hannover-l - Nachricht 2007-07 00162

[R&B Stewart <raybarbara(a)comcast.net>]

Hi Janet, 

   Good to hear from you. Yes, I would agree that it is hard to trace that
Basse--Bosse--Eilers family. It happens often that people have several names
before their surname--and they use one or the other(s). I don't think I
found much of anything about Christian Eilers at all--maybe he died young.
Your Philip is not easy to find either. I use the Heritage Quest Online that
you can access through public libraries. I'm sure that people have to guess
about the spelling.

   Celle is a city within what was the Kingdom of Hannover.  Hannover is
also a city of itself. I could be entirely wrong about any connections with
Celle and your family!

   I never can find the Calenberg near Hackenstedt. There is a town by the
name of Calenberg in Nordheim-Westfalen near Warburg, but that would not
have been in Hannover. There's a Kalenberg in another place in
Nordheim-Westfalen near Mechernich. I really can't claim to know German
history, but there was a duchy named Calenberg which later became the
kingdom of Hannover.

   I must sound like the devil's advocate here!  I don't mean to be that,
but one has to think of everything  here.  I do think that marriage record
in St. Louis is very important. The Hogenstedt, Amt. Wehlenberg and
Grosenheim names must mean something. I would think it more likely to be the
right place to look than Calenberg. That Louis Bosse might have been a
relative or a friend.  Who knows? Maybe he was rich and wanted Sophia to
have part of his territory for a grave.

   We'll keep looking!

   Barbara






 Barbara,
>  
> Thank you so much for your time and efforts!  It is a challenge.   I do have
> many clues but still have been unsuccessful.
>  
> I have never heard of Celle.  They were pretty consistent with saying  they
> were from Hanover.  I always wondered about the royal Basse family  from
> Bordelough...I believe.  I may be wrong on that town name  spelling.  I think
> the 
> town was renamed Basse.  But, I don't remember  if it is in Hanover.
>  
> She married Christian Eilers here, not in Germany, and I don't believe they
> knew each other before.  I think they met in America.  She was here  over a
> year before she remarried.  There are other Reineckes in St. Louis  at the
> time. 
>  And, now that I am thinking about it...I never  found either one, Sophia or
> her son Philip in the 1860 census in St.  Louis.  Sophia is married by then.
> I recently  discovered that her name was Maria Sophia Reinecke Basse Eilers.
> The man she married was Christian Eilers but I THINK, he possibly also  went
> by Gustov.  Not positive about that.  I found a tentative  couple, Gustov and
> Sophia Eilers for the 1870 census in St. Louis but it  looks to me like it
> says Sophia is 5 years old.  I've never been positive  about that.
>  
> Philip, her son, enlists in the civil war in October of 1861 in St. Louis  so
> I am pretty sure he is there somewhere.  But, I have to take note of the
> fact that when he marries his wife, for some reason he marries her in Ohio on
> July 4, 1864.  I have no idea what he is doing in Cincinnati...whether he  has
> relatives there or whether he was just discharged from the Civil War  near
> there and couldn't get home??  No idea.
>  
> He and his wife are in St. Louis in the 1870 census.  I looked and  looked
> for that 1860 census for both of them, and then when I saw that he was
> married 
> in Cincinnati...it made me wonder if maybe they could be visiting  relatives
> in Ohio during the 1860 census?  It really frustrates me  when I can't find
> people in the census.  I'm usually pretty good using  Ancestry's search engine
> but there have been a handful that have eluded  me.  :-)
>  
> No Basse or Reinecke names in Hackenstedt today at all, huh?  Well,  that's
> discouraging!
>  
> Thank you...you've made me start thinking again.
>  
> Janet
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