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The
Rauck Family History Page
"We
celebrate the love of family in our heritage, our traditions, and in the hopes and dreams
we pass on to our children." (anonym.) |
Welcome
to the Rauck Family History Page. This page is a cummulative documentation of the reseach
completed to date on our family background, with an overall review of the separate lines
that we know must somehow be related but have yet to connect the lineage. Rauck's from
every line have spent countless hours of research. Pages upon pages of history exist. Much
has been found, yet much is left to be found. We hope you will find this information
valuable to your own appetite for your past, as well as provide gratifying family ties to
your futures. I dedicate this page to Rauck's everywhere, may you realize the
importance of your existence to future generations. I wish to send a special
dedication to Dr. Gert Rauck from Hamburg Germany for this most valuable information
regarding our family heritage, the late Josef Römgens, who prepared all the material
which Gert is keeping, to Dr. Michael Rauck, whose relentless hours of research help unite
Rauck's around the globe, and Ursel Karl, who's countless hours has provided this family
the ability to trace our family beyond the 1600's and tie our direct blood lines to hers. |
 The Coat of
Arms
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The Name  |
| On the 9th of
September, 1791,
Casparus Rauck died after having served for 56 and ¼ years as Mayor of Fulda. During this
time he was a medical doctor. The coat of arms was given to him by the ruling sovereign in
honor of his merits. The motto in Latin says: "Si Deus pro nobis quis contra
nos?", which translated into English means: "If God is with us, who can be
against us." |
"according to my American Dictionary: 'a
gregarious bird, about the size and color of the crow, which is noted for intelligent and
mischievious behavior'. The bird's name in the English language is 'Rook'. Some hundred
years ago in the eastern part of Austria where people spoke the German language, this bird
was named 'Rauck'. "
"This is the Rauck
noted for intelligence and in Germany a rare species".
(....Gert Rauck,
presentation at the first Rauck Reunion in October, 1992, Grove City, Ohio) |
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- The
Cathedral at Fulda
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Casparus was Senior of Council responsible for the re-construction of the Cathedral in Fulda.
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One of the three big bells in the bell tower of that church has a relief band with four
names on it, one being Casparus Rauck.
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| Our Lineage |
Our family's
lineage has been traced back to Mathis Rauck, born in the mid 1600's . Mathis came from the town of Bruck an der Mur in the
Austrian state of Styria. It´s the Austrian state where Governor Schwartzenegger of
California comes from. The town of Bruck is 670 km away from Fulda.The next generations were (Wilhelm) in Rasdorf and Geisa (the
latter was even part of East Germany - the border cut those two neighbour towns apart),
(Johannes) Großenlüder and (Karl Philipp Albert) Bad Salzschlirf, Seligenstadt, (Ignaz)
Messenhausen and (Andrew) Nieder-Roden (both now municipality of Rödermark). He was
married to Anna Katharina Vollmar. The lineage of Raucks has been traced back to the area
surrounding Darmstadt, Mannheim, and Fulda. |
- On September 27, 2009
- Cousins Michael, Horst and I had the opportunity to visit our family home of
Bruck an der Mur and see the house our common ancestory Christoph Rauck owned from 1591 to
1644.
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- On October 6, 2009
- I had the opportunity to visit the salines in Bad Orb with Wolfgang Klein, our
cousin Judith's husband. Our 7th great grandfather, Johannes Rauck, was responsible for
building up the salines in Bad Orb and Budingen by his father in law (our 8th grandfather)
Johann Philip Beck, the administrator of the Salines under the counts of Ysenburg.
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Salines in Bad Orb
 
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| Budingen |
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Raucks in America
Sellersburg,
Indiana
Andreas, with
the help of Martin Koerner and Joseph Ehringer, helped build the first St. Joseph Hill
Parish. The Raucks, Koerners, Ehringers, and Popp families all grace this family's
line.
For more
information about the history of St. Joseph Hill Parish, click here: 
You will be
directed to the St. Joseph Hill Parish website
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third Rauck reunion was held on October 3rd in Ober Roden, Germany - the home of our
immigrant ancestor, Andreas Rauck and his wife Elizabeth Wade. We
met at the Susse Ecke Cafe in the town center. I'm very thankful to the Homm family for
planning the reunion. We had 38 attendees of Raucks and Wades. Before the reunion, the
Homm family graciously gave a tour of Messenhausen, Nieder Roden, and Ober Roden, the
towns where Andreas was born, raised, and lived before leaving his brothers and sisters
and bringing his family to America.
Michael
presented a wonderful overview of our Rauck history and explained our connections.
We
hope this is only the beginning to bridging the relationships between the US and German
Rauck cousins!
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The
Rauck family held its second Rauck reunion ever in the USA on Saturday, August 16th,
2008 in Sellersburg, Indiana
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Approximately
76 Raucks from all over the world attended the event. The family attended a Catholic mass
at 5:30 at St. Joe’s Hill Church,
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Built
with the help of our Rauck ancestors and still attended by many Raucks in the area. We had
representatives from the Hammelburg Raucks, Andreas/Andrew, Andreas/Franz, and
Andreas/Martin lines.
We would like to thank
the cousins in Sellersburg for the extroadinary welcome they provided to the rest of the
cousins. We are so appreciative of all the hard work they extended to make this event such
a wonderful success!
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Our Direct
Line
| Christoph? |
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| Mathis Rauck m. Anna
Vollmar |
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- Johann Wilhelm m.
Anna Katharina Vollmar
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- Johann George Rauck
m. Anna Maria Beck
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- Johann Caroli
"Phylipp" Alberti Rauck m. Maria Susanna Ruehl
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- Franciscus 'Ignatz'
Henricus m. Eva Margaretha Malsi
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- Andreas (Andrew) Rauck
m. Elizabeth Wade
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Andreas left his home town of Ober Roden, now called
Rödermark, in central Germany, and brought his family to America and settled in
Sellersburg, Indiana |
- Martin Rauck m Clara Alles
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FEB 1841,Nieder-roden,63110,Offenbach Rgbz. Darmstadt,Hessen,DEUTSCHLAND
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- Peter Rauck m.
Johanna Hoffer (1)
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m. Adeline Belviy (2)
- b. January 1867 Indiana
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- Francis Martin Rauck
m. Bertha Koerner
b. April 3, 1889 New
Albany, Indiana
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- Frank Oliver Rauck Sr.
m. Esther Annis Reames
- b. August 14, 1912
New Albany, IN
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- Frank Oliver Rauck Jr.
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- Trudy Eileen Rauck
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Trudy Rauck Gendron's New Albany/Sellersburg Connections
This page
will continue to grow and improve as time permits.
Thank you
for stopping by!
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