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Re: von Hassel

Posted: 9 Jan 2008 11:47AM GMT
Classification: Query
My name is Charles Hassel. I have been told that the last name was Von Hassel, but the name was shortened to get into the US. I have been trying to find the rest of my ancestry for sometime now. If you can help me out that would be great. Thank you!

Charles Hassel

Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 9 Aug 2012 7:01PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Von Hassel or Von Hassell
I am an art historian based in Lima, Peru. I am currently involved in protracted academic research on Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, an important photographer and painter active in Cuzco and Paucartambo during the first half of the twentieth century. I have reason to believe that at some time he became associated with the German explorer and geologist George M. Von Hassel (a.k.a. Jorge M Von Hassel), who performed very important services in the pioneer surveying of the Amazonian frontier lands.

Unfortunately, there seems to be very little documentation available on Georg Von Hassel, other than his own fascinating chronicles of the explorations he undertook under commission of the Peruvian government. We even lack the dates of his birth and his death.

Georg Von Hassel (or his wife, or his daughter) might have resided in the United States. Certain references in the Library of Congress database identify him with Fides Von Hassel. A person with that same name, but with an additional “l”, seems to be buried in the Fort Lincoln cemetery, at Brentwood, Prince George's County, in Maryland, according to the information published by www.findagrave.com.

This was posted by Thomas Reachmack, whom I have been unable to contact. His entry further refers that “Mrs. Von Hassell was a dear friend of the John Reachmack family of Wahshington, D.C. She was a Peruvian and her husband was born in Germany and was a geologist”.

Any information regarding this matter would be most appreciated and duly acknowledged.

Re: Georg Von Hassel (or Hassell) / Fides Von Hassel (or Hassel)

Posted: 2 Mar 2013 12:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello, I had an Uncle George Von Hassel, he was my Dads brother. Not sure if he is the same one you are looking for. I have been trying to trace our tree for years. But with all the family gone it's hard to do.

Re: von Hassel

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 8:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Von Hassel
Hi, There are Hassel's in Philadelphia as well. My family has always said our name was Von Hassel before they came to America.

From what I have researchd Hassel is not a common name.

Perhaps we all are related somehow! I knowmy great grandfather was Freidrich Von Hassel, though Freidrich is probably common..

Re: von Hassel

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 2:06PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Von Hassel
My grandmother'a maiden name was Von Hassel. Her father was from Germany. I wonder if we have relation.

Re: von Hassel

Posted: 20 Jun 2014 2:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Von hassell
Would like to see if our family lines cross. My grandmothers maiden name was Von hassell
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