The Nuelle Family Genealogy Home Page:Information about Johann Georg Hüg
Johann Georg Hüg (b. November 18, 1778, d. December 27, 1853)
Notes for Johann Georg Hüg:According to the birth certificate of his son Joseph (November 23, 1844), Jean George Hug was a wheelmaker (charron).
There is no record of his marriage in the parish archives in Hitzhirch, so probably he was married in Alsace, as the French name of his wife would suggest.
During the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries many people emigrated from Switzerland.The reasons for this were overpopulation of the area and lack of work.From 1650 to about 1800 Alsace was the favorite destination of the Lucernian emigrants.Mulhouse was a favorite spot because, with many factories there, it held the promise of work and survival.In the 19th century, America became the Land of Promise.
Need to check out the registers for Altkirck for chldren born between 1830 and 1839.Jean George was born in Mulhouse in 1826, and Michel was born in Altkirck in 1829.The first one recorded as born in Dornach was Pierre Ignace in 1840.So they must have lived in Altkirck or somewhere else during those years.Or else they had no children during these years, which would not have been ordinary.
THE NAME HUG
The name HUG comes from the old high German HOUC which means "hill" or "high place".It seems that it was written successively HOUC, HUCK, HUCHH, HUGG, HUG.In a shifting population, when most people could not read or write, it was not uncommon to have names written by different village scribes in different ways.From parents to children the name continued toevolve, sometimes written HUG, sometimes HAUG or HOUG, at other times HAUCK, or again HUGÉ, HUGUET, HUGOT, HUGUELIN, HUGELÉ. Sometimes the name of the town was added for nobles or the name of the occupation or trade which the person performed, as HUG de LUEMSCHWILLER, HUG de LANDSER, HUG de COLMAR or HUG von WINTERBACH.
The name HUG was very common in the Swiss cantons.We find them mentioned in Appenzell (in 1483), Bâle (1524), Berne (1540), Fribourg (1871), Lucerne (1368), Saint Gallen (1376), Unterwald (1619), Zoug (1435) and Zurich (1462).Johann Georg Hug, the grandfather of my grandfather Joseph Hug, came from the Swiss Canton of Lucerne.He was born in the town of Ermensee in the parish of Hitzkirch in the district of Hochdorf in 1778.
The town was first called Hilts-chilche in 1230 and Hiltzkirch from 1274.It has one of the oldest churches of the region, mentioned in 1080 as the parish of the small town Richensee which in 1237 became part of Hitzkirch.The Hug family of the district of Hochdorf in the canton of Lucerne was a very noble patrician family.We should be able to trace deeper into the family tree because the parish registers in Hitzkirch go back to 1582.
The history of Hochdorf (Lucerne) speaks of noble Hug families as far back as the XIV century.Ulrich Hug was a Grand Councilor in 1421, as was Rudolf Hug.Hans Hug was a military leader in 1444, as was Ludwig Hug in 1494.Simon-Oswald Hug was a doctor there in 1559.Peter Hug was a Jesuit who died in 1657.He wrote the life of Nicholas de Flue, the patron Saint of Switzerland, which was published in Latin in Rome in 1671 and in German in Lucerne in 1701.
Children of Johann Georg Hüg and Jeanne Burgy are:
- +Jean George Hüg, b. March 25, 1826, Mulhouse, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France38, d. date unknown.
- Michel Hüg, b. March 24, 1829, Altkirch, Haut Rhin, France, d. date unknown.
- +Pierre Ignace Hüg, b. November 23, 1840, d. date unknown.
- Françoise Hüg, b. July 8, 1842, d. date unknown.
- Joseph Hüg, b. November 23, 1844, d. date unknown.
- Elisabeth Hüg, b. September 1, 1847, d. date unknown.