Elliot B. Kennel
EBKennel2@gmail.com
(you may also contact
me via ancestry.com)
Background—What was known circa 1985
This article describes
the author’s efforts to identify the probable ancestors of Johannes Kennel
(born 1719--?), hitherto the earliest known ancestor known to Kennel family
tradition. He is the German-born
grandfather of the earliest immigrant, also named Johannes Kennel, whose
descendants are mainly from Tazewell County Illinois and Butler County Ohio and
include the present author. Family trees
and historical records supplemented by DNA corroboration, to show that Johannes
Kennel is probably a direct descendent of the Von Känel family of Reichenbach
bei Frutigen (now Reichenbach im Kanderthal), Bern, Switzerland. This branch of the family was Anabaptist
(forerunners of Amish and Mennonites), and was forced to leave Bern because of
religious strife in Europe, which sadly seems to have been the norm, regardless
of what religion was involved.
Kennel
family tradition was documented by several genealogists, including my
grandfather, Elmer Mosiman Kennel who passed in 1985. He knew that Johannes Kennel
and son Jacob Kennel immigrated to American from the Münsterhof estate in
Rheinland Pfalz in 1830, where the Kennels had farmed for generations. Prior to that, our German-born ancestors
included Peter Kennel (1745-1819) and Elizabeth Muller (1747- 1803). Prior to Peter was Johannes Kennel (1717-?)
and Anna Steiner (1720-?). Elmer knew
his German-born grandfather Jacob, who lived until Elmer was fifteen years old,
and thus he was only to trace back three generations. As will be shown later, the dates for
Johannes Kennel usually found on ancestry.com are incorrect (he probably died
prior to 1804).
This eldest ancestor
“Johannes Kennel” is associated with a historical figure who signed his name as
“Hans Kendel” in 1764, on a lease agreement in which he and three others agreed
to farm the Münsterhof estate, near the town of Dreisen, Donnersbergkreis,
Rheinland Pfalz in what is now Germany.
This signature is reproduced for us by Guth, page 49. Prior to that, in
1750, the same name appears in a lease agreement for land in Durlach, a few
day’s journey away. See also Gerlach,
page 126, and Staker Vol 2, p. 186.
Hans, of course, is a variant of Johannes.
Kennel and
Kendel are both variants of the last name Von Känel. Last names were allowed to vary in those days
and in that region. Today, we tend to
think of the spelling as being rigidly fixed, but for whatever reason that was
not true hundreds of years ago..
The digital age,
as well as diligent work by genealogists, establishes a paper trail consisting
of church baptismal records, marriage records and death records. Our Anabaptist ancestors often—though not
always--cooperated with the established church authorities to record births,
marriages and deaths, though in some cases Anabaptist events may have gone
unrecorded). In particular very painstaking
reconstruction of the family tree has been undertaken by modern genealogists. I
have found the tree constructed by Renato Folli of Switzerland to be
particularly useful. He has been
gracious enough to help guide my research in internet communications. He is intimately familiar with church documents
in both Switzerland and Rheinland Pfalz, and has personally examined many of
them..
Based on
existing trees, We can reliably match our Johannes Kennel = Hans Kendel =
Johann Jacob Kendel who was born at Dreisen in 1719, about two years later than
estimated by my grandfather. The father of Johann Jacob Kandel. The paper trail goes all the way back to the
1500s or even earlier, and it is known that Anton Von Känel was born in
Reichenbach bei Frutigen in 1640, and moved to the Dreisen area by the time of
the birth of his son Johann Jacob in 1686.
His son with the same name is the Johann Jacob Kennel born in 1719.
The Kendel Branch in Kisker
Batschka
One branch of
the Kendel family left the Munsterhof roughly around 1800, but instead of
travelling to America, they traveled east to Kisker Batschka in what was the
Hungarian Empire, and which is now part of Serbia. The Kendel family has a reliable paper trail
all the way to Johann Jacob Von Känel born 1686, and earlier in Reichenbach, Switzerland.
Moreover, one of
the present-day Kendels, a Johann Kendel of Vienna, Austria, has a paper trail
all the way to the Münsterhof. This suggests
that the person signing his name “Hans Kendel” is part of this family. Indeed several birth records and marriage
records contain the “d” which was appears in church records as early as 1717. Tables 2 and 3 show the probable paths
leading to a common ancestor.
