| Lentersdorf must be a very small place.
Map-searchers locate the place but never show it's name. So it's
near (or part of?) Dietenhofen in kreis Ansbach.
It was here that Hanss / Johann Zellhofer, son of Stephan, born c.1630
in Gresten Austria, and Elizabetha Keller, daughter of Jacobi, born c.1644
in Grosshabersdorf (about 10 km from Deitenhofen), married in Deitenhofen
in 1660. They lived in Lentersdorf (farmers) the remainder of their
lives (1682-1684).
A son Hanss / Johann Zellhofer had remained in Lentersdorf after the
deaths of his parents, but perhaps not on that farm? In 1695 this
son Hanss married Margaretha nee: Hartman, widow of Hanss Landshuter of
Brachbach. The following year the widow's farm in Brachbach took the
Zellhoefer name, and remained so for several generations thru to the mid
1800's, when that Zellhoefer family had disbanded, some married and
remaining in Bavaria, most migrating to the USA. |
