Bullers in Deutsch-Wymysle 3

The previous post required more than a little concentration, as we tried to keep straight three different Peter Bullers and at least two Heinrichs. This post is a lot lower key—but still meaningful. We return to several questions asked earlier: When did the Bullers leave Neumark? Where did they go?

The answer to the second question is by now obvious, at least for the Bullers of Brenkenshoffswalde: many went to the Deutsch-Wymysle area. The answer to the first question is likewise becoming a bit clearer, again at least for the Brenkenshoffswalde clan. The evidence is right before our eyes.

As we noted in an earlier post (here), all the Bullers and Unruhs were gone from Brenkenhoffswalde by the 1826 land register. From that datum we know that the Bullers who lived in Brenkenhoffswalde in 1806 were gone twenty years later.

From the Deutsch-Wymysle records above, we can narrow the time frame considerably. If you recall, this is the register of Mennonites who came to Deutsch-Wymysle from the Neumark and Schwetz areas. All these Bullers were born somewhere other than Deutsch-Wymysle, which allows us to look at their dates of birth and the latest date a Buller was born in Brenkenhoffswalde (i.e, before all of the Bullers left that village).

The answer is easy to see: Heinrich 17 was born 14 March 1817 in Brenkenhoffswalde, which means that the Bullers did not move to Deutsch-Wymysle until sometime after that day. The time range of 1817–1826 is still rather large, but it is half what we started with. The other Deutsch-Wymysle lists that we will survey will no doubt narrow that gap further. Who knows? Maybe we will even be able to identify the very year the Brenkhoffswalde Bullers made the move.