Hi Gale,
No, I don't believe we've communicated about our
Hartwigs before. Mine are
a bit further back, but I'm stumped as to where they
originated. I have a
Georg Andreas Hartwig who was a lieutenant in
Wolfenbüttel in 1700. In 1703
he joined up with the cavalry of
Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and was sent as
a captain (Rittmeister) down to southern Germany
during
the War of Spanish
Succession. In 1715 he retired and settled in Hessen
near a military
colleague, the Graf von Erbach. He married Dorothea
Sophia Schumacher, who
knows where. I'm sure he was from up north somewhere,
but there aren't so
many microfilmed records from up north as there are in
Hessen. Hannover
isn't so very far away from Wolfenbüttel/Braunschweig
(at least, not
compared to the other places he traveled). I think
I'll check out the area
you mentioned. Do you know if there are any published
town histories or
Ortsippenbücher/Familienbücher?Rose
Hi Rose:
I am sorry, I don't think I have anything to add,
except the possibility of checking with the Heemsen
Parish. Hist.de indicates that there are records going
back to the 1600's. Since my relationship to the
Hartwig's were through my grandfather's brother in law,
I have not done any reasearch on them. I understand
that they had quite a bit of money and gpa's b-in-law
came to the U.S. to make his fortune (which he did)
rather than to find a better life, like most Germans
did.
My family (Bosche) comes from Anderten, a short
distance north of Heemsen. I need to contact the
Eystrup parish for information. In comparing the 1880
U.S. census for Hannover Township, Crawford County,
Iowa to the 1852 census for Anderten, I see a number of
the same people. Most of them were under 15 in the
1852 census.
Gale