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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, the children of Gustav Adolph Bernhard Volmar and Marie Caroline Fischwasser, 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 from Sonnewalde.
I borrowed a book about the Fischwasser family, Die Chronik der Familie Fischwasser in der Herrschaft Sonnewalde, through an Interlibrary loan.
Marie Caroline must have been an excellent maid to the Solms-Sonnewalde family.
Great-grandfather Theodor and great-uncle Carl-Richard were born in Berlin on May 6, 1868, the children of Gustav Adolph Bernhard Volmar and Marie Caroline Fischwasser, 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 from Sonnewalde.
I borrowed a book about the Fischwasser family, Die Chronik der Familie Fischwasser in der Herrschaft Sonnewalde, through an Interlibrary loan.
Marie Caroline must have been an excellent maid to the Solms-Sonnewalde family.
2 comments:
Any link to the Grimm brothers? Their sister Lotte Grimm married Ludwig Hassenpflug, and their son Friedrich Hassenpflug (1827-1892) married Anna Volmar.
probably not ... she was from Hesse.
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