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From: Helge Robitzsch <>
Subject: Re: CORNELL from Nuttaugh?
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:12:51 +0100
References: <006201c28153$253cb780$8eaefea9@AnnHelgeson>


Ann Helgeson wrote:
>
> All my ancestors are Scandinavian except for Charles August CORNELL
> (1845-1918) as he was known in the USA, who was said to be from Nuttaugh in
> Germany. I have looked really hard and cannot find a Nuttaugh. This is an
> unusual, but not unknown, German surname also.
>
> I pinned my hopes on Nuthagen, a tiny place in Pomerania (Belgard/Schivelbein
> Kreis, now in Poland) but I have just learned that there are no Cornell's in
> the church book there. There ARE Cornell's in the region, though.
>
> Any ideas about where I might find Nuttaugh?
>
> C A Cornell was said to have arrived in 1845, at age 7, with his parents
> and 6 siblings in Lebanon, Ohio (there are 2 of them). His parents and
> one brother died within 6 weeks. I have had NO luck in tracking him down.

Your statements are somehow nebulously:
" ... was said to be from Nuttaugh ..."
" ... was said to have arrived in ..."
What are the **sources** of these (mis)informations?
Hearsay, more or less unreadable documents
(tombstone, US Census, ...) or ...?

A place Nuttagh does not exist in Germany. A German surname?
I don't think so. "Nuttagh" isn't in the German phone book.
If the place name is written somewhere then there may be a
chance for better reading. What's your source about a German
place "Nuttagh"?

Did you study all the genealogical sources available for
Lebanon, Ohio (Census, immigration, naturalization, wills, land
records, church records ...) to get more info about the
C. A. Cornell family? "More German" than Cornell are the names
Corneli, Cornelis, Cornelius.

Helge Robitzsch

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