Nobody knows since when this tiny little purse
(in reality smaller than on this picture)
is with us, but it is so old that it might have
belonged to one of our first settlers.
If I consider my two grandparents from Triebswetter, both descendants of first settlers, and then their four parents, eight grandparents, sixteen ggrandparents etc., I come up with all these names of people originating from Lorraine:

Barthou, Collat, Coqueron, Cornibé, Damas, Dauphin, Decrion, Demangeot, Detard, Durand, Florent, Francois, Frecault, Girard, Housniard, Hubot, Jeune, Lafleur, Lefort, Lenoir, Loquin, Manoeuvre, Marcaire, Noel, Pernet, Petitjean, Renard, Renon, Richard, Robillard, Robin, Sauterelle, Simonet, Sommier, Vetier, Vitry.

All the other names of my ancestors from Triebswetter are German; they come from various areas of Germany. I will speak about them in another chapter.

Some of these above are more important to me than others; some I've met; others are just dear to me - like Caspar Cornibé, the first teacher in Triebswetter (which might explain the high occurence of teachers in later generations in my family), and one couple I find extremely sweet: it is the man Lefort marrying the girl Lafleur.


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