Margret
TRUNT
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1798
- 1864
Father:
Mother:
Family 1 : "Vater"
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TIMELINE
1798
1799
1800
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1828
1829 - Anna is born
1830
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1844
1845 - DEATH of "Vater"
1846
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INDEX
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The name "Trunt" is the best clue we have to the origins of the Swaby family because it is so rare. It appears in the Swaby family Bible. A search for Trunt family members in Germany yielded one Dieter Trunt of Leipzig who told us that this name is not German (probably of some Scandinavian origin, although exactly what has not been determined--Dieter believed Norwegian) and can only have originated where his family came from, a small town near Breslau called Bochnow, since, according to Dieter, there is only one Trunt family in Germany. The name "Schwabe" which was Americanized to "Swaby" originally means "Suevi," one of the original tribes of Germany, usually associated with the southern German state of Swabia. However, the Suevi tribe divided and are not located only in Swabia; one group migrated to northern Spain, while another group settled in southern Silesia, where Breslau is located. After World War II, the cemeteries and records for Breslau were destroyed and German families there, like Dieter's, were relocated to East Germany. Stalin repopulated the city of Breslau with Poles, but, oddly enough, when we visited the nearby town of Bochnow, the inhabitants appeared to be speaking in Russian.
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