If further
evidence were needed that the Kendel/Kennel families are the same as the Von Känels, the church record for the 1716 birth of Johann
Christoff Kendel, brother of Hans Kendel, even has the “Von” inserted as an apparent
afterthought, indicating that the names are more or less interchangeable. We can be reasonably confident that Von Känel,
Kennel and Kendel from the same family.
Nothing is ever 100% certain in genealogy, but this is as close as it
gets.
From 1716, the Church records
Johann Jacob (“Von” inserted) Kendel and wife Anna Magdalena were parents of
baptized Johann Christoff. The record is
from Rockenhausen, 21 km from the Münsterhof.
He is the direct ancestor of present-day Johann Kendel of Vienna, and
the brother of Johann Jacob Kennel = Hans Kendel = Johannes Kennel.
Figure 1. Church record of baptism of Johann Christoff
Von Kendel in 1716, son of Johann Jakob
Von Kendel (1786) and Anna Magdalena. He
is the direct ancestor of Johann Kendel of Vienna. Note the ”Von” inserted.
Table 1. The family tree of Johann Kendel of Austria
goes through the Münsterhof back to the Reichenbach.
Johann
Kendel Patrilineal Tree
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Anton von Känel
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6 Sept 1640
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Reichenbach, Bern,
Switzerland
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Barbara Sieber
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1 Dec 1644
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Reichenbach, Bern, Switzerland
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Johann Jakob Kendel
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1686
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Hemsbach/
Enkenbach-Westheim
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22 Jan 1745
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Alsenborn/Munchweiler
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Anna Magdalena
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Johann Christian Kendel
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21 June 1716
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Wäschbacherhof/
Winnweiler
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8 Jul 1782
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Wambacherhof/Winnweiler
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Maria Barbara Zimmerman
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1720
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1772
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George Heinrich Kendel
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22 Sep 1749
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Waschbacherhof/
Winnweiler
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Kisker-Batschka, Hungary
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Katharina Bolander
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Georg Kendel
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1784
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Waldhambach, Rheinland-Pfalz
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4 Apr 1851
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Kisker-Batschka
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Margarethe Seckler
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6 Apr 1792
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Vrbas, Werbass, Serbia
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Kisker-Batschka
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Christian Heinrich Kendel
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5 Jan 1813
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Kisker Batschka, Hungary
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8 July 1887
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Altker-Batschka, Hungary
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Frederike Berleth
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22 Dec 1821
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Altker-Batschka, Hungary
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16 Jun 1905
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Alter-Bataschka, Hungary
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Johann Kendel
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22 Mar 1860
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Altker-Batschka, Hungary
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20 Oct 1927
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Altker-Batschka, Serbia
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Margarethe Herth
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6 Nov 1872
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Kisker-Batschka, Austria-Hungary
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25 May 1945
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Titolager-Jarek, Yugoslavia
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Johann Kendel
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31 May 1913
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Altker-Batschka, Yugoslavia
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21 Feb 1983
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Vienna, Austria
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Elisabetha Schafer
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24 May 1916
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Altker-Batschka, Yugoslavia
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8 Jan 1997
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Vienna, Austria
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Johann Kendel
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1946
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Vienna, Austria
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Marieanne Schalko
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16 Jan 1948
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Josefsthall-Litschau, Austria
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30 Jan 2002
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Vienna, Austria
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Table 2. The Patrilineal Family Tree of Elliot Kennel,
showing Common Ancestry with Johann Kendel of Austria (Kennel = Kendel = Von Känel).
