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From: "Catherine O'Neill" <>
Subject: Re: AW: [BANAT-L] Your responses to my questions
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:36:25 -0500


Hi Simone,
I really give you credit. It must be wonderful to be able to communicate in more than one language. I understood everything that you wrote in your e-mails, so I think you are doing very well with English.

I'm sorry. I was under the impression that the Banater Post was written in German. I already subscibe to the Banat List.

Teufel is my maiden name - and it is always a conversation starter when I am with people who speak German. Believe it or not, I have relatives named Engel(angel). I guess we Teufels are the fallen Engels.

My father's family probably came from southern Germany, but I have yet to find out where. ( Who knows? I could be related to Edwin Teufel.)

Leonhard Teufel, my ancestor, settled in Mercydorf in 1764 after leaving the military. He had a wife named Catherine, but I do not know anything about her, since the only evidence I have of her existence is her death record. They might have been married elsewhere in the Banat. She was quite a bit older than he - the Demi Moore of her day.

After Catherine's death, Leonardus married Clara Baldesweiler, whose family lived in NeuBeschenowa. I have traced all of their children in Mercydorf up until the 1830's. I hope I will meet some former Mercydorf and Darowa residents in Ulm who might know more about my family. Of course, I will have to carry a copy of my comments and questions written in German. Hand signals just won't do.

Cathy Teufel O'Neill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Horst" <>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:40:41 +0200
To: "Catherine O'Neill" <>
Subject: AW: [BANAT-L] Your responses to my questions

> hi cathy, you don´t speak german? I don´t speak english!!! the list is 80%
> in english!!!!! ;-((, also you can subscribe!!!!
> by the way, what means this "Teufel" in your name? I know it means devil
> but, where do you have it from?
> bye simone
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Catherine O'Neill [mailto:]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 21:29
> An:
> Betreff: [BANAT-L] Your responses to my questions
>
>
> Dear List Members,
>
> What a response! After posting my queries to this list, I sent a
> letter off to Sorin. When I returned to my inbox, I found all of your
> e-mails. You are an amazing group of people. Special thanks go out to
> Hilde, Ruxandra, Sarah, Simone, Tina, John and Jim for your advice and
> encouragement.
>
> I don't subscribe to the Banater Post since I don't speak German. If
> any subscriber sees a bus trip to the Banat from Ulm on May 31, 2004
> advertised, I would appreciate it if you would pass the information along to
> me. I will Google Atlas Sib and see what I can find, Simone and Ruxandra.
> I just checked out the cost of flights on Expedia, and they are still $900
> and up, John. So I went to plan B and pull up the train schedules on the
> site you recommended. I have traveled by train throughout Hungary and the
> Czech Republic, and enjoyed the experience. Tina, how about sharing some of
> those train experiences with us? I am considering the night train, and I
> would like to know what I might have in store.
>
> Jim, I downloaded your wonderful journal a while ago and kept it for
> easy reference. It was the first time I had an opportunity to associate
> faces with the names I have seen on the list. As for your suggestion to
> check out flights on Carpatair where "rain water was coming through the door
> on the flight," I borrow from Eliza Doolittle and say -
> The rain in plane?
> Stay mainly on the train. (How was that, Robert Zink?)
>
> If anyone else has any suggestions, I would love to hear from you.
> Cathy Teufel O'Neill
>
>
>
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