‎(unknown)‎ kopplin - I20536 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

‎(unknown)‎ kopplin (I20536)

Surname: kopplin

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The information on this line is not confirmed. It is based on information from known decendants and other govt. sources.

a) We know that August and Leo are brothers - history and letters of their children confirm this.

b) We suspect that Ernestina was buried on her brother's farm in Waupaca County Wiconsin or Sauk County, just not which brother.

c) Census data plus information from the Great Granddaughter of Julius confirm at least some of his children.

d) A granddaughter of Ernestina confirms the Middlestat connection of the families.

e) At least one child of Fred.Julius Kopplin ends up living close to Leo S. Kopplin before he moves to Oregon

f) One of the Dodge County Kopplin's marries a Seidschlag, the Seidschlag's lived in Doelitz and marry into the Green County Wisconsin Kopplin line.

g) Most Kopplin's did not take 3 given names. These lines all did. Another clue that they are all probably related.

h) Naming trends also indicate they could be related.

i) Names of relatives of Fred. Julius from his granddaughter - can not confirm these are those men but they have the same names and are in the correct place at the correct times

see notes for Ernestine's burial location.

Exactly who the parents of these children are is unknown but it is believed that *most are siblings. We also know that Christina Hoe ‎(Howe)‎ married a Kopplin and is known to have lived in the vicinity or Ernst August Fred. Kopplin in Prussia. The Hoe's seem to then relate to the Kopplin's of Doelitz. It's unknown where the Doelitz Kopplin's were originally from but it is thought to be near Berlin and before that possibly Mecklenburg. These Kopplin's later moved to Kansas, Nebraska and Wisconsin, and at least one lived ‎(Center Township, Rock County, Wisconsin)‎ in the area where relatives of Ernst August Fred. Kopplin first lived and later visited often. It is quite possible these Kopplin's are related via the Hoe line but probably this relationship would be quite distant by the time they come to America. Starting at the age of 10, my father, Ralph Coplien would go on horse back to northern Wisconsin to pick-up live stock each spring. He traveled with a cousin and an uncle to the farms of his relatives. Unfortunately, he never inquired as to how they were related but I do know he went to the general area's where this line of Kopplin's lived and also near where the Eau Claire WI Kopplins lived. He had no maternal relatives in this area of Wisconsin.

--Dori Coplien

*It is more likely that Ernst and Ernestina are 1st or 2nd cousins rather than brother and sister.
*Carl Frederick - this is pure speculation that he could be a brother. Ernst first lived with a Carl F Kopplin in Center, Rock, Wisconsin. If Carl F is the father of that Carl F, then this dose tie the two families together.

1) 3 given names
2) Naming trends indicate he should have brother's, paternal uncles and cousin's with the names
Gottfried, Erdmann ‎(Ernst)‎, Ludwig, August, Fredrich, Gustav, Wilhelm, Hermann, Otto,
Emil, Hermann, Paul, Rudolph
3) The names Paul and Rudolf are quite rare in other Kopplin lines.
For some reason, many German's named Paul took the name Leo when they came to America.
Yehuda is Jewish for Leo, Judah is Leon, and Lieve is low German for Leo.
Other German's named Stephen also the name Leo

Per JewisGen
"During the High Middle Ages ‎(1000-1500)‎, the use of German, Christian, and European secular names became so widespread that the rabbis decreed in the twelfth century that every Jewish boy must be given a purely Hebrew name at circumcision; this decree holds today. Thus, two names were given, the Shem HaKodesh ‎(the Hebrew name)‎ and a kinui. The non-Hebrew names previously chosen and the new ones chosen after the decree became part of the growing Yiddish lexicon via Yiddishization. It was these names and their descendant names that enriched Jewish given names over the centuries and resulted in the Hilchot Gitin books to bring order to the new system.

The GNDBs show the richness of the Jewish given names chosen in Europe, particularly Yiddish names in Eastern Europe. Many Legal Names were popular and led to multiple threads of Yiddish names; this resulted perhaps from the warmth, sweetness, ease of use, complementarity to Hebrew, and subtle support of family unity of the Yiddish language. Other Legal Names were not as popular and led to less use and fewer kinuim. Many European secular names were absorbed into Yiddish and lovingly Yiddishized with its special flavor. Many Yiddish names were kinuim for a number of different classic Hebrew names. Here are a few samples....."

..... German Jews named Isidore, Judah, Julius, Yidel, Leo, Leon, Leonard, Leopald and Louis "

These are the equivialants of Julius, Lewis, Louis, all of which are considered to be the same name as
by who they referenced to in the Torah. Could this line of Kopplin's have continued with the
Shem HaKodesh? - Hermann is Jewish for "faithful", Judah ‎(Julius)‎, "The praised one"
In short, if you are looking for Leo's birth records in Germany, you should look by all the
various equivilants.

Note: since three of his sons have the name Herman and two Willhelm, there is a good chance his
father's name was Herman Wihelm or Wihelm Herman


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