STATLER/STETLER/STOTLER SURNAME PROJECT

SANDRA JONES HALL

My mother was a Statler, a descendant of Casper Statler of Somerset County, Pennsylvania. When I published the Statler/Stetler/Stotler Newsletter in 1986 and 1987, I set up 17 Groups based on their residence in the 1790 census. I had not yet been able to firmly connect any of those Groups, nor had I traced any Group back to Europe. When I learned about Y-Chromosome DNA testing, I saw that as having very good potential to help trace these families back in time by linking various Groups.

This site is designed to:

Update information on the Family Groups set up in 1986.
Provide additional information on early American settlement.
Show possible origins in Europe of associated families in order to help locate Statler/Stetler/Stotler origins.
Share results of the DNA testing.

The site is not designed to list all the descendants of the various Groups.

As of May 27, 2016 the Statler DNA Project has 40 results back. There are now DNA results linking four of the Groups and six other Groups have been confirmed with matches.

Current information on DNA Project

Updated Group Information. My notes on individual groups are linked to the Group numbers.

GROUP NUMBER	Location 1790	First Settlers	Comments
1	Northampton County PA	Christian and Daniel Stettler	Now Lehigh County
2	Montgomery County PA	Henry Stetler
3	Chester County PA	John Peter Stiteler
4	Dauphin and Lancaster PA	Abraham Stettler	Descendants in Miami County OH
5	York County PA	Jacob Stadtler
6	Franklin County PA	Casper, Jacob, Rudolph, John, Emanuel and Samuel Statler/Stotler	Casper in Somerset County 1790
7	Washington County MD	Henry and Peter Stotler
8	Loudoun County VA	Abraham Statler	In Botetourt County 1794
9	Berkeley County VA	John Stotler	Became Morgan County
10	Monongalia County VA	Stephen, John and Jacob Stateler
11	Hampshire County VA	Jacob Stotler	To Allegany County MD
12	Spotsylvania County VA	John Casper Stadler
13	Caswell County NC	Robert Stadler
14	Lincoln County NC	Peter Statler	To Missouri
15	Richland County SC	John Benedict Stadler
16	Harrison County VA	John Stutler
17	Berks County PA	George Stetler/Stettler	To Montgomery County OH

I believe that up to 15 of these Groups have living male-line descendants. Groups 12 and 15 probably have no all male-line descendants.

Notes:

Surname Spelling

The usual spelling is what I believe the family used. Records such as census and land records show a range of different spellings

Origins of Associated Families

I found most of these origins though WorldConnect: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi

Some of these origins are documented, some are not. I made an effort to include only those which seemed reasonable. An origin of “Alsace, Germany” is not reasonable. (Alsace is now part of France, as it was in the 18^th Century, when it was part of Germany in the late 19^th and early 20^th Century, it was called Elsass)

Town of Origin Spelling

I spelled the name of the town of origin as it is spelled by MapQuest. So if you search for Sollingen in Germany you will find it. The “o” should have am umlaut so the English version should be “Soellingen”, but that spelling would not be found.

The areas in Europe which I mapped are part of present day Switzerland, France and Germany.

Links:

General Early Information including Passenger Lists

Maps of Possible European Origins

My Statler Line

STATLER Family Genealogy Homepage by David Statler (David is Group 14): http://www.statlerfamily.com/

Included under Family Documents are my old newsletters.

Or go directly to http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~statler/statler/docs/snewsletters/sn.html

The first issue (March 1986) contains a map of Group locations in 1790 and 1820 and a discussion of the spelling of the surname.(Pages 5, 6 and 7)

IGI (International Genealogical Index) part of the records available through the Salt Lake Family History Library.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true

Questions welcome email to Sandra Jones Hall

These pages may be linked but not copied or redistributed without attribution.