Wilhelm and ELizabetha Stein along with their son Joseph left the Duchy of Nassau in 1872 thru th port of Bremen. They arrived in Lemont,Il/ in the same year. They prospered, had another child in 1880 and the lineaqge remained in Lemont thru the mid 1970's.
I have not been able to find the name of the town of origin in Germany. They were Catholic and the church records in Wiesbaden have no record of them. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be sincerely apprciative. I have been searching fo 25 years for this info.
If at all possible please reply in English. My German is very limited.
Hallo Bob Stein,
In Germany it gave in former times several countries with the name Nassau, so Nassau Diez with the city Dillenburg, Nassau Oranien with Den Haag (the Netherlands), duchy Nassau (1806-1866) with Wiesbaden and also Hessen Nassau (1866-1918) with Kassel. Perhaps you searched in the wrong area.
See also Google and www.nassau-info.de
www.hoeckmann.de/geschichte/nassau.htm
Grüße aus Deutschland
Mechthild Sieg
Wilhelm and ELizabetha Stein along with their son Joseph left the Duchy of
Nassau in 1872 thru th port of Bremen. They arrived in Lemont,Il/ in the
same year. They prospered, had another child in 1880 and the lineaqge
remained in Lemont thru the mid 1970's.
I have not been able to find the name of the town of origin in Germany. They
were Catholic and the church records in Wiesbaden have no record of them. If
anyone has any suggestions, I would be sincerely apprciative. I have been
searching fo 25 years for this info.
If at all possible please reply in English. My German is very limited.
Hello Bob Stein,
the Duchy of Nassau became in 1866 - after the Prussian-Austrian war - Part
of the Kingdom Prussia and formed one part of the new province
Hessen-Nassau. This new province consisted of two districts -Kurhessen in
the north and the former duchy of Nassau in the south. The
district-administration of the southern - former Nassau - district was in
Wiesbaden.
The duchy of Nassau had a lot of small villages and towns situated along the
banks of the Rhine between Wiesbaden and Koblenz and the Lahn-river between
Koblenz and Weilburg. In Limburg the regional responsible roman katholic
bishop has his dome. So it would be very difficult to search in the
Church-registers of all these towns and villages. But as the duchy was now a
part of the kingdom of Prussia, Prussian administration must have left their
traces.
As a Prussian citizen Wilhelm Stein must have had a passport for himself and
his family, or he could not leave the country. As a Prussian citizen he must
have had a permit to leave the country and he must have reported off at the
military authorities. There should be some papers in the archives in
Wiesbaden. I would propose to write a letter to the State Archives in
Wiesbaden, tell them the story of your long lasting research and ask them
for copies of the papers which in 1872 Wilhelm Stein as an emigrant-aspirant
had to request from the administration, e.g. passport, permits a.s.o. May
be, copies of these administrative acts are there in the papers or they
could help you to find them elsewhere.
Best wishes for your further research!
Hans-Christoph Surkau
Hello Bob Stein again,
after my first mail, I would likt to add the proposal, to write to the
"Familienkundliche Gesellschaft für Nassau und Frankfurt e. V". You find
their homepage at: http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/fgnff/ (sorry only
in german). You can contact them per: familienkunde.nassau@email.de which is
situated in the "Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden" and deals with your
area of interest. They surely will help you.
Best wishes
Hasn-Christoph Surkau
Hallo Herr Surkau,
aus dem kurkölnischen Sauerland (Preußen) sind im 19. Jahrhundert viele Menschen ausgewandert. Eine Genehmigung dazu bekam nur, wer seinen Militärdienst abgeleistet hatte und keine Steuerschulden hinterließ. Es gab noch mehr Einschränkungen. Da viele junge Leute den Militärdienst scheuten, wanderten sie ohne Genehmigung aus.
Die Stadt Siegen und das Siegerland waren lange nassauisch. Eine weitere Möglichkeit der Suche für Bob Stein wäre die Siegerland-Liste unter siegerland-l@genealogy.net Da das Herzogtum Nassau bereits 1866 aufgehört hat zu existieren, wäre dort auch eine Anfrage angebracht.
Meine Englischkenntnisse sind gering, es wäre nett, wenn Sie die Mail an Bob Stein übersetzen würden.
mfG aus dem Sauerland
Mechthild Sieg
As a Prussian citizen Wilhelm Stein must have had a passport for himself and
his family, or he could not leave the country. As a Prussian citizen he must
have had a permit to leave the country and he must have reported off at the
military authorities. There should be some papers in the archives in
Wiesbaden. I would propose to write a letter to the State Archives in
Wiesbaden, tell them the story of your long lasting research and ask them
for copies of the papers which in 1872 Wilhelm Stein as an emigrant-aspirant
had to request from the administration, e.g. passport, permits a.s.o. May
be, copies of these administrative acts are there in the papers or they
could help you to find them elsewhere.
Hallo Bob Stein,
In Germany it gave in former times several countries with the name Nassau, so Nassau Diez with the city Dillenburg, Nassau Oranien with Den Haag (the Netherlands), duchy Nassau (1806-1866) with Wiesbaden and also Hessen Nassau (1866-1918) with Kassel. Perhaps you searched in the wrong area.
See also Google and www.nassau-info.de
www.hoeckmann.de/geschichte/nassau.htm
Grüße aus Deutschland
Mechthild Sieg
Wilhelm and ELizabetha Stein along with their son Joseph left the Duchy of
Nassau in 1872 thru th port of Bremen. They arrived in Lemont,Il/ in the
same year. They prospered, had another child in 1880 and the lineaqge
remained in Lemont thru the mid 1970's.
I have not been able to find the name of the town of origin in Germany. They
were Catholic and the church records in Wiesbaden have no record of them. If
anyone has any suggestions, I would be sincerely apprciative. I have been
searching fo 25 years for this info.
If at all possible please reply in English. My German is very limited.