USA
Most of the Thuts living in US today are descendants from Swiss emigrants. There are some known stories about emigrants. More information about these stories you can find on this website.
- John (Johannes) Thut & Peter Thut, two brothers, who emigrated with their families as anabaptists between 1810 and 1830 to America. These families settled in Ohio and many of them are still living in Ohio.
- Samuel Thut was the founder of the old well known scrubber factory «Walther Brüstenfabrik» in Oberentfelden (Canton Argovia). His brothers-in-law «Walther» continued after he became poor and emigrated with his family to Medford Wisconsin.
- Rudolph Thut who emigrated with his family to Visalia Tulare (California) in 1880s.There are still many living descendant of that line.
In addition to Swiss emigrants there are also descendants of the Transylvanian Thut’s living in USA.
Transylvania (Romania)
There is a Thut line from Transylvania (today: Romania). Today some of them living in the USA and most of them in Germany. More Informationen about the Transylvanian Thut in the following article: Thut from Transylvania
I’m still try to find out more about the Thuts from Transylvania. If you know something about them, please let me know!
France
In France there are many Surnames written like «Thuet». There are three know Thuet Lines in France who origin from Switzerland. One from the Thut line of Sempach, one from Oberentfelden one the third one from Hartmann Thuet (*abt 1666) who might be from Seengen.
Germany
The Thuts in Germany are some of the Tranylvanian Thuts, some of Swiss emigrants and probably also some other Thuts from other countries.
Brazil
1855 there were three brothers who emigrated from Oberentfelden to Sao Paulo. In the brazil phonebook you can still find some entries Thuts around the area of Sao Paulo.