CYRIAC Genealogy - Main Tree & Index

FAMILY BRANCHes	Welcome to the Genealogy section of our Family History Project These branches of our world-wide family originate from the Bremen-Baden-Etelsen-Scharmbeck, Erfurt-Gotha-Jena-Weimar, Leipzig-Magdeburg and Mecklenburg-Schwerin areas of Germany.
Africa Cyriax	Otto from Weimar
Germany Leipzig Cyriacus' thread	in Leipzig & Cyriax in the Erfurt area. The picture is of Max Erwin Cyriacus, 25 January 1839 ~ 18 September 1901, great-grandfather of Stephen and paterfamilias of the Leipzig area Cyriacus family. (Click here or on his picture to get to the Leipzig Cyriacus' page and ancestral tree.)
Great Britain Cyriax	Johann Christoph, Oekonomen (Economist) Bienstedt bei Gotha. California: Oldest spelling and the Cyriax & Cyriac Bible(s).
Minnesota	*Cyriack* (Sir'ik) Glenn SK2c died on board the USS Okalahoma [ BB-37] during the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Cyriacks (Sir'ix)
Nebraska Cyriacks (Seer-e-ax)	Official Cyriacks web site The picture is of Bruno & Mamie at their wedding on May 7th, 1916. Click it to see the full image. Bruno, born in 1891, was the son of Brüne, the Paterfamilias of the Nebraska branch and younger brother of Hinrich, the Wisconsin Paterfamilias. 1970s mini-reunion picture
New York Cyriacks	Claus Hinrich, Kothner in Scharmbeck. Tragedy on the Staten Island Ferry.
Wisconsin (Seer-e-ax)	This October 23rd, 1884 picture shows our Wisconsin paterfamilias, Hinrich's second marriage to the younger sister of his deceased first wife. Although his marriage to Augusta Wendt in 1871 listed him as Claus Heinrich Cillis, his second marriage to Emily Wendt lists him as Henry Ciriax. But, on his 19th century barn in Jackson (east of West Bend), the spelling that identifies all of us in the largest of the German descended USA branches is Ciriacks!! Hinrich's missing brother Hermann's trunk, and the story regarding it, is worth a thousand words in explaining how the Y disappeared from our surname and how all this research got jump started back in 1969. West Bend: 1877 ~ 2004 Family reunions: June 1969 • 1970 • 1973 & out-of-Staters
1stNames	Hermann's trunk ProgeniTree

Some unknown branches or name hits are shown below. They result from the research of another family historian from the Bremen area, Helmut Cyriacks. His great7 grandfather, Hinrich Ciriacs.

All the children baptized in this first listing are in Helmut's ancestral tree. They are first cousins five times removed from him and second cousins six times removed from me. None of the godparents fit into any known family trees - indicating that Hinrich (1632~1695) and Gesche (1632~1702) had more children than just Warner and Johann and probably that Warner had more children than just Claus Hinrich (1703~1784).

The webmaster's comments follow each listing. Farming is labor intensive work for both men and women. The more children one has, the more help there is. It would be unusual for farmers to have only one child. In our family at least, it seemed that more than a half-dozen was the minimal objective. And, because there had to be a son to inherit the farm, that count didn't include daughters. So, our forefathers probably wanted at least four sons to insure that one lived long enough to prevent the farm [ and patrimony ] from being lost.

. . Johann Hinrich C., Sohn des Claus Hinrich C. Pate zu Peter C. geb. 27.8.1746
(Translation) . . Johann Hinrich C., Son of Claus Hinrich C. Godfather to Peter C. born August 27th, 1746

Presuming that godparents are usually siblings or first cousins of the parents, and that the birth year 1746 places Peter C. in the 4th generation (his parents were Alfke, 1708~1783, & Marie, ?~1760) and that Anna Margarethe (1.2.1710) and Cord (10.7.1710) shown next were the only siblings of Alfke, THEN:

Johann Hinrich C. is a 1st cousin, thereby making his father Claus Hinrich an as yet undiscovered sibling of Warner and Johann Hinrich and third son of Hinrich, 1632~1695, and Gesche, 1632~1702. (Claus Hinrich Cirjacs, 1703~1784, had a son named Johann, not born until 2.9.1750, but he died in 1761. There's another Haussmann Johann Heinrich Cyriaks, along with presumed wife Margarethe, found in Köhlen in 1782. He might also have been the "single" Johann Hinrich Cyriaks found in Etelsen in 1773. Although the aforementioned Haussmann could be another child of Alfke & Maria born 11.8.1749, he probably would have been too young to be counted as a "single" person at the age of 14 in 1773.)

. . Cord C. Pate zu Anna Margarethe C. get. 1.2.1710 Another source shows a Cord Ziriacks as a Köthner in Etelsen in 1717 and Brinksitzer on 19.10.1729.

. . Hinrich C. Pate zu Cord C. get. 10.7.1718 Probably the namesake of the aforementioned Cord Z., this Cord's godparent, Hinrich, is probably another sibling of Cord and Johann Hinrich - each possible sons of the undiscovered Claus Hinrich mentioned above.

