hi Maureen- Thank you, its possible its Soltau, there are just extra letters in the name. :) I appreciate the help with the last name, I haven't found any surname forums in the usual places(ie genforum/rootsweb) so I wondered if the name was wrong in some way. :) Kate --- On Sat, 9/26/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Eickmann surname? To: [email protected], [email protected] Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 3:57 PM Kate - do you think that village name might be Soltau?   I could  not find anything resembling Soltrum in Meyers-Orts (1912 Gazetteer) but this  place is in Hannover - a sizeable city of 5,000 a century ago.  It is near  Luneberg and Celle.  On today's maps that would be Niedersachsen or Lower  Saxony.   As to Eickmann, there may be multiple spellings over time, so it will help  to collect them all and follow the trail - there is no single correct version as  we tend to think today.   There were no spelling rules until around  the time this lady was married, and it took some 20-30 years before those took  hold, and some people just ignored those rules anyway.    If you  listen to the sound (the German sound), you will probably find Eichmann, as -ch-  equals -k- (eiche means oak, a topographical name for those who lived under an  oak tree or near an oak woods) Aichmann, also Flemish or Dutch, nearby, as Eike,  Van Eyk, Eijk, Van der Eycke, Eyckman.   The Eickmann spelling is Low  German, Plattdeutsch, which fits the area of Hannover.  Maureen In a message dated 9/26/2009 11:42:47 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes: Hi- I have a marriage application and certificate datd June  23, 1878 in Brooklyn, NY for a Meta Maria Eickmann from Soltrum(?) Hanover,  parents were Friedrich Georg Eickmann and Rebecca Meta Behrens. I'm not  having much luck finding information on the Eickmann surname, or on the  name of the town. I'm wondering if someone could help me with a variation of  Eickmann, and where would Soltrum be in the in the 1850s? I'm wondering if it  was a question of a language barrier, and that the names are just  wrong? thank you! Kate from Virginia ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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

Hi Kate, Kate schrieb am 27.09.2009 00:07 u.a.: > > Thank you, its possible its Soltau, ... could it be Sottrum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sottrum)? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / kind regards Detlef (Ziemann) Meine Ahnen und ich / my ancestors and me: http://www.dziemann.de "Ziemanns Liste": http://www.dziemann.de/dkm/dkm-beitraege.htm