My wife's ancestors - Noltie - Contents
Noltie of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- References:
- Papers of
Henry Noltie, including:
- Noltie family memoir by Henry Noltie, c.1839.
- Genealogy of Hopper and Noltie by Henry Noltie.
- Noltie family tree by Kirstine Holmes.
- The Kirkyard of Alford (grave inscriptions), Sheila M. Spiers.
- Papers of
Henry Noltie, including:
The original German spelling was meant to be Nolte [Henry Noltie].
Nolte is still a common name in that area today.
Our line starts with:
--- Nolte,
iron maker or founder,
think of the Germanic state of
Hesse-Cassel
in the
Holy Roman Empire
(see below),
had issue:
- (son) Nolte,
went to America.
-
Henry Noltie,
born c.1740, Germany,
[Noltie family memoir] says he was born in "Hesse Cassel" or "Hessie Cassell", on the border of Germany and Switzerland,
this must be the state of Hesse-Cassel (capital Kassel), but this was in C Germany, nowhere near Switzerland,
settled in Scotland, name changed to Noltie,
[Kirstine Holmes] has him as "Nolty", but all the papers of his son have him as "Noltie".
