In a message dated 8/14/02 11:03:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
bruggeym@bcpl.net writes:
Sorry, I don't think that helps me--but thank you for providing that
information! Aren't those surnames in Westfalia fun! I have worked
with those before, where sometimes the husband took the wife's name, or
the name of the farm he was living on . . . One of the many challenges
of genealogical research!Good luck with the search,
--Gary
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, its a hoot about the taking of the name. Took me years to even find my
family across the pond because of this. Oh well, we learn. And I'd have never
known of or understood it but for kind listers such as yourself.
While "my" Oelrich might not be one of yours, you might want to keep her name
in the "possibles" category. "Auf der Heyde" means of the "heather or heath"
... this geology was prevalent in in the southern part of what was then
Hannover, but also in the southeast part of what was then Westfalia.
Hey! It's a tossup! Unlike our USA relatives, they DID travel far!
Laura