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From: "Henning Boettcher" <>
Subject: Re: GEN-DE Grothenwell
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:49:29 +0100
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"grothenwell" <> schrieb
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
> > k nnte
> > (Grothen) und da er bei seiner Einb rgerung 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.

The name of the DDR politician was Otto Grotewohl.

In 2001 there were
24 Grotewohl
in the German phone directory.

You can find the actual German phone directory at
http://www.tao.dastelefonbuch.de/
--
Kind regards
Henning Boettcher
Switzerland
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/homepage/boettche/
(universally applicable hints/German language only/ last review:
Aug. 2005)




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