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Lanter Family Genealogy
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"Lanter" - the name originally comes from the word Land-Herr, the German word for Land Lord.
Lanters were first recorded living in Switzerland pre 1500 AD. It was about that time Lanters first showed up in Italy, Germany, Holland, France, and soon migrating to America.
An inquisition dated 1661 near Killorglin in the county of Kerry, Ireland, shows a John Lanter.
A Henry Lanter was Christened March 5, 1655 at St Dunston's Church in Stephini, a borough in London. The father and mother of Henry are Henry and Sarah.
There have been three families of Lanters that have immigrated to the USA, from Europe. Thomas and Isabella, were thought to have come in about 1697, through Virginia. Their descendants make up the majority of Lanters in the US today. Dominique Lanter born in 1800 came to the US in 1852, from Herange, France, and settled in Southern Illinois, (French Village, Illinois) Mascoutah, Illinois. August Lanter born in 1862 came to the US in 1882, from Herange, France, and his brothers Joseph and John followed him later. These are the "Belleville, Illinois Lanters".
Ricardo Lantieri of Italy says: "there are many Lanters (latinized in Lanterius), Lanteri or Lantieri in Gorizia and Franciacorta, Italy. Longbards (from "long barth" long asce)are a nomad German people who came down from the south of the Sweden two century BC ad joined before the black sea and then the "Pannonia", today Hungary. Under the pressure of the Tartars, in the spring of 568 AC, 300,000 men and an enormous number of animals invaded and occupied the north of Italy. Longbards governed in Italy for two centurys until the arrival of the Francs. Lanter family, Lanterius in latin, Lanteri in italian was a noble people as you can read from Historia Longobardorum, for that, they added a "i" to their surname(in Italy the "ieri" suffix of the surnames indicates noble origin) and became Lantieri."
Anja Lanter says "I'm Dutch and my fathers name is very small in the Netherlands. All the people with this name come from the same farm in a small village called Didam, near the German Border.
I have made contact with several Lanters in Weinfelden, Switzerland, which is close to the Alsace area. They have been in the area since 1633, or that is as far back as the Church book registry goes. There are about 300 Lanters living in Switzerland, and there is a village in Switzerland, 10 miles from Weinfelden, named Lanterville.
(The following was submitted by Lanore Lanter Kasparian).
The French lanter's, who came to the US by way of Great Britain, spelled their name Lantor until about 1800 when they arrived in Kentucky and began using the "er" ending. Variations of the French name are: Lanteur, Lanterer, Lanteree, Lantor, and Lanter. According to Robert Lanter,(who traveled the world researching Lanters, and grandson of Ira Lanter), one group of "French Lanters" left Paris, France around the early 1600's during the Absolute Monarchy years of King Louis XIII, and landed on Keybury Island, (Lantors Island) off the Great Britain coast. According to various records, one group of Lanters remained in France, another group settled in England, after leaving Lantors Island, while a third group, headed by Thomas and Isabella settled in Middlesex County, Virginia by the late 1600's.
(The following notes were put together on the Lanter Family by William Gibson Adams, who has done much research on the family.)
The Lanter family most probably began in the Americas in Middlesex County, Virginia. The parish register of Christ's Church located in that county provides the earliest referenced known to the Lanter family. The parish baptismal records show that Thomas and Isabella Lanter had five children (Margaret, Thomas, Mary, John, and Peter) between 1698 and 1709. Peter later lived in Caroline County, Virginia, where he operated a grist mill. A ducking stool was built at Lantor's Pond, where the grist mill was located. The ducking pool was built to provide proper punishment for women who erred int the sight of the law of the Anglican Church. There is no record of the ducking pool being used, apparently all the Lanter females were obedient to the church law, or shrewd enough not to get caught. Peter had three sons - Jacob, Peter, and Thomas. They served in the Orange County, Virginia Militia and participated in several battles that took place in Virginia in the Revolutionary War. Jacob Lanter, Rev Aaron Bledsoe, and Elijah Craig, migrated as a group, to the Sugar Creek area of Garrad County, Kentucky, about 1787. Elijah Craig (Jacob's neighbor) was credited with the discovery of Bourbon, and later became a prominent Kentucky landowner and businessman.
If anyone would like to know who their Lanter ancestors are, please email me, and I will see if I have your family information in my files. Email me at: wlanter@hotmail.com
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