THEODOR HATTORFF in the shiplist (one of my brick walls)

hannover-l
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Hi all together

Meanwhile i am trying to find that Joels Menkes what is really an
interesting hint with that Eberhard Heinrich Menke i will show you one of my difficult
jobs at ancestry.com

I try since about 2 years to find THEODOR HATTORFF in the shiplist. One
thing is absolutely sure.

He was no immigrant but he was a visitor for a baptism. He signed on
November 4th 1890 the papers in Chicago IL. Theodore is born around 1818 and so he
was about 72 years. His hometown in this year was probably Labuhn in
Pommerania.

But how did he get there? Taking a ship to Baltimore perhaps, or was he the
second world record swimmer in our family?

I have been searching the ship list up and down using misspellings as Theo*
Todore and whatever, maybe i am too stupid to find him, it would be helpful if
one of our routined ancestry searchers could keep an eye on this men.

Have a fine weekend all together

Armin

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Hi Armin,

Just a thought.

What are common nicknames for Theodor in Germany?
My great-grandmother's name was "Helene" and she is on the manifest as
"Lina."
That and the wrong spelling of the surname is what took so long for me to
find her.

Bobbi

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Hi Bobbi,
in fact "Theo" is a very common short form for Theodor, but I have seen, that the name "Dietrick" Dierich" or "Dirk" was used for people who were baptized as Theodor. In the Rhine region "Dueres" is used as Nickname for Theodor too.
Rotraud

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Thanks.