Hello Hans
Thank you for your reply. I do not have the exact birthdate of Julius Wilhelm Burgdorf as he is known on the baptismal certificate of his son. His age is stated as 33 on the passenger list and the Hamburg Emigration Index card and I suspect those are essentially the same data. He was 53 years old at death on 29 June 1878 but no birth date was provided. On the passenger list he is listed as J. W. Wilhelm and on his death cerificate as Julius W. Wilhelm. I have been unable to find his marriage certificate or application to marry. I am going to New Orleans in about 10 days to search some more but my hopes are not too high. I am confident that the data accumulated from New Orleans records are those of my ggrandfather. It was only a short while ago I learned his place of origin was Baddeckenstedt and the only record found there that is remotely close to his birthdate was for a Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Burgtorf.
Max
- 320097756779-0001@t-online.de wrote:
Dear Max,
Have ancestors that baptismal register record Johan in the record.
Baptismal Register says:
Johan Bernard Feldhaus - Died as infant
Johan Herman Feldhaus - Used Herman
Johan Wilhelm Feldhaus - Used William
Bernard Joseph Feldhaus - Used Joseph.
The online New Orleans birth records Listed:
Burchdorg
Carl Gustave
Julius
Mary Kirschberg
09/10/1864
Burchtorff
Max Charles Eugene
Julius Wilhelm
Mary Kirchsbein
06/01/1862
Burchtorff
Dorothe
William
Mary
04/30/1867
Remember that also online there was:
1875 New Orleans Directory
William Burchtorff - Clerk
357 Dryades
What were the names of the parents in the record that was found? What the the names of sponsers? Are there other Burgtorfs in the register that might be named Carl, Gustuv, Dorothy, Eugene..etc.? Or other names of your ancestors?
Hello Hans
Thank you for your reply. I do not have the exact birthdate of Julius Wilhelm Burgdorf as he is known on the baptismal certificate of his son. His age is stated as 33 on the passenger list and the Hamburg Emigration Index card and I suspect those are essentially the same data. He was 53 years old at death on 29 June 1878 but no birth date was provided. On the passenger list he is listed as J. W. Wilhelm and on his death cerificate as Julius W. Wilhelm. I have been unable to find his marriage certificate or application to marry. I am going to New Orleans in about 10 days to search some more but my hopes are not too high. I am confident that the data accumulated from New Orleans records are those of my ggrandfather. It was only a short while ago I learned his place of origin was Baddeckenstedt and the only record found there that is remotely close to his birthdate was for a Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Burgtorf.
Max
> <pharmaxx@charter.net> schrieb:
> > I guess I am grasping at straws but even a blind squirrel sometimes finds an acorn. My reach is that Julius' name appears as J. W. Burgdorf on the Hamburg Emigration list and on the passenger list for the ship Oder. It is only on some records found in New Orleans that the full name Julius Wilhelm Burgdorf appears. I know it is a stretch to think that he changed his name from Johann to Julius and retained the Wilhelm. Even if he did I still have to find evidence that was the case.
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> Do you have the right birthdate of Julius Wilhelm Burgdorf ? Was ist given by a document oder did you have to count back ? And is the other Johann born or baptized the same day ? If both data aren't so close, the trace becomes colder and colder. In any case you need more hints to become sure, as for example, people from the same place on board, neighbours in the region of first settlement from the same place or family members in the wider sense, who definitely came from the place in Europe and settled with him at the same place in USA. To get last certainity will not be managed by the identical birthdate, but same birthday increases the possibility of being right by the factor 365. Not corrected errors of parishbook writers entries are documented. There is one within my anchestor entries. In this case doubts could be cleared by the marriage document which gave the date and place of birth, where he was the only born that day with just one different first name. But one should not count on too much of such errors, especially not in the 19th century.
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> Greetings and good luck Hans Peter Albers, Bienenbüttel