Hi Mary Jane,
Your dilema has been brought about by governmental policies and politics of
the era and is something similar to my gt.grndfather being known in the
family as an Austrian which sent me off on a wild goose chase looking within
the boundaries of that country. The truth was; he was born within Hannover
(state) which had signed a treaty with Austria.
Wilfried has given you a choice of 3 towns and you need to discover if the
word 'Prussia' was in any documentation earlier than 1870 and if so you need
to research German history to discover dates of treaties/agreements.
Note: (to those listers who know I am researching Steinlah near Salzgitter
area - due to old handwriting I first needed to eliminate Steinlach in
Austria :-))
Best Wishes,
Rena in England