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Lady Killed, Two Firefighters Hurt In Hanover Park Home Fire

Lady Killed, Two Firefighters Hurt In Hanover Park Home Fire

The records come from the area amongst Bremen and Hannover, extending south to the Harz Mountains. The oldest church records in this collection date from the close of the Thirty Years’ War. In the 18th century, several of the localities listed here belonged to the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg . After the Napoleonic Wars there was no longer a HRE, so there was no “Electorate” at all but the Kingdom of Hannover, a constitutional monarchy . And the report that you…

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Sophia Of Hanover And The Most Obscure Route To British Nationality Of Them All

Sophia Of Hanover And The Most Obscure Route To British Nationality Of Them All

Sadly Charlotte died in 1817 soon after being delivered of a stillborn son, robbing the nation of two generations of heirs at a stroke. [newline]Her father was so upset that he was ill in bed for weeks afterwards. Prince George became heir to the throne when his father Frederick died in 1751. Sadly, his worsening mental illness cast a huge shadow over his later life, and that of his family’s. Hopefully, but hopelessly, described even at the time as the…

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