Research Notes:
c 1565 Johannes Jurg Kunkel was born in Glasshouse, Neuhutten, Germany. [1]
1573 Elisabeth Christina Houser was born in Glasshouse, Neuhutten, Germany. [2]
before 1592 Johannes Jurg Kunkel married Elisabeth Christina Houser in Neuhutten, Germany. [3]
16333 Elisabeth Christina Houser died at age 60 in Glasshouse, Neuhutten, Germany. [4]
1640 Johannes Jurg Kunkel died in Glasshouse, Neuhutten, Germany. [5]
A sketch of the family reports [6]:
The Kunkel family, up to today, are still primarily concentrated in the area of the Spessart Mountain range, a largely wooded area in the heart of Germany. Existence of an early Glass house in the Spessart area was mentioned in a document dated 22 August 1349. The area was under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Mainz.
The Union Letter (Bundesbrief) of 1537 lists two Kunkel's, namely Jurge (George) and Hentze Kunkel, and in a later revision dated 24 February 1559, again two Kunkel's - George and Friedrich Kunkel.
It is evident that there are links, as the Glass making was only carried down in the same families. This earliest known generation has only one mentioning of this earliest known family that was put together from the Parish register records received from a researcher in Germany, and combined with the data on the I.G.I. Index at the LDS Library in SLC, Utah, and the earliest records on file at the LDS Library on this Germany family.
Neuhütten is a community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and a member of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (Administrative Community) of Partenstein. Neuhütten lies in the Würzburg Region. [7]
In 1349, Neuhütten had its first documentary mention in a Mainz document as one of the glass works in the Spessart. Only in 1513 was Neuhütten used for the first time as a place-name. As part of the Archbishopric of Mainz, Neuhütten passed with the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss to Prince Primate von Dalberg's newly formed Principality of Aschaffenburg, with which it passed in 1814 (by this time it had become a department of the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt) to Bavaria. In the course of administrative reform in Bavaria, the current community came into being with the Gemeindeedikt ("Municipal Edict") of 1818.
[1] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 1, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[2] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 1, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[3] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 1, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[4] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 1, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[5] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 1, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[6] James Erwin Kunkle, Descendants of Hans Kunkel, born 1530 in Germany (2002), 1-2, [FHL_Catalog_(Starts_on_image_183)].
[7] Wikipedia article about Neuh%C3%BCtten, content subject to change, (Neuhütten), [Wikipedia].