Hi Gale
You are so right. What started out as a simple "check out' of a name that had some semblance to our Burgdorf name has turned into an interesting search. I stumbled on the name Borstrof, Julius Wilhelm in the records of burials in St. Joseph Cemetery. I requested a copy of the burial record from the NO Diocese who manages the cemetery and the name was spelled Boestrof. A certified copy from the NO Recorder of Births and Deaths spells the name Borstorf. BUT, the father's signature is clearly Jul Wilh Burgdorff (2 f's). I have no doubt that all these are the same since the street address on the burial information is the same as what I have on other Burgdorf documents.
Julius' name is spelled Burgdorf on the passenger manifest and the Hamburg emmigration list. Yet, one of his son's document spells the name Burchtorf.
I am calling the NO Diocese today to pass on the meaning of hintan and to see if I can get other information as to the cemetery. 'To the back of' as applied to the rear of a grave logically makes sense, but my search has found no deaths in that family prior to 1870, so no prior gravesite.
No wonder genealogy is so interesting
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