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Currently the meaning / source of the Name "Kowitz" is unknown. There are many variations of the name (Kowitz, Kovitz, Cowitz, Covitz, Covetts, Koritz, Koewitz, Kowicz, ...) and many names ending with "kowitz" (e.g. "Herschkowitz").
First appearences of Kowitz people:
Currently beside many unconnected data I know about eight bigger Kowitz
clans.
How these clans are connected to each other still has to be researched.
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Clan 1:
Christian Kowitz (born about 1740) married Euphrosina Schaldach and lived in
West Prussia. His grandson, Georg Kowitz, immigrated in 1859 to the USA together
with his wife Christine Max and his family. Several other grandchildren or
grandgrandchildren of Christian also immigrated to USA, so many american Kowitz
should have Christian and Euphrosina as ancestors (but also have a look at Clan
6...). Locations in the USA were/are e.g. Stearns Co./Morrison Co./Benton Co. in
Minnesota and Linn Co. in Oregon. >
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Clan 2:
C. Kowitz, born 1755 in Nieder Klanau, West Prussia, married Christina Kapahnke.
The families stayed in West Prussia. >
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Clan 3:
Daniel Kowitz, born about 1795, married Christina Zels from Pomlau, West Prussia
in 1824. Their son Christian Kowitz married Anna Maria Wolf in 1853 and
immigrated together with her and the children to Australia in 1875. Christian is
the ancestor of all australian Kowitz. >
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Clan 4:
Erdman Kowitz was born in 1798 in Pomlau, West Prussia and married Constantia
Ahrend, also from Pomlau, West Prussia, in 1820. Descendents, from what I know,
stayed in West Prussia for a long time, mostly in Pomlau, but also e.g. in
Danzig. During WWII most of them moved to the west. > Details...
Clan 5:
Gottlieb Kowitz was born in 1815 in Strauchhütte, West Prussia. Er married
Christina Kresin in 1840. Descendents stayed in West Prussia (e.g. in Klobschin,
Pollenschin, Strauchhütte). >
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Clan 6:
Erdmann Kowitz, son of Johann Kowitz, was born in 1816 in Pomlau, West Prussia.
In 1841 he married Christina Arendt form Glasberg, West Prussia, and immigrated
between 1858 and 1864 to the USA together with her and their nine children. In
USA they settled down in Wisconsin and Minnesota. > Details...
Clan 7:
Carl August Kowitz, born in 1840 in Nieder Klanau, West Prussia, married
Wilhelmina Henriette Heike (Heeke / Heyke). He together with his family
immigrated to the USA in 1889, the descendents lived in Buffalo Co., Wisconsin. > Details...
Clan 8:
Joseph Kowitz was born in 1850 in Russia, he married Yetta Goldstein from
Lithuania, Russia and immigrated together with her to the USA during the late
1800's. Maybe one of the ancestors renamed himself from Isakovich/Isaakowitz to
Kowitz. > Details...
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Many people helped collecting the data. A big "thank you" to Rosemary Kowitz Buchanan, Cora Evans, Brad Carlson, Graham Janke, Ken Dibble, Autumn Kowitz, Cynthia Vold Forde, Dan Craycraft, Dave McHenry, Klaus Läger, Leon Hale, Margaret Hamilton, Monika Ernst, Robert D. McKelvey Jr., Susan McMahan und Rick Tallman and to all other data providers...
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