Prugh Genealogy – Bruch Family History

The Bruch Families of Birkenfeld

The Bruch Families of Birkenfeld, now available.

Birkenfeld Resources – Name Indices

Indices of inhabitants of the villages of Feckweiler and Ellweiler.

Early 18th Century Leistadt

Leistadt was the home village of Matthias Bruch of Pennsylvania. His father, Matthes Bruch, had moved to Leistadt to help rebuild following Leistadt’s destruction in 1689. Matthes was one of several immigrants to Leistadt, including the Hoffmann Andreas Neu and the huntsman Andreas Federkeil. In the early 18th Century, about half of Leistadt’s population were immigrants orContinue reading “Early 18th Century Leistadt”

The Bruch Family of Rhodt and the Origins of one of the Prugh Families

The large Bruch family of Rhodt unter Rietburg is known in North America as the alleged source of the larger of the two Prugh families (no relation to the author). Jacob Bruch, who settled in Trappe, Pennsylvania in the 1720s, was the father of Conrad Bruch who started going by ‘Prugh,’ nearly a century beforeContinue reading “The Bruch Family of Rhodt and the Origins of one of the Prugh Families”