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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3919673" data-attributes="member: 113430">Plausible, yes, maybe, but likely ... nope. I would trust your record of her death in 1855, and think we can forget all about the Reinecke who, decades later, rode of into the Nicaraguan sunset with Mr Hol(l)Mann. I just wanted to point out that the name Reinecke wasn't/isn't that uncommon in German/y.However, could she (your Reinecke) possibly be a relative, like a younger sister (?) of Julius Reinecke, Ober-gartner in Berlin (i.e. Joh. [Johann/Johannes?] Heinr. [Heinrich] Julius Reinecke, 1809–1881), mentioned twice in the monthly journal Gartenflora 1881 (<a href="https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002325303/page/360" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002325303/page/386" target="_blank">here</a>) ...?He was from the same city, in the same age and with a similar interest (alt. even occupation) as Don Carmiol. They could have known each other. Yes, a longshot, but take it for what it's worth. If anything at all.Note that there's a special offer/advert/ad in the same Journal where your great-great-grandfather apparently tried to circulate and sell some "Sehr starke" [very strong] flowers. See p.323, or attached jpg./B--</blockquote>