Am 09.08.2019 um 05:18 schrieb
barbfrazer677@gmail.com:
I am also looking for my Meschkat roots. Michael Max Meschket and his wife Caroline Marie Lehwald came with their two children:Else Elizabeth and Arthur Georg came to The USA boarded in Hamburg And were recorded as being from Fredericksburg Brandenburg.
My great-grandfather Arthur George what's born in Berlin and January of 1889. He had two more siblings born in Ohio. My great-grandmother became a widow with two girls when Arthur died at age 25. The girls were raised by the other side of the family and
never knew their grandparents or anything about the family.
I would like to find out more. why I'm Cameroon I read that Father was in Berlin. sburg Brandenburg was a port in Africa in the 1600's It was inhabibornted by the Germans and African Tribe. I don't know but I suspect that in the 1600s at this fort
that I got by Cameroon from
despite your bullsitty aproach to genealogy I am trying to enlight the
your search a little bit.
Friedrich (german for Frederick) was a very popular name for boys in
Germany because many of the famous Rulers had this name.
When a ruler chose to found a new town, often his name or eg. of his
wife or daughter was given to the town. The town mentioned in the
Meschkat agenda most probably was Friedrichsberg in Brandenburg.
In colonial times and even later the towns in foreign countries were
often named in honour of a respected ruler. So your town in a State now
called Republique du Cameroun. Or the 4 towns named Fredericksburg in
the US of which the one in Texas was definitely founded by a Prince of
Hassia.
Though Cameroun was in the late 19th and early 20th century for a couple
of years a german colony it is unlikely that the commercial trading post
in Cameroon, you refer to, did have anything to do with Berlin and
Prussia (the later name for Brandenburg) or the Kaiserreich. It is much
more likely that danish merchants called it after their king. The danish
were engaged in slave trade and took back from America rum so that they
became the most important rum traders in the world.
It was however, for quite a time, usual in Germany to have a negro as
personal servant. So family lore may have mixed up facts and fiction.
mfg
bjk
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