**COMPLETED GERMANY: Shurley- Braunsbach, Wurttemberg**

[WoodElf]

Hi all,

I am researching my mother's side of the family and one of her ancestors was born in Braunsbach, Wurttemberg. I was hoping if anyone could give me a website about family history in Wurttemberg. Also, I am having trouble actually determining when she emigrated to England. Her name is Maria "M?" Barbara Shürley and was born on the 1st April 1844 (April Fool's ). I know she has a brother, John. Is there a site I could go to about German immigrants to England? Any help with sites would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[jorose]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braunsbach - here's the wiki page for Braunsbach.
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/BAD-WUE/BW.html - general info about genealogy in Baden-Württemberg.
http://www.auswanderer-bw.de/auswanderer/index.php?sprache=en&suche=1 - emigrants.

Ship records were not kept in the UK for ships arriving from Europe.  Interestingly, I can see John Shurley in the 1881 census in York - wife Elise also from Wurttemberg, eldest child in 1881 is Pauline, 13, b. Hull.  The timing suggests the family might have left around the time of the Austro-Prussian war?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Prussian_War
(There is also a Christian 'Shirley' listed in Yorkshire in 1881, like John a pork butcher and b. Wurttemberg.  Another brother?)

http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/voyages.asp?articleid=28&zoneid=6 - also Hull was a port where some ships from Europe came in, people then going down to Liverpool to board ships going onwards to the US and Canada.  They may have been intending to go to the US but found work in the UK and decided to stay.

The LDS have microfilmed some church records for Braunsbach.  Do you know the religion of this family?

The spelling of the last name might have originally been 'Schürle'?

[CatOne]

The family are also on the 1871 census, so probably arrived in the 1860's as I havent yet found them on 1861 census...

[jorose]

Checked freebmd for 'Schurle', I find:
Johann Friedrich Schurle, married Sep q. 1865 in Hull.  Elise is 'Elise Caroline Niderl__thier   '
Maria Magdalena B Schurle, married 1873 in Hull;

Also I think I've spotted what might be their mother?  If somebody could have a quick peek for these in the 1871...
1881,    33 Moxon St Kingston-upon-Hull
Margaret Bosse, head, widow, 57, b. Brannsbach, Germany, charwoman
Amelia, dau, 16, b. Hull
Caroline Hurley, 70, mother, widow, b. Kooher... Staten, Germany (widow of sailor).

A Caroline Shurley died later in 1881, in Hull (freebmd).
A Frederick Julius Bosse married possibly Margaret Sherle or Sturle (spellings as in freebmd), 1860 in Hull
He may have died (as 'Julius Bosse') in 1871 (again, from freebmd)

[CatOne]

1871 RG10/4790 Folio 39 Page 25
30 Moxon Street, Holy Trinity, Myton, Yorks
Julius Bosse 52 Shoemaker Germany
Margarette 41 Gothenburg
Amelia 6 Scholar Hull
Antonie 9 Scholar Hull

Regards
Catherine 

[CatOne]

In 1871 theres also a Rosa Schurley 18 General Servant b. Wurtemburg Germany in the house of Oswald Fris Smith (Corn Merchant from Denmark) and family

West Sculcoates, Yorkshire
RG10/4783 Folio 141 Page 17

[jorose]

Found in 1861:
RG9/3565 f. 4 p. 3
Holy Trinity, Kingston Upon Hull
9 Mary's Place
Julius Bosse, 44, shoemaker, b. Prussia Berlin, naturalized British subject
Margaretta, 33, b. Wurtemberg, dit.

[CatOne]

Births -

Henry R Shurley June 1866 Ripon Vol 9a Page 67
    ( Death? Henry Rudolph Shurley March 1867 Vol 9a Page 61)

"Poulina" Carolina Shurley September 1867 Hull Vol 9d Page 193

Johann Julius Schurle March 1869 Hull Vol 9d Page 218

Eliza Caroline Shurley March 1870 Ripon Vol 9a Page 69

Ernstini Luose Shurley March 1872 Sculcoates Vol 9d Page 170

Emma Julia Shurley September 1874 Sculcoates Vol 9d Page 185

[CatOne]

I think it should be Catherine Shurley with the Bosse family in 1881 and heres the reference for her death -

Catherine Shurley June 1881 Hull Vol 9d Page 145 Age 70