Welcome to the Genealogy of our
Kolb, Kulp and Culp Families
This website was first posted to Internet in 2001-2003 by Linton E. Love who by 2010 needed to reduce his genealogy activity. Concerned this information might not be available to other researchers he approached Mrs. Pat High of Jordan Station, Ontario, who is well acquainted with the history of the Mennonite families in the Niagara area. Pat agreed to become the webmaster of this and other websites involving local Mennonite families. We have not changed the content of this file so it will read as from the perspective of Linton Love
It is important to comment on the confusion that is prevalent in the early Kolb generations of our ancestors. This genealogy starts with Henrich Kolb who was born in Wolfsheim, Germany circa 1615. You will find below the details of his descendants but I only want to try and clarify the many Dielman Kolbs involved.
Henrich’s grandson was Bishop Peter Kolb 1671-1727, who never came to America. However Peter’s son Dielman Kolb arrived in the New World in 1717 and this Dielman was the progenitor of many of the Kolbs who later came to Canada.
Other sons of Dielman Kolb Sr. were Heinrich 1679-1730, Martin 1680-1761, Johannes 1683-1765, Jacob 1685-1739 and Dielman Jr. 1691-1756. There were other sons and daughters but we are mainly interested in the ones who came to America, which is the case for all those mentioned above. They all arrived in Pennsylvania between 1707 and 1710 and settled in Germantown and Philadelphia County which was later split into Montgomery County.
So far there shouldn’t be much confusion but it starts when all of the above brothers in naming their children made sure they had one son named Dielman. Now we have 5 more Dielman Kolbs in the same area and in the same time period, to add to the others mentioned previously. In some cases they spelled Dielman as Tillman.
As with so many other German immigrants, the Kolbs who arrived in Canada, wanted to Anglicize their name so they changed it to Culp. As you will see later, they settled in Louth and Clinton Townships, Lincoln County, Ontario, Canada. They chose excellent farming land along the south shore of Lake Ontario. As Empire Loyalists they were granted 200 acres of land running south from the lake.
There was and still is some confusion with the Christopher Culp who settled in the same area along the lake. Some of the old records claim he arrived with the other Kolbs and some claim he was a brother or cousin of the others. This proved to be an error, as actually he arrived from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was spelling his name as Culp in the Lancaster tax records before he came to Canada. Finally we were able to trace his father as Hans Christian Kolb who arrived in America in the 1740s. It is very possible they were related to the other Kolbs but if so it would have to be back in Germany in the 16th or 17th centuries. This line is not included in this genealogy but can be found in a separate website at URL
http://www.culp-genealogy.com/
As of 15 October 2009 there are 30,690 Kolb, Kulp and Culp related individuals in this database. There are many, many more who need to be added. I sincerely hope you will find some of your direct line ancestors in these pages and will discover some new and interesting details about them.
Please note this will be the last version Linton E. Love will be uploading to this website and I will not be adding any new information at the present time. If you have questions concerning any information on this site I would be pleased to respond to your query with any assistance I can offer. You can contact me by using the e-mail link below:
Last updated 15 October 2009
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