Elliot Kennel Patrilineal Tree
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Anton von
Känel
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6 Sept 1640
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Reichenbach, Bern,
Switzerland
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Barbara Sieber
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1 Dec 1644
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Reichenbach, Bern, Switzerland
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Johann Jakob Kendel
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1686
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Hemsbach/
Enkenbach-Westheim
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22 Jan 1745
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Alsenborn/Munchweiler
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Elisabetha Catharina
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Johann Jakob “Hans” Kendel
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9 Apr 1719
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Alsenbrück,
Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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Münsterhof, Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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Anna Margaretha Gotzin (Gotz)
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1772
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Johann Peter Kennel
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19 Jul 1745
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Münsterhof,
Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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Münsterhof,
Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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Elisabetha Catharina Muller
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8 Nov 1747
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Wolfstein, Kusel,
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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8 Jan 1803
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Münsterhof,
Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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Johannes Kennel
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11 Mar 1781
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Alsenbrück-Langmeil, Rheinland-Pfalz,
Germany
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27 Aug 1831
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Collinsville, Butler, Ohio, USA
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Magdalena Katharina Nafziger
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25 May 1791
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Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany
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14 Feb 1873
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Morton, Tazewell, Illinois
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Jacob Kennel
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27 Sep 1821
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Kirchheimbolanden, Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz
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22 Mar 1909
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Morton, Tazewell, Illinois, USA
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Katharina Garber
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8 April 1833
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Monroe County Ohio, USA
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24 Jun 1911
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Morton, Tazewell, Illinois
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Thomas J Kennel
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8 Mar 1869
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Morton, Tazewell, Illinois, USA
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29 Dec 194261
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Middletown, Butler, Ohio, USA
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Lavina Mosiman
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25 June 1870
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Trenton, Butler, Ohio, USA
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27 May 1947
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Butler, Ohio, USA
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Elmer Mosiman Ksennel
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10 Oct 1893
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Morton, Tazewell, Illinois, USA
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8 Jan 1985
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Lakeland, Polk, Florida, USA
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Blanche Augsburger
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3 Jan 1900
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Beaverdam, Allen, Ohio, USA
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17 Apr 1995
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Fallbrook, San Diego, California, USA
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Byron E. Kennel
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1926
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Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA
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Sook Cha Lee
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25 March 1925
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Seoul, Korea
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26 May 2016
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Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA
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Elliot Kennel
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1957
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East Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA
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Daphne Susela Permalu
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Malaysia
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As of August
2019, our oldest known ancestor is Hans Von Känel from Reichenbach bei Frutigen,
Switzerland, born in 1520, according to the family tree of Renato Folli, and
assuming that he agrees with the association of our Johannes Kennel with his “Johann
Jakob Kennel” born April 9, 1719.
Figure 2. Birth record of Johann Jacob Kennel (handwriting terrible!), son of Johann Jacob and Ana Magdalena 9 April 1719.
Letter identifying Heirs of Maria Fischer Kennel: The Children of Johannes Kennel
Amazingly, the existence of Johannes Kennel of the Münsterhof estate is attested to in a legal document relating to inheritances after the death of his sister, Maria Kennel Fischer, who had no children of her own. Maria’s husband Ulrich Fischer is the same Ulrich Fischer who co-signed the Katherinenthalerhof lease with Johann Jacob Kendel. That is, Maria has a brother referred to as “Johannes Kennel” and her husband was co-signer of a lease with “Hans Kendel.” Hence there is little doubt that we have the correct family, rather than a cousin or others with the same names.
A legal letter
was composed in Dreisen to identify the heirs, a transcription of which is
available on ancestry.com among other places.
This carefully composed legal document is the strongest possible identification
that could be hoped for. It includes the
identification of Johannes as a farmer at the Münsterhof estate near Dreisen,
Rheinland-Pfalz in what is now Germany, with the offspring listed in Table
1. The letter further asserts that
all children were born at the
Münsterhof. Staker had raised the possibility that the Johann Jacob Kendel
family might have been originally from Durlach.
However, in view of the letter it is absolutely clear that the Kennel/Kendels
resided at the Münsterhof prior to signing the lease at the Katharinenthalerhof
in 1750, and also resided at the Münsterhof for decades thereafter.
Table 3. Children of Johannes Kennel of the Münsterhof
estate, identified in a court letter after the death of Maria Kennel
Fischer.
Peter Kennel, married to Elisabeth Muller
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Rudolf Kennel
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Maria Kennel, married to Johannes Schwarzentrauber.
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Barbara Kennel, married to Johannes Grehbiel (Krehbiel)
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Anna Kennel married to Johannes Schenck
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Veronica Kennel, single.
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Elisabetha Kennel, married to Jacob Jotter.
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Jacobina Kennel, married to Daniel Muller.
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Peter Kennel the
same Peter Kennel who is the father of immigrant Johannes Kennel.
Anna Steiner and the Durlach Connection
Family
tradition (i.e., my grandfather, plus Mennonite records in Lancaster and the
work of Staker, Guth and Gerlach state
that the wife of Johann Jacob was Anna Steiner.
My grandfather’s family tree states that Anna died in 1751, age 31. However, for whatever reason, Mennonite
records in Lancaster Pa, and most of the ancestry.com family trees, show her
living to a ripe old age, passing in 1802, and Johann Jacob living even longer,
remarrying and lasting till 1806.
