y grandparents, Felix and  Margarethe Mathilde (“Gretel”)  v.Glehn, started their married life in 1908 in St Petersburg, which is about 200 km from Reval.  That was a long distance at that time, but there was no national border.  When my mother, Margarethe Maria, was due to be born, her mother took the train from St. Petersburg to Reval.  Halfway there she had to get off in the small Estonian town of Narva because the baby was on her way.  Tragically Margarethe Mathilde died of an embolism a few days after giving birth. 
- Lars Luther