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* The Delany- Roelle Family of Chicago, Illinois*

Updated October 22, 2011
Welcome to the Chicago Delany-Roelle Family Site. The Delany family immigrated to New York in 1837 and moved to Lake County Illinois in 1842. The Roelle family immigrated to Chicago in 1851
The Roelle family name goes back prior to the 13th century. The early spelling of Roelle, Rol, Roehl is found in Lucerne and Bern Switzerland and many areas of Southern Germany. In the 13th century there were four houses of Rol, each with its own coat of arms. Grandpa Louis Roelle said that his family originated from the Swiss border with Germany. This was a thousand years ago and what you or I would consider a border today was quite different then. As far back in time as I have been able to trace our roots are with Catholicism.
The name Roelle first appeared in writing December 4,1310 in the document of the formation of the Swiss Confederacy. In this document the name is spelled ROLIN. In another document at the monastery of Zofinger the name is spelled Roli. Researchers have stated that when names were formed, they were supposed to describe the individual named. The family names Roll, Rolli, have their derivation in the old "High German" and belong to the verb "to roll". Meaning to move about noisily or violently, the rushing and roaring of the tumbling waters.
There are large branches of the family of Roelle in Altburon Switzerland, Baden and Boerstadt Germany. Records have also been found in France and Italy. The ancestors of Louis Anthony Roelle came to America from Baden, Germany. Roelle roots in America are found in the ancestors of families that settled in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. It will take a genealogical scholar to find the original link. I got as far a Baden and a possible tie to Lucerne Switzerland.
The family origins were traced back from Franz Joseph Roelle, his brother Joseph, and, sister, Wilhelmina Roelle Immekus, who immigrated from Germany to Chicago.
The search of the German marriage and christening records shows that there were Roelle (Roll> Roel>Roehl> Roelle) families in many of the villages of Germany in the 1600's. The origin of our family is in Baden, a village in the southern portion of Germany in the State of Westfalen. Grandpa Luis A. Roelle told us that the family origins were "Switzer Deutsch", Swiss German. The area of Baden is close to today's border between Germany and Switzerland. The old German (Prussian) spelling of the family name is Rol, becoming Roelle around the early 1800's. When Franz Joseph,Joseph and Wilhelmina arrived in America they went with the ROELLE spelling on most documents, although some early records have it spelled Roehl. They arrived at Castle Gardens New York in 1851, prior to the opening of Ellis Island, on the ship Kate Hunter.

THE DELANYS
From the Journal Of John Delany written in 1884, Lake County, Illinois
I John Delany was born the 2nd of September, 1813, in Mountfaed in the parish of Raheen in the Queen’s County, Ireland. The eldest of twelve, five brothers and six sisters. My Father’s name was Michael Delany. My Mother’s maiden name was Catherine Lawler.
I left my Father’s house the 12th day of February, 1837, and emigrated to the United States and landed in New York.
New York was very dull that year; a great many crisis and not much employment for immigrants of any kind. I met with some relatives, acquaintances and some warm friends. Among the later was one Catherine Rafter. She got me a situation with a milk man on Long Island at ten dollars per month to work night and day almost. I stopped there two months. It was very hard times there, nothing for nothing; with relatives I had to pay my way as well with strangers. It was root little pig or die so I pushed out on my own hook and went to the Croton water works on the third of July.
John married Bridget Maher of Blandsfort Village, Queens County, Sept. 5, 1842 in New York. They settled in Newport Township, Lake County, Illinois, where their 9 children were born; Michael, Martin A.,Mar

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  • The Chicago Roelle Family Origins (1198 KB)
    The name Roelle first appeared in writing December 4,1310 in the document of the formation of the Swiss Confederacy. In this document the name is spelled ROLIN. In another document at the monastery of Zofinger the name is spelled Roli. Researchers have stated that when names were formed, they were supposed to describe the individual named. The family names Roll, Rolli, have their derivation in the old "High German" and belong to the verb "to roll". Meaning to move about noisily or violently, the rushing and roaring of the tumbling waters.
  • The John Delany Family of Lake County Illinois (2095 KB)
    I John Delany was born the 2nd of September, 1813, in Mountfaed in the parish of Raheen in the Queen’s County, Ireland. The eldest of twelve, five brothers and six sisters. My Father’s name was Michael Delany. My Mother’s maiden name was Catherine Lawler. I left my Father’s house the 12th day of February, 1837, and emigrated to the United States and landed in New York. This is the story of Bridget Maher and John Delany and their nine children born in Lake County, Illinois
 

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