Neither scenarios are likely to be true.
There is a birth record for Anna Margretha Steiner
in 1720, as seen below.
Anna Margaretha Steiner
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 6
Jan 1720
Baptism
Date: 6 Jan 1720
Baptism
Place: Evangelisch,
Berghausen Durlach, Karlsruhe, Baden
Father: Jacob Steiner
Mother: Eva
Rosina
FHL Film Number: 1238223
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Figure 2. Baptismal record for Anna Margaretha
Steiner, from Durlach.
However, wedding records shows Johann Jacob Kendel married Anna
Margretha Gotzin (Gotz) on 31 Jul 1740 (See
Figure 3). Initially I did not realize that Gotz was a proper name, and am indebted to sharp-eyed readers on Ancestry who pointed out my mistake. He would have been 21 years old at this time. The Gotz name was not known in my Grandfather's traditional research, but there you have it.
Figure 3. Church record of the marriage of Johann Jacob
Kendel and Ana Margretha Gotzin ( Götz or Goetz) is the masculine form) 31 Jul 1740. It's clearly Goetz, not Snyder.
Ninth months later, a daughter is born, Anna Charlotta Kendel,
the daughter of Johann Jacob and Anna Margaretha Kendel.
Figure 4. Anna Charlotta Kendel was born to Johan Jacob Kendel and Ana Margretha, some nine months after their marriage, 30 April 1741.
Name Anna Charlotta Kendel
Gender weiblich
Event Type Taufe
Baptism Date 30 Apr
1741
Baptism
Place Winnweiler, Bayern, Deutschland
Father Johann Jacob Kendel
Mother Anna Margretha
Kendel
Parish as it Appears Winnweiler
City or District Winnweiler
Page number 52;53
Author Evangelische Kirche Winnweiler (BA. Rockenhausen)
Film Number 193234
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Figure 5. Transcription
and translation of the material in Figure 4.
Anna Charlotta would grow up and marry a man named Schenck, listed on
the Dreisen letter regarding Heirs of Maria Kennel Fischer.
However, when Johann Peter Känell was baptized 24 Jul 1745
in Alsenbruck-Langmeil, his mother’s name was given as Elisabetha Catharina.
Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
Johann Peter Känell
Baptism Date 24 Jul 1745
Baptism Place Alsenbrück-Langmeil, Bayern, Germany
Father:
Mother: Elisabetha
Catharina
FHL Film Number193749
Household Members
Elisabetha Catharina
Johann
Jacob Känell
Johann
Peter Känell
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Therefore, Ana Margretha Gotzin Kennel probably died prior to 1745 and is not in the direct line of my family. Elisabetha Catherina is the one who is our direct ancestor. The family name of Elisabtha Catherina has not been identified as of 2023.
As
for the fate of Johann Jacob Kennel, his children signed the legal document prepared
in Dreisen in 1804, establishing that they were the heirs of Maria
Kennel Fischer, who died in 1804 and had no children of her own. Johann Jacob
Kennel was a not a signee of the document, only his children, which suggests
that he had passed before 1804. The date
is not known.
Hermann Guth, in Amish Mennoites in Germany claimed that Johannes Kennel remarried to Magdalena Altemus in 1802. My Grandfather Elmer Kennel claims that Johannes Kennel remarried in 1753 to Magdalena Krehbil after the death of Anna Steiner in 1751. These claims are not necessarily contradictory. However,
the present author has not found the source documents of the any of these marriages, but there is a paper trail for Kennel/Gotz. Thus, I am inclined to disbelieve the claim that he lived till 1806, stated by Mennonite archives, without a specific date.
This solves the minor enigma of the great distance between Dreisen and Durlach. How did Johann Jakob Kendel (= Hans Kendel) from the Münsterhof,
Dreisen, end up marrying Anna Steiner from Durlach? Well, it probaby did not happen. However, the Anabaptist habit of
contracting to farm for nobility informs us that Johann Jacob Kendel was definitely
associated with both Durlach and Dreisen. He was born in the Dreisen area,
married and had children in Dreisen, contracted to farm in Durlach in 1750, was
mentioned in church documents in Durlach in 1754, but returned to Dreisen by
1764 to farm the Münsterhof. Perhaps this means that Hans was a kind of contractor rather than someone who farmed the same fields his entire life.
