catholic. The reason I'm
mentioning this is> to indicate that the given name "Engel" was not
given exclusively to Lutherans. I also have Lutheran ancestors, as well
as a wife who was raised Lutheran, but don't find the name "Engel" among
those ancestors or among my wife's forebears,

The name Engel is quite a common given name in Lutheran and Reformed
Church records near and aroung Osnabrück, also in Lutheran and Catholic
records in some areas in Württemberg.

Charles Hofmann aus Tucson Arizona
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