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From: "Claude Cregheur" <>
Subject: Re: [Quebec-Hessians] Surname EQUELING - EGGELING, Christopher
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:37:54 -0500


Thanks John, I think you solved the problem and thanks to Ray Arbic.

Claude




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>Claude,
>while filing your e-mail into this 'mystery' file, I filed it
>next to one message of last year with the name of EGGELING,
>his name was Christopher, and he was named in connection
>to Georg Herbecke.
>
>A descendant of Herbecke by the name of Ray Arbic told me this:
>"I know he existed as Eggeling because he is listed in as No.22 on
>page 487 of a Muster dated aug. 29, 1779 at Three Rivers in the
>Company of Captain Frederick v. Plessen, in the infantry of
>Lieutn. Col. Ehrenkrook. The information comes from Haldimand
>Paper, Q-series, Vol.15,16,17 on Reel C-11891 NAC.
>He is also mentioned as 'deceased' at the wedding of his son Laurent
>in St. Benoit on 1. Aug. 1808.
>My interest is that his widow named in the 1808 wedding, married my
>ancestor Georg Herbecke. and all of the Eggeling or Equelling descendants
>eventually adopted the Arbique/Arbic surname as they were raised by
>Georg Herbecke.
>
>How about that - Ray Arbic also said that neither Brunswick nor Marburg
>seem to have any information.
>
>Well, that should help you getting over this brickwall,
>John Merz
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Merz" <>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [Quebec-Hessians] Surname EQUELING
>
>
> > Hello Claude,
> > good work, even John Merz is stumped, but ....
> > let me say this, it could be a Brunswicker or a Hanauer,
> > I printed it out and it goes into my 'Unsolved Mysteries' File,
> > and will not be forgotten.
> > Have you read the Nat.Archives film C-2895 ? The solution
> > could be right there.
> > Thanks again,
> > John Merz.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Claude Crégheur" <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:47 AM
> > >
> > > Across my research in the register of St-Benoit (Deux-Montagnes), I
> > noticed 3 christenings with the surname EQUELING. It sound german. So I
>have
> > this: <snip>
>
>
>==== QUEBEC-HESSIANS Mailing List ====
>King George III obtained the services of six German principalities -
>Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Hanau, Waldeck (those troops are covered in
>HETRINA (Marburg archives) and Braunschweig (Brunswick), Ansbach-Bayreuth,
>Anhalt-Zerbst. These troops are covered in separate lists.
>

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