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Leucht Defined
The German to English Dictionary defines these different variations of the word "leucht":
Leucht (n) -- lamp
Leucht-gas (n) -- (lighting) gas
Leucht-gas (n) -- coal gas
leuchten -- shine, (to)
leuchten -- glow, (to)
leuchten -- (give) light, (to)
leuchtend -- shining
leuchtend -- bright
leuchtend -- luminous
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New Leucht Genealogy website!
You have got to check out this new site!
It is hosted by an open source program called phpGedView that allows many separate registered
Internet users to make modifications/corrections to one single GED file.
All the manually typed information contained in the web page below will be put into this new robust and highly automated web program.
Then the info will be permanently deleted from below.
The only data that the general (non-registered) public can view is data in non-living individuals.
So it's completely safe from identity theft and spammers, but still allows family members to
register and view all of the data for everyone in the database.
If you're even remotely related to me (either by blood or by marriage), you seriously need to register for this new Leucht genealogy site!
Once registered, you can view the whole database and you can even make online changes and corrections! That would help me a ton!
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Leucht Family History
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Name:
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Thomas Otto Leucht
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Parents:
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Kurt William Leucht &
Verna Irene (Pickard) Leucht
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Born:
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11/7/1931 -- Peoria, IL
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Died:
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7/24/1999 -- Peoria, IL
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Misc:
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Tom grew up in Peoria, IL.
He was a Korean War Army veteran and a member of Christ Lutheran Church.
Tom worked as a shipping and receiving clerk for Carson, Prairie, Scott & Co
for 28 years and retired in 1984.
He was a member of, and served as secretary for, several Peoria area bowling leagues.
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Name:
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Jack Dean Leucht
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Married:
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Marjorie Brown
6/16/1945 -- England
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Parents:
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Kurt William Leucht &
Verna Irene (Pickard) Leucht
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Born:
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4/24/1924 -- Peoria, IL
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Died:
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1/1987 -- Peoria, IL
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Misc:
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Jack grew up in Peoria, IL.
He married Marjorie Brown and they had two children:
Jacqueline Leucht (now Smith) and Kay I. Leucht (now Foote).
Marjorie died on 4/9/1985.
Jack was an Army Air Force veteran of World War II.
He worked at Bergner's in Peoria for 27 years.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church and a
former member of VFW Post 8662.
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Name:
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Walter Helmuth Leucht
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Married:
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Lona Schneider
8/29/1935 -- Peoria, IL USA
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Parents:
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Otto Julius Leucht &
Anna Ida (Siefert or Seifert) Leucht
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Born:
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2/27/1901 -- Plauen, Germany
(near Oelsnitz)
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Died:
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8/15/1962 -- Peoria, IL USA
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Misc:
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Walter was born in Germany.
He married Lona Schneider in Peoria, IL on 8/29/1935.
Walter and Lona had two children:
Jane Leucht (now Williston) and Charles Leucht.
Walter was a toolmaker at Caterpillar Tractor Company.
Lona died on 8/25/1960.
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Name:
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Kurt William Leucht
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Married:
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1) Verna Irene Pickard
7/5/1920 -- Peoria, IL USA
2) Alberta Stone
?/?/19?? -- Peoria, IL USA
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Parents:
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Otto Julius Leucht &
Anna Ida (Siefert or Seifert) Leucht
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Born:
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6/17/1896 -- Zaulsdorf, Vogtlandkreis, Sachsen, Germany
(near Oelsnitz and Plauen)
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Died:
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6/4/1976 -- Peoria, IL USA
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Kurt William grew up near Plauen Germany.
He came over to America with help from the Lutheran Church on 7/29/1914 at age 18.
According to Ellis Island Records,
Kurt arrived in New York on The Vaterland,
which was the largest ocean liner in the world between 1914 and 1921.
Kurt settled in Peoria, IL and married Verna Irene Pickard.
They had four children:
Betty Joyce Leucht (now Stimeling) (10/12/1921),
Jack Dean Leucht (4/25/1924 to 1/1987),
Thomas Otto Leucht (11/7/1931 to 7/24/1999), and
William Kurt Leucht (2/20/1943).
After Verna Irene's death (2/20/1943), he married Alberta Stone (5/16/1903 to 4/1982).
Kurt was very artistic and even owned & operated his own sign shop in Peoria.
He also was very active in the Peoria Cinema Club.
Kurt brought his parents over from Germany in 1926 and they also took up residence in Peoria.
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Name:
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Hermann Robert Leucht
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Married:
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Lina Maria Trampel
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Parents:
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Christian Gottlieb Leucht &
Christiane Wilhelmenia (Petzoldt) Leucht
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Born:
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10/30/1856 -- Zaulsdorf, Vogtlandkreis, Sachsen, Germany
(near Oelsnitz & Plauen)
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Died:
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4/16/1941 -- Plauen, Germany
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Misc:
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Hermann was listed as a mill owner at Zaulsdorf.
It is unknown if he took over his father's business or started his own mill.
Hermann married Friederike Johanna Dorthea Schlegel on 11/7/1896.
Hermann and Friederike had one still born child on 8/12/1897.
Hermann then married Lina Maria Trampel on 3/25/1899.
Hermann and Lina had one child:
Alfred Paul Leucht (11/25/1899 to 4/7/1978).
