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Re: Cordie family

blueyes1970 — 2012-01-10 23:30:28Z

That is around the same time John (Johannes) Cordie arrived from Prussia. He came with a brother Mathias (Mat) that I know for sure and I have seen Eva's name listed as well in my searches. The settled in Iowa first then John and Mathias moved to Minnesota in the Traverse County area.

I received an interesting story that I am trying to find more information on about why the Cordie's left Prussia. I was contacted by someone writing a thesis paper in Germany about the family and as searching to find where the family ended up in the USA.

Here is what he sent me...

I am from Germany and I am doing my final master degrees in medieval history. I want to please your pardon for my English and for writing this mail without you knowing me. As a german I am no nativespeaker but I hope you will understand my request and can give me a little help.

For my final degrees I do a research on the little town Coerde, near the dutch border, which was first named in the late 11th century.
(wikipedia link to Coerde http://wikipedia.qwika.com/de2en/M%C3%BCnster-Coerde)
Today Coerde is a quarter of Munster. In the 19th century a lot of emigrants moved from Coerde to America. Also the family Cordie did, but not direktly. After a bad family desaster in the early 19th century the Cordies first moved to the region of Limburg/ Netherlands. Maybe there lived relatives.

To see where people with the surname Cordie live today I looked up at facebook and found some Cordies living in the US. Now I try to find out if those Cordies are descendants of the former rich and influential family from Coerde. Do you know if all in the US living with the name Cordie are descendants from one european family? (maybe a big family. It verisimilar that cousins, aunts and uncles came under the leadership of Anna Marie Katharina Cordie in the middle of the 19th century. She was the head of the dynasty and must have been a very awe-inspireing person already in young years.

May this information will help you to answer my question. Its what I found out the last 6 month in archives in Munster and Limburg:
The name of the town "Coerde" comes from latin "Curtis" and means an estate or a tower of a knight with a related farm. Archaeologicaly we know of a very early church at this place. It can be for sure that the family who lived there must had an important role for the whole region. The bishop of Munster himself consecrated the little church! Controling the pesants, farming&food, trading and the clergy made them wealthy and military strong (again and again named weapon smiths from France and Switzerland came to the smalltown Coerde).
The ruling family was named like the place, but the spelling in meadival times is often different. The only few monks who could write in these dark ages wrote down names like they hear them. The earliest spelling is "Curithi" (it is mentioned in a drudgery-document from Cappenberg Castle in 1089). In 15th century it turns to Curdie, Corthie or Cordie. From 18th century till today the name Cordie is official. Other forms do not longer exists (as I know yet). The Cordie-Family has been a wealthy land-genty dynasty. Today a lot of other familynames and streetnames remember to this chivalrous linage (for example the last name Kortenhorn or Cordehorn is very common here, which means in now days german "den Cordies hörig" - "hearing (horn) to "adscripted to Cordie"; the Coerheide or the Coerdemarket are names for places of local popularity).

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Between 1815 and 1842 there must have been a family disaster. Heinrich Cordie came back from the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. He had been away for almost 13 years. In this time his wife died (didnt found out the year, but it must be before 1810). The oldest daughter Anna Marie Katharina Cordie took the responsibility over the whole family and the economic matters. In 1814 when her father returned she was only 19 years old. Under Annas control the estate expanded, More than 200 workers with their families lived on her ground.
When Heinrich Cordie came back he displaced his daughter Anna. At first she left her position by choice, because her father was the legal head of the family. But Heinrich was discribed as a drinker, brutal and he didn´t care much about the farmland and the workers. After two years he had a lot of depts and there had been only 64 workers left.
There is the legend that soon old soldier friends of Heinrich in Coerde arrived. One of them had told Anna that the man who returned not was Heinrich Cordie. Anna took the man who said he was her father to task but he beat her almost to death. Anna seeked for revange. Secretly she sold what her family was left and send all her brothers, sisters and cousins to the northern sea to get a passage to New York. She stayed in Coerde and made Heinrich Cordie drunk. After that she enchained him and pulled up the man all alone the church tower. She tied up the rope at a tree and followed her family. Heinrich Cordie was fond many days later, not dead but without any sense of hearing from the loud churchbells he hung close at.

