Can anyone identify the name and location of this 1655 town in "Braunschweiger land"
Greetings:
With a great deal of help, we have transcribed this marriage record, below. However the name of the town is illegible and I can't find it in Meyers. Maybe the spelling is wrong, maybe it does not exist anymore or maybe it does not belong to Braunschweig anymore.
This marriage took place in Ellmendingen, Karlsruhe, Baden, so I am assuming that this town is somewhere in the vicinity.
If anyone can help me understand the geography of these places I would be most grateful.
Kind Regards,
Jean
"den 27. 9bris sind nach ordentlicher Ankün-
digung allhier copuliert worden Wendel Schmidt
weyland Veltin Schmidts gewesenen Bürgers
zu D....? aus dem Braunschweiger
Land hinterlaßener ehelicher Sohn und
Jfrau Anna, weyland Hans Pfeffers
gewesenen Bürgers allhier zu Ellmendingen
hinterlaßene eheliche Tochter."
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Thank you cdburk for your suggestions. I have checked the Wiki maps without success and will forward my question to the leaders of the German Genealogy research group.
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I see that no real answer was provided in the comment above. Identifying cursive handwriting in these early German records can be quite difficult, and since names of places changed throughout Europe many times, it is not surprising that you cannot find exactly what you need in current information. I find the following Wiki Articles about Germany quite helpful.
Because there are leaders names in the header for the Germany Genealogy Research Group, you may consider sending a personal message to one of them to see if they have suggestions about how to identify the location in the marriage record. I hope these suggestions will give you a place to start.
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Just one remark:"Braunschweiger Land" designates the surroundings of Braunschweig, a town in the northern part of Germany, about 400 km (250 miles) NNE of Ellmendingen. If this is true the home town of the groom cannot be found in close vicinity. Unfortunately, I can't find any place name near Braunschweig that fits either...
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Ulrich
As always, thank you so much for your comments. I gathered that Braunschweig was very distant from Ellmendingen, but I thought if I could read the spelling of the town in this record I could search for it separately, independent of the Braunschweig we see on the map, Perhaps this 17th century village was part of another "Braunschweig" in the vicinity of Karlsruhe that no longer exists, But I cannot read the letters of the town name!
Kind regards.
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