Re: families. martini, erbrecht, perle, degner, von puttkammer and even von bismarck
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Re: families. martini, erbrecht, perle, degner, von puttkammer and even von bismarck
Susan von Finckenstein 1/21/04
Dear Susan:
Thanks for your answer. It is realy difficult to find the right sources although some of these people were well known at the time. I am not personaly directly related to von Puttkamer (what I know for the moment...grin) but my grandmothers mothers cousin Agnes Erbrecht was married to Erich von Puttkamer. My grandmother grow up at his gutshaus Treblin (Tzrebrelino I think it is spelled in polish) and another gutshaus in Ustka (Stolpmünde). Those two places I like to see and visit (if they still exist) because of my grandmothers childhood memories she told us alot about them. Strangely when you start this genealogical journey, new and confusing things comes up all the time. Now I am also searhing for a "rittergutshaus" in Bülow (have not found the polish name yet) where my gandmothers grandmothers father Christian August Erbrecht ( who died 1847) was a "rittergutsbesitzer" but I haven´t found that yet. To the question of von Puttkamer and the von Bismarck families. I do not exactly know why my grandmother called Fürst Otto von Bismarck "uncle Otto" and had supposed to be sitting on his lap (there was also a photo of that which I saw as a boy, but it is gone now) as a small girl. Maybe was Erich von Puttkamer (her "uncle" in law a brother, or cousin or even nephew to Johanna (von Puttkamer) who where married to Otto von Bismarck, and "family" had maybe a much wider importance and significans those days, with wars and so many killed people or children that died early etc. Well von Puttkamer is a huge family and owned alot of "gutshäuser" in Pommern. The link to the british queen, if there is a link, could be through the Hanover family which originaly is the same family as the Windsor family, through prince Albert who married queen Victoria (but I do not know if some von Puttkamer were related to the Hanovers. Thanks again Susan it is always so great when people like to help each other in this puzzle!
best regards: Steve