SIMMERL and HOTTUA (HOTTOIS) in FEULEN, LUXEMBOURG:

The Simmerl and Hottua families came from Oberfeulen and Niederfeulen, the two small villages that comprise Feulen, Luxembourg.  If you would like to read my essay, "Reflections of Luxembourg in the Midwestern United States," click on this link:  Luxembourg

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For more information on the HOTTUA (HOTTOIS) family and members who came to the U.S., visit Ed Tate's web site: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/a/t/Ed-Tate/index.html  

For information about links between the HOTTUA and BORMANN families via the marriage of Justine Bormann and Nic Hottua, visit Stan Bormann's site:  http://www.visi.com/~bormann//bormann_genealogy.htm     

If you're interested in sharing information on the HOTTUA lineage, please e-mail these individuals: Frank Schumacher:  Frank.Schumacher@ogilvy.com  Suzanne Bunkers suzanne.bunkers@mnsu.edu   Ed Tate:   etate01@sun.hazelwood.k12.mo.us           Daniel Hottua  dan.hottua@bamboo.lu 

NOTE:  The information below comes from various civil and church records for Feulen that I have studied over the past twenty years.

In checking LDS photocopies of Feulen, Luxembourg, records, I found the following information:

My great-great-great-great-grandfather, Pierre (Peter) Hottua, was the son of Michel Hottua and Catharine Petit (or Klein, in Geman).  He married Catharine Glasener, the daughter of Nicolas Glasener and Joanna Filtes (sp?).  [This information comes from the marriage record of Peter and Catharine Hottua.  Note: the Feulen parish records note that Peter Hottua died on 30 October 1831.]

My great-great-great-grandmother, Angela (Angelica) Hottua, born on 16 February 1808, was the daughter of Peter (Pierre) Hottua and Catharine Glasener.    Angela Hottua married Theodore Simmerl on 14 February 1827 in Feulen.   Angela Hottua Simmerl died on 15 July 1897. The St. Joseph Parish records list cause of death as "old age." She was buried in the parish cemetery in Granville, Iowa, on 17 July 1897.