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Tracing the origin of my Forefather | | Published by: mike 2009-01-07 |
| I am looking for the place Merscheid, Mitskidde or Meerkerk in the
district Cologne (Koln) in Germany from which my Forefather, Michael
Antonie Muller came in 1735 to settle in South Africa
Hello John
There used to be a Merscheid about twenty miles from Cologne. Nowadays
it is called Ohligs and is part of the city of Solingen. In about
1800, Merscheid was a small place with around 200 inhabitants. There's
a photograph of the late nineteenth century town hall of Ohligs on
Merscheid Street (Merscheider Strasse) here:
http://home.arcor.de/maramut/02arc/o1sgoh1.htm
Merscheid's principal trade used to be steel-working. In the early
18th century there were many swordsmiths in the area, according to
the website with the picture above.
You can see where Merscheid was on a map which lets you zoom in and
out to relate Merscheider Strasse to the rest of Solingen, and
Solingen to Cologne:
http://uk.maps.yahoo.com/py/lg:uk/lc:uk/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=merscheider+strasse&csz=solingen&country=de&Get%A0Map=Get+Map
If that link doesn't work, start afresh by filling in the boxes at:
http://uk.maps.yahoo.com
There is also a 19th century map showing Merscheid here:
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/Large/Map4SW.pdf
(Merscheid is south-west of Solingen, south-east of Dusseldorf and
north from Cologne.)
You will need the Adobe Reader to view the map, and to enlarge it for
reading the smaller place names. If you don't already have it
installed on your computer, you can get it here:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
These are the websites I used to find this information:
"Notizen aus der Geschichte von Merscheid und Ohligs" - notes on the
history of Merscheid and Ohligs
http://home.arcor.de/maramut/02arc/o1sgoh1.htm
Ohligs joined with Solingen in 1929
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solingen
"Merscheid, unserem heutigen Ohligs" (Merscheid, now Ohligs)
http://www.studiengesellschaft-emsland-bentheim.de/Seiten/Biographien/Texte/Scheurmann.html
History of the area
http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/diss/diss0024/kap15c.pdf
Merscheid church information
http://ek-merscheid.wtal.de/chronik/
My research started with the names in your question, and then I used
searches combining Merscheid with:
K ln, Geschichte, Ohligs, Solingen, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
As well as using maps I already knew of, I found the historical atlas
by searching with:
german place names nineteenth century
I hope this helps with researching your family history, but please
don't hesitate to ask if you have any queries about my answer. Just
use the 'request answer clarification' button.
Best wishes - Leli
Would it be possible to ascertain whether Antonie and/or Michael
Muller (umlaut U) was born in Merscheid between 1708 and 1718? PolishOrigins™ :: Home::
citizen around that time and decided to make an effort to find my lost family. I approached the National Tracing Bureau of the Australian Red Cross Society.
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I'm delighted to say I've found a record at the FamilySearch
genealogical database run by the LDS church which says:
"Antonie Michael Muller
Birth: 1719 Meerscheid, Koeln Stadt, Rheinland, Preussen
Death 19 July 1768
Marriage 4 May 1768 Tulbagh,
Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa
Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. No
additional information is available. Ancestral File may list the same
family and the submitter."
FamilySearch - search page
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
You might find more useful information on their site:
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp
If you want to do long distance research by writing to German
archives, you might find this article helpful:
http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/1671.asp?o_xid=0039826023&o_lid=0039826023
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