• General Notes

   The Eveland Family has been charted back thus far to the early 1600's. The spelling of the name has gone through various changes down through the years because of German speaking immigrants coming into the colonies of America, where the spelling of the German sounding name was generally spelled like it sounded to those who were recording it. The earliest records of the name in Mecklar, Hessen was spelled Iffelandt and at times Eiffelandt, In Rhine country it was spelled Iffland or Ifland. For the most part the families that lived in the areas of New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Canada spelled the name Eveland, while in parts of Pennsylvania the name is spelled Eflin. Another group of the family that moved on into North Carolina spells the name Ephland and Efland, and there is there a town by the name of Efland.
      Bernhardt (Bernhard) Iffelandt is the earliest recorded family member and was living in Bebra,Hesse. There have been no details found on who Bernhard's wife and family were. He may have had other children, but there was a son Johannes Iffelandt and a daughter Elisabet. Johannes was born about 1645. No birth date has been found for Elisabet, but we know of her as she was listed as the Godmother to her nephew,Johann David Iffland,at his baptism in Mecklar on July 21,1675. In the book,"The Stull Family,Julia Ann Stull (1814-1872) and Her Ancestors",by Wayne V. Jones", there is mention of a possibility of another daughter named, Ottilia Iffelandt, from Weidrodt who married Hans Wilhelm Kohlmann, widower, on September 15,1677 at Mecklar. He was a shepherd.His first wife had been named Katherine and she had died January 30,1677, at the age of 37 years,3 weeks, and was buried at Mecklar.
  
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Details of Bernhard's family