Betty Cowie's Inherited Treasure
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      • The Essener Branch >
        • Waldthausen Relatives
        • The Clarenburg
        • Henriette's Story
      • Genealogical Correspondence
    • Holterhoff (Ancestry of Father)
    • Robert Tugenhold Holterhoff (Father)
    • Clara's Early Life >
      • "A Tree Was Transplanted"
      • Clara's Siblings & Their Descendants >
        • Cornelia Holterhoff Oberhau
        • Ida Holterhoff Meyer
        • Godfrey Holterhoff
        • Henriette Holterhoff Linz
        • Augustus Holterhoff
  • Ferdinand Willius
    • Willius (Ancestry of Father)
    • Friedrich Willius (Father)
    • Ferdinand's Early Life >
      • Ferdinand's Childhood & Relatives
      • Ferdinand's Siblings & Their Descendants >
        • Gustav Otto Conrad Willius >
          • Gustav Willius Family and Descendants
  • Clara Holterhoff Willius & Ferdinand Willius
    • Childhood/Relatives
    • Courtship and Marriage
    • Married Life
    • Children & Descendants >
      • Ida Willius Goldsmith >
        • Cornelia Goldsmith
        • Willius (Bill) Goldsmith
        • Hertha Goldsmith
        • Ida Goldsmith
      • Martha Willius Claussen
      • Otto Willius
      • Robert and Etta Willius

Waldthausen Genealogical Correspondence

In the 1930's Martha Claussen received her first letter from Baron Julius von Walthausen who was tracing the family history. This led to a correspondence lasting several years during which they exchanged genealogical information. He was planning on writing a book on the history of the family but died a month after Martha received her last letter from him, if the date of his death is correct.  I doubt that the book ever got published.

I scanned in all the letters, but you may not want to read them all. It's quite a bundle. They corresponded from September of 1931 to June of 1935.

Some of the people mentioned in the letters are relatives you can find in the pages of Frieda's scrapbook.
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