To: Mary Ann, Your posting is interesting to me as my great aunt married a Theodor Hentschel on 23.iv.1872 in Muskau on the Nei�e River. Muskau was located in Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia) in the Kingdom of Prussia near the border of the Kingdom of Saxony. The Hentschel brothers had a local department store there that was, I believe, later move to Hirschberg also in Niederschlesien. I have some pictures. These could be relatives of your Hentschels. In regard to Graschwitz, I have located it on the map about 5 or 6 km south and just slightly west of Bautzen. Bautzen was in the Kingdom of Saxony and is about 50 km south west of Muskau, which is now on the Polish border and is now included in the Free State of Saxony. Regards, Herbert Mahler --- [email protected] wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 22:48:00 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GERMANKING] HENTSCHEL > > Seeking information about ancestors and descendants > of Johann Gustav Hentshel, "b. 20 Feb 1848 in > Gnaschwitz (alternatively recorded in family > records as Graschwitz and Gnauschwitz) near Bautzen, > Saxony". Another family member says he might have > been born in Goerlitz. Part of the confusion > could be due to handwriting. > > Johann Gustav's father was Johann Carl Gottlieb > Hentschel. His wife was Johanna Augusta > Schuster-Boehme Hentschel, daughter of Fredericke > Charlotte > Schuster and adopted by her husband Mr. Boehme. > > --Mary Ann __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com