Guten tag!I'm researching my RATH family who immigrated to South Australia.My 3 x great grandparents: George "Ludwig" Christian RATH (born about 1800) and Carolina Wilhemena WEISENBORN (born about 1812) immigrated via Bremen to South Australia on the ship President Smidt in 1848. I'm trying to find their exact birth dates and locations and wedding. I've done tons of research and the only clue is their son, Henry Hermann RATH's Australian naturalization record. It states he was born in "Hannover, in the province of Hannover". So I'm guessing they are from the city of Hannover (or at least lived there).Can anyone find their marriage records? Or maybe birth record?They also had the following children;Louis Heinrich Albert RATH - born 1840Heinrich Hermann RATH - born 1842 in Hannover cityElwine Louisa RATH - born 1844Wilhelm Phillip RATH - born 1848 onboard the President Smidt! My 2 x great grandfather
Hi Tim,
there are three different spellings of the name Weisenborn: also
Weißenborn and Weissenborn and there are lots of them in the north of
Germany, above all in Hannover. Rath is also a very frequent name in
that area.
I assume your ancestors were evangelical. If so, there are
alphabetical registers for all the lutheran church books in Hannover
city. Someone may be kind enough to look at those registers at the
Kirchenbuchamt in Hannnover. If not you may wish to write to the
archive and make them research and will pay for that research.
http://www.kirche-hannover.de/kirchenbuchamt/ [1]
Unfortunately I live hundreds of miles away but have got the same
problem: I'm trying to find an emigrant to the USA and have nothing
but his name and date of birth and the Kingdom of Hannover as place of
origin. Hannover I was told in the US censi also 100 % meant "Kingdom
of Hannover" in the 19th century. Maybe it's the same with Australia.
You may be lucky, though, as the names are usual ones in Hannover
still today.
Good luck,
Gaby