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Photos My Great-Great-Grandparents Letter #1 from Marne Letter #2 from Marne Contact Info
The SCHLOTMANN FAMILY from FELDSTRASSE
2, MARNE, GERMANY
Dear Sister,
I send you greetings from home.
In June I was for four days in Marne and will travel at the
beginning of August for 14 days to the Baltic sea. Dora Schlotmann
from New
York will also come these days and will stay here for a longer time.
Willy
has gone on Tuesday to Italy and Switzerland for two weeks. Do write
to us.
Greetings, Julius and your sister.
P.S. the houses are well known to you
Addressed to Frau John Sievers (Catharina) in
Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona, U.S.A, from her
sister (Auguste) in Germany.
Postmarked 7/15/04 Altona.
Do you know any of these
people?
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My Great-Great-Grandparents
Catharina Schlotmann (Marne) a nd Albert Sievers' (Beidenfleth)
Below are two letters from ANNELIESE SCHLOTMANN, a longtime resident of Marne:
Dear Mr. Sievers,
The documents (I sent you) concern the family and your great
grandmother.
As you can see Catharina Dorothea, born in 1846 was the daughter of Jochim
Friedrich Schlotmann in Marne, belonged as an ancestor to my husbands
family.
Tante Auguste in Altona was the sister and the two Dora Schlotmann's
belonged
to the next generation.
The house in Marne, Feldstrasse 2, is where all these Schlotmann's
were born,
several of the photographs I know, some I don't! Now that Catharina
has been
clarified, you, Mr. Sievers, have ancestors in Marne. I will try
early in
1986 to find out from where your greatgrandfather Sievers came; I'll try
this
with the help of a journalist from the Marne Zeitung whom I know well,
and
hope to clear this up with an article in that newspaper.
Anneliese Schlotmann
Dear Mr. Sievers,
Upon my return in January from Luebeck I found your letter dated Dec.
28,
1985. Many thanks.
I was married in 1938 and moved to Marne only then (from nearby
Hamburg),
I only have a few recollections from stories about the family Schlotmann.
Since I am the only one left after my husband died in 1981, I cannot ask
anyone.
(1) I do not know the last name of Auguste Schlotmann after her wedding.
(2) The old house, Marne Feldstrasse 2 [see postcard
above], belonged
for generations to the Schlotmann's. They operated there a
carpentry firm.
It is the house on the right in the picture, in the background is the
carpentry.
The old man with the saw is the great-grandfather of my husband, the man
with ???? is the grandfather.
(3) The Dora Schlotmanns [photos #3 and #4] were cousins,
one married
near Kiel, the other here in Marne with her mother, unmarried, lived
almost
to the age 95 or 96. Picture 4 is the unmarried Dora
Schlotmann. She was
for many years in New York in America. Otherwise, I only know
picture 3,
it is of Dora Schlotmann who lived near Kiel. I do not know any of
the
other pictures. It is too bad that you didn't start your search 20 years
sooner,
my mother-in-law, almost 94, died in 1971 -she knew everything, had been
born here in 1878!
(4) In the form of documents, I only have the pedigre which I
sent in Dec.
85. Nothing else has been saved. During the war 1939-45 we
had to remove
everything that is normally kept in the attic, because of fire bombs.
(5) Now to the Sievers. So far only negative
results. The name was common
here. I enclose a copy of an old book (partial). Nobody knows
who may have
been your ancestor. There is, perhaps, one more hint. In July
1985, a Mr.
Timothy Sievers visited here, a retired Priest, wanted to know where
ancestors of his might have lived. He believed it was in
Koesthusen, near
Marne. I have asked around in K. None of the old people knew
anything.
I wish you the best of luck.
I am travelling to Luebeck now, and in May/June again to Sweden.
A. S.
Sylvia Sievers
U.S.A
EMAIL: ssievers3@yahoo.com