I had looked for Solms as well, but didn't find anything there either. Btw it is Solms-Rödelheim who held 1/3 of Assenheim, not Solms-Braunfels. I haven't looked at the Isenburgs yet. Feel free to google a bit yourself, may be you're lucky. However, note that neither Solms nor Isenburg were as rich and powerful as the house of Hessen. That is why both, Solms and Isenburg, were mediatised after the congress of Vienna and were absorbed by the two Hessen, by Prussia and Nassau. Regards, Thierry   Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich D-61250 Usingen ________________________________ Von: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Freitag, den 10. April 2009, 21:55:01 Uhr Betreff: Re: [HESSE] Need word help please On Fri, April 10, 2009 2:24 pm, Thierry Dietrich wrote: > > Several years after the birth you are mentioning the Prince Elector of > Hessen, Wilhelm I., does separate the County of Hanau for tactical > reasons. Anyway it was after your record and it was only for a few years, > until his grand-son heritated the entire Prince Electorate and merged it > back with Hessen-Kassel. Yes, but are we sure we are talking about Hesse-Cassel or Solms-Braunfels in 1725? Or could the sponsors be part of the Ysenburg ruling family? Assenheim fell under all three. While Michael was a gardener for the house of Hanau, that doesn't mean the sponsors of his son are from Hanau. It doesn't say anything about them, and thus I assume they are local, and probably part of the Solms-Braunfels lineage. I'm not sure what to look for in the records for these two to see if they are mentioned elsewhere. Of course this is all coming from the index. I'll have to find the record this weekend. It may be more useful in digging out details. Or not. Thanks again, Brian ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message