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My ancestors were from Saxony but I'm not surprised to see people looking for their Hessian ancestors, as Britain has a history of using soldiers of the Hessian Army as early as the 1740s when they helped the English army to quell the uprising of the Scottish Highlanders. I think the Hessian barracks were in southern England.
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My FLAMME/FLEMME ancestor came over in 1864 during the rumbling of war on the European mainland when Prussia and Austria tried to gather together all the Germanic states into one Federation. He was of farming stock but he'd become a travelling musician with hi maternal uncle (an EHLERS) and I noticed that the English address they were living at in 1871 had housed a different set of BIELSTEIN and GUNTHER musicians in 1861. Whilst perusing German annual Court listings (= a "people count" = a type of annual census) I found older generations of my ancestor living either next door to, or in the same German village as, what turned out to be relatives of the musicians who had lived in the English address in 1861.
None of my ancestors are listed on the familysearch.org website and even if they'd been on the old website I wouldn't have found them because the search facility only brought up the first given name and at the time I didn't know their first names, only the name they used. I actually found their baptisms, etc., by looking in the library catalogue
https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlc/ to see if there were any available films for the Ev.Lutheran Village church and when I saw that there was one, I went to my local Church of Latter Day Saints FHS and used their viewing facilities.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke