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Hi Ron -
Have you got the picture of Adolph Hugel? There was one taken at the Notman Studio in Montreal in 1871 and is held in the collection of the McCord Museum. It is availble online. Google "McCord Museum", click on "search collections", and under keywords type "Hugel".

Also Hugel died in Montreal in 1899 at the age of 69. The Parish Records for St John the Evangalist (Anglican, Montreal) state that he was "commonly called Barron von Hugel" and that he had been born in Mayence, Germany. Mayence was the English name for Mainz. From 1816 to 1866, Mayence was a garrison town on the French border housing military units from Prussia and Austria. I suspect that that is how the Austrian name of "von Hugel" got to Mayence. At the time of Adolph's birth the Barony was held by Carl Alexander "Anselm" Baron von Hügel (1795-1870) and he did not marry until 1851. However he was a soldier, but was living in Vienna in the 1830s and engaged to a Hungarian countess who broke their engagement in 1831 so that she could marry Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich, the Austrian chancellor. All I have been able to find out about Anselm von Hugel's father was that he was the Concommissarius of the Reichstag in 1805 - but I have got a name yet, so haven't been able to determine where he was in 1829/30...

Best, Liane

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