Anna followed the rest of her family. The setteled near the city of Limburg. It is not clear for how long. Maybe just a few month, maybe 12 years. Here Anna organized the emigration to the US for her whole family. My thesis is that the family was to big and the capital was hard reduced because of the escape from Coerde. So Anna earned the money for all of her relatives. She send them to America in waves. First the young men, who had to search for work there, after that the oldest relatives and children, at last Anna took the passage to New York. She died on the passage on bord of the "Baltimore" in the first days of april 1842.
Anna Marie Katharina Cordie had children, but how much is unknown, als well as the father(s?) is unknown. I only know about her son Johannes Cordie, born in 1823.

Re: Cordie family

johnwtempleton — 2012-01-07 23:46:09Z

Hi. My ggg grandmother was Eva Cordie. She was married to Johann Sdchmitz. They came from Prussia in 1856 and eventually settled in dubuque Iowa

Re: Cordie family

blueyes1970 — 2011-02-26 12:56:12Z

My GG Grandfather Nick Cordie Sr lived in Minnesota.

Re: Cordie Surname

blueyes1970 — 2011-01-02 01:10:54Z

Carla,
I apoligize I hadn't replied sooner. I came across this doing a search getting started on my family tree again. Here is what I have for Mathias:

Mathias Cordie Born April 4, 1827. I have it listed as in Prussia based on Census records. He died June 21 1888 in St. Martin, MN.
The children I have listed are:
Eva Cordie b. 1859
Susanna Cordie b. 1861
Leonard Cordie b. 1865 ( I have more information on him from the Marshall County Centennial)
Katherina Cordie b. 1867
Margaretha Cordie b. 1873

I also have information on whom I believe is his brother John Cordie which is the family tree that is where I am connected to.

John Cordie is listed as born in Prussia in 1823 and dies ? in Minnesota He was married to Katherina b. 1826-1827 ?

Yheir children are: Elizabeth Cordie b. 1849
Nicholas Cordie ( Sr.) b. 1853 Germany (?) Died September 22 1911.
John Cordie b. 1856
Anton Cordie b. 1859
Kathryn Cordie b. 1859
Mathias Cordie b. 1863

I have far more than that but way too much to type here!

Henry Clay Cordle Family

bettyjoyave — 2010-12-29 22:49:05Z

Henry was my Great Grand Father, He married Martha Thomas, they lived in Bibb county Ga. He died in his thirties after they had three sons. My Grandfather George Henry married Rhoda Beck from Wilkenson county, thier youngest child, Vernon Lewis was my Father. They lived near Macon Ga.. Rhoda died when my father was a year old, after about a year George put my Father, Vernon and his three sisters, Callie, Esther and hazel in the Methodist childrens home, where they all stayed until they became of age. George married agin and lived in Macon until He died. My sister and I have know idea why no one in the family took the children, they had many aunts and uncles, some well off. We can not find where our Grandmother is buried, she also had four children who died, and we can not find where they are buried. If anyone could help us we would appreciate it very much.

Re: Cordie family

kaminmc1 — 2010-12-12 13:18:30Z

Cornelius S. Cordie(r) was in Warren, Pa in 1870 He was a carriage maker, His son was Cornelius. He married in 1882 Adeline Veronica Fisher

Re: CORDIE from Kaundorf in Luxembourg

kaminmc1 — 2010-12-12 13:13:05Z

My grandmother's grandfather Cornrlius S. Cordie(r) lived in Warren, PA in 1870 Born in Kaundorf 1846?

Re: Cordie family

infogeek2001 — 2009-10-08 00:40:49Z

where was your gg? my mother-in-law had an uncle by that name in belleville, illinois

Re: Cordie family

bettyjoyave — 2009-08-26 20:14:28Z

g0 to ancestry.com,there are thousands of them.

