Dear bmoller,
I did my best to find out the identity of those places. Since my
native language is German, I tried every possible approach. Here is
what I found out:
The question for the birthplace of your Grandmother is quite easy to
answer. I have no doubt that Marese is actually "Mareese" (pronounced
exactly the same). This is a village located in former Westpreußen
(Western Prussia), in the Landkreis (county) Marienwerder. Today, it
is Polish territory. Mareese is still existing, but it is now called
"Mareza". It's still part of Marienwerder County, however the county's
name is now Kwidzyn, since that is Marienwerder's Polish name. And it
has become part of the municipality of Kwidzyn.
Here is contact information for the municipal administration of Kwidzyn:
Urzad Gminy w Kwidzynie
ul. Grudziadzka 30
82-500 Kwidzyn
POLAND
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Phone: +48(0)55-2792388 - or - 2793208
Fax: +48(0)55-2792306
E-Mail: urzad@gminakwidzyn.pl
Website: http://www.gminakwidzyn.pl
The other place, Hardenslo, proved to be a much bigger problem. Indeed
there is no such place name listed in the Gazetteers. But I found your
assumption interesting that there may be a connection with the
Schleswig region, so I followed that path.
First, I would like to clarify that there has never been a town of the
name "Hardensleben" anywhere in that region. But there used to be a
town and a county of the name "Hadersleben" in the former Prussian
province of Schleswig-Holstein. Before and after that part of
Schleswig called Nordschleswig (Northern Schleswig) belonged to
Germany (1864-1919), it was and is again part of Denmark. And the
Danish name of Hadersleben is "Haderslev". Of course it resembles
"Hardenslo" only vaguely, there may at least be a small chance that
due to an error the place name was transcribed wrongly.
But there is also a second possiblility. In the Schleswig region of
the modern German Bundesland (federal state) of Schleswig-Holstein,
there is the Flensburg-Schleswig county, a direct neighbor of the
Danish Haderslev county. There, a village named "Hardesby" exists,
part of the community of Sörup. "Hardesby" does really not match
perfectly with "Hardenslo", but again a mistake may have caused some
garbling.
In case you can provide any additional information on your
great-grandfather's origin that may be helpful in finding his
birthplace, I would gladly do additional research on it. For the time
being, I provide you contact information for the local administrations
in both Haderslev and Sörup:
Haderslev Kommune
Gaskaergade 26-28
6100 Haderslev
DENMARK
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Phone: +45-74222324
Fax: +45-74222124
E-Mail: post@haderslev.dk
Website: http://www.haderslev.dk/
Gemeindeverwaltung Sörup
Schleswiger Str. 3
24966 Sörup
GERMANY
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Phone: +49(0)4635-2960-0
Fax: +49(0)4635-2960-13
E-Mail: info@gemeinde-soerup.de
Website: http://www.soerup.de/
Sources:
Michael Rademacher: Deutsches Ortsbuch 1871-1939
http://www.literad.de/regional/ortsbuch39.html
Powiat Kwidzynski: Gmina Kwidzyn
http://www.powiatkwidzynski.pl/starostwo/gminy/g_kwidzyn.htm
Postleitzahl.org: Schleswig-Holstein - H
http://region.postleitzahl.org/schleswig_holstein/liste/H/
Genealogienetz: Schleswig-Holstein - Alle Orte mit Ha-He
http://www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SCN/ortsliste/Ha.html
Bottom of the Harbour: Johannsen Chronometer
http://www.bottomoftheharbour.com/chronometerjohannsen.html
Search terms used:
marienwerder mareza
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mareese mareza
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Kwidzyn mareza
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hardesby
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hardeslev
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haderslev
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Best regards,
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