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Ambos
is
my family name (father's side).
Progenitor Peter
Ambos emigrated about 1650 from the Berne area,
Switzerland to Zweibrucken, Palatinate. For all other details
click the link "Ambos Family overview".
Meaning
of the name Ambos:
Surname of Smith
(also Funke, Hammer, Steel, Pinkepank), mhd. Anebos.
Origin
of the Family
The
oldest source with the name Ambos I found in the Historical
Dictionary of Switzerland: Link: http://hls-dhs-dss.ch
Ams
[Ambos], Gottfried
Birth:
before 1466, son of Hans and Greti Schmid.
Death: 1502-1504,
from Baar (near Zug), 1502 naturalization in the city of
Zug.
Marriage 1) Greti Meyer,
Marriage 2) Has
Anna.
Occupation: Farmer. Kirchmeier, 1476-77, 1479-82, 1487
and 1499 Zug profession envoy. 1477 representative of Foreign
Affairs Office in Fähnlein dispute with the City of Zug,
1480 representatives from city and office of Zug in the dispute
with the monastery of Einsiedeln to the jurisdiction of the
courtyard of Neuheim. 1487 as Zug councilor documented. 1486-88
Governor in Thurgau.
Sources: -UB ZG,
Author: Renato Morosoli
To date could not yet
be determined whether there is a family relationship to
theZweibrücken Ambos-progenitor, who also hails from
Switzerland (Berne area, possibly Petersbach or Weitersweiler).
Other early Ambos
families date from 1558 in the Nuremberg area, from 1560 in
Flörsheim/Main, from 1641 in Appenweier, inter alia,
Geographical
spread
For the name Ambos a
global address list from the year 1999 is available, which in
addition to 323 addresses in Germany lists further 111 addresses
in the US (focus Ohio) and 79 addresses in France (Alsace, focus
the department Bas Rhin/Lower Rhine).
The
Zweibruecken Ambos families are in my opinion completely
captured until the year 1900's. After that only a few branches
could be supplemented up to now. I would be very grateful for
further contributions.
Some
Ambos families in Saarland (focus Saarpfalz district) I could
assign thanks to the support of Silvia Knerr, via „Böckweiler
Ortsfamilienbuch“. However, this branch still requires
additions.
Another
branch of the family lived in Bliesen, St. Wendel, Saarland (see
Family Book Bliesen and Geneanet), presumably he is related or
he comes from the Zweibrücker Ambos-progenitor. To this
end, I am still looking for relationships.
 The
many Ambos -families in the United States originate from a large
part of the Zweibrücken Ambos families. Between 1833 and
1844, for example, immigrated Peter, Louise, Catherine, Karl
Ludwig, Karl and Christian Ambos.
The former confectioner
Peter
Ambos was
only 19 years old and opened a confectionery shop in Columbus,
Ohio. He later became President of the first National Bank of
Columbus. For more information see Ambos
Peter
Karl
Ludwig Ambos emigrated
in 1840 with 6 children to America.
Family
information has the U. S. port of entry as Baltimore, Maryland,
and after entering the U.S., the family settled in Thunderbolt,
Georgia. In the U.S. Ludwig was called Louis. Carl Louis was
Nail-smith in Zweibrücken, Germany; fisherman in Georgia,
USA. He had 8 children.
Gravestone: Laurel Grove Cemetery,
Lot 1316, Savannah, Georgia.
His
son Henry
was first a
fisherman, and later, a merchant of fish, oysters and terrapins
with stores in Thunderbolt and Savannah; in the Savannah Morning
News in 1877 his Savannah store, located on Broughton Street
(main street), was described as “a fish and oyster
depot.”[1] Henry Ambos was a veteran of the Confederate
Army; he served in the 26th Georgia Regiment. He was first an
infantryman, but later, because he was a musician, he was
assigned to the band.[2] His regiment was in the Army of
Tennessee during the last year of the war; he served until the
end of the conflict when Gen. Joseph Johnston surrendered the
Army of Tennessee at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
TOD: gravestone in Laural Grove Cemetery in Savannah, GA.
[1]
Savannah Morning News, Oct. 4, 1877.
[2]
Peter Nesbitt researched the Confederate service record and
supplied this information.
To
some French Ambos families in Alsace I found relations that date
back to the progenitor Hans Peter Ambos.
More
Ambos families in Alsace, that I have already collected from
Alsatian church records, cannot be connected; probably they come
from another Ambos strain from Baden (Appenweier, on the right
bank of the Rhine, east of Strasbourg); This is yet to be
explored.
Allocation
of the name 'Ambos' in Germany
The
name Ambos occurs 305 times in 90 counties. There are an
estimated 813 persons with this surname.
This corresponds
approximately to the average for all German surnames. It is thus
at 12497th position of most common names.
Most occurrences are
in Zweibrücken, namely 27. Other counties/cities with lots
of occurrences are Saarpfalz district (13), the city of
Saarbrücken (13), Märkisch-Oderland (12), Berlin (10),
Unterallgäu (9), Sankt Wendel (9), Sömmerda (9),
Teltow-Fläming (8) and Landsberg am Lech with 8
entries.
Source:
Base of name distribution are about 35 million telephone
subscribers in Germany from the year 2002.
In my recent
genealogy I specifically concentrated on the Ambos-persons in the
area of Zweibrücken, Saarpfalz Kreis and Alsace, because
there are the most family relations.
As you can see in the
picture further Ambos focal points are in the Allgäu region
or in Landsberg/Lech and around Berlin .
The Allgäu Ambos
families probably come from a different line from the Swabian
region, which also dates back to the 16th century, the northern
German Ambos families have been not yet tracked in detail.
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