I am new to this list and am seeking information on my great
grandmother Johanne Gesine Bartling who I have established came from,
or maybe was born, in Elsfleth, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in approx
1833. Her father was Johann Bartling - occupation recorded as gardener.
I would be grateful for any information which may be available about
the Bartling family and would like to learn more about Elsfleth.
Kind regards,
Chris Haley
London, England
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Oldenburg-L@genealogy.net
I also have an ancestor, my 3rd great grandmother Wilhelmina Bartling, who was born circa 1829?in Oldenburg, Germany. Some of the censuses state that she was born in Hesse Cassel, others say Oldenburg. She immigrated to the US to?Cincinnati, OH?before 1846 because she was married there that year to a Heinrich Nieske who was also from Oldenburg. I've not been able to find out anything about her family in Germany so far. There was a William Bartling b. circa 1804 living with her on a US?census many years later. This may have been her father, but I'm not sure. I wonder if anyone?knows whether our Bartlings?might be related or anything about the Bartling family in Oldenburg. Sometimes?Wilhelmina's name was spelled Barttling or Battling.
Here is the link to my page on Wilhelmina Bartling:
Sincerely,
Susan Davis
www.tribalpages.com/tribes/shasta4737
Unfortunately I don't have any information that suggests a
relationship between our Bartlings. The information I have about my
great grandmother came from the baptism record of my grandmother Elise
Schalk and those of her brothers and sisters. The children were all
baptised at a German church - St George's Lutheran Church in East
London.
I have checked my 'odds' folder where I keep near misses or possible
mispellings etc. that I have come across during my research and have
found a record that includes a Wilhelmina Barling in the 1851 London
census records. However, she was born in London in 1843 to John and
Hannah Barling and married in London in 1864 so dates don't tie up.
Given the way that names follow in families, could be though that
maybe one branch of the family went to U.S and the other to U.K during
those peak times of emmigration in the 1840s/50s. Have you looked at
Bremen & Hamburg ship's passenger lists for the 1840s?