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   Michel Le Tonnelier 1<br>Birth name: Michel Le Tonnelier I<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: 1470 - Orléans, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France<br>Death: 1565 - Orléans, Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France<br>Father: Michel Le Tonnelier Sr<br>Wife: Unknown Le Tonnelier<br&;gt;Son: Michel Le Tonnelier II<br>  Additional information:
   
   LifeSketch: About Michael Le Tonnelier, Sr./Kieffer/Cooper/Keifer /Keefer History: In the 11th century (1001-1100AD) the French began to first use last names/surnames/family names, but surnames didn't become common for everyone in France until centuries later. French surnames developed from four major sources: Patronumic, Occupational, Descriptive and Geographical, and beginning in 1474, anyone who wished to change his name was required to get permission from the King. In the Middle Ages, the kings had their own coopers, responsible for maintaining the barrels and hogsheads. They were also a function of cup-bearer (historically proven function of the reign of Charlemagne to that of St. Louis). In 1444, Charles VII of France confirmed the status of coopers/barrel makers, and before 1474 the family head adopted the name of his occupation becoming 'le Tonnelier', for in France, a 'tonnelier' is a barrel maker. In the later days of the 15th century, about the year 1470, there was born in southern France a male child who was named Michel le Tonnelier. Near the turn of the century, approximately 1500, this Michel had a son named Michel. This young Michel also came to be occupied as a barrel maker in Orleans near Paris. Around the year 1540, Michel had a son whom he named Thibaud. This Thibaud grew up about the time reformation was taking place throughout Europe, and Thibaud became a Huguenot (French Calvinist Protestant). The name 'Huguenot' is believed to have derived from Bezanson Hugues, a Swiss religious leader. The Huguenots followed the teachings of John Calvin and were identified with the Reformed Church. When Thibaud le Tonnelier left France in 1563 (nine years before the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre when Queen mother, Catherine de Medicis, allied herself with the Duke of Guise, and together, on August 24, 1572, they slaughtered 3000 Huguenots in Paris and tens to hundreds of thousands more over the next several months - six days after the wedding of the king9;s sister to the Protestant Henry of Navarre), he crossed into Germany in the area known by the Germans as the Pfalz. It is also called the Rhineland Palatinate. Thibaud is said to have settled at Kettenheim which is a very small village near Alzey, a bit north west of the city of Worms. There at Kettenheim, Thibaud changed his name to Theobald Küfer meaning a 'barrel maker' in German. Later he became engaged as a blacksmith. More familiarly, he was called 'Dewald' which was the popular nickname for Theobald. Theobald married late in life and had only one son, Michael, born around 1600. This Michael, in turn, was the father of three sons, Jacob, Michael, and Dewald who supposedly came to America in 1683 with Francis Daniel Pastorius to help settle Germantown, now a part of Philadelphia. But there is no mention of them in any records of the group who were with Pastorius. They may have been on the same ship, but not with the Pastorius party. They returned to Germany in the spring of 1684. In the year 1688, Kettenheim was in the total destruction area of the French invasion. Everything in the town was destroyed except for one building, known as the 'firehouse' (the 'modern' town of Kettenheim was built up during the 1690s). The Küfers probably scattered to nearby communities. The eldest son of Michael, Jacob, had five sons, Michael, Valentine, Frederick, Leonardt, and Jacob. Michael and Valentine supposedly emigrated to Canada. DeWald supposedly returned to America in 1689. According to the 'Ohio document', a paper handed down through the years in the Michael Küfer family, DeWald Küfer, the youngest of the three sons of Michael, had four sons, Abraham, Caspar, Martin, and Michael. Church records however identify Abraham and Casper as the sons of Leonardt. Although the area where our ancestors lived in Germany is now referred to as the Rhineland Pfalz, in the days when Thibaud le Tonnelier first moved there, it was known as Palatinate. About 1620, this area was separated into the Upper and Lower (or Rhenish) Palatinate. It is the lower Palatinate, of which Speyer was the capital, which is now the Rhineland Pfalz. According to historians, great numbers of Palatinates emigrated during the 18th century to avoid further war, to enjoy economic improvement, or to obtain additional religious freedom. Those who came to America settled mostly in New York or Pennsylvania, probably because these two states were the most like the homeland they had known. The Küfers came to America at different times and in different ships. Their last names were changed to Kieffer, Kaufer and other English spellings.ith his family and his brother Abraham with his family on Sept 15, 1748 aboard "The Two Brothers" from Rotterdam arriving in Philadelphia and settled in Codorus Twp, York Co., PA. Casper9;s grandson Johan Heinrich Kieffer changed his kid's last names to Keifer (maybe trying to obtain the correct pronunciation from those around him), but Johan Heinrich's brother Fred changed his family name to Cooper. Fred might have done this because he abandoned his family and started running with a William Cooper who was referred to as his older brother even though they weren't related. It's interesting that his name change followed the meaning of his family name since Cooper means barrel maker in English. The Keifer and Cooper spelling changes of the last name were written in the family Bible at that time and seen later by William Hammond Keifer born in 1857 as he remarked to the rest of the family on what he saw.ference to Their Emigration to Pennsylvania, By Rev. A. Stapleton, A.M., M.S., D.D. Huguenot Publishing Company Carlisle, PA 1901 "A notable arrival was the Kieffer brothers in 1748. The family name in France was Tonnellier. At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), the family fled to Deux Ponts (Zweibrucken) for safety, and like many others changed their name for a German equivalent which, in their case, was Kieffer (Cooper). Owing to the devastation of the country by the French armies, the sons determined to emigrate. Abraham and Casper came to Pennsylvania and settled near the present town of Kutztown, while Martin and Michael, two younger brothers, came to Baltimore in 1765 (Letter of Rev. J. Spangler Kieffer, D. D. to the author). The Kieffer posterity is both numerous and honorable and has given many names of highest worth to both church and state. One especially, whose name is worthy of honor, is that of Daniel Kieffer, of Oley, Berks county, a plain and unassuming farmer who bequethed the sum of ten thousand dollars for the endowment of a theological school for the Reformed Church and which was the first gift of that character received by that denomination."; The Kieffer family of Lebanon county descended from Jacob Kieffer (1717-1804), who came from Gersdorf, in Alsace, and located near the Bindnagel Church, where he is buried. Tonnelier is Küfer in German and Cooper in English. army (resistance), 33 years old, born and lived in Paris was condemned to death as provider of disloyalty / infidel. (marchand épicier, commissaire de l'équipement pour l'armées de la République, âgé de 33 ans, né et domicilié à Paris département de la Seine, condamné à mort comme fournisseur infidèle.) source

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   Michel George Le Tonnelier, Sr.<br>Gender: Male<br>Alias name: Le Tonnier<br>Birth: Between Jan 10 1470 and Jan 9 1471 - Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France<br>Occupation: Barral Maker<br>Death: France (southern)<br>Father: Thibaud "DeWald" Küfer (born Le Tonnelier), "The Huguenot"Margaret Küfer (born Miller)<br>Siblings: Johann Michael Christmann Küfer, Michael Kufer

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