Another important record is the 1808 marriage record between Jean Kennel (=Johannes Kennel) and Magdaleine Navziger (=Magdalena Nafziger). Because the marriage occurred in the time of Napoleon,the record is in French, but provides an irrefutable link between Johann Peter Känell and Johannes Kennel who emigrated to America with his family. This Johannes was the father of Jacob, who was the father of American-born George Washington Kennel and Thomas Jefferson Kennel. Obviously, this family thought of themselves as Americanized, though generations later, I'm inclined to think we are still a bunch of Amish who dress a little more modern and drive cars.
Origin of the Kennel Name
The most likely origin
of the family name Von Känel is that they were involved in irrigation, bringing
water from the mountains to farmlands at lower elevations. The family
crest shows a fleur-de-lis on the right and a half-pipe on the left. “Kennel,” canal and channel all have the same
root and denote a narrow, enclosed volume, which could be applied to a body of
water or to a confined cage for keeping animals. If we had been French speakers, we could have
been named “Chanel” like the perfume creator, but no, our ancestors were German
speakers and hence we are stuck with the much less sexy “Kennel.”
According to an
internet source (http://erwinbagpiper.com/?page_id=565),
the Von Känel family name is mentioned in 1321:
Baron Johannes
von Thurm of Gastelen was Lord of Frutigen in the early fourteenth century. The
document indicates that the Baron decided to give the Augustinian Monastery of
Interlaken a piece of land near Scharnachtal (next to the town of Reichenbach
and a few miles south of Aeschi). In addition, it states that “Peter and
Chunradus von dem Kenel and their heirs forever have the right to live on a
portion of this property (a farm known as the Kene), as long as they pay a rent
of thirty shillings per year” (a practice that was known as the Right of
Hereditary Tenancy). The ”Von” prefix is an honorific title, probably given by
some petty noble in appreciation for building the canals. It does not designate royalty but does imply
some government-sanctioned official level of recognition. But when
the Anabaptists left Switzerland as a result of government-sponsored
persecution, there would be little or no need to carry the title, other than
for tradition’s sake.
Figure 6. Variants of the Von Känel family crest. The half-pipe is an important clue that the
family name derives from the family’s involvement in building irrigation
waterways to bring water from the mountains to the farmlands below. The date on the crest is 1324 (original
picture is low-resolution).
There are many variants of the Von Känel name. Some that persist to the present day, and
which are traceble to Bern, Switzerland include Von Kaenel, Von Kennel, Kennel,
Kendel, Von Kennon, Von Konnon, Voncannon, Foncannon and Fincannon.
List of Cities Inhabited by Relatives of the Von Känel family
In order to
help the reader and others interested in Kennel genealogy to differentiate
between the many small towns in Germany, the following list is provided, along
with the distance in kilometers from Dreisen.
Table 4. A Partial List of Towns of Interest to Kennel
Genealogy.
Location
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Distance in kilometers from Dreisen
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Münsterhof
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2
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Weitersweiler
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2
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Steinbach
am Donnersberg
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5
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Herfingerhof
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6
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Kirkheimbolanden
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8
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Alsenbrück-Langmeil,
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12
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Winnweiler
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17
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Rockenhausen
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19
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Alsenborn,
Rheinland Pfalz
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24
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Worms
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28
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Kaiserslautern
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31
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Worms
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35
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Spesbach
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51
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Mainz
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53
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Durlach
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115
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Arthur, Switzerland??
My grandfather
Elmer Mosiman Kennel made the curious claim that “it is generally conceded that
the Kennels originated in the town of Arthur, Switzerland.” He also verbally told me in about 1977 when when I was 20 and took a European trip to study art, that the family home town was on the south
of Lake Lucerne. This led me to a wild goose chase when I
actually traveled via Eurail in search of these mythical relatives. Nice scenery, but no Burgomeister Kennel as claimed by Gramps.
Ahem. Well, grandpa, your grandson
definitely does not concede this point, and in fact there is no such town as
Arthur, Switzerland. He was probably thinking
of the town of Arth, which is inhabited by many persons with the Kenel last
name, often with only one “n” instead of two. Arth is located on the south side
of Lake Zug, not Lake Lucerne. I have made contact with some of these
individuals and find that the Kenel family tree goes back to at
least 1620 in the town of Arth.
