Family Research
Sometimes people are feeling desperate, lonely and lost. The reasons are manifold. Economical problems, a lost love, serious illness or similar drive them into a situation or deep depression where they do not see any way out beside a final, fatal cut.
Also in our families there had been several such unfortunate cuts, suicides:
Family Hutstein(er) is mainly located in Lower Bavaria – around city of Passau -, Upper Bavaria – mainly immigrants to Munich – and Upper Austria with its capitol Linz.
The Bavarian-Austrian Hutstein families have a single point of origin at a small hamlet called ‘Hutstein’. It is close to the bavarian border (around 700 m distance) and had been part of Bavaria in former times, and belonging to the parish of Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis (Upper Austria). All inhabitants of this hamlet were called „Hutsteiner“, i.e. someone who lived in the hamlet of Hutstein got the surname ‚Hutsteiner‘.
One of the ‘Hutsteiner’ families lost the ending „-er“ of our surname at the beginning of the 19th century in the bavarian parish of Uttigkofen. All other families kept the ‘-er’.
First known occurrence of someone living in Hutstein is 1509. Some tax documents at the governmental archive in Vienna mention paid taxes by ‘Tameln‘ (likely ‘Thomas’) at Hutstein in 1509.
Around 1550 there had been two farms located in Hutstein. One was dedicated to the reign of Falkenstein, the other to the reign of Rannariedl.
Most family members are of Roman-catholic confession.
In this area it was unusual to use ‚th‘ within our family name.
Out of these families only a few members emigrated to the US. Still there are some descendants living there.
There are several different family lines in the municipality Wegscheid, Bavaria.
One of my first known direct ancestors is Johann Hutsteiner in Wegscheid with his descendants starting in Wildenranna, parish Wegscheid.
Another one is Blasius Hutsteiner and his descendants, mainly coming out of the small village of Kasberg close to Wegscheid:
Also from Kasberg originated the line of Simon Hutsteiner, but probably no living descendant with our family name is existing nowadays.
Thomas Hutsteiner descendants are from Aiglsöd, a village close to the town Wegscheid in lower Bavaria.
Following are 4 major families and descendants which I grouped around Michael Hutsteiner which is an assumption and not verified yet. I just wanted to show that obviously Coloman and his brother Martin, Simon and Tobias had been related to each other more closely than others, because Coloman’s daughter Apolonia and Tobias’ son Stefan had same witness Mathias Hartl for their marriage, which pinpoints to a close relationship to him and therefore to each other.
The first bavarian records are about Lienhard Hutsteiner’s records stating his tax payments in 1539 (http://hutstein.org/2018/01/12/first-named-hutsteiner/) and the dispute of 1560 (The millers’ dispute of 1560 | HUTSTEIN Origins), i.e. he became the first recorded bavarian Hutsteiner.
The baptism of Magdalena Hutsteiner in the parish of Obernzell, lower Bavaria, in 1588 (The first BMD records | HUTSTEIN Origins) is the second mentioned Hutsteiner in Bavaria.
The third one we find in 1617 when Paul Hutsteiner took over the seat in the church of Wegscheid from a man called Oberwelfel. Likely, Paul was a citizen of Wegscheid as no location is mentioned within this record.
