Nettesheim-Butzheim Records

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Location: Nettesheim-Butzheim, Neuss, Rhineland, Prussia

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Church Records

Church records from St. Martin in Nettesheim (1665-1811) are indexed on Family Search as image group 8097072. The parish includes the villages of Anstel, Butzheim, Frixheim and Nettesheim. They became Frixheim-Anstel and Nettesheim-Butzheim and are now part of Rommerskirchen. This includes baptisms and marriages only. The church books are now viewable online at the Landesarchiv Nordrhein Westfalen as Nrs. BA 1805, BA 1805a, BA 1805b. They are very legible for baptisms (the copied version) and marriages but can be difficult for burials. Early burial records don't include ages or spouses or parents of adults. Children are named as child of the father. This makes it somewhat difficult beyond the legibility issue. Marriages from 1727-1756 are missing.

Digitales Archiv des Erzbistums Köln has more church records from Nettesheim including baptisms from 1818-1853, marriages for 1818-1938 and deaths from 1818-1938.

There are some patterns among the church records. Children were almost always named after the Godparent of the same sex and Godparents were usually siblings of the parents or grandparents, but not always. The village was also listed which can sometimes help sort out people of the same name. There are quite a few illegitimate children and the baptismal records recorded the father most of the time in the earlier records and many times it was written that the parents intended to marry.

Civil Registers

Civil registers are available at Family Search for 1800-1875. Indexed records on Family Search include the following, the others are microfilm only:

• Geburten 1825-1840: image group 809974
• Geburten 1841-1852: image group 8099785
• Geburten 1853-1864: image group 8099786
• Geburten 1865-1875: image group 856326
• Heiraten 1856-1875: image group 8237280

Many of the civil registers from the 1800s into the early 1900s are posted as indices and images at GenWiki. The indices are very helpful as you can sort by name. Available records:

• Geburtsregister 1799-1908
• Geburtsregister 1800-1905 index as PDF
• Heiratsregister 1800-1936
• Heiratsregister 1800-1934 index as PDF
• Sterberegister 1799-1936
• Sterberegister 1800-1936 index as PDF

Emigration

A large concentration of people from Nettesheim parish emigrated to Dane county, Wisconsin. So much so that it is known as an area that had a sizable population of Kölsch dialect speakers. Quite a few people from Dane county then migrated to Morrison county, Minnesota in the 1880s. See:

• Colognian
• Dane County Kölsch

GenWiki has a list of emigrants from Nettesheim. The greatest concentration left in the 1850s and 1860s.