Ancestors of Johann Hinrich Lührs
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Joan's grandparents lived in house #32, which they inherited from her other paternal great-grandfather Cord-Johann
Gerken. Here Johann Lührs established a blacksmith shop in the barn and, with his wife Margarete Gerken, later also
ran a general store out of the house. Houses #1 and #12 in Walle were owned by more distant Lührs cousins.
Beginning with the earliest 17th century records, Joan's Meyer (sometimes spelled Meier) ancestors owned a
mid-sized farm at Holtebüttel #2 ... just east of Langwedel. Her 4xGreat-grandfather Johann Hinrich Meyer
(born 1730) married Maria Gese Lomann and took over her first husband's farm, Nindorf #3, a few miles north
of Verden. Her first husband was named Hermann Lührs, but it is unknown whether or not he was related to us.
Joan's more recent ancestors farmed that same Nindorf property during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Johann Lührs, 1916 in France.
Johann Lührs, 1912 with postmen and others in front of his Walle #32 blacksmith shop.
Johann Lührs, 1955.
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Joan's Lührs ancestors lived in Langwedel from the earliest records. There they were city-
dwellers ("Bürger") and at least some of them earned their living as carters ("Fuhrmann") ... transporting goods.
In the mid-1700's one branch of that family moved to the nearby village of Walle, now part of the city of
Verden an der Aller. In the 1840's our direct ancestor Harm Hinrich Lührs also moved to Walle. In the
early 20th century, relatives with the surname Lührs lived in four Walle houses. House #19 was
the house and tavern which was the home of Joan's great-grandfather Hermann Hinrich Lührs and his wife
Marie Meyer. To learn more about The Krug, read the research report:
