Sarralbe – Val
de Gueblange, Moselle, France
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Today’s
Surnames: Reb, Rebb
1900-1930
Locations: France, USA: California, Iowa, New York, Minnesota, Ohio
and elsewhere.
Comment:
By the late 1600s, these Catholic families had five branches living in
Sarralbe or in nearby places. Church records do not go back far enough to
identify a common progenitor. In the 1800s, several families immigrated to
America, some adopting the name Rebb. They were Catholics when they left
France.
Background: The heads of family in 1700 were: Sarralbe –Rech (Jean,
Pierre, Mathias and Daniel) in Gueblange (Paul). This clan may be related
to the Keskastel Reebs for they lived in adjacent communities. The Rebs had
a wide range of professions from day laborers to hat and shoemakers. This
extended family remained in the Sarralbe area until 1760 when Franz Reb
moved to Rosbrück. In the 1800s, some moved to small villages in Moselle and
further away to Strasbourg, Nancy and America. Today the clan Reb is found
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Schalbach-Niederstinzel, Moselle, France
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Today’s
Surnames: Reeb, Reb
1900-1930
Locations: France
Comment:
In the late 1600s there were three Reeb-Reb Catholic families living in
Schalbach and another in Niederstinzel. Records do not go back far enough in
time to document a link. Only one man is known to have gone to America from
this group.
Background: Nicolaus (1652) and Abraham (1638) of Schalbach and
Nicolaus (1688) of Niederstinzel are the oldest known progenitors of these
three families. Beginning in the mid-1700s some of the Schalbach clan began
moving to adjacent villages in Moselle and even as far as Fort Vabaun on the
Rhine River in Alsace. By the late 1800s, most of the Reebs were living in
small villages not far from Nancy, France and spread throughout the Moselle
area. The same movements and periods apply to the Niederstinzel branch. They
had a wide range of professions with most being farmers, a few soldiers and
merchants. |
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Zutzendorf
Area Bas Rhin, France
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Today’s
Surname: Reeb
1900-1930
Locations: France; Ontario Canada; USA: California, Illinois,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Comments:
Today a large portion of this family lives in Canada and France. Immigration
to North America began in the 1840s culminating in 1890.
Background: Documented progenitors of this family are two different
but related Jacobs who lived in Zutzendorf during the 100s. DNA analysis has
confirmed the relationship. They were Lutheran, farmers, blacksmiths and
weavers. Michael Reeb and family immigrated to New Orleans, LA about 1846.
Two years later Theobold and family moved to Ontario, Canada. After the
German annexation in 1872 numerous families and individuals left for North
America and France. |
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