Hi listers,
I'm still searching on the WEHRKAMP surname. On an american website I have
found following entry:
At 9 - 7 - 1848 WEHRKAMP, Wilhelm from Polstenkamp arrived the States with
the "George Washington". At that time he was at an age of 24 years.
Does anyone know, where Polstenkamp is located?
Cinceraly
Hermann
Bruett43@aol.com schrieb:
Hi listers,
I'm still searching on the WEHRKAMP surname. On an american website I have
found following entry:
At 9 - 7 - 1848 WEHRKAMP, Wilhelm from Polstenkamp arrived the States with
the "George Washington". At that time he was at an age of 24 years.
Does anyone know, where Polstenkamp is located?
Cinceraly
Hermann
WehrKAMP und PolstenKAMP klingt etwas gedoppelt, vielleicht ein-KAMP zuviel ?
Finde nur:
Polster = 92539 Sch�nsee
Polsterm�hle = 92331 Parsberg
Polstertaler Zechenhaus = 38707 Altenau
Polzen = 04916 Herzberg
Ortsnamen mit der Endung -kamp scheinen recht selten, Stra�ennamen sind wohl
h�ufiger, z.B. Holstenkamp, eine Stra�e in Hamburg. Beste Gr��e Hans Peter Albers
Hermann,
I saw that passenger list (with the Wehrkamp name) online as well.
Polstenkamp probably is someone's reading of script that is not very clear.
That passenger list comes from a set of books I've seen at our public
library by Gary Zimmerman:
German Immigrants; Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, ed.
Gary Zimmerman and Marion P. Wolfert (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing
Co., 1985-1993). Vol. 1 (1985): 1847-1854; vol. 2 (1986): 1855-1862; vol. 3
(1988): 1863-1867; vol. 4 (1993): 1868-1871.
Barbara Stewart
Hermann,
On further analysis, I think there probably is a very small town
called Polstenkamp. I have a very detailed Autoatlas of Germany which has
a very long index, but some very small towns are listed on the map, but not
in the index. There are MANY small towns with -kamp in the name in the
Osnabruck area. A larger one is Espelkamp north east of Osnabruck. A small
one, Hahnenkamp, near Lavelsloh. Many also to the south of Osnabruck--one
near Dissen, others further south. That area is so densely populated, that
it is hard to see all the towns. There may be other such towns in many
other areas-- I just chose that area since you have some clues that
Wehrkamps came from there. I probably missed it--or it's even smaller and
just not on the map at all. Many there is even a Wehrkamp town somewhere!
Barbara Stewart
Hermann,
I think I may have found it. It is Palsterkamp. If you go on
www.mapquest.com and search for that name, you will find it in the Dissen
area. Dissen and Hilter were two towns listed for many of the Wehrkamps who
are in the emigrant database I referred to in an earlier message. I will
send the map to your own email.
Barbara
Super, Barbara!
Palsterkamp nowadays is part of (49214) Bad Rothenfelde in the Osnabr�ck
region. But none inhabitans "Wehrkamp" in Bad Rothenfelde today (Phone-CD
of Jan 2002).
Gru� aus Hamburg
Uwe
R&B Stewart schrieb:
Hermann,
I think I may have found it. It is Palsterkamp. If you go on
www.mapquest.com and search for that name, you will find it in the Dissen
area. Dissen and Hilter were two towns listed for many of the Wehrkamps who
are in the emigrant database I referred to in an earlier message. I will
send the map to your own email.
Barbara
Barbara Stewart is excellent as ever: Palsterkamp is a streetname in Bad Rothen-
felde and seems to be the same time name for the wood region. In that street are
3 participants all with the same adress, who got telephone:
- das staatliche Forstamt, Palsterkamp 1, 49214 Bad Rothenfelde
- Senft von Pilsach Ott
- Senft von Pilsach Sebastian
in Bad Rothenfelde can be found a Wehrkamp-Lemke, Fritz in 1995. That's it
Greetings Hans Peter Albers