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Description:

This project is open to anyone who is researching the ENGLANDER surname. Most families who carry the ENGLANDER name are of Ashkenazi Jewish igin, but some are not. Since most Jews have carried this name for only about 200 years, there could be others related to our family with other name variations or could have adopted another surname in Europe or after emigration. In addition, if you share a common direct line "Y" male ancestor with ENGLANDER descendants, you are also welcome to join this group and help us find male cousins and convince them to test and join our project. Some of these other surnames and spellings include;Englënder, Englaender, Englender, Engelander, or name changes to; England, Engelhardt,Engel, Ërdos, Erdelyi, Erdei, Erban.  There are numerous theories regarding the ENGLANDER name. Some believe that it is aperson who came from England, but most likely it refers to people who immigrated from Germany. (The Germanic tribe of Angles who came from the Baltic shore of what is now Schleswig-Holstein).

Many of the families who carry the ENGLANDER name more recently originated in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is now parts of Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. There are also others from Germany, Holland, and even from Sweden.

Surnames in Project:

Englander, Englënder, Englaender, Englender,  Engelander

England, Engelhardt, Engel, Ërdos, Erdelyi,Erdei, Erban

Surname History

Englanders from Austria-Hungary

A large group of families who carry the Englander name lived in the Austria-Hungarian Empire during the late 18^thand 19^th centuries. It is believed that some of the Englanders moved down from Galicia (today’s Southern Poland) and settled in the historic counties of Szepes and Saros (in present day Slovakia).  There are numerous families with this origin whose descendants emigrated to the United States with the great influx of Eastern and Central European immigrants in 1870’s through the early 20^thcentury. The “Hungarian” immigration followed the great wave of immigrants who came from Germany and Ireland in the 1840s and 50s. Because of the turmoil of numerous revolutions in Europe at the time, many Hungarians, Slovaks, Croatians, and others ethnic groups from the Austro-Hungarian Empire including a huge number of Jews came to many booming industrial cities in America. There were large enclaves of German and Hungarian speaking Jews who settled in large cities and small towns on the East Coast and Midwest especially in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. Whole towns and villages moved with their families to join others from their towns in these new enclaves. Cities like Cleveland, Ohio were industrial hubs and expanded with many opportunities for these new immigrants. Many of the Cleveland Jews became very successful in manufacturing, clothing, cigar, retail, and other industries, using their new wealth to help bring their relatives to the new world.

As it became more difficult for Jews to live in Europe into the 20^th century many continued to emigrate but others remained after WWI in the independent countries carved out of the former empire. Some prospered there even with the coming rise of anti-semitism. Some where lucky to get out just in time as refugees to America and Palestine, but others did not. Both Slovakia and Hungary were ruthless in their persecution and murder of the Jewish people and many of our relatives perished in the Holocaust.

Englanders in Saros and Szepes counties