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Note: I located the birth of 4 children of "Johann Ewaldt" and his wife in the church records of Gdansk Matarnia, Poland. The surname was spelled Ewald and Ewalt, Ehwaldt and Ehwalt.
RESEARCH NOTES:
Alphonse Ewald, son of Jacob, once told me that he'd heard that the Ewald family might have been from Sweden at one time. From a Pomeranian Genealogy site, I learned that Swedish Pomerania was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from the 17th to the 19th century, situated on the German Baltic Sea coast. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden held extensive control over the lands on the Southern Baltic Coast including Pomerania and parts of Silesia and Prussia. At the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Sweden received Upper Pomerania, or Vorpommern, a strip of Lower Pomerania, or Hinterpommern, with the islands of Rügen, Usedom and Wollin. Also see the Wikipedia article "Swedish Pommerania."
The following text lists family names appearing in the Swedish Land Survey by Kreis[county]. See [http://www.charly.ping.de/bibliothek/schwmatrvp-namen.html#Anklam]: Schwedische Matrikel von Vorpommern. Familiennamen in Schwedisch Pommern 1692 bis 1698 (Dörfer) in der Veröffentlichung von Franz Schubert. Nach der Kreiseinteilung von 1935. Compiled by Klaus-Dieter Kreplin.
Kreis Franzburg Ewalt Kreis Naugart Ewaldt Kreis Uechermunde Evalt Kreis Usedom Ehwald, Ewalt
So, there may be some truth to what Uncle Al remembered. *****************************************
These entries from the PTG database are interesting... In the town of Zarnowiec in 1796 Book # 942/243 Picture #10_942_0_243_0042 No. 37 Joannes, son of Jacob Ewelt & Marianna Lyskowna " Zarnowiec " 1794 " 942/243 " 10_942_0_243_0034 " 31 Joannes Joannes Ewelt Catharina Lyskowna
From Wikipedia: Zarnowiec [?ar'n?vj?t?s] (Kashubian: Zarnówc, German Zarnowitz) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krokowa, within Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[1] It lies close to Zarnowieckie Lake, approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Krokowa, 23 km (14 mi) north-west of Puck, and 59 km (37 mi) north-west of the regional capital Gdansk. ***************************************************
Another lead is the village of Quaschin/Chwaszczyno just north of Matarnia (see Meyers Gazeteer of the German Empire). The Pomeranian Genealogical Society database lists many Ewalds/Ewaldts in this place. Also Constantia Ewaldt married in 1850 a Johann/Jan Gunther in Gdansk St. Joseph, she perhaps being widow of Johann Ewald. She died in Borzyszkowy in 1870 there at age 62, the right age to have been wife of Johann Ewald and this village also has many Ewald/Ewaldt families.
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