The roots
Do you know, where your roots are?
During the harvest festival in Schledehausen in 2001 I
experienced an exciting piece of news in a short talk to
the minister. In the proximity of Schledehausen there is the small village called
Deitinghausen. There has been a farm "Deitemeyer" for some centuries. A Meier
in Deitinghausen - that means a Deitemeyer!? I have already written about it
on the page "our name". I absolutely wanted to get to know the village and the farm,
in order to find out a little more about the
origin of the surname "Deitemeyer".
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hills and fields seam the way, which I drove along from Schledehausen to Deitinghausen. When I arrived on the farm, I was welcomed by a board on the gable of the farmhouse with the inscription:
On the bar of a stable building there is to be read:
Caspar Adam Deitmann (Deitemeier?) and Catharina Angel Duvendock large is the profit
... surely a much older certification of the fact that on this farm generations of Deitemeyers had lived. The Colon (owner of the farm) and his wife were born around 1770. The way of writing of the surname is a bit strange, but in former times there was no uniform orthography,they often wrote as simply as they spoke. Today the family Niemann lives on the farm, whose ancestors were those Deitemeyers. They welcomed me warmly and I found out a lot about the life of the Deitemeyers on this farm.
Of course it is only an assumption at the moment, that the name Deitemeyer developed on this farm in Deitinghausen. If it is possible, I would like to find out about it. Perhaps all the Deitemeyers come from this farm and would be related to each other. Up to now I couldn't find out common ancestors of the family Niemann and my family. (August 2002)
[Anna Dedingmeyer and her husband Frantz] (born at 1605) are the oldest known ancestors of the Deitemeyer family till now. All Deitemeyers which I have discovered in the church registers, are related with this ancestor. Of course this fact confirmed my assumption, that all Deitemeyers come from the farm in Deitinghausen.
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Deitinghausen
A picturesque landscape- forests,hills and fields seam the way, which I drove along from Schledehausen to Deitinghausen. When I arrived on the farm, I was welcomed by a board on the gable of the farmhouse with the inscription:
Friedrich Deitemeyer Elise Deitemeyer Geb. Hanrath Anno 1905 |
On the bar of a stable building there is to be read:
Caspar Adam Deitmann (Deitemeier?) and Catharina Angel Duvendock large is the profit
... surely a much older certification of the fact that on this farm generations of Deitemeyers had lived. The Colon (owner of the farm) and his wife were born around 1770. The way of writing of the surname is a bit strange, but in former times there was no uniform orthography,they often wrote as simply as they spoke. Today the family Niemann lives on the farm, whose ancestors were those Deitemeyers. They welcomed me warmly and I found out a lot about the life of the Deitemeyers on this farm.
left: The farm "Deitemeyer" in Deitinghausen
right: The car hall on the farm
Of course it is only an assumption at the moment, that the name Deitemeyer developed on this farm in Deitinghausen. If it is possible, I would like to find out about it. Perhaps all the Deitemeyers come from this farm and would be related to each other. Up to now I couldn't find out common ancestors of the family Niemann and my family. (August 2002)
News
(December 2002) After some days in the archives I have discovered the relationship between my family and the Niemann family in Deitinghausen. My great-grandfather of 5th degrees, [Johann Hermann Philipp Deitemeier], was the brother of the Colon Caspar Adam Deitemeier.[Anna Dedingmeyer and her husband Frantz] (born at 1605) are the oldest known ancestors of the Deitemeyer family till now. All Deitemeyers which I have discovered in the church registers, are related with this ancestor. Of course this fact confirmed my assumption, that all Deitemeyers come from the farm in Deitinghausen.
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