Asturian-American Migration Forum

Sorry for the confusion! I am aware that Kopp is not a French surname. I actually thought that my Kopp ancestors might have originated somewhere in Germany, but I have only been able to trace them back to the year 1779 when they lived in France. The Kopp family lived there for many years before movi...

@LMato Esta es la primera vez que encuentro alguin que tiene informacion sobre la familia Ludeña de Asturias. Mi bisabuelo se llamaba Aurelio Ludeña Alvarez. El era de Oviedo pero fue a Cuba cuando tenia como dieciocho anos. EL se caso con una mujer que se llamaba Josefa Ruiz. Si tienes mas informac...

My gr-great grandfather, Arturo Criner was born in 1880 in Oviedo to a family of French glassmakers. His mother, Luisa Kopp, was a second-generation French woman who was also born there. It appears that there were several French glassmaking families that moved there when a new glass factory opened u...