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Origin: Berchelmann, Berckelmann
There exists two family stems, the one of which uses the spelling "Berchelmann" and was founded in Brandenburg by
Joachim Berchelmann from Hamburg, some of which branched off thereof into the founded branches of Friedrich Wilhelm
Berchelmann in Hesse. The other stem which spelled the name "Berckelmann" and was founded in Brunswick-Lunebürg by
Johannes Berckelmann from Neustadt am Rübenberge, who was of "Prussian origin".
Clues suggesting in Hamburg as a
lasting seat for the family are missing. A connection between the two stems has not yet been discovered, but may
possibly exist. The presumable derivative of the name "von der Birke" speaks for such a connection. Epic literature
of olden times from Brandenburg and Brunswick-Lüneberg and the coat of arms design of both stems: Birch leaves or
birch branches and the birch cock, also attests to this. Both stems are Protestant or rather, Lutheran.
source:
DGB (German Federation of Labor) 1904, PP. 14-46
Sender:Doctor of Jurisprudence
Wilhelm Berchelmann
Provincial Court of Appeals
Judge, Darmstadt, Heinrichstr. 53
Family Crest
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Coat of arms: Shield divided with blue, red, and blue. Above, the right half of a silver moon, in the middle, a
striding, double-tailed, golden lion, underneath an uprooted silver tree trunk which is branched on either side,
chopped off at the top and has two silver hanging birch leaves coming out of the top of it. On top of the padded
armored helmet, a wing on which the shield designs are repeated. The top is blue, gold, and red.
A variation shows the moon tilted upwards, the lion single-tailed, in the bottom portion, two acorns on slanted
stalks, with the helmet wing on top of the suspended helmet, covered with a square in which the lion is also shown.
source:
DGB (German Federation of Labor) 1904, PP. 14-46
Sender:Doctor of Jurisprudence
Wilhelm Berchelmann
Provincial Court of Appeals
Judge, Darmstadt, Heinrichstr. 53
St. Clair County
Dr. August George Berchelmann (1809 - 1873), the first Berchelmann to set foot in the United States, was 'the
first president of the "St. Clair County Medical Society"'. Dr. Berchelmann was also a founder
of the first "St. Clair County Library Association". St. Clair county is located in Illinois, USA.
sources:
August 12th 1865 issue of the Belleville Democrat
"History of St. Clair County", unknown author
Re-Writing the Bible
Friedrich Wilhelm Berchelmann (1679-1754) of Potsdam, Germany
"had been sent by order of Ludolph the private secretary of Prince George of England,
spouse of the great Queen Anna, 'who had demanded a competent individual who could take over
the corrections of one of the printings of the handed over New Greek Testament, which did then
indeed occur, and the Holy Book was then sent to Smirna as a Christian gift and was then distributed
among the Greeks there; the revision itself he executed in London'".
source:
DGB (German Federation of Labor) 1904, PP. 14-46
Sender:Doctor of Jurisprudence
Wilhelm Berchelmann
Provincial Court of Appeals
Judge, Darmstadt, Heinrichstr. 53
960 Acres
"...Gustav's actions were to indirectly affect the lives of a whole forthcoming generation of Bunsens. For his
service in the Army of the Republic of Texas, Gustav Bunsen was awarded 960 acres of Texas land, March 14, 1860,
24 years after his death."
"This 960 acres of land then became the inherited property of the deceased George Bunsen heirs in a duplicate
certificate, issued February 20, 1874."
"On July 2, 1874, George Christian Bunsen, Charles (Karl) Otto Bunsen, Mollie Auguste Berchelmann nee Bunsen,
and her daughter, Dora Berchelmann of Belleville, Illinois, all consigned a "transfer of deed", referring all
said land rights to their youngest brother, Albert Washington Bunsen, for the sum of one dollar. Albert W.
Bunsen and family were already living in Austin, Texas at the time. Reasons for the transfer are not presently known."
source:
Unknown history text
City of Belleville, Illinois Public Library
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