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Only three generations ago there was a young woman who married my great grandfather Henry J. Sturwold, her name was Maria Bissing. Not much was talked about her past other than her parents were still in Germany and they gave her to her father's family coming to the USA to raise her. Well a century later, I found out that her mother, a Margravine married a commoner her father which was utterly frowned upon in the aristocratic circles made my great grandmother a bastard child in their eyes and shuned, that is why she was raised here and her blood-line not talked about.