[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] British sounding surnames in current Poland

[Bronwyn Klimach]

Vera,
Not quite sure which names you think sound English there?  Engler and
Marsch??
All look rather 'germanic' to me...
I've not used this site before so do not know how reliable it might be:
http://gbnames.publicprofiler.org
It seems to need 'at least 100 people with the name on the Electoral
Register'.
Bronwyn.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Vera Miller <equalityforall at hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello all,
> I have two direct ancestors who have surnames that sound British. I am
> trying to understand this. I was part of the beta group for Ancestry.com's
> newest DNA test that determines ethnicity. I am Russian/Finish and Eastern
> European.
> How do I explain that my 5th-great-grandmother was Anna Elizabeth Engler
> (born 06 Nov 1768 in Schwiebus) and her father's first name was Hans,
> definitely not a British given name. And then a 6th-great-grandmother was
> Katherine Elizabeth Marsch. I do not have a birthdate or birthplace. She
> lived in Züllichau (now Sulechow, Poland).
> VeraBlog-https://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/
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