. . Johann Jurgen C. Pate zu Sophie C. geb. 28.3.1771 Sophie has the distinction of being the last born of the 4th generation, her parents being Alfke, 1708~1783 and his second wife, Becke Metta Rüggen, 1732~16.4.1788. Her oldest half-sister, Adelheid, born 24.9.1739, was 31 years old at Sophie's birth.

. . Johann Hinrich C., Sohn des Claus Hinrich C. Pate zu Johann Hinrich C. geb. 24.3.1843 This is yet another unaccounted for Johann Hinrich with another identically named father as that of 100 years earlier. This is making both the names Claus Hinrich & Johann Hinrich popular in two distinct patrilineal Cyriac trees - Helmut's and an as yet undisclosed similar tree.

eine Familie C.in Etelsen/Daverden um 1700:
Johann Hinrich Cirjacs und Frau Alheit mit den Kindern -

. . Hinrich get. 14.2.1701 This presumably first born son receives one of the two most common names in our family history, the other being Johann. He's probably named after his uncle Hinrich, our paterfamilias of 1632~1695.

. . Alfke get. 30.5.1705, beerd. 20.10.1706 Given that Johann Hinrich, 1675~1742, and Ahlke Lusen, ?~1745, gave birth to their own son, Alfke, on 19.4.1708, and that the only other Alfke, born 24.9.1739, is also a descendent of Johann Hinrich & Ahlke Lusen, THEN

this Johann Hinrich, probably also around 167?~17??, was a first cousin of both Warner and like-named Johann Hinrich. This means that his father was most likely a brother of our Paterfamilias Hinrich of 1632~1695.

. . Werner get. 11.9.1706 The similarity to Warner, 1672~1729, is unmistakable - making the connection to Hinrich that much stonger.

. . Alheit get. 2.6.1712 Alheit is being passed on to daughters from the mother's side of the family.
[ Tracing one's maternal ancestors will become easier as more last names are computerized and made available to researchers. Before now, one had to find each generational link one by one because of the last name changes. Paternal research, like that which I've always done, merely records every instance of the name or its variations and links them together at some later date. In other words, to create a history of one's paternal ancestors, only one trip need be made to one locale to find and record all instances of the name being researched - with the additional liklihood that, for that location at least, all those individuals are related to each other. Maternal links, on the other hand, require searching so many different names and their variations in each source book that one must have a copy of the entire source book to avoid having to camp out at the locale where it's situated. Once those sources are converted to electronic (Internet) media, maternal family histories will be much easier to determine. ]

Johann Hinrich is probably a first cousin of Warner, Johann and their missing, presumed-brother Claus. Cousin Warner, 1672~1729, married Ann Alheit Fruchtnicht, 1676~1740. I'd guess that his wife, Alheit, is Alheit Anne Fruchtnicht, herself among a large list in our vast family of related sisters marrying related brothers. Transposition of the first and middle names seems to be another naming habit among our German ancestors.

Hinrich's February 14th, 1701 baptism date makes him and not Claus Hinrich, 18.4.1703 ~ 30.11.1784, the first born in the 3rd generation. Meaning, logically, that his father, Johann Hinrich, is also an earlier born child. Given that Johann Hinrich was probably a first cousin to the younger sibling-cousins Warner and Johann Hinrich, this elder Johann Hinrich's father is probably an older brother of our paterfamilias Hinrich, 1632~1695. [ The name Johann Hinrich is more notable within Helmut's family tree than any of the others. Claus Hinrich is just as notable and is this webmaster's great grandfather Claus Hinrich's first cousin. It goes without saying that the name Hinrich is notable in all our trees. ]

ANDERE:
Cyriacs, Angehöriger des Garde-Regiments "Peninsula-Waterloo" zu Hannover, vermißt in der Schlacht von Langensalza am 27.6.1866.
Karl Edzard Cirksena gest. 1744, letzter Vertreter des friesischen Försten-geschlechts C.
Salomon Cyriacus, geb. 25.4.1595, gest. 2.9.1673 Schaumburgischer Rat und Gantzley-Director.

ORTLICHKEITEN:
Kloster und Kirche St. Cyriak, Sulzburg.
Cyriaks-Kapelle in der Nähe von Lenzkirch, Schwarwald
Cyriaxweimar, Ortschaft bei Marburg
Cyriax, Wohnplatz bei Spick uber Siegburg Gemeinde Overrath
Cyriacksring, Straße in Braunschweig

Many of the 6-1812 generation individuals have hundreds of descendents. The eldest, Johann 1812, has more than a thousand. Those who have created their own familial web sites will be pointed to here. Otherwise, the detail regarding family members born after 1900 won't be shown in this web site. On the other hand, statistics about how many sets of twins, males, females, adoptions, last names in our BIG family, etc. will be published on this web site as that information is gathered. The attempt will be to provide feedback to our family about our family - information about which we can all take pride and pass along to others.

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