Biderwell-Beiderwell

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My name is Jerry Neely, Fairborn, Ohio, USA. I am looking for any information on the Beiderwell/ Biderwell family. Deterick and Catherine Beiderwell/Biderwell emigrated to the United States around 1839 and settled outside of Defiance, Ohio, USA. He was born approximately 1810.
Germany was their place of birth. I am unsure if the original spelling was Beiderwell (which they used in the USA or if it was originally Biderwell).

In addition I am interested in any information on Frederick and Louise Hoskot, reportedly to have originated from Oldenburg, Germany, prior to emigtrating to the USA in 1844. They settled in Osborn (now known as Fairborn), Ohio, USA.

Thank you in advance for any information that anyone might wish to share with me.

My email address is <jneely@woh.rr.com>.

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It could be Beiderwellen (Plattdütsch Biderwell)
There a lot of Beiderwellen addresses in the Osnabrück / Lotte area, mainly Lotte.

For Hoskot I have not an idea, this is not a name from the Oldenburg province, they are catholics or lutherans?

Werner Honkomp

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Mr. Honkomp

Thank you very much for your response. I am checking with my mother to learn if she ever remembers hearing of a name change from Beiderwellen to just Beiderwell when her ancestors emigrated to the USA. I appreciate your information concerning that.

As to the Hoskot lineage, they were lutherans, but so far I have not been able to establish what area of Germany they emigrated from other than some fmily information that it was Oldenburg, which may not be the case at all. I just don't have any solid information on that either at this point.

Thanks again for your information. It gives me a little more to consider and investigate.

Sincerely,

Jerry L. Neely

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Dear Mr. Honkomp

Since I wrote this original message on the Oldenberg List, I have uncovered further information about my ancestor's Biderwell/Beiderwell name. US Census records indicate that they listed their place of birth to be Prussia, Germany.

An original deed for land he purchased in the United States on July 10, 1839 lists his name as Deitrick Biderwellan. I have also uncovered information that indicates his wife's maiden name may have been Hockman. He seems to have signed his name on his last will and testament on February 8, 1856 (and I believe on his death bed too) as Deitrick Beiderwellan, although it is a feeble and only partially legible signature.

Deitrick appears to have had a sister named Elizabeth Beiderwell/Biderwell/Beiderwellan from Prussia, Germany, who married Henry Toberen, also from Prussia, Germany, and moved into the same area in Ohio in the 1837 timeframe and resided about a mile and a half from where Deitrick bought land and lived.

Historical and biographical information on Tiffin Township in Defiance County, Ohio, USA, where they purchased this land and settled, indicates that "about the year1837 came the Toberens, Hockmans, Biderwells, Shermans, Rumkeys, Wisemiller and Miers; all German families, and settled on the east side of the Tiffin River, forming what is called the German settlement, but is now (1883) mostly English".

A genealogy friend of mine in Connecticut found a reference to a Bernh. Diedrich Beiderwellen that she found on an emigration list from the County of Steinfurt, Germany. Is this in what used to be referred to as Prussia? I have to admit I am a little confused on what was Prussia in Germany either when Dietrick was born in 1810 or when he left Germany around 1837.

From your knowledge of your Germany, do any of these pieces of the puzzle

fit together or is the information disjointed and contradictory?

I am sorry that I do not speak or understand German so I hope that you can respond to me in English if you have any thoughts on this subject.
I sincerely appreciate the assistance that you and others have given to me and it is so comforting to see people reach across the oceans from different lands lending helping hands to one another.

Thank you so very much.

Jerry L. Neely
jneely@woh.rr.com