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Subject: Re: [GV] Lenhardt and Levnhardt / Warenburg
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:51:23 Africa/Johannesburg

> vera,
>
> Lots of Leonhardts out in western Kansas town of Goodland, near the Colorado
> state line.
> I'm pretty sure they are VG. A colleague of mine, in charge of the
> probation department
> for Shawnee County (Topeka ) is a Leonhardt. Why the interest? I've also
> noted the name in obits occasionally, protestant I believe. Frank Jacobs

because the Levnhardts were considered the 2nd richest family in Warenburg.
at 1st I thought it was a spelling error, and kept changing the Levnhardts
(in grandpa's memoires) to Lehnhardts, but after checking with Stumpp,
I see that both surnames existed.

Then I came across one my my Miller's application forms at Dorpat
university (a book now published in Germany) and he spelts his mother's
surname as Levnhardt - it only then dawned on my that the 2 surnames
are not misspellings, and 2 such families existed.

Vera

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