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Distribution of the KIRSTETTER family in Germany:



The KIRSTETTER family is also highly localized in Baden-Württemburg. One of the passengers on one of the earliest ship's passenger lists for Philadelphia (the ship Molly, 30 September 1727) was Martin "Kearstutter". Martin was baptized at Ober Gimpern between 5-15 September 1697. He was married on 29 April 1727 at Neckarbischofsheim to Dorothea FREY, who was born in Bonfeld. They settled in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.

The zipcode listing in Baden-Württemberg: 
              Counts by place for Kirstetter in Baden-Württemberg:

 7   68159 Mannheim
 1   68723 Schwetzingen
 1   69120 Heidelberg , Neckar
 1   70000 Stuttgart
 1   74076 Heilbronn
 1   74229 Oedheim
 1   74821 Mosbach , Baden
 1   74831 Gundelsheim , Württ
 22  74906 Bad Rappenau
 1   74906 Bad Rappenau Zimmerhof
 2   76137 Karlsruhe , Baden
 1   76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Eggenstein
 2   76351 Linkenheim-Hochstetten Hochstetten
 2   76356 Weingarten , Baden
 1   77694 Kehl
 1   79219 Staufen

                    46  listings in  16  places.

Ober Gimpern, the town where Martin KIRSTETTER was baptised in 1697, is part of Bad Rappenau, zipcode 74906, where much of the family is still found today.


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