Wende family from Breslau Germany or Lower Silesia before 1940

Started by Jonathan Feig on Sunday, September 25, 2016
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If anyone is related to someone with the last name of Wende who's family were Silesian and German from the region around Breslau (Wroclaw...) before 1940 please share here. My grandmother was born Wende, came from there, and I have no idea who her family was.

http://forum.ahnenforschung.net/archive/index.php/t-42826-p-4.html
- Wende Robert, Schriftsetzer, Heiligegrabstr. 69 II Görlitz
1912-1913 telephone book for Görlitz
Any personal connections to this Robert Wende.
Grandfather had family in Prague and Breslau. He was a traveling salesman.
Grandmother (Search subject. All I know about her is that she was married to grandfather.) was a bookbinder by trade. Married late. Father. Schriftsetzer. Might have gotten his daughter "into the business."
Görlitz lies between Prague and Breslau on the route that I am learning was grandfather's life before fleeing to Shanghai and America.

I just found that my Great Grandfather Barnhardt Wende and his brother Herman Wende came over from Lower Silesia in the 1840s. Barnhardt (also later he spelled it Bernard) was born in 1829 and he was married to a Susan Kirk (who I can't find any trace of on the internet), His father was Gottfried Wende born in 1791 and he was married to an Anna Elisabeth. Probably from the same region. I believe they left behind (in Silesia) a third brother Gustavus Wende who would have been born in 1823.

Thank you Jonathan Kasso for your kind reply.
Since starting this discussion I have discovered that my great grandfather Erich Wende
Erich Wende
was born in 1872 in Seifroda Kreis Wohlau, Prussia, Wolow, Wołów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, which was in Lower Silesia Prussia at that time.
His brother Wilhelm Wende lived in Berlin, at least in the later part of his life and their father was called Karl Wende.
Their mother was born Wilhelmina Hain and her parents were Karl Hain and Wilhelmina born Reimann.
They were all from the area of Lower Silesia.
So far, though I have begun to discover who my paternal grandmother's family were, I can make no connection between the Wendes in my family and other Wende people, though they are numerous. In this branch of my family there is also Püschel.

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