Hallo Phyllis,
sorry, but this place or these places are not existant. Perhaps that means BAYERN - WUERTTEMBERG - HANNOVER, three former kingdoms of Germany. Or WIRTENBURG means WITTENBURG, WITTENBERG or WITTENBERGE, but these towns are not situated in the former kingdom of Hannover (WITTENBURG in Mecklenburg, WITTENBERG and WITTENBERGE in Prussia).
But there may be a lot of other places with a spelling near Wirtenburg or Bairne).
Sorry!
Wilfried
"Phyllis A. Heller" <rpheller@fmctc.com> schrieb:
Phyllis,
I have a very detailed atlas of Germany and I find no cities or
villages by the name of Bairne or Wirtenburg. I think Wilfried is right
about it pointing to Bavaria and Wuerttemberg. Try looking for your
ancestors name on the LDS website (www.familysearch.org). They now have
the 1880 census up for all the United States. The census lists the
birthplace of each person (plus the birthplaces of each parent). Maybe they
were all born in three different places.
Barbara
Wiford and Barbara,
Thank you. I did make an error in the spelling of Witemburg-it should
have been WIRTEMBURG - When I checked the internet, this seems to
be in the Westphalia area of Germany. And I too thought that "Bairne"
might mean Bayern or Bavaria. On other records I have found it says he came
from Hannover. Just thought Wirtemburg may have also been a town in the old
Kingdom of Hannover.
Phyllis
Phyllis,
I'm confused by your first message. Were you referring to one specific grandfather? Or different grandfathers in the 1860 through 1880 censuses? Were the placenames shown for the grandfather or the grandmother?
Can you possibly locate other kinds of resources to check? Local newspaper obituaries? Cemetery records? Religious records? Tombstones? Census records are notoriously vague and inaccurate. Is it possible that your ancestor was an itinerant merchant who may have lived at various times in his life in all three former kingdoms of Germany (Bayern, W�rttemberg, Hannover)?
--Gary