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Forward to the German Genealogy ResearchThe researchers of the Galli - Galle` European line are very knowledgeable in the logical sequence of events, however, the rest of us looking in from the outside may have a hard time making sense of this large amount of material. For this reason I decided to write a forward to the material that Harry Galley has put together with the help of numerous people who I list later as contributors (under sources at the bottom of the page.) Top of PagePeter Galle' (Galley) in Germany
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e n n o n i t i s c h e P r e d i g e r in
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Drüssel Ulrich, genannt 1755, + wahrscheinlich 1760 1755 - 1760 |
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Krehbiel Johannes. aus Wartenberg 1760 - 1777 |
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Krehbiel Michael, vom Pfrimmerhof, völliger Diener 1777 - 1794 |
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Lichti Jakob, aus Otterberg, Prediger + 1790 |
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Borkholder Heinrich, vom Horterhof, Hilfsprediger + 1780 |
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Engel Johannes, aus Otterberg, Hilfsprediger + um 1790 |
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Schnebele Christian, aus Fischbach, völliger Diener für Fischbach, |
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dann
für Diemerstein 1782 - 1798, predigte auch in Sembach |
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Becker Heinrich, aus Hochspeyer, Hilfsprediger + 1800 |
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Bally Johannes, aus Wartenberg, völliger Diener 1794 - 1804 |
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Kinzinger Johannes aus Frankenstein, völliger Diener 1794 - 1813 |
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Eymann Ulich. von der Lohmühle, Hilfsprediger |
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Würtz Heinrich. aus Wartenberg. völliger Diener 1804 - 1827 |
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Eymann Johannes, von der Lohmühle, völliger Diener 1807 - 1817 |
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Koller Heinrich, aus Stockborn, völliger Diener 1816 - 1832 |
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Beutler Heinrich. aus Potzbach, völliger Diener, übernahm 1827 ein
Pachtgut bei |
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Beutler Peter, aus Potzbach, Hilfsprediger, ausgewandert nach Ohio/USA,
dort ebenfalls Prediger 1800 - 1827 |
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Galle Peter, aus Otterberg, Hilfsprediger, starb in der Sernbacher
Kirche |
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während
des Gottesdienstes 1800 - 1827 |
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Berg Johannes, von der Eselsmühle. Hilfsprediger |
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Risser Johannes, erster studierter hauptamtlicher Prediger der Gemeinde
Sembach 1832 - 1868 |
I will begin at the most logical point and that is to connect our Peter Galley to his German Galle’ family. Through ship records, family ties, and written documents you will see the connection. (See the current research section for copies of the documents) Harry began researching our Peter Galley many years ago. Eleanor Halstead of the Jacob Galley D7 line offered to help Harry by searching all ship records between 1760 and 1775 in hopes of finding Peter’s passage to America and point of origin. She did in fact discover our Peter (the only Peter Galley or Galle' on a ship list within those 15 years) on the ship Crawford with his friend Johannes Kuntzi (Kunzi, Keitzi) that came over in 1772 to Philadelphia from Weierhof, Germany. The name written on the passenger list was Peter Galte, either a misspelling or a mark over the "l". It is very common on early documents to have misspellings, variations, or errors as I have found in my own research.
Knowing that Peter originally spelled his name "Galle' ", Harry realized we might be connected to a group of Galle’s that came to Iowa in 1851 from Uffhofen, Germany and so he communicated with the Galle group in Donnellson, Iowa. The Iowa Galle’s put him in touch with their Galle family in Germany. He contacted a Werner Galle’ in Weierhof Germany and learned that their family history included a Peter Galle’ who wandered off for "Amerika" in 1772 and was never heard from again. This made sense since our Peter died within 10 years of coming to America, thus cutting off contact with his German roots. His son Philip, who was 6 at the time of his father’s death, was too young to have been handed down any oral history and so the path back to Germany was lost.
