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Subject: [Hofmann] HOFMANN / ZUHLKEN / EHSMANN families Otterstedt/Ottersburg, Germany
Date: 26 Feb 2004 03:04:16 -0700

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Hi,

Is anyone researching families with the names HOFMANN or ZUHLKEN who came from the Otterstedt/Ottersburg regions of what is now Lower Saxony in Germany. The area is about 15 miles from Bremen. I was kindly sent details from church records after 1823 but wonder is anyone has earlier records or can add to what I already know about my German ancestry

HOFMANN / ZUHLKEN FAMILY
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Records from the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Otterstedt

Albert ZUHLKEN married Anna SCHNAKENBERG (date not known)

Known children

Maria Christine ZUHLKEN born 8th February 1816.
Albert ZUHLKEN born 1823
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*Johann HOFMANN (pottager and master potter), son of Johann HOFMANN (farmer), married Maria Christine ZUHLKEN on 5th May 1839

Known children,

#Johann Heinrich Albert HOFMANN born 28th March 1841. Baptized 12th April 1841
Maria Barbara HOFMANN born 5th March 1843 died 7th March 1843) Twins
Anna Dorothea HOFMANN born 5th March 1843 died 21st March 1843 )
Anna HOFMANN born 3rd December 1846. Baptized 26th December 1846
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Maria Christine HOFMANN nee ZUHLKEN died 3rd July 1849. Buried 7th July 1849
Aged 33 years 4 months and 24 days.
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*Johann HOFMANN remarried Anna Lucia EHSMANN, (daughter of Abraham EHSMANN) on 6th October 1849.
Johann HOFMANN still alive in 1865 when son #Johann married Hannah DAY in England (occupation - farmer)

Known child to Johann and Anna

Johann HOFMANN born 31st August 1850, baptized 8th September 1850
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I believe son #Johann (my great grandfather) came to England in the early 1860's. He worked in the sugar refineries of the St George-in-the-East area of the East End of London.

Any information much appreciated.

Rose

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