List,
My 'associate relative' as I will call him was most helpful with the
immigration document. Since he possessed as much or more informtion
about the Luhmann family. I asked him if it made sense. After a time
he produced the information of the letters. i asked him now how he got
them. So I also may get to them. I will have to write to the church.
I gave him some puzzling information about another family MEYER,
schulze in Oldendorf, that i had gotten awhile back. That
information doesn't do much, it only adds to the puzzle.
" some days ago you mentioned a file and asked for the connection
"Schwester" and
"Mutter". The information of that file is the extract from 8 documents
(Nr. 169
- Nr. 177 of the file-volume):
169/170
Letter from Marie Ahrens, written 23. Nov. (1868) in Galena (2
pages). The
salutation in the letter is: Lieber Schwager und Schwester
(brother-in-law and
sister)! Marie Ahrens tells about life in America and reflection of
emigration.
She thinks, that J. H. F Meyer should come to America and that he will
need 100
Reichsthaler (money).
171
A little yellow envelope, posted in Galena. Inside was the letter
169/170.
Address: Parkw�rter zu R�then bei der G�hrde, K�nigreich Hannover.
172*
A little yellow envelope, posted in Galena, Ill. on 7. Jan. (1869).
For the
letter see 173.
Address: Herrn Parkw�rter Meyer, R�then bei der G�hrde, Amt
Dannenberg,
Hannover, Germany.
173
Letter from Marie M�llemann, written 8. Jan. (1869). Salutation:
Lieber Schwager
und Schwester. Marie M�llemann tells about her life in America, she is
very
pleased. She writes: Let Liese, Marie and Friedrich come. If you like
send Anna
too, but the other are to young. Her husband wants them to come too.
Both want
to care for them.
174
Document of the Nahrendorf church about the birth of J. H. F. Meyer in
1851.
175
Heimatschein. J. H. F. Meyer declares, that he wants to emigrate.
28.03.1869,
Nahrendorf-seal.
176
The father J�rgen Friedrich Meyer agrees with the emigration of his
son and
guarantees to give him 100 Reichsthaler.
On the same paper certifies the Gemeindevorstand of R�then, that
J�rgen
Friedrich Meyer is able to give 100 Reichsthaler to his son.
177
Military-certificate.
This is the contents of the above documents in short. The documents
are written
in German language and in S�tterlin-writing.
For usual it is possible to get a digital copy (jpg) of the documents.
The fee
for that may be 30 Euro. Do you like to order a copy?
In the end of this mail I return to the question in the beginning. In
the moment
it is not certain for me, who is the sister (name) and who is the
mother. Marie
Ahrens can be the sister of C. M. Luhmann, if she had married a Mr.
Ahrens; but
I don't think so.
I think, it is necessary to search for the day of the death from C. M.
Luhmann
(Meyer) and her husband J. H. F. Meyer. Perhaps C. M. Luhmann (Meyer)
died
before her husband and he married again (a woman with name Ahrens); in
that case
Marie Ahrens is the sister of the second wife and J. H. F. Meyer is
the
brother-in-law of Marie Ahrens. But this are pure ideas, perhaps you
have some
more information."
It is always good to mull over the genealogiical questions with
others. I am open to suggestions and ideas and now will take off for
some hunches I have. The hunt begins again.
jo meyer
