Translating the name Bauernfeind

The name Bauernfeind was conferred upon our ancestors who were imperial knights that fought in the peasant revolts in the Middle Ages. As such, our ancestors were of noble blood (probably lower nobility). These noble knights were called the Raubritter.

Bauernfeind literally means: An enemy to the peasants or peasant foe. Or more specifically: enemy of the rebels.

We don't know what Christoph's occupation was before immigrating to America. He eventually settled upon dairy farming, and he had a farm in Canton, MD. In the 1870s, Canton was a rural section of Baltimore. He seems to have come into dairy work through his father-in-law. After his untimely death, his wife, Sabina, continued to run the farm until it seems to have been bought by the city, incorporated, and developed as a residential area.