Spangehl on Family Tree Circles

The group I am seeking lived in M?nsterappel, in Bavaria, Germany, in the 1813-1870 period. Maria Catherine Thamerus came to the US and settled in New York City, but (family legend says) she had brothers who settled in Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Her father was Michael Thamerus and her mother Elizabeth Fleischer; siblings were Jacobina, Johann Friedrich, Charlotta, Elisabetha, and Michael. One story an aunt told me claims that her father was a wine exporter, and she and her brothers sailed to the US on a ship that ran aground on the coast of Africa during a storm encountered en route.

Also spelled Benvenuto. The family lived in Isola d'Istria, an island off the coast of present-day Slovenia, in the mid 1800's. They were Italian speaking, and moved to Trieste in the early 1900's.

The name is Madoeri is common in Lausen, Basel-Land, Switzerland, in the 1700s and earlier It is sometimes spelled Madori, Madory, Mad?ri, or Madorin. I (Spangeh) am particularly interested in hans Jacob Madoerin, who married Barbara Tschudin on 20 Feb 1703 in Lausen; Hans Jacob was born 1678 and died 1734 (both in Lausen), and his parents were Sebastian Madori and Anna Jlien.

The family lived in Gelterkinden, in Basel-land, Switzerland, in the 1600's and 1700's.

Wilhelm Edward Spangehl, my great-grandfather, came from Ragnit, near Tilset on the East Prussian-Luthianian border, where he was born in 1819. He married Dora Ernestina Heidenreich, who was from Daber in Pommerania, and they had several sons, most of whom died. With one, Carl (or Charles) they emmigrated about 1854 and settled in Troy, New York, where Wilhelm set up as a bookbinder, printing blank books. He moved to New York about 1860, and his printing company, W. E. Spangehl & Sons, lasted until the early 1930's. His other sons were Frederick (my grandfather) and Louis. Contact me (spangehl@sbcglobal.net)if you might be related.

(By the way, the picture isn't me -- I don't look like FDR.)

My Bologna ancestor lived in Isola, on the Adriatic south of Trieste, about 1805 to at least 1866.

I suspect "Spanghel" is just a misspelling of "Spangehl," which is the way my family has always spelled it. German names with a vowel + H to indicate the vowel is pronounced long are common: Fehr, Gehl (a tractor company in Wisconsin), etc. All my life people have had trouble spelling and pronouncing my name, except when I've visited Germany and Switzerland.