The Tree of Jeeff
The ancestral genealogy of Jeffrey Duskin
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Remmer Thaden Remmers/Remington Todden
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Ahnentafel - 36 Remington
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Born: June 4, 1793 in Narp, Wittmund, Niedersachsen, Germany Father: Thade Remmers Mother: Johantje Claassen Married: Martje Catherine Neemann Children:
Immigration: arrived June 30, 1854 at Port of New Orleans from Port of Bremen aboard the Uhland, bound for Illinois Died: Unknown, probably in Tazewell Co., IL I have speculated that it may be the case that Willm Claassen might actually have been a nephew, cousin or younger uncle of Remmer and not his son, but have no evidence to suggest one way or the other, except a question as to why two sons would have been named so similarly, and leading to the two William Toddens in America. Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) is the region in northwest Germany that was formerly a large part of Hanover, which was created as an electorate in 1708 from areas formerly controlled by the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1714, with the ascension of George Louis of Hanover to the crown of Great Britain as King George I, Hanover entered into a personal union with Great Britain, lasting until 1803, when conquered by France & Prussia in the Napoleonic Wars. In 1807, Hanover was joined into the Kingdom of Westphalia under the rule of Napoleon's brother, Jérôme Bonaparte, until 1813 when it fell to the Russian Cossacks in the Battle of the Nations and was restored as the Kingdom of Hanover under the terms of the Congress of Vienna and became ruled by King George III of the U.K. as Prince-Elector, though with the advanced state of the King's mental illness, he was probably unaware, his son, the future George IV, having assumed regency in his father's stead in 1809. Remmer was a teenager during this turbulent period in his homeland. In 1837, with the death of King William IV and ascension of Victoria as Queen of the U.K., the personal union was ended because under semi-Salic law, a female was prohibited from ruling in Hanover. Victoria's uncle, Ernest Augustus became King of Hanover until his death in 1851, when he was succeeded by his blind son, styled as George V. Because Ernest Augustus had been aligned with the Prussians, there was little impact on Hanover during the Revolutions of 1848. However, George V opposed the Prussians and was more partial to alignment with the Austrians within the German confederation, ultimately leading to the dissolution of the Kingdom after the Austro-Prussian War of 1868. While I have absolutely no evidence suggesting a reason for Remmer & his family's migration to the U.S. in 1854, it is true that the transition from the popular Ernest Augustus to his less popular son, coupled with the change in alliance, was responsible for political upheaval in the Kingdom and may have had some influence on such a decision.
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