Dahlenburg befürchtete den Durchzug der geschlagenen französischen Truppen

Surname interest of the day -  Rieckens,  Meyer familie

Ort - Dahlenburg

Dahlenburg befürchtete den Durchzug der geschlagenen französischen Truppen. die Bürger hatten ihre Habseligkeiten gepackt und waren auf Flucht vorbereitet. Doch die Franzosen wurden nach Bleckede abgedrängt, und so passierten nur einige Versprengte in aller Eile den Ort.

Dahlenburg feared the passage of the defeated French troops. the citizens had packed their belongings and were prepared for flight. But the French were forced by Bleckede, and so passed only a few stragglers in haste the place.

Nach dem Abzug der Franzosen belastete die Einquartierung der Truppen der Verbündeten weiter die Bevölkerung. Die Amtsvogtei Dahlenburg mußte 8000 Mann und 1500 Pferde des russischen Grafen Tolstoj unterbringen und verpflegen. Graf Tolstoj nahm Quartier beim Amtsvogt und Bürgermeister Buhlert in Dahlenburg. Buhlert berichtete, daß die Vogtei insgesamt in dieser Zeit 210 000 Soldaten versorgte. Die Soldaten waren ewig hungrig und immer auf der Jagd nach etwas Eßbarem, dabei kam es oft zu übergriffen, denn auch die Bürger, ja selbst die Bauern litten Not. Man vergrub Geld und Wertgegenstände und brachte gefährdete Familienmitglieder in Sicherheit. Paula Dibbern, geb Jenrich, überlieferte z. B., daß die Mutter ihrer Ur-Urahnin Rieckens in einer mit Brettern und Strauchwerk getarnten Erdhöhle im Garten vor dem Zugriff der Kosacken versteckt gehalten wurde. Das Haus Rieckens [Meyer] stand dort, wo Schuhhaus Dau errichtet wurde.

After the withdrawal of the French billeting of troops of the allies added  further to the population. The Amtsvogtei Dahlenburg had to accommodate and cater for 8,000 men and 1,500 horses of the Russian Count Tolstoy. Count Tolstoy took up his quarters at the Office Vogt and Mayor Buhlert in Dahlenburg. Buhlert reported that the Bailiwick supplied a total of 210 000 soldiers at that time. The soldiers were forever hungry and always on the hunt for something to eat, besides, it was often overlapped, because the citizens, and even the peasants toiling. 

They buried money and valuables and vulnerable family members brought to safety. Paula Dibbern, born Jenrich, traditional z. B. that the mother of her great-ancestor Rieckens was held in a camouflaged with boards and shrubbery hole in the ground in the garden before accessing the Cossacks hidden. The house Rieckens [Meyer] stood where shoe Dau house was built.

Hhmmmm "where shoe house Dau  was built".  What could that mean?.  I'll have to save that for another day.

Now,  doesn't that little bit of information  about  the  mutter Rieckens familie member hiding from the cossaks make you crave for more of that story.  

Take care!
just me arootdigger

Source: 
 Sorry I don't remember and didn't document this. Maybe I will find it later.  My guess is that it came from Tosterglope.de.

I Have Been Getting Some Help

I have been looking for a little help lately. I asked at one of the mailing lists if anyone could give me some information from any of the books. I may have asked who the researchers were in the area of Bleckede.

I have had great pleasure to join and involve myself in reading, not nearly enough at bleckede.de. If you haven't been there, do go.

Mr. M. Steinke was kind enough to email me to tell me about the AIDA online. Which had not been working for me lately. I am not sure why not. I started again for me last night. I consulted him about my ignorance in contacting them. I told him I had no clue how to find the exact place my Meyer lived in Oldendorf. Poor Mr. M. Steinke. I told him lots of things. Nice things though. He is going to get back to me.

He already has made a comment for us already. I know we will appreciate his presence! Every little bit helps to a better understood blog, does it not?

He is also a photographer and probably has a tree already finished. I think I have seen his name somewheres before. Perhaps he also holds relatives the same as me. I really must be getting more of my people seen.

That is one reason for this post. It is all good and wonderful to relay and store information at this blog, and maybe someday one of my blogs can look as pretty as the other peoples blogs but not yet. I still have so much to find. It is there I just have to cover it all, rather than the small amounts I have been doing. If not for Mark stirring me up to blog about GROTE, HAGEMANN , NAEFKE, AHRENS; I might not have found Gloria who had the key to SCHENKS, MICHELS, RIECKENS, RADEL and more SEIL. She must have explained her methods. Because he has come back with not only a few letters but a three by two foot chart of GROTE/ HAGEMAN family. I just know they include our others.

After seeing so intermixing of Ostheide area and Barskamp plus a few other villages of Bleckede I emailed the church. I may have to do so again, just in case that email like the chickens flew the coop. You know how they are, always trying to get away!

While I was browsing the Ostheide book Thursday night, I just knew GROTE TREE was involved over there in the villages around Radenbeck too. [ No I haven't been able to browse his new information. He has been pretty busy, moving and all. ] He promises to share. And we will keep an eye on his tree too at ancestry. We have his, the MATTHEWS Tree, and Gloria HOERSCHELMANN / PETESCH.

I worked yesterday at Glorias TREE watching the ancestry leaf spin, which again brought me to another one, [ sorry I don't have her name at my fingertips], who saw the light about Herman Moehrmann being Hoellman or Hellman. [ I will put both of them to the side soon.]

I have decided that one must spend time researching the names one already has with some kind of systematic order, so one does not miss any. There is so much more information out there and other places to still be checked. Besides blogging, I just must research too.!