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Matriculation of Wendelinus Gudelius at the University of
Heidelberg on December 19th, 1586
Wendelinus Gudelius, Scheppenhusanus, famulus Dionysianus, gratis (University of Heidelberg A702/4, fol39 v.) |
Saturday,
11 October 2017
Hello Gutelius Family,
Your name (and
mine) was 430 years old on December 19th,
2016. I have some information about its origin and spreading that may be of interest to you.
Twenty years ago I found
the Gudel family of vine growers as the
origin of our line of descent in a tax-register of Schweppenhausen (from the 15th
century) at the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz.
This result encouraged
me in the following years to get in contact to all Gudelius by five
"Gudelius-Letters" and to try to close the most incomplete lines of
the several Gudelius families back to the Gudel. This approach was very
successful with the assistance of nearly all members of the family in
Germany.
But in 1999 I found you,
the Gutelius family in the World Wide Web and I got in a very good contact to some
genealogists of your family like Terry
MacAfee, Cindy Eli-Brown, Vance Gutelius, and Paul P. Gutelius. After a half
year of collecting sources and intensive discussions about the question of
French or German origin of the American Gutelius they all agreed, that your
ancestor - Johann Peter Gutelius, (1708-1773) - is identical with Johann Peter Gudelius of Niederholzklau
in the Nassau-Siegen area.
But
the eldest Gutelius-family-members of Mifflinburg don't agree. They insist on
the opinion that the Gutelius are Huguenots and of French origin. Wallace
Gutelius Diehl of California found in July 2005 in Pennsylvania a document of
1790 which mentions "Frederick Gudelius of the town of
Manheim" and "Peter Gudelius", both of them are the sons of Johann Peter Gud(t)elius of Manheim, who immigrated 1751 from Germany.
There are about 180
Gutelius in 31 states of the USA. The most Gutelius are in Louisiana (20), New
York (19), Pennsylvania (19), Ohio (16) and Illinois (12). But there are
Gutelius in Peru, Spain, Japan and Finnland, too.
They are descendants of Nevin Pyle Gutelius (1842 – after 1914), who emigrated from
Pennsylvania to South America about 1900.
Since some years I have published all my knowledge about the
Gudelius/Gutelius Family (including the history and the lines of descent) on my
homepage. Many of you copied the history, the old documents, and the data ( I am happy about this, because I don't want to keep that
secret). But I hoped in vain that you would contact me and let me know your
connection to the Gutelius Family. This presentation of the Gudelius/Gutelius
history is as good as you are willing to "feed" me with information
about your family. Do it!
You will get access to
the interior website of the Gudelius/Gutelius - family including the living
persons and notes - by asking for the correct
internet-address via email from me jost at
gudelius.de.
There will be no costs; genealogy is my hobby and I have no interest to earn
any penny.
Some information about
me: born in 1942, colonel of the mountain infantry, retired, mountain guide,
married to Dr.
med. Claudia Gudelius, we have one daughter and
three sons between twenty-eight and twenty-three years of age. We are lucky to
live in Jachenau a most beautiful valley in the Bavarian mountains close to the
border to Austria.
A short report or a
feedback is appreciated; call me please
00498043-333, that's the quickest, most easy and most personal way; or send an email: jost at gudelius.de
Best regards
your
new German cousin
Jost Gudelius