Rather funny how they mangled that name, it must be Bexten. Today part of Salzbergen, i's a rather small place (town sounds much too large) in the Emsland area between Salzbergen and Emsbüren, not so very far from Lingen. When your ancestor left it was part of the Kingdom Hannover. Best of all, there members of a Robers family still are living there. Brigitte --- On Tue, 6/16/09, D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes <[email protected]> wrote: From: D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes <[email protected]> Subject: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Help reading/locating town name "Buchsen" To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 10:57 AM My great-great-grandfather emigrated from Bremen to the USA and  eventually Cincinnati, Ohio. He's listed in the ship manifest  departing Bremen in September 1837 but I'm having trouble locating the  town listed for him, which looks like Buchsen. The manifest with its headings: http://sakionline.net/uploads/1837manifest.jpg and a close-up of the area with his name: http://sakionline.net/uploads/sophiesept1837.jpg He's Johann Gerhard Robers with a brother or cousin Gerhard Robers. Using modern-day maps and JewishGen's Shtetl-Seeker I can't locate a  town called Buchsen. There are several Bachhausen, Buchhausen, and the  like, but nothing matching what's written on the manifest. Can anyone suggest what this town might be? Regards, Debra MacLaughlan-Dumes http://sakionline.net/familypage ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- 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

On Jun 16, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Brigitte Jahnke wrote: > Rather funny how they mangled that name, it must be Bexten. > Today part of Salzbergen, i's a rather small place (town sounds much > too large) in the Emsland area between Salzbergen and Emsbüren, not > so very far from Lingen. When your ancestor left it was part of the > Kingdom Hannover. Was it ever part of Westfalen or Prussia later? There are a number of Robers people who seem to have originated in Vreden, Westfalen before coming to the USA. I should note that whenever my Johann/John Robers appears in the U.S. federal census in Ohio (1860 - 1880) he indicated that Prussia or Germany was his country of origin. I hope that's not inconsistent with Bexten during those years. > Best of all, there members of a Robers family still are living there. That's nice to know, I appreciate the help. Perhaps I'll be able to track him down. Do you happen to know the parish for Bexten? Thanks very much! Regards, Debra MacLaughlan-Dumes http://sakionline.net/familypage ------------------------------------------