As an afterthought, I am going to find out if those 2 e-mail addresses are still good, and if not, who knows the new ones. We would like to hear from them. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Merz" <hessian@sympatico.ca> To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 7:11 PM Subject: [HESSIAN] Heinrich BITTENHOLZER, Ansbach-Bayreuth soldier. > Jane, you brought up the Rootsweb WorldConnect project > and gave some leads in respect to Heinrich BITTER, who is > being investigated by Carolyn. It all got me a bit confused, so > I started to do some basic research, and I had a bulls eye. > > Remember that I suggested to Carolyn that Heinrich could > have changed his name. I had this Ansbach-Bayreuther in > my files, Heinrich Bittenholzer, who deserted in June 1783 > according to the military files. This date of course is not carved > in stone, he may have gone much earlier, but went unreported. > > I checked the German Telephone on-line directory for the name > and hit a blank, but when I tried some variations, I found that > there were about 40 listings in Western Germany of the name > BUETTENHOELZER (the u and the o being Umlauts), and > guess what, I did a search on the Rootsweb WorldConnect > for the name BITTENHELZER and to my surprise here came > two entries for this name, both for a Heinrich. > > Now hear this: > Karen Moore kmoore2002@home.com and > Suzanne Baird sbaird@nvahomes.com > are looking for Henry BITTENHELZER, who married 5. April 1788 > in Shenandoah, Virginia to Elizabeth BEARD, born 1753 in > Augusta, VA. Her father was Zachariah BARD, born abt.1719 in > Germany. > Well, those two descendants at least do know now who this > Henry Bittenhelzer was, I know that he married, and we all know > a little more. Except I don't know if this has helped our subscriber > Carolyn, she may have to look further. > > That's all I can do for now, > best wishes, > John Helmut Merz