[LRflex] Re: An ice-cold stroll around Bremen last Sunday
- From: "William B. Abbott III" <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:25:43 -0800
Douglas,
Thank you very much; it is very interesting to me and I will see what more I
can find.
My brother-in-law, who lives in Sacramento, Calif. worked with the Sacramento
German Genealogy Society and they helped him locate his relatives in Westphalia
via the German telephone directory. Members of his family, the Niemiers and
Rustiges, still live close by the towns from which his immigrant ancestors
departed, Anrochte and Effeln, in what was then Prussia.
When they arrived over here, they went to a large colony of German immigrants
on the Ohio River in Evansville, Indiana to farm. How they knew where to go I
haven't discovered.
Franz Christian Rustige, who came as an infant, became Frank Christian Rusting,
and later married Maria Niemier Kirchoff, and they became the parents of my
late wife's grandmother, whom I met before she died in 1957.
My son Ian married into a family in which one of the various mothers-in-law is
a native German and, without telling her why, he asked her what the meaning of
"rustige" was and she replied right away, "rusting." Then he told her it was
his grandmother's maiden name and they had a good laugh.
My ancestors were all English; my mother's family arriving with the Mayflower
and my father's ancestors later, but I don't know when or where, only that my
great=grandfather was born in Connecticut of an English-born mother and a
Yankee father in 1830.
All the best,
Bill
On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
> Bill,
> this may interest you:
>
> http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/
>
> The museum opened not all that long ago and you can research your family
> history there. They have records going back to the very beginning of
> emigration from Germany.
>
> Here's the emigrants database
>
> http://www.dad-recherche.de/hmb/index.html
>
> The Germans are very well known for not throwing documents away :-)
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
> On 27.01.2010 21:52, William B. Abbott III wrote:
>> Douglas,
>>
>> Lovely pictures; thanks.
>>
>> I'd love to visit Bremen because my late mother-in-law's grandmother, Maria
>> Christina Niemier and her brother Franz left Bremen in 1861 to come to
>> America. The rest is history,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Sunday we were invited to a New Year reception staged by the Bremen
>>> Journalists Club and the Merchants Guild of 1801.
>>> The walk from the station past the mill (go back one shot, and you can
>>> see what it looks like in good weather at around the same time last year)
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0641.jpg.html
>>>
>>> and the bronze pigs,
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0643.jpg.html
>>>
>>> across the cathedral square,
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0644.jpg.html
>>>
>>> past the town hall
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0647.jpg.html
>>>
>>> and into the Schnoor, the oldest part of the city, with some wonderful shops
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0648.jpg.html
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0649.jpg.html
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0659.jpg.html
>>>
>>> was ice-cold, around -20°C, and we were happy to get into the warmth of
>>> the Club.
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0652.jpg.html
>>>
>>> A very entertaining show, too. Germany's leading political columunist
>>> (Heribert Prantl) and the secretary of state of Bremen's parliament in a
>>> radio chat with our old friend Theo Schlüter - with breaks filled very
>>> professionally by the local amateur barbershop group "Fishermans Fresh"
>>> (who are actually more of a madrigal choir)
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Bremen/_MG_0656.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Bremen is a great place, you can sit around, have a hot Grog and chat
>>> with senators (that's what they call ministers in the city states of
>>> Bremen, and Hamburg) and there's never a shifty-looking security bloke
>>> to be seen.
>>>
>>> Hamburg and Lübeck are similar, must be something to do with their
>>> Hanseatic heritage.
>>>
>>> Sunday was also the first time I've ever had aperture blades sticking
>>> and Canon electronics refusing to work because of the cold.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
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