Falk,
You wrote:
ich gehe weg mit 7 KInder
und Vater und Mutter
B. Reinersmann geth weg nach Americka aus Lintern
in Septbr 1880
gebessert C. Preker Tischler bürtig aus Lengerich 36 Jahr
15 Jahr hier und in Merzen
Brett aus dem runden Deckel einer Runddeckeltruhe,
von der ein Antiquitaetenhaendler den runden durch einen flachen
Deckel
ersetzt hat um ihn verkaufen zu koennen
Foto reiche ich nach - I shall put a photo here in two hours
I am leaving with 7 children
and father and mother
B. Reinersmann is leaving for America from Lintern
in September 1880
repaired by C. Preker, joiner, born at Lengerich, 36 years old
15 years here and at Merzen
this wooden board was part of a round lid of a wooden chest,
an antiquarian replaced it with a flat lid in order to sell it
does this ring a bell in somebodies memory ?
This family is listed on ancestry.com having arrived September 23, 1880
in Baltimore on the ship: Hermann from Bremen.
ancestry has the family listed as "Beiresmann" but it is clearly Reinersmann.
Bernard and Elisabeth Reinersmann and their seven children along with a
Heinrich and Maria Reinersmann (presumably his parents).
By 1900 the family shows up in Ward 4 of Covington, Kenton Co, Kentucky.
Diane Shotton (deshotton@aol.com) lists this family in her ancestry.com
family and thus, I have copied her on this posting to this message board. I
am sure she would at least appreciate a copy of the picture if not the actual item.
Since she did not list Bernard's place of birth, this will be a real find for her
since it indicates that the family was from Lintern.
All my best,
Bob Behnen
Kirksville, Missouri