I do not believe the Arth Kenels are related to the Von Känels at all. In my case, DNA
matches from Ancestry.com have provided no connection to Arth, but extensive
connections to Bern. Neither are the Arth Kenels known to be
connected to the Anabaptist movement as far as I am aware. Nor does history teach that Arth itself was connected to the Anabaptists. If there is a
connection between the Von
Känel family of the Reichenbach and the Kenel family of Arth, the common
ancestor must have been from the very distant past, say more than 500 years
ago.
Main Sources
The main compelling sources that tell us who we are are first of all the will of Maria Kennel Fisher who died without any children and thus left her earthly wealth to her brother's family in the Munsterhof, Germany, and she names each child including the Peter Kennel, the great-grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Kennel.
The Trenton Historical Society has a copy of an ancient heirloom Froschaur Bible purchased by Johannes Kennel (grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Kennel). Johannes wrote the names of all of his children it it. We simply can not have screwed this up. There is physical evidence that our ancestors came from the Munsterhof in Germany.
We also have agreements with the signatures of Hanss Kendel and Ulrich Fisher (husband of Maria Kennel Fisher) in which they agree to farm different farms. Other church records show the Kendel spelling along with Kennel and Von Kanel all together, so we know that they are the same family.
Alternate Johannes Kennels
The habit of Bernese Anabaptists of naming children after their father and grandfather often leads to several persons having similar or identical names, making it difficult to trace the family line. To help keep track of persons with similar names, the list below shows individuals that are not direct ancestors, but whose records and information were considered and ultimately rejected. Most of them are cousins. Particularly curious is the similarity of names between the Dreisen area Kennels and the Spesbach Kennels, because these two groups are probably not closely related. The Spesbach line is descended from Von Kanels from Aeschi, rather than Reichenbach bei Frutigan The family tree compiled by Renato Folli is particularly recommended as a useful site to identify Kennel relatives.
Table 5. Alternate Johann/Johannes Kennels, Probably Not in the Direct Family
Line.
Name
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Event
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Date
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Location
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Relatives
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Johann Jacob Kennel
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Marriage
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10 Feb 1789
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Spesbach,
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Adam Mast
Elizabeth Margreth Mast
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Johann Paul Kennel
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Baptized
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10 Apr 1719
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Homburg
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Johann Paul Kennel
Hans William Kennel
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Johann Jacob Kändel
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Birth
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25 Mar 1731
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Alsenbrück-Langmeil
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Johann Jakob, Anna Magdalena
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Johann Jacob Kendell
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Marriage
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6 Feb 1759
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Alsenbruck
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Maria Elisabetha Nielssin
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Johann Valentin Kandel
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Baptism
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21 Oct 1715
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Zweibrücken, Bayern
|
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Johann Christoph Kendel
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Death
|
Born abt 1710, died 7 July 1782
|
Winnweiler
|
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Johann Wilhelm Kandel
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Born Baptised
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25 June 1724, 29 Jun 1724
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Hochspeyer (Kaiserslautern)
|
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Johann Peter Kennel
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Burial
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Born abt 1716
Death 1 Jul 1795
Burial 3 Jul 1795
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Einöllen u Spesbach
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|
Johann Peter Kennel
|
Child
|
1759
|
Spesbach
|
Anna Margretha (wife)
Maria Catharina (child)
|
Johann Peter Kennel
|
Child
|
None
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Annar Margretha (wife)
Johannes Kennel (child)
|
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Johann Peter Kennel
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Marriage
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13 Jan 1750
|
Spesbach
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Father: Georg Henrich Kennel, spouse: Anna Margretha Krick
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Johann Peter Kennel
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Birth
|
24 Nov 1755
|
Spesbach
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Father: Johann Peter Kennel
Mother: Anna Margretha |
Johannes Joachim Kinnel
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Birth
|
Sept 1, 1717
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Mainz
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Father: Jakob Kinnel
Mother: Anna Barbara Schlipgen
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REFERENCES
Joseph Peter Amish Mennonites in
Tazewell County, Illinois Including Woodford County, especially Volume 2, of a
4-volume set.
Horst Gerlach, My Kingdom is not
of This World—300 Years of the Amish, 1683-1983,
ISBN/Barcode: 9781601263872,
Masthof Press, 2013.
Hermann Guth, Amish Mennonites in
Germany: Their Congregations, the Estates Where They Lived, Their Families,Masthof
Press, Morgantown PA, September 1, 1995
Mennonite Records in Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Notes from Elmer Mosiman Kennel
Donald D. Erwin, The Foncannon
Family,
