Re: Researching all LAUN / LOWNS
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Researching all LAUN / LOWNS
1/24/01
I am descended from the Laun family of Worms Germany, on the Rhine.The earliest Laun ancestor that I have found is Hans Valentin Laun, born about 1690 who married Anna Elisabetha Henrich in Klein Bockenheim, Near Worms.
Their son Johann Heinrich, born about 1727 in Bockenheim married Maria Barbara Urich in Worms 8 May 1764.
I don't know where Hans Valentin's family came from.The family was Evangelischer and I suspect that they came from Louny (Laun in German) Bohemia, and left after the battle of White Mountain when the Protestants lost.Hans Valentin was a teacher.Many literate Protestants (teachers and pastors) left Bohemia because they were unable to make a living there anymore and relocated in Protestant areas like the Palatinate.