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The data you will find here includes my paternal and maternal roots, which are Roelle and Delany
The Origins of the Chicago Roelle Family
Our family name goes back prior to the 13th century. The early spelling of Roelle, Rol, Roehl is found in Lucerne and Bern Switzerland and many areas of Southern Germany. In the 13th century there were four houses of Rol, each with its own coat of arms. Grandpa Louis Roelle said that his family originated from the Swiss border with Germany. This was a thousand years ago and what you or I would consider a border today was quite different then. As far back in time as I have been able to trace our roots are with Catholicism.
The name Roelle first appeared in writing December 4,1310 in the document of the formation of the Swiss Confederacy. In this document the name is spelled ROLIN. In another document at the monastery of Zofinger the name is spelled Roli. Researchers have stated that when names were formed, they were supposed to describe the individual named. The family names Roll, Rolli, have their derivation in the old "High German" and belong to the verb "to roll". Meaning to move about noisily or violently, the rushing and roaring of the tumbling waters.
There are large branches of the family of Roelle in Altburon Switzerland, Baden and Boerstadt Germany. Records have also been found in France and Italy. The ancestors of Louis Anthony Roelle came to America from Baden, Germany. Roelle roots in America are found in the ancestors of families that settled in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. It will take a genealogical scholar to find the original link. I got as far a Baden and a possible tie to Lucerne Switzerland.
The Chicago Roelle family origins were traced back from Franz Joseph Roelle, his brother Joseph, and, sister, Wilhelmina Roelle Immekus, who immigrated from Germany to Chicago. The dates and records were found in the the Mormon data base of German Marriages and Christenings. Several batches of information list Martinus and Josepheus interchangeably. A copy of the transcribed Church Records of Franz Joseph's Christening and Marriage to Margareth Dreucke were obtained, as well as, the birth of their son Joseph.
The search of the German marriage and christening records shows that there were Roelle (Roll> Roel>Roehl> Roelle) families in many of the villages of Germany in the 1600's. The origin of our family is in Baden, a village in the southern portion of Germany in the State of Westfalen. Grandpa Luis A. Roelle told us that the family origins were "Switzer Deutsch", Swiss German. The area of Baden is close to today's border between Germany and Switzerland. The old German (Prussian) spelling of the family name is Rol, becoming Roelle around the early 1800's. When Franz Joseph,Joseph and Wilhelmina arrived in America they went with the ROELLE spelling on most documents, although some early records have it spelled Roehl. They arrived at Castle Gardens New York in 1851, prior to the opening of Ellis Island, on the ship Kate Hunter.
Our Delany Origins are Blandsfort Village,Queens County Leix- Laois or Leix (also known as Queen's County), is located in the Midlands portion of the Province of Leinster. It is surrounded by Counties,Kildare,Kilkenny, Offaly, Tipperary and part of Carlow,Ireland- The County was originally named in honor of Queen Mary (Tudor). It was renamed Laois (pronounced Leesh) in 1922 when Ireland became Independent. The Capital is Portlaoise which was known as Maryborough until 1922.
We have spelled our family name DELANY and most of the information I have has been gleaned from letters and notes from my Granfather's sisters Frances and Ella Delany. According to notes from Frances Delanyand the William B. Delany family bible, John Delany was born in Queen's County Ireland in 1813 Decedents of John have varied the spelling between Delany and Delaney

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  Franz Joseph Roelle immigrated from Baden, Germany to America in 1851. The original immigrants included Franz Joseph, his wife Margaret Josephine Druecke and son Joseph; his brother Joseph and his wife Maria Simon; and, his sister Wilhelmina (Minna) Roelle who married Ignatz Immekus. Franz and Margaret had 8 children; Joseph and Maria had 6, and Minna & Ignatz had 4.
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Jeanne Roelle Yen
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