[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Bierwagen / Schmidtke

[Charlotte Gorley]

Thank you.  Well, it was worth a shot.  :-)  Pardon the pun.

I've found reference to the same man by all 3 names.  I've heard that
he/they may have used whichever one they felt like.  Not sure if that's true
or not....which is why I'd really like to find some lineage records to
establish their parents and other relatives.

I also know that spelling was changed through the years, and people's
English sometimes led to translations and nicknames.

Charlotte

-----Original Message-----
From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org
[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Günther
Böhm
Sent: August-16-11 3:10 PM
To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Bierwagen / Schmidtke

Am 16.08.2011 22:59, schrieb Charlotte Gorley:
> I've been researching my Bierwagen and Schmidtke ancestors.
>
> Fredrick (or Ferdinand or Valentyne) Bierwagen (born 1860) married
Henrietta
> Schmidtke (1861-1948).  They are my great-grandparents.
>
> I recently found this website, but can't translate it.  I wonder if
someone
> can help me out.
> http://www.ao-rheinhausen.de/3098/jahreshauptversammlung/
>
> Charlotte

Hello Charlotte,
forget the website. It is the self-display of an accordion orchestra in
Rheinhausen, a western part of Duisburg, and the 
mentioned Bierwagen means a beer reefer at the past advent fair.

By the way, Friedrich [Frederick], Ferdinand and Valentin are completely
different christian names. Friedrich was the 
name of the most famous Prussian king, Ferdinand the name of several
Austrian-German emperors and archdukes and Valentin 
of the name at least three catholic saints. They have unlikely been
mixed-up.

Günther
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