Welcome to the Gallenkamp Genealogy homepage
Here you can find
the complete Gallenkamp genealogy database!
Find out about your ancestors, create your own pedigree and relation
charts. Run your own reports and create personal genealogy files.
Our family website contains an interactive database, with more than 3200 family members. 1387 of whom have the name Gallenkamp or Galenkamp. That is over 90% of the entire family since the 16th century.
Family history
The family originated from the wide region of Lippstadt and Rheda in Germany. The name Johann Galgenkamp emerges in Wiedenbruck in 1470, but the first Gallenkamp family member we have data on, is Jobst. He was born in 1515 in Lippstadt and was butcher and member of the city council. A lot of Gallenkamps in Lippstadt where butchers, up till now the name Gallenkamp dominates the butchers guild of witch you can find the history in the 'Metzgerambthaus' in Lippstadt.
Jobst
Gallenkamp
is one of three forefathers. The other two are Henrich
(Hinnerk) Gallenkamp and Hermann Gallenkamp.
On this page you see the coats of
armour of the three family branches.
Gallenkamp to The Netherlands
In the 18th century Amsterdam became a save haven for Gallenkamp from several branches, and over the years it got the 2nd important Gallenkamp city after Lippstadt.
One of the German immigrants was my forefather: Gerardus Gallenkamp.
In 1750 he came from Wadersloh near Lippstadt to Amsterdam. As a 'sugar baker' he subscribed as 'Poorter' of the city. Unlike most of the Gallenkamp from the Lippstadt branches, he was a catholic.
It was Jacob Galenkamp from Amsterdam who lost an 'L' from his name and moved to Hasselt. This town became the residence of the dutch reformed branch of the family.
Gallenkamp Globe Trotters
Apart from the branches that lived in Germany and The Netherlands, there are other parts of our family that spread all over the world:
The United Kingdom
London; where Adolf Carl Gottlieb Gallenkamp
founded the famous "Gallenkamp Laboratory
equipment"
Canada
St. Catharines: both Gerardus Willem Galenkamp
and Christiaan Hendrik Galenkamp went there
Brazil
Conrad Theodor Adam Helmut Gallenkamp to Rio
de Janeiro and
Hermann Fritz Gallenkamp to Piracicaba
The USA
Geneaology research in the USA is difficult; in
the past mobility was great, and the only source Galenkamp branches
went to King George (Virginia) and
Wyckoff (New Jersey)
Another part of this family can be found in
Bloomfield and Nutley (both New Jersey)
Ernst
Clemens Fritz Gallenkamp from Mülheim went to Cincinnati
(Ohio).
He gave his name to "Gallenkamp
Shoes"
His offspring scattered all over the US:
His son Ernest William Gallenkamp went to
Scranton (Pennsylvania) and later to DeLand (Florida)
Daughter Elsa Helene Antonie Gallenkamp went
to
Daytona
Beach
(Florida)
Oscar Eduard Gallenkamp to Pasadena and
Daughter Irma to Carlsbad (both in California)
Oskar
August Wilhelm Gottlieb Gallenkamp also went to USA to the state
of New York and later to Scranton (Pennsylvania)
His kids where born in Niagara Falls, Utica and
Brooklyn (New York) and in Port Clinton (Ohio) and Honesdale
(Pennsylvania)
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If you want to know more about the Gallenkamp family, or want to contribute to the family history please:
A fair part of the genealogy data on this website originally comes from the elaborate work of the late PhD. Friedrich Gallenkamp, that was written down in the Gallenkamp 'Geslechterbuch'. This website makes it accessible to anyone interested in the Gallenkamp family.
Last update: 24-04-2010
