Our Brink Heritage

A Brief History of our Family

Our Brink family has its roots in Westphalia, Prussen, Germany. The Low German meaning of the word Brink is "grassy knoll". Research also indicates it means "land that was not used for farming purposes." It appears that our early Brink ancestors were farmers. With continued unrest in Germany, and the fact that all sons had to serve in the military for three years, prompted our Brink family to immigrate to America. After selling their home and property, they boarded an English sailing ship at Hamburg, Germany, with the destination being New Orleans. Landing in October they headed north on the Mississippi River on a wood burning steamer for St. Louis. Winter came early, and they were frozen in at Grand Tower and had to go by wagon across country to get to their home in Washington County.

Our emigrant parents came to Washington County in 1845 and both died within the first year. They were a people of high standards, high moral values, integrity, and had a strong faith in God. It must have been hard on the children (9 of them -- a 10th died in Germany) to go on in a new land without their parents.

Our research takes our Brink ancestors back to the late 1500s and forward with as much current information as we have been able to collect. We leave this information as a heritage for all future generations.

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