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Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] Burleson, TX
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 6:35:01 -0500


Caroline,

I'm not sure what town you are confused with (maybe Bryan), but Burleson is south of Fort Worth. It's not particularly close to Austin, and definitely not 30 miles southeast.

Andy Crews

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> 1. Re: Germans in Texas (Caroline Pointer)
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> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 14:13:40 -0500
> From: "Caroline Pointer" <>
> Subject: Re: [GERMAN-TEXAN] Germans in Texas
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> Hi Mary,
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> I don't know if you're familiar with Texas geography, but in case you're not: Bastrop and Burleson (which is where your family lived before Bastrop) is about 30 miles southeast of Austin, putting it near what's considered the "Hill Country". The "Hill Country" is roughly west and northwest of Austin & Bastrop. Burleson is east of Austin and northeast of Bastrop. Galveston is located further southeast. In other words, Bastrop and Burleson are "on the way", so to speak, to the Hill Country where there were concentrated German settlements. Although these were not the only ones -- Bastrop and Burleson had some German settlers, too.
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> I'm still looking for Elizabeth's mom and the ship's manifest, but I did find that her maiden name was possibly Fischer. I don't know how much info you already have, but I do have some more info concerning the Eschenberger/Eschberger/Esperger family. Please email me if you're interested.
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> Caroline Pointer
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> Concerning Germans in Bastrop, I googled for these terms
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> Bastrop County Texas + genealogy and came up with this URL plus several
> others. I suggest you do your own googling for other possible links.
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> _http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txbastro/court.htm_
> (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txbastro/court.htm)
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> Suggestion: Although you may think there is only one document which may
> refer to your ancestors' arrival in Texas, nay, the United States, you need to
> think about other documents.
>
> Example: I like deeds, as most of my people were either farmers [in the
> Southern colonies and later in Texas] or ranchers [in the Victoria Co., TX area
> and later in *the Hill country*.] While doing some research of my mother's
> English ancestors in Frio Co., I found filed with their land records [deeds]
> was a statement about the ancestor's citizenship and also information about
> his birthplace, his arrival in the United States and when and where
> [Philadelphia], etc. He was buying his land from a railroad!!! Another citizen of that
> county was from Sweden!! (Folks are where you find them!)
>
> The point is, you never know where you are going to turn up information!!!
> Do NOT get locked into passenger lists, or any other document. Just keep an
> open mind when researching your wandering--and migrating--ancestors.
>
> The Bastrop URL given above has some indexes, it seems, of court records,
> etc. I am looking for a sibling of my German great-grandmother, and, according
> to the Bexar Co. probate of his stepfather, in the 1890s, he seems to have
> been living in Bastrop Co. But, of course, the 1890 census is among the
> missing, so I must look elsewhere. I have to get working on those court indexes,
> for sure!!! Some of our German forbears liked to drink, and sometimes to
> excess!!! He could have gone by another name, because his *calling* name as a
> young man sounded rather effeminate!!! But, through other research, which I
> will not go into here, I discovered where in Germany the family came from. I
> found this missing sibling's christening record in a German parish record!!!
>
> By the way, although the original records from which the following books
> were compiled are not available to us researchers, the series of books called
> Germans to America, have the names of a lot of persons coming from Bremen [and
> elsewhere] who later ended up in Texas.
>
> My Silesian [Schlieisen] lady with four small children came to New Orleans
> in 1852 and ended up in Texas, because the father of her children had been
> recruited by the US Army in New Orleans, probably as soon as he debarked from an
> earlier ship. I found--by chance--a filmed Army register [FHL film] which
> listed his enlistment date, etc.
>
> A book such as any of the editions of The Source may give you ideas of
> documents, manuscripts, etc., which you may have never considered!!! Ask your
> public librarian, even in a small town, whether there are any reference books on
> genealogy. They are generally behind the librarian's desk!!!
>
> E.W.Wallace
> who has stumbled on a lot of documents by just being curious about what's in
> the courthouse!!!
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