Dear Cora McDonnell,
Ehrenburg is a village near Diepholz and Sulingen, church parish Schmalfoerden.
An Oberamtmann is the administrative head of an Amt, that is a district of three to four church parishes.
The 1737 Hannover state gazetteer lists 4 Palm
state officials:
Vice-Forst Schreiber PALM im Hannoeverschen
(vice forest clerk in the Hannover part, probably of the Harz mountains)
Johann Christian PALM, Ambtsschreiber, Bremervoerde
(clerk at the Amt Bremervoerde)
Bremervoerde is between Bremen and Stade
Johann Julius PALM, Ambtsschreiber, Dannenberg
Dannenberg is northeast of Luene(n)burg in the Lunenburg heath
Johann Philipp PALM, Ober-Ambtmann, Amt Bahrenburg und Ehrenburg
(source: Hugo Schuenemann, Der aelteste Hannoversche Staatskalender von 1737, out of: Archiv fuer Sippenforschung, Jahrgang 6, Heft 6-11, June-Nov. 1929)
but as they were state officials they were subject to changes of residence at least once per generation, if not severeal times per ten years.
In the former counties Hoya and Diepholz (between Bremen and Osnabrueck, nortwest of Hannover city) there were nine farms by the name of Palm
1) Sebbenhausen 1521, 1530
2) Mellinghausen 1521
3) Schamwege 1583, 1587, 1588, 1616, 1653, 1699, 1731, 1753, 1760, 1777
4) Brebber 1530, 1583, 1616, 1645, 1665, 1667,
1718
5) Borstel 1530, 1587, 1616, 1653, 1673, 1731, 1753, 1760, 1777
6) Warmsloh/Graue 1583, 1616, 1628, 1718, 1740, 1753, 1796, 1830
7) Wietzen 1587, 1616, 1581, 1731, 1753, 1760
8) Sieden 1760, 1852
9) Drakenburg 1737
So you see, at least in this area, except for Graue and Sieden, all the Palm tax payers were gone by 1830
(Heinrich Meyerholz, Bodenstaendige Familien in den Grafschaften Hoya und Diepholz, vol. 1, 2
1971, 1975)
greetings from Diepholz, Lower Saxony
Falk Liebezeit
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