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Name:
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Julius Otto (or Otto Julius) Leucht
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Married:
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Anna Ida Siefert (or Seifert)
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Parents:
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Christian Gottlieb Leucht &
Christiane Wilhelmenia (Petzoldt) Leucht
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Born:
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3/14/1869 -- Zaulsdorf, Vogtlandkreis, Sachsen, Germany
(near Oelsnitz & Plauen)
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Died:
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1/18/1948 -- Peoria, IL USA
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Otto was born in Zaulsdorf on 3/14/1869 and baptized at St. Jakobi Lutheran Church
in Oelsnitz on 3/21/1869.
Otto and Anna were married on 11/30/1895 in Rodersdorf, near Plauen.
They had 2 children:
Kurt William Leucht (6/17/1896 to 6/4/1976) and
Walter Helmuth Leucht (2/27/1901 to 8/15/1962).
They came to America in 1926 and settled in Peoria, IL near their oldest son, Kurt.
Otto was one of twelve children, and the only one that came to America.
He worked as a landscape gardener and was an active member of the Lutheran Church.
Anna died on 3/12/1936.
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Name:
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Christian Gottlieb Leucht
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Married:
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Christiane Wilhelmine Petzoldt
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Parents:
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Carl Friedrich Leucht &
Johanne Christiane (Baumgartel) Leucht
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Born:
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10/28/1823 -- ???, Germany
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Died:
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??? -- ???, Germany
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Misc:
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Christian and Christiane were married in Zaulsdorf on 6/22/1850.
Christian and Christiane had 12 children:
Auguste Pauline Leucht (5/21/1850 to ???),
Louise Wilhelmine Leucht (7/9/1852 to 12/6/1934),
Justus Albin Leucht (9/11/1854 to ???),
Hermann Robert Leucht (10/30/1856 to 4/16/1941),
Ida Alma Leucht (2/25/1859 to ???),
Gustav Louis Leucht (4/1/1860 to ???),
Louis Otto Leucht (4/28/1862 to ???),
child not named (born and died on 2/16/1864),
child not named (born and died on 2/10/1865),
Alma Lina Leucht (2/10/1866 to 1/1/1960),
child not named (born and died on 4/9/1868), and
Julius Otto Leucht (3/14/1869 to 1/18/1948).
On Julius Otto's Baptism papers, Christian is listed as the "Owner of the mill to Zaulsdorf".
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Leucht Ancestry Notes
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Family origination in the small village of
Zaulsdorf, Vogtlandkreis, Sachsen, Germany (near Oelsnitz & Plauen).
Any additional information relating to the Leucht Family Tree would be greatly appreciated!
2006 Google satellite map of Zaulsdorf
2006 Google satellite map of Oelsnitz & Zaulsdorf
My dad & stepmom visited Zaulsdorf a few years ago,
and they asked some people there if the Leucht house was still there and the gentleman
they asked said no, but he kept referring them to the "mueller" or miller and his
house was still there. And the Leuchts were the millers of the town for many generations.
Yes, it was small, there was a one lane road into the village.
Fam. Drexler who owns a vacation rental in Zaulsdorf writes:
Its true. In the house that was a mill lived a family Leucht till 1902.
We live since 1996 in Zaulsdorf, but I will try to get more information for you and I will write you again.
Andrea from Plauen/Vogtland writes:
The name Leucht appears very early in our part of Saxony, the Vogtland.
It's mentioned even in the first citizen list of Plauen (1388).
Of course it's possible your ancestors came from Franconia but in case
that happened it was probably before 1240.
"Leucht" is the newer (and High German) spelling of the name.
In dialect people still say "Leicht" and that's the way they also
spelled it in former centuries. It sounds very similar to the
English "light" and it means just the same. Leicht means "light" (weight)
but "easy" too. Maybe your oldest ancestor was somebody who took
life not too serious.
You can find Leuchts/Leichts in our area in many towns and you can
trace their lines back to the beginning of the church books (about 1640)
but sometimes even much farther back.
Many Leichts were farmers, some millers and in bigger towns they were
also senators (members of the council) and mayors.
Since you know your Gottlieb Leucht was a miller it shouldn't be too
difficult to come some generations further back. (Imagine, there is
still a "Leuchtsmühlenweg" in our town, named after a mill who belonged
to a miller Leucht centuries ago. No, there is nothing left from the
mill. It's just a street's name.)
You just should start with the church books of St. Jacobi in Oelsnitz.
I just suppose your line could go back a little farer east from Oelsnitz
and Zaulsdorf (because of the Petzold name that appears usually in the
Treuen/Lengenfeld area). There were Leicht millers too in Altmannsgrün
close to Treuen in the 17th century.
My mom & stepdad visited Leuchtenberg a few years ago,
and in this town
there is a painting in a restaurant of a man on a horse.
The man in this painting, I'm told, bears a striking resemblance
to my father, William (Bill) Kurt Leucht!
If you have any idea who the man in the painting is, please let us know.
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Ancestry Resources
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Here are some good Zaulsdorf and Leuchtenberg Links:
Here are some great Genealogy Links:
Compiled & printed Illinois genealogy books by Becki Leucht:
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"Grundy, Will, LaSalle, & Kendall counties (Il.),
Deaths, Marriages & Births 1840-1879" as extracted
from area newspapers.
Cost is $22 ppd.
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"1870 Grundy Co., Illinois Census"
Cost is $30 ppd.
Contact Becki Leucht for purchase requests at:
403 N Nappanee Pt - Peoria, IL 61604 - USA
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