Welcome to the Botzong Family website.
Pictured to the left what is thought to be the formal Family Crest.
Genealogy research
was commissioned by my aunt Maxine Botzong and a family search was done
in Germany by Heinrich Herzog. He traces the family back to the French-Wallon
community near present-day Belgium. From his report:
The oldest name
bearer is Matthieu Bodecon1. who was a member of the
French-Wallan community in Schönau in Odenwald. In the year of 1562,
Prince Friedrich III had resettled the religious refugees from the
French speaking part of the Hapsburg Holland in the abandoned
Cistercian Monastery of Schönau near Heidelberg. The home of those
Calvinist or reformed Wallons was the region and the city of Liepe,
the county of Franchimont, Verviers, the region and the city of
Limburg, also principality of Malmady. These regions belong to the
contemporary Kingdom of Belgium.
If you're interested in the full
report, please
send me an email.
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