Schultz

Origins

Susanna Schultz with great-granddaughter Eleanor Grace Custer. Identity of the Dog is unknown.

Unsurprisingly, the name Schultz originates from the area now encompassed by Germany.

According to houseofnames.com, “The name Schultz comes from one of those ancient dukedoms, territories and states that would eventually form a part of present day Germany. At its birth in the Middle Ages, it was used to indicate someone who worked as a town-mayor derived from the medieval name ‘Schultheis’ which has the same meaning.”

According to Ancestry.com, “German: status name for a village headman, from a contracted form of Middle High German schultheize. The term originally denoted a man responsible for collecting dues and paying them to the lord of the manor; it is a compound of sculd(a) ‘debt’, ‘due’ + a derivative of heiz(z)an ‘to command’.”

Our Schultz Lineage

A prevalent Germany name, there are actually three separate Schultz immigrants I can trace lineage to, and all of them were Schwenkfelders who immigrated in the 1700’s to flee persecution. Two of these ancestors – George [E 68] and Christopher [E 70] Schultz – were brothers. The other line appears to be unrelated, at least stateside. These are George Scholtze [E 55] and his mother, Susanna Schultz [E 149].

George [E 68] and Christopher [E 70] Schultz were both part of the 1734 “third” migration that was immortalized in the bicentennial painting by Adolph Pannash.

Profiles of Schultz Family Members & Spouses: