Descendants of Barthelmes Köppel
K.-W. Peter Koeppel
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Heinrich, Koeppel, Köppel
This document is based on the research of one Dietrich Koeppel, Mahrburg/Lahn, conducted to establish whether his and our families are
related. The result was that they are not related. This research was conducted in the 1960s. Dietrich traced our family to the oldest known
ancestor, Barthelmes Köppel who lived around 1660 in Küstrin in the Neumark, today Kostrzyn in Poland, just East of the Polish/German
border. Much of the early family history takes place in an area of Europe then part of Germany, since Worldwar II part of Poland. Place
names are given in the German that would have been used in the records. Several small corrections have been made to Dietrich's
original research, based on available records.
Most of Dietrich's research goes up to 1965. It has been extended to be current
for my own immediate family, not any others.
We know of two branches of our family, members of which have taken up residence in
the USA:
1) a child or children of one Otto Koeppel (17 May 1835 in Pappelhorst - 27 May 1913 in Berlin), which would have
taken place sometime in the 19th century. Correspondance between members of this branch in Germany and the USA appears to have lasted into
the early 20th century. No further details are available.
2) myself in 1973.
K.-W. Peter Koeppel, December 1999