The Knauer Genealogy Homepage

Welcome! These pages are dedicated to research about Knauer families. My wish is to create a depository of Knauer genealogy information, as well as a place where people researching Knauer lines can make contact with others doing the same. To that end I am accepting mini classified ads from people - see below for more info.

Trivia! - Knauer is the 11,843rd most popular last name (surname) in the United States.

A member of the

Knauer GEDCOM pages

Pages located here created using Gene 4.1 and Sparrowhawk 1.0 on a Mac.

• The Descendants of Adam Knauer (1765-1845) [Index]
• The Descendants of Johann Christopher Knauer (1702-1769) [Index]
• The Descendants of Johann Georg Knauer (1725-1757) [Index] located at Todd Knauer's website.

If you have another Knauer line that you would like put on-line or additions to either of the above lines, please let me know.

Knauer Mailing List

A new mailing list for Knauer researchers has started up. This one is based on rootsweb.com and is run by Sharon Bryant. It covers all the topics the old list did, and is located on a better system *grin*.

If you would like to join the list, all you need to do is send an email to the following address:

KNAUER-L-request@rootsweb.com

Leave the subject blank and put the following command in the body of the message:

subscribe

If after joining the mailing list, you descide it's not for you, you can unsubscribe by sending the following message to the KNAUER-L-request@rootsweb.com address:

unsubscribe

All messages which are meant for the list subscribers should be sent to:

KNAUER-L@rootsweb.com

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If you would like to be added to this list send me email (keeper@discordia.org) saying who you are, a way for people to get in touch with you (email address, street address or phone number) and what you are working on (which line, what time period, where, etc.).

• Mike Knauer
  email: keeper@discordia.org
  I'm currently working on two genealogy projects, the first is helping my Uncle with finding and documenting our ancestors - more info about this can be found at my Family Tree Maker web page: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/k/n/a/Mike--Knauer/
  The second project is to locate the ancestors and all the decendants of Adam Knauer (see above). Right now I'm trying to find his parents and then figure out who was the earliest American settler in this line.
• Craig C.B. Knauer
  email: ccbk@bellatlantic.net
  Craig is a descendant of Johann Christopher Knauer and is working on finding all of his (Johann's) ancestors and descends (a lifetime project). If anyone is interested in helping his efforts or working with him, please drop him a line.
• Kathy Gagon
  email: kgagon1@enol.com
  Looking for ancestors of Henry Edward Antone Knauer born 28 Jul 1874, Humbolt, KS > married to Burba Allen of Sturgeon MO.; daughter born in Las Vegas NM, 3 Jun 1900, Hilda Margaruitte.

The Knauer Library

I have copies of the following books available for look ups:

1. Bryant, Sharon Day, The Ancestors and Descendants of Jacob Knauer From Germany to America 1643-1994 - A history of Jacob Knauer (grandson of Johann Christopher Knauer) and his descendants.
2. Claussen, W. Edmunds, Stories of The Falls of French Creek - A collection of stories about the French Creek area of Chester County, PA. Chapter 2 is titled The First Knauers.
3. Helfferich, Anna Knauer, 1898- The Knauertown story / [Knauertown, Pa.] : A.K. Helfferich, [1982] 63 p., [37] p. of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.

I'm searching for the following books. If anyone knows where I could buy or borrow them from, please let me know. Thanks!

1. Redcay, Ruth M. (Ruth Mast), 1928- Descendants of Amos M. and Bertha F. Nolt Redcay / [Morgantown, PA] : R.M. Redcay, [1987] 35 p., [12] p. of plates : ports. ; 22 cm.

Here are some other pages involving Knauers:

Ship Lists:

• The Snow Lowther - Which brought Johann Christopher Knauer to America in 1731.
  http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/palship2.htm#snow

Genealogies:

To search most of these databases (including mine) try visiting the GENDEX index. Please note that some times a database will change, and the Knauers will move. Until I update the link, you can go to the main page for that site and search for Knauer.

• Knauers in the Riggenbach family tree - (1860s to present)
• Knauers in the McMartin family tree - (1940s to present)
• Knauers in the Stauffer family tree - (pre-1889)
• The Jost Genealogy Family Index - containing a lone Knauer (Hi Christine!)
• Knauers in the Fancher Family Genealogy - (1950s)
• Knauers in the Wilcox-Ashley-Borowiak family tree - (present?)
• Knauers in the Mendenhall family tree (1920s)
• Knauers in the Kidron Heritage Center database (1920s)
• Knauers in the Birgitt and Holger Rudolph family tree (?)
• Knauers in the Payne, Johnson, Carter, Lee family tree (?)
• Knauers in the ?? family tree (?)

Coats of Arms:

• Coat of Arms 1 - From the "Historical Research Center", no other info known.
• Coat of Arms 2 - Bayern's Knauer Coat of Arms
• Coat of Arms 3 - Knauer de Hartenfels from "Rietsap Armorial General"
• Coat of Arms 4 - ???

Places:

• The Village of Knauertown, Chester County, PA 19464
• The Village of Knauers, Berks County, PA 19540