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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carmiol" data-source="post: 3926700" data-attributes="member: 151271">Wow, per my father, it was assumed that it was Julio Carmiol's letter (Don Julian's son).  But what you say makes sense.I am lead to believe that both Don Julian (Christian Friedrich Julius Carnigohl Grassnick 1817-1895) and Don Julio (Carl Christian Conrad Julius Carnigohl Prösell 1837-1895) used Julius for their daily business.  I think this because both changed their name to a variation of Julius when they arrived to Costa Rica.  Julius Carnigohl Grassnick became Julian Carmiol Grassnick and his son Julius Carnigohl Prösell became Julio Carmiol Prosell.  At least they had the courtesy of changing their names differently to avoid a further confusion.  So this doesn't really answer which Julius Carnigohl wrote the letter.Now in regards to this, I found a death registry in Brandenburg, stating the death of a Charlotte Grassnick on 23-nov-1851.  Now, she was married to a Samuel Rentzsch, but Johann Carnigohl (Don Carmiol's father) could have been dead (also no official death date on him) and Hanna Charlotte simply remarried.  It would fit the date of the letter, plus, it would make sense that after having his wife die in 1850 and his mother die a year latter, he would decide to move to a totally different country than where his family had lived for generations...</blockquote>