Honhorst - Borchers

Back to some genealogy.....Again, not the most exciting post for some and not terribly exciting sometimes to read about another's family tree. I've tried to find some anecdotal story or information to share but instead, I share the rather typical story of farmers from Germany who were my ancestors. My mom's heritage is 1/2 Lutheran/Evangelical Germans who left what was Prussia at the time (the mid-1800s) and 1/2 Irish Catholics who left Ireland in the 1800s (and not all at the same time). 

While it was hard to locate Börninghausen on Google maps, I can easily find information about it and my Vienop line. For my Borchers line, I can clearly find Honhorst, Germany but not a lot of information about it. It's clearly farmland. It's about 30 miles due west of Hannover in the Northwestern part of Germany. I can find info about the town just south of there known as Bad Nenndorf. My aunt and uncle did extensive research on this line and got the family tree back to Jurgen Borchers (my 8th great grandfather), 1657-1720. 

Like Böringhausen (about 30 miles to the west of Honhhorst), I didn't find where the world wars drastically impacted these areas or changed the landscape as in other parts of Germany. I could be wrong.

My great grandparents, whom I knew growing up, were Mary Vienop and Herb Borchers. They met in Napa, California. They were both born in the midwest of the USA but their ancestors (our ancestors) lived 30 miles from each other in present-day Germany.