Friends on the net,
Several years ago I started to search for three of my great grandfathers. I
had information about my grandfather, Heinrich Anton Brandt and his father, but
very little about the other three great grandfathers. With help from a number
of you WFA readers and many emails, I Iearned that three, and possibly the
fourth, were all members of my grandfather Brandt's church in Frille (near
Minden).
My purpose in writing today is to see if anyone knows how to track back, one
of the three, Johann Heinrich Koch born in 1840 (or possibly 1839). From my
search, I am reasonably certain that he was baptized in that same church. I
believe that his father was Anton Friedrich Koch born in 1807 whose father was
Herman Heinrich Koch born about 1780. The records I have on Anton Friedrich Koch
show that he was a member of the Frille church and that he immigrated in 1851
with his wife and "THREE SMALL CHILDREN". One was a boy born in 1839 or 1840.
This agrees with my information on Johann Heinrich Koch, and I am almost
certain that he was one of the "THREE SMALL CHILDREN". None of my contacts have
checked the baptismal records at Frille Church for the names of Anton
Friedrich's children. If I am correct, I would like the names of the father and
grandfathers of Herman Heinrich Koch.
I anticipate that I will not be on the WFA mailing list after May 1, 2004. I
have three of my lines traced to the mid 1600's on the Frille records. They
are Schakel, Buchhorn, and Brandt. If anyone has an interest in these three
lines, all who were members of the Frille Church, I would be very happy to
correspond with them at paulandfrieda@aol.com and give any information that I have.
Many thanks for all who have helped. Paul C. H. Brandt