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From: "grothenwell" <>
Subject: Re: GEN-DE Grothenwell
Date: 19 Feb 2007 13:17:41 -0800
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On Feb 18, 11:12�pm, Lutz Engelhardt <> wrote:
> > Hat irgend jemand nhere Informationen ber diesen Namen?
> > Es ist der Nachname meines Ur-Ur-Grovaters (John Frederick). Er hat
> > in Aberdeen, Schottland in 1820 geheiratet.
> > Ich habe erfahren, da er Seemann war. Leider kann ich keine weiteren
> > Informationen oder die Staatsangehrigkeit ber ihn in Erfahrung
> > bringen. Einige vermuten da sein Nachname deutsch gewesen sein
> > knnte
> > (Grothen) und da er bei seiner Einbrgerung in Grobritannien
> > "Angliziert" wurde.
>
> May be you should look for the German name Grothewohl or (less probably
> but still possible) Grothenwohl.
>
> Just the name will not be able to lead you furtheron. You have to know
> the place, where your ancestor was living, even better where he was born.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Lutz Engelhardt
>
> --
> Ancestors from Germany?www.lutz-genealogy.de

Thank you Lutz,

Unfortunately that is all the information I have that was posted.
Someone did say that there had been an DDR politician named
Grothenwell, but I think they must have been mistaken.


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