CORDIE from Kaundorf in Luxembourg

Rene_Daubenfeld — 2005-03-27 05:22:38Z

Hello everybody,

I am looking for the CORDIE family from Kaundorf in Luxembourg.
Charles CORDIE (1844), married to ? SCHOTTLE, died in Chicago (1918)

My site is located at http://webplaza.pt.lu/public/haffren

Many thanks in advance
René Daubenfeld

Cordie surname

Grnii — 2003-08-12 03:36:14Z

I have a reference to a Lizzie Cordie b. 5-31-1880 who married Dave Wilhoit.
They had7 children as far as I know....
Ette Josphine (m.) Herman Cutshall
Viola (m.) Porter Fillers
Corrine (courine?) (m.)
Clyde (m.) Viola Renner
Cecil (m.) ManeitaWaddell
Ray (m.) Mary Katherin Rader
Carl (m.) Eleanor Brown Easterly

Re: Cordie Surname

CMACHATE — 2002-11-26 06:37:57Z

I am very interested in the Mathias Cordie that you mentioned. My husband's great-grandparents, Johann/John Machate and Elizabeth Kordie/Cortair/Rortei were married in New York City in 1868. One of the witness' was a Mathias Cortair who we think was Elizabeth's father. I would appreciate any information that you may have on Mathias. The Kordie's supposedly came from Alsace/Lorraine.
Carla J Machate

Cordie Surname

2000-05-09 14:36:12Z

I have found information that shows Mathias
Cordie came from Orenhofen Germany. If anyone
has any information on Cordie's from this area
please let me know!

Stephanie Stebbins

Cordie Family

2000-05-09 14:33:44Z

Hi Tracey!
This is Stephanie in Minnesota.
I've tried e-mailing you at your
work and never heard back. Call me or
e-mail. ssteb1019@cs.com or s_stebbins@hotmail.com

I check them both every day.

Stephanie

Cordies

2000-05-04 19:22:50Z

Greetings

My grandfather's name was Anthony antone Cordie -- He was a twin. He married my grandmother Isobel Rose Keeler. Together they had several children. My fathers name is Virgil J. Cordie.

Tracey Cordie

Cordie / Cordes Surname

2000-01-19 06:00:36Z

For anyone researching the surname Cordie in Minnesota you will also need to look under Cordes and it has commonly been mispelled in census records as Cordee.

My GG Grandfather was Nicholas Cordes who changed his name to Nicholas Cordie.All I know is that he was born somewhere in Germany and he died in Dumont Minnesota on October 19, 1911. and that he was married to Elizabeth Brady who was born in 1858 and died in 1927.

I have a book written by his son-in-law Jacob Schmitz who talks of how they came to Minnesota and it refers to another family member Mathias Cordes (Cordie) who also settled in Minnesota with him.

If anyone wants to have a copy of the pages in this book I'd be more than happy to send them to you. Just e-mail me and I'll drop it in the mail.

Stephanie (Cordie) Stebbins
ssteb1019@cs.com

or S_Stebbins@hotmail.com

Cordie Surname

2000-01-19 05:26:44Z

Sean- Could you please send me any additional information you have on your gggrandmother whom you said was a Cordie.Do you know if she came to the USA with her family or alone? What was he first name.

Thanks,
Stephanie
ssteb1019@cs.com

Cordie surname

1999-08-26 13:57:19Z

What was your ggg-grandmothers first name and do you know when she came to the USA?

cordie surname

1999-08-25 06:57:15Z

my gggrandmother was a cordie. she was born in luxemburg in 1847,married my gggranfather, john graas and died in Dunkirk, NY on june 2, 1918.

Cordie family

1999-08-11 18:14:48Z

I am looking for anyone with info on the Cordie Surname. My GG-grandfather was Nicholas Cordie. Any Cordie info would be greatly appreciated as I have only found 1 unrelated family so far in the USA.