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My grandfather Karl Julius Adrian b 1869 in Bannesdorf, Fehmarn Island, Scheswig-Holstein (SH) Germany, immigrated with sibs and parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, inlaws etc to Walcott Iowa ~ 1880. Other family (non-Adrian) members had migrated earlier. The previous generation Adrians who migrated were Jacob Adrian of Grossenbrode (which lies on the German mainland directly across the Fehmarn Strait from the Island), and father Heinrich Adrian. Heinrich Adrian's father was Heinrich Adrian.
A large contingent of S-H Fehmarn immigrants, including the Adrians, are buried in the old cemetary in Walcott, IA, some of their stones engraved with ornate old German Script. Nearby Davenport Iowa was the new home for many S-H patriots of the ongoing war between Denmark and Germany re: ownership of S-H, including Fehmarn Island.
My Adrians apparently did not have the deep roots in Fehmarn Island that the families on Fehmarn they married into. For an interesting history of Fehmarn Island and its families see
Facts regarding the Adrian name that I have found:
(1) In Nordic coutries and areas lying on the North Sea such as Holland, Adrian is commonly used given name and was perpetuated by patrynomic naming systems to Adriansen, etc.
(2) Adrian surname exists today and previously in Nordic countries and in Germany and elsewhere.
(3) The Adrian name existed in the parts of Poland bordering the North Sea. The name was sometimes spelled "Adrjan"- - looks like low-land German variant. See the FEEFS web site.
(3) Adrions and Adrians immigrated from Luxemborg, and from areas bordering Germany and Switzerland + Austria. See the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index on the web.
(4) There were Adrians in MD, specifically Baltimore area, in the 1700s. This is a casual observation from using for other research the Maryland Archives, which happens to be very close to my residence.
(5) There are Adrian immigrants from Ireland. Some say that the Irish Adrian name may have originated from the Irish name O'Drean and its variants.
Karl (Charles) Julius Adrian of Davenport Iowa sired a large family, giving rise to many more Adrians.
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