Meier from Minden

Hello
The name is not jessen. The right place ist Jössen. Its ca 10 miles from Minden
Near the place petershagen or Lahde.

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Thank you so very much everyone!!

How very helpful of you all so quickly. I appreciate you all very much!

Tanya

Hi,

I think you have to be correct that it is Jössen since it is so very close
to Minden. My husband, Tom, who took German in college, spoke the name of
Jössen for me and it sounds like Jessen.

It is probably like many would do and connect it to a larger town (Minden in
this case) since people would know where a larger city was located versus a
small village. This happened every time with my mother's Polish relatives
and dad's German relatives who emigrated from Poland and Germany. For
example, my Polish great grandmother, Mary Bajinski, told her children that
she lived in Warsaw (she actually was born in tiny village of
Kowalewo-Pomorskie, which is North of Warsaw). Her husband Michał Kruś came
from Niemczynek, Wagrowiec and told his children he was from Posen. Close,
but not helpful when one is researching in Poland.

We have majority people with German heritage in our area of Fort Wayne,
Indiana. I saw in Hannover Genealogy group like this one that many from
Germany from Hannover did come to Fort Wayne to work in foundries. Dietrich
Nahrwold Sr worked at the Bass Foundry in Fort Wayne. Dietriech's son,
Dietrich Jr and his wife, Augusta Meyer of Frestorf, Stolzenau, NW of
Hannover, Lower Saxony, the couple opened a tavern. Dietrich Jr was killed
when a friend, brought in a gun to the tavern to show it off and the gun
discharged by accident in 1908.

Interesting history of my German family members and several like them who
once lived in Frestorf and Minden areas of Germany and emigrated to Fort
Wayne, Indiana.

Tanya