New e-mail address mlgeller@qwest.net >From: HESSE-D-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com >To: HESSE-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: HESSE-D Digest V04 #225 >Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:00:15 -0600 > >Content-Type: text/plain > >HESSE-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 225 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Hanover Question [Bart Hansen ><kilmory@earthlink.net] > #2 Hesse-Nassau question ["Peter Antonio" ><peter@antonio2.fr] > #3 Hanover - Oppershausen [Bart Hansen ><kilmory@earthlink.net] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from HESSE-D, send a message to > HESSE-D-request@rootsweb.com >that contains in the body of the message the command > unsubscribe >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. NEVER hit your >reply button to unsubscribe. > >Web Site for HESSEN, GERMANY, is at >http://members.cox.net/hessen/index.htm > >Many towns in Germany have the same name! Add the 5-digit >zip code in front of the name! Zip codes explained, >http://members.cox.net/hessen/index.htm > >To unsubscribe or to look for old messages, go to: >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/HESSE.html > > > >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:57:23 -0400 >From: Bart Hansen <kilmory@earthlink.net> >To: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20041008105517.00a1b720@pop.earthlink.net> >Subject: Hanover Question >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >Recently I learned that my gr-gr-grandmother came from Oppershausen, >Hanover. >This information was written in an Lutheran church book for her 1867 >Chicago, Illinois >marriage. > >Oppershausen looks to be a village in present-day Thueringen. Is that >correct? > >If so, there appears to be a Rootsweb list called Deu-Thueringen. Does >anyone >know if there is another list as well that covers this area? > >Her husband, who was number two and not my direct ancestor, came from a >place that looks like "Puritz, Pompen" I probably do not have those words >right >as the script was not too clear in his case. Any ideas where and what >these >places were? > >Thanks, >Bart in Virginia > >______________________________ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:54:05 +0100 >From: "Peter Antonio" <peter@antonio2.freeserve.co.uk> >To: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <004701c4ad68$2fbd0fa0$455a4154@study> >Subject: Hesse-Nassau question >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >I am searching for any information on the Antonio family from Nassau. I >have traced my gr. gr. gr. grandfather via census and marriage records and >believe his was born William Antonio in Nassau in 1839. He moved to >England, Liverpool and was married in 1866. He had 4 children and I have >been able to trace a direct line to myself. The only other information >that I have is from his marriage certificate which gives his father's name >as Conrad. Any information or help that anybody can give in tracing other >members of the Antonio family in Germany would be greatly appreciated. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 16:44:37 -0400 >From: Bart Hansen <kilmory@earthlink.net> >To: HESSE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20041008163801.00a19710@pop.earthlink.net> >Subject: Hanover - Oppershausen >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >Thanks, Doris. I now see there are two Oppershausen and the one I want >is the one you indicate by Celle near Hanover. > >On my reference to Puritz, Pompen, did you actually locate this place in >Poland? The writing is probably by a German-born minister in Illinois. >As I said, the Pompen was my estimate, but I do not believe the p was >a double s, right? > >In the 1880 US census, this man declared himself to be from Prussia. I >am not sure what that meant since he had come to America in 1860. Might >"Pompen" have been part of Prussia in 1860? > >Thanks, >Bart