Kagga in Germania
in osnabruk right now for a wedding. in 4 years at Cambridge i’ve been to the continent 3 times, twice related to weddings.
yesterday chinup and i went to a little village called Heuerssen, where (apparently) some ancestors on my mom’s side came from in the late 19th century. they settled in southwest Missouri. from the looks of it, they went from the middle of no where to the middle of no where. from flat plains with rolling hills to flat plains with rolling hills.
we went looking for evidence of my mom’s ancestors. mom’s maiden name is Bartles. the family moved down to Bartelsville around the founding of Oklahoma. the name we were looking for in Heuerssen was Wehling. when we came into the village the first interesting thing we saw was an old gate post, on which was written “Anna Mensching, gb. Bartles”. weird. i’m guessing some Wehlings migrated to America with some nearby Bartles and that our branch eventually married in. but it’s pretty cool to think that “Bartelsville” may have taken its name from this obscure little village in the middle of no where Saxony. how about that for finding Oklahoma connections abroad?
the second thing we saw in the village: a house with an american flag flying and a 1980s chevy conversion van parked out front. so funny.
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2 years ago