Hello everybody, I will introduce myself and post my questions. I am Rod Smyth and I live in Melbourne Australia. My great great grandfather emigrated to Australia and got married in South Australia in 1867. His name was Heinrich CRAMER and on his marriage certificate listed his place of birth as "Veener, Hanover" His approximate date of birth was 1840. His fathers name was also Heinrich and his father was described as an innkeeper. This is as much as I know. Can anyone help at all, as it is proving to be very difficult to track this ancestor down. Thanks very much to you all, Rod.
To Rod and Rosaria,
Have you joined/subscribed to AUS-GERMAN-L@rootsweb.com
as well as Hannover ?
It is a great list as well and only deals with Germans to Australia. It has been a good place for me to get accurate info.
Yvonne in Melbourne.
Could it be Weener ? Veener is not present in Germany.
Weener is a small town in the Ostfriesland province, former a part of the Kingdom of Hannover, now State Niedersachsen. There you can find 27 Kramer addresses.
Check: www.weener.de
Werner Honkomp
Hi Rod,
I wonder if that town might be Weener. It is close to the Netherlands
and the Ems river. There are a lot of Kramers living in Weener today. There
are a lot of LDS films from there. Do you have an LDS center close to you?
Good luck,
Barbara
Hi Rod:
I don't know if you guys Down Under do the same as we do in the States, but we tend to turn the German "w" into an English "v".
There is a town by the name of Weener about half way between Groningen and Oldenburg. However, I do not know if it was ever in the Kingdom of Hanover, or particularly in 1840.
I am sure others on the list can do better than I can on that subject.
Gale