Christoph Ludwig Friedrich "Ludwig" Heiden was born on March 19, 1825 to Johann Jochim Diederich Heiden and his wife, the former Ilsabe Catharina Sophia Teschenow. He was a younger brother of Maria Heiden and, therefore, uncle to August Heiden.

On January 27, 1883, Ludwig sent a letter to his nephew, August Heiden. He had been living in Sweden (the letter came from Christianstad, Sweden) and had been married to his second wife for 20 years at that time. He would have been about 58 at that writing.

From a first marriage, Ludwig had four children which he described as follows:

  1. Luise is married to a tailor in Denmark
     
  2. Ferdinand is a Catholic priest in Copenhagen.
     
  3. Wilhelm is a tailor and lives in Gorlitz, Silesia.
     
  4. And the youngest, whose mother died when he was 18 months old.

From his second marriage to a Swedish woman, he had two children.

  1. Georg, has been in business for four years
     
  2. Oscar born either 1868 or 69

August Heiden's Uncle Ludwig was living in Sweden according to an 1883 letter we found. He had four children by his first wife who was German and two more by his second wife who was Swedish. Some of his children were living in Sweden but others had settled in Denmark, Silesia (central Europe) and one son emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts. Of course, these would be August's first cousins and would share about 12.5% of DNA with him. This probably accounts for the appearance of some of the regions represented in my DNA results.