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Kuehner Early Origins

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The surname Kuehner was first found in Schleswig, where the family was anciently associated with the political and religious conflicts of the area. The name was most likely formed from Kunrat, the popular first name of a number of medieval German Kaisers. Individual bearers of this name first mentioned in ancient chronicles include Hans Kunat of Goerlitz (c.1417,) and P. Kunet of Liegnitz (c.1491).

Kuehner Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Kuhnert, Kuehnert, Kunert, Kuenert, Kunat, Kunart, Kunet, Kunath, Kuhnat, Kunadt (Leipzig and many more.

Kuehner Early History

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Kuehner Early Notables (pre 1700)

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The Great Migration

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Kuehner Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Anna Maria Kuehner, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1754 ^[1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

Kuehner Settlers in United States in the 20th Century

Doratte Kuehner, aged 28, who arrived in America from Bremen, Germany, in 1908
Selma Kuehner, aged 8, who arrived in America from Bremen, Germany, in 1908
Mathilde Kuehner, aged 29, who arrived in America from Schweitzingen, Germany, in 1923
Dorothea Kuehner, aged 4, who arrived in America from Schweitzingen, Germany, in 1923
Emil Kuehner, aged 24, who arrived in America from Zuzenhausen, Germany, in 1923
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Contemporary Notables of the name Kuehner (post 1700)

Raphael Kühner (1802-1878), German classical scholar
Jochen Kühner (b. 1980), German two-time gold and silver medalist rower, twin brother of Martin Kühner
Martin Kühner (b. 1980), German two-time gold medalist rower, twin brother of Jochen
Robert Kühner (1903-1996), French mycologist
Herbert "Harry" Kuhner (b. 1935), Austrian writer and translator

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Citations

^ Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

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Jones, Henry Z. Palatine Families of New York 2 Volumes. Rockland, ME: Picton Press, 2001. Print. (ISBN 978-0961388829).
Jones, George F. The Germans of Colonial Georgia 1733-1783 Revised edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0806311614).
Bahlow, Hans and Edda Gentry. Translation Dictionary of German Names 2nd Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2002. Print.
Steed, Henry Wickham . The Hapsburg Monarchy. London: Constable and Company, 1919. Print.
Siebmacher, J.J. Siebmachers Wappenbuch. München, Battenberg: 1975. Print.
Gottschald, Max. Deutsche Namenkunde unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung. München: J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1932. Print.
Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies Scotch-Irish and German. Harrisburg: L.S. Hart, 1886. Print.
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
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