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Laut Familiennamenbuch waren Kopp seit vor 1800 in folgenden (heutigen) Kantonen verbürgert:
Aargau:
Baden [erloschen]
Gipf-Oberfrick
Bern:
Niederönz
Ochlenberg
Wiedlisbach
Luzern:
Beromünster (siehe auch HLS)
Ebikon
Hitzkirch
Neuchâtel:
Travers
St.Gallen:
Lütisburg
Mosnang
Oberhelfenschwil
Oberuzwil
Thurgau:
Bichelsee [neu = Bichelsee-Balterswil]
Dussnang [neu = Fischingen]
Romanshorn

Siehe den folgenden Beitrag für eine Zusammenfassung auf Deutsch.

Hello, I am trying to research my Kopp family line from Switzerland. This is what I know about my Swiss family:

I have managed to trace my great great grandmother Elisabeth Zumbach's family back in Switzerland, all the way back to the 1500's, however her husband (my great great grandfather) I have not been able to learn much of anything about. Thus far, I have checked with Canton Bern, Canton Luzern, Canton Thurgau, Canton Aarau, I have not yet checked in St. Gallen. My great great grandfather, name is Josef (Joseph) Kopp (I am unsure of a middle name, though once it looked like he put "S" as a first letter of a middle name.) his date of birth is supposedly January 7th 1864. Josef gave three different dates as to which he immigrated to the states; 1875, 1883, 1884 on the census records. His Religion was Catholic. My great great grandfather Josef married my great great grandmother Elisabeth Zumbach (who was a Protestant woman who was from Belp, canton Berne, Switzerland) after immigration to the USA. Elisabeth Zumbach was previously married to a man named Johann Gerber, who was also from Switzerland. Elisabeth who was also called "Eliza" may have married John or Johann Gerber in Switzerland, but after coming to America, Johann abandoned Elisabeth and their baby daughter, and that's when Elisabeth and Josef married in Ohio in the United States. Josef and Elisabeth went on to have seven children togther, one of which is my great grandpa. I was able to find Elisabeth and her family through familysearch.com Josef I have not been able to find out anything about. Unfortunately I cannot find a record being specific about where he was born or lived when in Switzerland.

This is the 1900 census in Tuscarawas, Ohio
Name: Joseph Kopp
Age: 36
Birth Date: Feb 1864
Birthplace: Germany
Home in 1900: Warwick, Tuscarawas, Ohio
Sheet Number: 8B
Family Number: 176
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1883
Relation to Head of House: Head (self)
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Kopp
Marriage Year: 1886
Years Married: 14
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Years in US: 17
Naturalization: Na
Occupation: Coal-Miner
Months Not Employed: 2
Can Read: Yes
Can Write: Yes
Can Speak English: Yes
House Owned or Rented: Rented
Farm or House: Home
Members Of household:
Joseph Kopp Head M 36
Elizabeth Kopp Wife F 38
Anna I Kopp Daughter F 15
Joseph J Kopp Son M 12
William J Kopp Son M 10
Albert Kopp Son M 7
Anna F Kopp Daughter F 5
Flora L Kopp Daughter F 4
John Kopp Son M 1

This is the 1910 Census, Tuscarawas county, Ohio
Name: Joseph Kopp
Age in 1910: 44
Birth Year: nabt 1866
Birthplace: Germany
Home in 1910: Warwick, Tuscarawas, Ohio
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1875
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Miner
Industry: Coal Mine
Employer, Employee or Other: Wage Earner
Home Owned or Rented: Rent
Farm or House: House
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Out of Work: N
Number of Weeks Out of Work 0

In the 1920 Census:
Name: Joseph Kopp
Age: 57
Birth Year: abt 1863
Birthplace: Switzerland
Home in 1920: Goshen, Tuscarawas, Ohio
Street: West Front Street
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1883
Relation to Head of House: Boarder
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Birthplace: Switzerland
Mother's Birthplace: Switzerland
Native Tongue: Swiss German
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Laborer
Industry: Steel Mill
Employment Field: Wage or Salary
Naturalization Status: Naturalized
Members Of Household:
Albert Judy Head M 56
Ida Judy Wife F 45
Herman Judy Son M 13
Joseph Kopp Boarder M 57

