Re: Schmuhl's of Ripon and Fairwater (Nest)
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Re: Schmuhl's of Ripon and Fairwater (Nest)
Edward Karls 1/05/03
I was looking at the Catholic Cemetery in Princeton this afternoon and I do think that all this variations are from the same name - but my thought is that if they already had these names before they came to this country - there was already a division - a parting - between them in the old country - So what I am saying is that I do not think there is too much connection between Naparalla and Napierala by the time they were in this country even thouhj samewhere way back they may have been of the same family. For the ti,e being, I believe I have found just about all I am going to find on my Walter Naparalla - since he was born in Germany - I think it will be necessary to go to Germany to find more on his family - they came as a bunch from somewhere in Germany and they did nothave connections with those living elsewhere here - unles they were relatives who came here to be with their relatives who had come before.
I have the same problem with the Schmuhls in Ripon and Fairwater WI - I am certain they belonged together somewhere way back but if so the memory of that connection is gone from everyone's recollection. C'est la vie!