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Wicklow / Re: mary dunckley 1812 wicklow
« on: Wednesday 05 September 18 22:56 BST (UK)  »
Sorry - I have only just seen this post. Are you still interested?
[Hi yes.. i am...... thankyou for message]

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Thursday 26 July 18 22:46 BST (UK)  »
Some locations in Eastern and Central Europe "changed hands" so often, that they could have been labelled as being in Germany / Prussia / Poland / Austro-Hungarian-Empire at different times.
 
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In your later Post you say there are the letters oftpw after the name. When you check out Sütterlin Schrift you‘ll see the letters say ostpr (Eastprussia)
So you are most likely looking for the second link

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i looked on ancestry but cant find census for kessler osterode
There were very few censuses in Germany / Prussia / Poland / Austro-Hungarian-Empire.
Certainly none of this "every ten years", as in USA, UK, Ireland and some other places
(we don't realise how spoilt we are, until we start looking outside these "regular census" countries :) )

regards,
Bob
thankyou that looks right.. so will check east prussia

Whilst I was researching my family I found that Napoleon's reign early 1800s set up a regular six monthly "buildings and people count" on 30th June and 31st December  After a few decades names of ordinary people started to be listed.  You could be lucky and find some.  I've attached a copy of part of a people count of Strasse 88, Salzgitter taken on 31st December 1852 when my gt.grandfather's Aunt Charlotte was six years old.  The several columns were for quick calculations, e.g. to separate children from adults and males from females and a column for religion.

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Thursday 26 July 18 22:41 BST (UK)  »


Do you have your grandmother's birth certificate which may(?) give her mother's full name?



Where was your grandmother born? If I were you I would be looking for her birth certificate. Birth certificates generally give both mother and father's names.

If the family moved to the UK, depending on dates, have you checked the censuses?

Re reading, I think I may have misunderstood. Can I confirm? ....
F. Kessler is your father's grandmother?
It was only your father who moved to the UK?  :-\
yes it was only him

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 22:13 BST (UK)  »
there is no connection to canada ,,, and i have no details who she married, she was grandmother to my father, who emigrated to uk,  there was no family contact, just  the photo , so thats all info i have
 i looked on ancestry but cant find census for kessler osterode  ,thankyou 

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 19:13 BST (UK)  »
    i only have a photo in connection with this side of family, the details i have are written by hand , on back of photo...which is why i know the birth date, unfortunately she has only given her initial f kessler.   then osterode and again some initails or maybe it is a name, i cant see exactly but it looks like oftpw  the letters o and t are clear,, any ideas. thankyou

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 19:12 BST (UK)  »
    i only have a photo in connection with this side of family, the details i have are written by hand , which is why i know the birth date, unfortunately she has only given her initial f kessler.   then osterode and again some initails or maybe it is a name, i cant see exactly but it looks like oftpw  the letters o and t are clear,, any ideas. thankyou

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 19:03 BST (UK)  »
I think you misunderstood my posting. If your Great grandmother was born in Osterode Harz (Niedersachsen) there is no use looking for her in Osterode Ostpreussen.

Regards Peonie
,................ 

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 18:53 BST (UK)  »
I think you misunderstood my posting. If your Great grandmother was born in Osterode Harz (Niedersachsen) there is no use looking for her in Osterode Ostpreussen.

Regards Peonie

I know Osterode is in Neidersachsen but I do recall that back in the time of Bismark and conflict the USA was quick to acknowlege that immigrants to their country were from "Prussia" and I'm assuming that as familysearch is in the USA it is using old fashioned historical terms.

There's a portal here for more research:-

https://www.archion.de/de/archive-in-archion/niedersachsen/landeskirchliches-archiv-der-ev-luth-kirche-in-braunschweig/

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Europe / Re: German grandmother
« on: Tuesday 24 July 18 21:33 BST (UK)  »
How is it that you know her date and place of birth but not her first name?  :-\

Do you have your grandmother's birth certificate which may(?) give her mother's full name?

Presumably Kessler her maiden rather than married surname? (just checking ...)
thankyou for reply.. i only have a photo with those details..
ommer . Which is grandmother.. and initial f kessler..

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