United States Census, 1930
Name: Joseph S Kopp
Event Place: Warwick, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 66
Birth year: Abt 1864
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Home in 1930: Warwick, Tuscarawas, Ohio
Dwelling Number: 114
Family Number:115
Home Owned or Rented: Owned
Radio Set: No
Lives on Farm: Yes
Age at First Marriage: 22
Attended School: No
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Switzerland
Mother's Birthplace: Switzerland
Language Spoken: German
Immigration Year: 1884
Naturalization: Naturalized
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: Farm
Class of Worker Working on own account
Members of Household:
Joseph S Kopp Head M 66 Switzerland
Joseph J Kopp Son M 42 Ohio
Pearl R Kopp Daughter-in-law F 31 Ohio
Iverson N Kopp Grandson M 12 Ohio
Joseph H Kopp Grandson M 10 Ohio
Glenn A Kopp Grandson M 7 Ohio
William L Kopp Grandson M 5 Ohio
James E Kopp Grandson M 3 Ohio
Violet A Kopp Granddaughter F 2 Ohio
Ralph E Kopp Grandson M 0 Ohio

As you notice, there were a few times my relatives were listed as being from Germany, this likely an error due to possibly a neighbor answering for my family because they were not home at the time of the census, or whatever the circumstance. I found Josef Kopp's obituary in the newspaper of 1949, and it said he was a "Native of Switzerland". Also, I did find a DNA match on ancestry whose name was Mark Kopp. Mark matched my father and I and a few others from this specfic Joseph and Elizabeth Kopp line. This leads me to believe his ancestors were related somehow to my Josef Kopp. He mentioned his Kopp line is from Luzern - although a preliminary research in Luzern didn't find anything for my Josef Kopp.

I cannot trace my grandpa back to Switzerland with any immigration records, and I cannot find out who is parents or relatives were. Any help would be appreciated.

Zusammenfassung des vorstehenden Beitrags:

Jessschuck sucht Angaben (z.B. Taufeintrag) zu ihrem Ururgrossvater Josef Kopp, der im Jan/Feb 1864 geboren sein dürfte. Die Altersangaben in den Census-Listen weichen tw. auch bis zu 2 Jahre davon ab - solche Abweichungen sind allerdings üblich - ebenso wie die Angabe "Germany" als Herkunftsland für alle Deutschsprachigen. Josef Kopp wanderte im Zeitraum 1875...1884 in die USA aus, wo er die aus Belp BE stammende Elisabeth Zumbach heiratete (er selbst war aber katholisch).

Ein DNA-Vergleich mit einer Kopp-Linie aus dem Kanton Luzern weist auf eine Herkunft aus Luzern hin - bisherige Forschungen im Kanton Luzern verliefen allerdings ergebnislos, ebenso wie Forschungen in den Kantonen Aargau, Bern und Thurgau. Bisher noch nicht geforscht wurde in den Kantonen St.Gallen und Neuchâtel (siehe die im ersten Beitrag genannten alten Bürgerorte).

Wenn Sie Informationen zu dem gesuchten Josef Kopp kennen, melden Sie sich bitte hier: der Beitrag wird in den korrekten Kanton verschoben, sofern der Bürgerort bestimmt werden kann.

Hier ein Joseph Carl Kopp, gefunden bei Familysearch, getauft am 18. März 1864 in Bichelsee, der könnte ja durchaus im Februar geboren sein!

MIG tells me, based on Lütisburg church records, more exactly the records of external marriages:

There is only one distant possibility for a "suitable" Joseph Kopp of Lütisburg:
Josef Anton Kopp, a tailor of Lütisburg, married in Bern on 09 Dec 1837 Anna Lüthi (most likely of Rüderswil BE). Children are not mentioned - but if baptised in Bern, this may just not have been reported to Lütisburg. So IF(!) the Joseph of the present research was actually from Lütisburg, Josef Anton and Anna could have been his parents - though this doesn't seem to be very likely, some 27 years after getting married.

Interesting! I want to share what I saw in the family tree of my "DNA" match (this person who has the surname "Kopp" and biologically related to me and others from our Kopp family line). This cousin match I discovered on Ancestry is named Mark Kopp. Mark says that his grandfather is Samuel Wilber Kopp, and his great grandfather was Jacob Peter Kopp II who was born 3 APR 1859, in Lucern, Switzerland, and his great great grandfather was Jacob Peter Kopp I, born 20 May 1838 in Switzerland.
Now, Jacob Peter Kopp II, immigrated from Switzerland and arrived in the USA 1 Jun 1881. He lived in Tuscarawas county Ohio... which is the exact county my Josef Kopp (born 1864) lived in as well. I'm sure they were family. Cousins? I do not know.

Mark Kopp is coming up as a 4th cousin to my father. Josef Kopp is my father's great grandfather. 4th cousins share great great great grandparents... this means that whoever Jacop Kopp I's father is would be my josef's grandfather....