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| Schloss Sonnewalde ... where great-great Oma was a maid! |
I was doing family history research and discovered that my great-grandfather, Theodor Bernhard Volmar, and his twin brother, Carl-Richard, were the godsons of Theodor, Count of Solms-Sonnewalde, and his sister, Countess Clementine.
Great-grandfather Theodor and great-uncle Carl-Richard were born in Berlin on May 6, 1868, in Berlin, the children of Gustav Adolph Bernhard Volmar and Marie Caroline Fischwasser, who was a maid at Schloss Sonnewalde. They married in 1865 at the Gnaden-Invaliden-Kirche, Berlin. She apparently had an illegitimate son from a previous relationship.
Marie Caroline was baptized on February 12, 1837, at the Lutheran church in Gossmar, Prussia. One of her godparents was someone with the surname Voigt in Sonnewalde.
There is a book about the Fischwasser family: Die Chronik der Familie Fischwasser in der Herrschaft Sonnewalde, which I borrowed through an Interlibrary loan.
Marie Caroline must have been a very good maid to the Solms-Sonnewalde family.
Great-grandfather Theodor and great-uncle Carl-Richard were born in Berlin on May 6, 1868, in Berlin, the children of Gustav Adolph Bernhard Volmar and Marie Caroline Fischwasser, who was a maid at Schloss Sonnewalde. They married in 1865 at the Gnaden-Invaliden-Kirche, Berlin. She apparently had an illegitimate son from a previous relationship.
Marie Caroline was baptized on February 12, 1837, at the Lutheran church in Gossmar, Prussia. One of her godparents was someone with the surname Voigt in Sonnewalde.
There is a book about the Fischwasser family: Die Chronik der Familie Fischwasser in der Herrschaft Sonnewalde, which I borrowed through an Interlibrary loan.
Marie Caroline must have been a very good maid to the Solms-Sonnewalde family.
Any link to the Grimm brothers? Their sister Lotte Grimm married Ludwig Hassenpflug, and their son Friedrich Hassenpflug (1827-1892) married Anna Volmar.
ReplyDeleteprobably not ... she was from Hesse.
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