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to the earliest German ancestor we have been able to find for the Heiden family,
Friedrich
Heiden born in 1755, all of our ancestors were born and
raised in very small rural villages. This includes the
Rambow branch which also came from these same area of
northern Germany.
These communities range in size
today from around 300 to 1,000 people but they may have been
bigger before the mass emigration in the late 19th century.
August and Rika (Knaack) Heiden with their first three children lived in the village of
Gross Wokern. August
was born there in 1838 while Rika was born and lived in
Mamerow about 4 miles away.
They were married in the village of
Klaber in 1868.
Other Heidens, Rambows and
related
ancestors lived in the towns listed below. At the time, they
were all part of the district called Mecklenburg-Schwerin (now
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) and were situated about 30 miles from the
coastal city of Rostock on
the Baltic Sea.
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