the elusive Nagel clan

Every picture tells a story, season 2, picture 39:

In season 1 we met Luise Schilling, mother of Heinrich Nagel, the station master of Minden Stadt, wearing the elaborate festive costume of the rural surroundings of Minden. Running a farm while trying to feed 11 children born 1863-1887, the family got into financial difficulties and in 1900 had to sell the farm. So, understandably, there aren't many photos of the family with the kids growing up at a time when photography was still very much a luxury. I fact, this is the only one I know of, showing Luise with her husband, Christian Nagel, called Giesselmann, and their youngest child Sophie:

Sophie later married Heinrich Brunschier and had a daughter also called Sophie, who was the younger cousin of Frieda the pianist and may have been the girl in the picture we saw a few weeks earlier. Here I think we may have Sophie mother and daughter but I'm not entirely sure about that as the source where I pinched the photo failed to identify the younger woman.

Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk

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Season 2 so far:

1. could be a cousin
2. two weddings in Silesia
3. off to Canada
4. off to Australia
5. a very romantic poet
6. fireman August
7. 50 hundredweight of coffee
8. mysterious Minden people
9. horses for Hedwig
10. guessing the great-grandmothers
11. cousin Charlotte
12. three sisters from East Prussia
13. travelling saleswoman
14. family portrait
15. dancing chemist
16. games time
17. desperately searching Wilhelm
18. the third Hedwig
19. patchwork portraits
20. missing brothers
21. the oberlehrer's family
22. a double wedding
23. mystery solved
24. young Frieda
25. old aunts and young children
26. a semi-mysterious aunt
27. a gathering at Gellrichs
28. farm work at Bad Landeck
29. meet the Weitze family
30. a post-war wedding
31. the joy of chemistry
32. the joy of botany
33. becoming Frieda
34. becoming Peter
35. bakery kids united
36. the four from the farm
37. neighbours at Hamborn
38. family with fowl
39. the elusive Nagel clan

I started a twitter thread for season 2 here. However, as the bird site seems to be turning into an evil empire, I have now switched to logging the entries in a similar thread on Mastodon.

The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. It only loads 30 tweets at first, so you have to click "show more" a couple of times to get all 40 entries. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.

I'm also adding all photos from this series to my family history album on flickr.