Family Lines
Research clusters on the Fellman side, starting with the surname itself (Württemberg → Waterloo → Rochester), then Hudson Valley, Irish, and colonial New England. The Mayflower line and the Denison two-brother collapse are documented separately. Why those people left Württemberg, England, the Palatinate, and Ireland is on Why they moved. The paternal Maiale line is at ancestry.maiale.com.
Württemberg · Waterloo, Ontario · Rochester, NY
Fellman – Bachmann – Zeisert
The actual surname line — miller Samuel Fellmann of Ödheim, a Mennonite-world marriage in Waterloo Township in 1847, and the Rochester branch that carries the name down to Robert.
Fellman lineHudson Valley & Delaware River frontier
Barrett – Reeves – Barnes – Bartle
Grandmother Christine Bartle Barnes's line — the frontier corridor where four separate Revolutionary War patriot lines converge in one generation.
Fellman lineIrish · Famine-era NYC & Jersey City
Dowling – Curry – Kelly – Gilroy
Grandmother Margaret Mary Dowling's family — famine-era Irish immigration to New York, exceptionally well documented across ten census years.
Fellman lineColonial Connecticut & Massachusetts
The Denison Family: Two Sons, Two Lines to Robert
A genuine pedigree collapse — William Denison of Bishop's Stortford is a direct ancestor through two sons independently, Daniel and George.
Fellman lineColonial Connecticut
Norwich & Stonington, CT
The tree's most tightly interconnected cluster — families who didn't just live in the same towns, they founded them together.
Fellman lineColonial Rhode Island
Newport & Westerly, RI
A dissenting Baptist/Sabbatarian community that fled Massachusetts persecution with Roger Williams and founded Providence, then Westerly.