WOLTER..in Brunsbuttle or Keegshafen: Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia
PLSongbird
resided here I believe...
I believe this was near the are of Hamburg.
Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
Last known relatives were:
John Henrie WOLTER
b. 25 May1816n Keegshafen,Heide ( Heidleberg?), Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
d. 2 Sep 1870 Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
Married to Dorothea Christine ZIZMER
b. 1822 Ofswessaln, Schleswig,-Holstein, Prussia
D. 30 Aug1866Neuen Keegshafen, Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia
Children were all born in Brunsbuttle:
Reimer 9 Mar 1843-Dec1918
Herrman Martin 26 Jun1840
Louise Anna Catherine 20SEP 1847
Johannes Albertus 5 Mar 1850
Doris Helena 10 Jan 1853
Augusta Freidich 15 APR 1855
Lorenz Heinrich 16 NOV 1857-26 Aug 1866
**Rudolph born 1859 My Great Greandfather.
Wilhelm 1861
Mina 21 Jan 1863
Maria Christine 22 APR 1865
Only info on emigrate is Rudolph married & died in Utah.
Any info on area of aol or records of emigration/ship dates.
Or anything to verify whether we are from denmark or german
PLSon...@aol.com
Ernest Thode
>resided here I believe...
>I believe this was near the are of Hamburg.
> Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
Brunsbüttel (Brunsbuettel) is a North Sea coastal city in the Kreis (County) of
Dithmarschen, the county seat of which is Heide in Holstein.
That "Keegshafen" is probably Cuxhaven, on the other side of the Elbe, farther
out to sea, a port city for the city of Hamburg. This is not
Schleswig-Holstein but Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) today.
This area was ruled by the King of Denmark in the mid-1800s. They were mostly
German-speaking (well, Plattdüütsch-speaking) rather than Danish-speaking. I
would
Ernest Thode
Henning Boettcher
"PLSongbird" schrieb > Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein
Prussia
> .......
> Last known relatives were:
> John Henrie WOLTER
> b. 25 May1816n Keegshafen,Heide ( Heidleberg?),
Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
> d. 2 Sep 1870 Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
The right spelling is Brunsbuettel or Brunsbüttel (uUmlaut).
Heide has absolutely nothing to do with Heidelberg (distance more
than 500km)
Kind Regards
Henning Boettcher
Switzerland
For topics of my research see
http://www.familienkunde.de/mitglieder/boettcher.htm
Thomas Arbs
>I am looking for verification that my ancestors were german. Many Danes also
>resided here I believe...
>I believe this was near the are of Hamburg.
> Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
>
>Last known relatives were:
>John Henrie WOLTER
> b. 25 May1816n Keegshafen,Heide ( Heidleberg?), Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
> d. 2 Sep 1870 Brunsbuttle,Heide, Schleswig-Holstein Prussia
>
>Married to Dorothea Christine ZIZMER
>b. 1822 Ofswessaln, Schleswig,-Holstein, Prussia
>D. 30 Aug1866Neuen Keegshafen, Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia
>
>Children were all born in Brunsbuttle:
>Reimer 9 Mar 1843-Dec1918
>Herrman Martin 26 Jun1840
>Louise Anna Catherine 20SEP 1847
>Johannes Albertus 5 Mar 1850
>Doris Helena 10 Jan 1853
>Augusta Freidich 15 APR 1855
>Lorenz Heinrich 16 NOV 1857-26 Aug 1866
>
>**Rudolph born 1859 My Great Greandfather.
>Wilhelm 1861
>Mina 21 Jan 1863
>Maria Christine 22 APR 1865
>
>Only info on emigrate is Rudolph married & died in Utah.
>
>Any info on area of aol or records of emigration/ship dates.
>Or anything to verify whether we are from denmark or german
>PLSon...@aol.com
As stated in the posting of Ernest Thode in the thread below,
Brunsbuettel is a small city in the northern bank of the river Elbe
(not really North Sea yet). Heide is the seat of the county, and it
has nothing to do with Heidelberg. Brunsbuettel is the place where the
Kiel Canal meets the river Elbe (completed in 1895). I don't think
Keegshafen means Cuxhaven (which is on the south bank of the river
Elbe and further downstream, that's more like the North Sea already).
Speculation: A Keeg might be another word for Koog. A Koog is an area
in the coast enclosed by dams (the region is notorius for winter
storm-floods). A Keegshafen would then be a port in a Keeg/Koog (i. e.
behind locks, and hence storm-safe).
Until the mid 1800s the whole north-west of what is now
Schleswig-Holstein was under Danish occupation (or is now under German
occupation, as some Danes would say...). Many Danes lived there, and
actually quite peacefully most of the time. German and Danish families
mixed heavily, and it is sometimes hard to tell who came from what
country and went to what (same in my family...).
The names (first names) in your list all sound German to me. Wolter is
not an uncommon name in Germany.
--
Thomas Arbs
looking for ARBS / ARPS, COLHOUN / COLQUHOUN
Mail tho...@arbs.de - Web http://www.arbs.de/