Since I last posted on this blog . I'm making great progress on writing a book about my family history, and making some interesting discoveries along the way.
I was contacted by a member of the Harvey family who kindly sent a newspaper cutting about a wedding between Minna Harvey and Ernst Jacobi at Penzance in 1883.
It set off a huge amount of research into the links between the Harveys of Hayle and the firm of JHH at Essen in modern day Germany.
I was trying to find out why Frederike Vollmer ended up in Hayle in the early 1860s, and her relationship to the Harvey family, especially Nicholas' second wife Juliana Katherina Willhelmina Leug. My book will explain in detail what I've been able to uncover.
I found a single reference to a possible link between the Leugs and the Vollmers
'Anna Theodora Schauer (born Lueg) was born in 1810, to Friedrich Wilhelm Lueg and Anna Theodora Maria Elisabeth Volmer. Friedrich was 34 and Anna was 16 when they married in 1804. She was the daughter of Peter Volmer and was born in Syburg on March 9th 1788. She died in 1848.'
It's bit tenuous but Frederike Vollmer was born in 1840. Was she related to this family? I doubt if she was the daughter but may have been a grand daughter. It does show that there was a link, albeit distant, between Juliana Leug and Frederike Volmer.
A few years ago I received a comment from a member of the Jacobi family. If he contacts me again I have some information for him.
