A few things about these families are worthy of special attention.
1. Heinrich 108 was the last person born in Brenkenhoffwalde, on 14 March 1817. Assuming that all the Bullers of Brenkenhoffswalde moved to Deutsch-Wymysle at the same time (a reasonable but by no means certain assumption), then we can narrow the time of their move further. The earlier post on the Heinrich 97 family had left the time frame at sometime between September 1816 and July 1819; now we can narrow it further to sometime between April 1817 and July 1819.
2. Worth noting is that these entries list both birth villages (Brenkenhoffswalde, Deutsch-Wymysle) and where the families resided, written vertically down the right of the same column. The Peter 104 family lived in Deutsch-Wymysle plot 13; the Tobias 110 family lived in Leonow plot 3.
3. Interesting also is the fact that the dates of death are listed for eight of the fourteen Bullers; they are lacking mostly for those who emigrated elsewhere. This allows us to add to our collection of life-span data:
- Peter 104: 71
- Helene 105: 56
- Tobias 106: 47
- Peter 107: 42
- Heinrich 108: 54
- Tobias 110: 50
- Anna Foth 111: 72
- Jakob 113: 15
4. Either a date of marriage or the name of the spouse is listed for twelve of the fourteen. The average age at marriage for the males was 27.3 (23, 25, 25, 31, 26, 34); for females, 25.7 (22, 31.24).
5. It appears that all of the Peter and Helene Buller family remained in the Deutsch-Wymysle church, but four of the six children of Tobias and Anna Foth Buller moved elsewhere. Our old friend Karl 112 went to Volhynia, while Anna 114, Karoline 115, and Julianna 117 emigrated to the United States with their husbands.
6. Karoline 115 married her first cousin Benjamin Foth, the son of Karoline’s mother Anna’s brother Bernhard (see GRANDMA 20328). This is noted only to lead into the following observation.
7. Peter Buller (104) married a woman named Helene Buller (105). Both were born in Brenkenhoffswalde, the small Neumark village that, as far as we know, contained only two Buller families, which were presumably headed by brothers Peter Jr. and Heinrich. It stands to reason, then, that Peter 104 and Helene 105 were cousins who married, just as other members of the family did the following generation.
It was earlier suggested that Heinrich Buller 97 in the Deutsch-Wymysle church records was the son of Heinrich, since he was the oldest of this generation and it would make sense that he would bear the same name as his father. It is tempting to apply the same reasoning process to Peter and Helene, but this is a little trickier.
That is, one would like to think that Peter 104 was the firstborn son of Peter Jr. (given the shared first name), but Peter 104 could just as easily have been the second-born son of Heinrich who was named Peter in honor of his grandfather. There is no way to know. All we can safely conclude is that Peter 104 was the child of one of the Brenkenhoffswalde Bullers and that Helene 105 was the child of the other.
Finally, Tobias Buller 110 was also born in Brenkenhoffswalde about the same time (Heinrich, Peter, Helene, and Tobias were born within a five-year time frame but without any shared years of birth), so presumably he was also a child of one of the Brenkenhoffswalde Bullers. Until we uncover evidence that reveals the precise relationships, all we really know is that these four Bullers were closely related (a mix of siblings and cousins) and of the same generation (6), the descendants of George–Dina > Hans > George > Peter 351 > and Peter Jr. and Heinrich.
GRANDMA reports that Tobias and Anna Foth Buller had one more child, but that seems to be a mistake. For now, we can leave behind these two families and move on to the next two Buller families in Deutsch-Wymysle, which will again take us back to Brenkenhoffwalde.
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