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It might be of interest to you to know that the period of immigration you list out of Slesvig [1870s] coincides with a period of heavy immigration out of the area by Danes who were, at that time, living under German occupation. the occupation began when they were small children and by the time that generation reached conscription age, and many did in the 1870s, they began to flee Slesvig to avoid service in the much hated German army. The Lunds were in Gram, Slesvig by 1450 as a branch of Lund registered one of several heraldic shields for the surname Lund at that time in the area. That particular branch was connected to the Russian Royal family and because the Russian crown had a claim on the duchie of slesvig, family members migrated there to protect that claim, which was moot by the time of the 1860s, but the descendants of that family remained in and around Gram having intermarried heavily into both Danish and German families that resided there. Many Lunds migrated after the Slesvig-Holstein Wars into Billum on the mainland (Jutland) of Denmark and in the 1870s on from Billum came to America, Canada and Australia. Many of the immigrants that married quickly after arriving in the U.S. were previously aquainted in Slesvig and were often engaged prior to their immigration.
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