From: JDKRNV@aol.com
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:07:41 EDT

I cut and pasted the following from my late cousin's manuscript titled  The
Kille Surname.  Obviously he was not aware of your  family.  Is Friedrich
Wilhelm Kille at all familiar to  you?  Perhaps an ancestor of yours?
John.

A member of the Ohio Kille family# serving in Germany following  World
War I I was presented by men in his unit on the occasion of his return  to
the States, a copy of a Kille Coat-of-Arms and the following  information:
The International Coat-of-Arms Registry (Internationalen  Wappenregistern)
has the following entry under the name Kille.

"Old German citizens of the fifteenth century, natives of Mecklenburg
Province.  Ancestors of this family have participated with courage
and  bravery in the crusades of the 12th and 13th centuries.  In 1667,
the  freedom-fighter, a lieutenant and commander of a cavalry regiment,
Friedrich  Wilhelm Kille was awarded an honary flag and a prestigious
coat-of-arms on  parchment by the Prussian Royal Sovereign for outstanding
achievements  benefiting the nation.  During the 30-Year-War (Swedish
War)# , F.W.  Kille fought with courage and bravery.  To a large extent,
his efforts  resulted in freeing the Town of Stolp from Swedish occupancy.
For these  achievements, he was honored by the Sovereign.  Descendants
of this family  moved during the following centuries into other German
provinces.  Others  emigrated to Denmark, Holland, and England and later
on, to America."

Any such migration to England and America must have occurred many
centuries after the name was already established in England#.  No one
has reviewed critically either the facts of this report or its English
translation, or the origin of the naming of a large park in Stuttgart,
Killesburg.   There is no family tradition in America regarding German
origins.