"Carole Gerosolimo" <cgerosolimo77@direcway.com> schrieb:
I am just coming in on the edges of this - however here's my small
contribution. I think Leadwich Dres refers to a place in Dresden called
Leadwich (many variations in spelling possible).Carole Gerosolimo
Yes, everything might be possible. The most unusual with this place name is the doubling of names for a location or place name. And if given as for example in "Hamburg-Bergedorf" the first name gives the greater place and the the second the smaller part of the town. If it should be the case in Dresden this custom of speaking would be turnrd around.
By the way "Dres." is also short for Latin "Doctores" and in first half of 19. century in use for adressing a group of such persons.
If we take the parts of "Leadwich" as translated words from German into English, we really also do not get very more far. "Lead" has the sense of "guidance" and would be in German something with "Führen". "Wich" as a German word I once found in the sense of "Weichbild", which for my English dictionary gives "precincts" or "environs", "outskirts" and "municipal area". But this also gives at the end no more sense for the moment and is a very seldom used meaning also.
Reflecting on what else could be understood in English because of German prononciation as "Lead..." one could come on the German name "Lieth", which is given in lots of towns as "Hinter der Lieth", "Bei der Lieth", "Auf der Lieth" and similar things, but not as a town, and only local street name.
There is nearby to Hannover a town by 31515 Wunstorf with a quarter named "LIETHE".
And that is t h e, respectively m y end of possible speculations. We have to consider that the given place name has been such a much converted that the original name cannot be deci-fered anymore. In that case the only possibility seems to be, to go back in other genealogies of the name and meet by that the right name and bierth-date.
Sorry for being not able to give more optimistical advice.
Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel