Dear Mr. Albers,
It is interesting to read of your research in the area of Thomasburg. You
now live in Bienenbüttel, correct?. My ancestors came from Høsseringen
which is not so far away. Is there any chance that your Heinrich Christoph
Meyer is in my family tree too? Edward Meyer
Dear Mr. Edward Meyer,
it may be possible, but there is little probability without any hint for a con-
nection. I don�t know as far your own research in the region have gone. Perhaps
you know there is nowadays in H�sseringen a museum for agricultural life in
former days, for which reason there were several farmhouses of sometimes hundred
of years of age in originally way reconstructed. It�s almost a must to visit this
place for every one who wants to get a glimpse into the way his anchestors lived
in the last centuries before about 1900.
Let me tell you, what I found about Meyer in H�sseringen, what surely is not the
last stage of science, but simply that, I could find in a short time. The given
dates are taken from the work of:
Hillmer, Rolf: Geschichte der Gemeinde Suderburg, Uelzen: Becker-Verlag 1986,
S.225 :
There is one farm, in his account Nr.18 : Hinter den H�fen, which is in the hand
of a Hans Meyer in 1534 and belonged then to "Graf Grote / Wrestedt", for the
actual situation in 1986 he quotes two Meyer as owner of old farmplaces, who
still worked as farmers in 1986:
Hof Nr.1 Bauernstra�e 5: August Meyer
Hof Nr.7 Heerstr. 4: Werner Meyer
by accident I found on page 89 a picture of Anna Meyer geb. Klaproth, Brieftr�ge-
rin im 1.Weltkrieg (means post(wo)man in Word War I). If you are interested in
the history of H�sseringen, you should try to get the whole book.
If you want to contact anyone in H�sseringen, you have to use the postcode
29556 H�sseringen/Suderburg
On side 223 of the work mentioned above the author Rolf Hillmer talks about a
more detailed piece of work about the followers in farmplaces of the whole
Suderburg villages, to which H�sseringen belongs, which he wanted to publish
together with Prof.Dr. Hans Siebert, Heidelberg. It must have meanwhile appeared
and I even mean I have had it in my fingers some time ago in the library of the
Genealogical Society in Hamburg: Bibliothek der Genealogischen Gesellschaft
Hamburg, Alsterchaussee 11, 20149 Hamburg. As the author is a former leader of
the Hamburg Genealogical Society you can expect a lot of information from this
piece of work.
For more, it is in any case needable and helpful, that you give more information
about the last exact knowings of birth, death or marriage and your E-mail-number,
perhaps I can lead your question to someone of that library.
Hope, I could help you so far
Hans Peter Albers
Heinrichstr. 21, 29553 Bienenb�ttel E-mail 320097756779-0001@t-online.de