Harry found that this German Galle’ family was of the Mennonite faith , as was many of our ancestors in the Fayette county, Pennsylvania area and had been close with other Mennonite families in Germany such as the Stauffers, Neukommets, and Stricklers which are the very families we find our Peter with in Lancaster and Fayette counties of Pennsylvania. Many of these families started to come to America in the early 1700’s. Peter was the youngest of nine children and possibly stood to inherit very little. With long time family friends in America, he came over in 1772 at age 36 with his best friend Johannes Kuntzi to Philadelphia where he reconnected with the Stauffers, Newcomers (Americanized), Stricklers, and other German Mennonite families. This Peter Galle’ was in fact our Peter Galley.
German Gerhard Galle aided Harry in uncovering our family genealogy in Germany. Werner Galle’ led Harry to some genealogy papers [Wichtige Ereignisse Familian-Cronik] that his father Christian Galle’ had written in the winter of 1933. This was a written account of the Galle’ history back two generations from our Peter Galley. This German documents, now in our possession, list Peter Galley’s father as Peter Galle’II, his mother as Agnes Kolf, and their nine children (Susanne, Dorthea, Christine, Maria, Barbara, Anna, Johannes, Jakob*, and our Peter). Peter’s brother Jakob’s line stayed in Germany running the family mill (Geistermuhl) until 1850 when William Galley, Peter Galley’s great grand nephew sold it and came to America in 1851 to Lee County Iowa. This established our Galle cousins in Iowa. The same document lists Peter Galley’s grandfather as Peter Galli/Galle’ and said he had come from Switzerland. See Switzerland genealogy for more detail.
I felt an explanation of the variation of name spelling and the different crests was in order here. The word Gallus in Latin means bile or gall (it’s no wonder they changed it to Galley). The spelling Galli with the i is the Swiss spelling and the family crest or Wappen in Switzerland for the town where the Galli’s resided is a silver rooster on a royal blue background and two gold stars in the upper corners. The Galle’ spelling is the German line (with an accented e) and the crest is the tree on top of the crest or Wappen, with the three rivers flowing underneath. Here in America we find our relatives spelling the name Galle and Galley, and the Galley Family Reunion Committee in 1968 adopted the English crest with the three greyhounds for the cover of the "Blue Book".
I hope I have given a clear perspective on the mass of information contained in Harry’s research-our European history of the Galley/Galle’/Galli family. It is with great honor that we present this material to the family to preserve and hand down to all future generations. Also see the Mannaheim Galle's.
The genealogy which will follows is
just the direct line to us. I have highlighted the
direct male ancestral line of Peter for easier reference.
Our future book(s), when printed, and the CD-Rom will have all of the genealogy
of siblings and such included.
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Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners, Richard Warren Davis, Vol II, 1997
Stammtafel der Familie Galle, Buckhard Driedger, Feb. 1991, 37 pages
Wichtige Ereignisse, Writings of Christian Galle’, Weiernof, Germany,
Winter 1933, 73 pages
A Short History of the Galle Family, by Rev. William Galle, 1899 -1916 translated by his son Kurt, 14 pages.
"The Galley Family Tree" by Loraine E. Galle, Sept 1983, 92 pages
Toberta Krehbiel of Donnellson, Iowa on data on the Galle lineage of America plus branches, 1997 - 1999
Index to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Wills & Interstate Records, 1729 - 18501781 Inventory List,
Account of Philip Stern and John Witmer Administrators of
Peter Galle Will/Estate
Ship Crawford 1772 - German, Swiss, and other immigrants
- Records of passengers Johannes Kuntzi and Peter Galle
Mennonite Encyclopedia, select articles
Emigrants from Weierhof, Germany
Grantee Index of Fayette Co., Pa.
Galle surname change to Galley, 1805 to 1818
Eleanor Bradford Halstead,
Researcher of 40 years
wife of
Mark Halstead
PHD., D52 in Galley "Blue Book" .
she is a leading
expert in German and American Genealogy research.