Hi Jackie,
Yes, it is correct, your information confirms that the Bode/Wolter family from Dassensen I wrote about in my previous post is the family you searched for.
However, I'm sorry to read that you can't share this find with your father who for many years had looked for his ancestors and only passed away recently. With the continuation of his research you honor your father's efforts, and who would have liked you to be successful in his place, I'm sure. May this thought be a little consolation.
With the data you provided I had another close look at the entry # 3836 in the "Ortsfamilienbuch Dassensen, Wellersen, Rotenkirchen" (RolfNowak, Uslar 1999, Verlag Genealogische Forschungsstelle Uslar, ISBN 3-9807068-1-8), which now I will quote in full (translated to English), and in so doing, correct an error that I made regarding the wrongly assumed death of the first two children in this marriage.
#3836
Sudhoff called Bode, Wilhelm, Worker in Rotenkirchen
oo ((no date or place of marriage given))
Wolter, Johanne, [see also #4169]
children:
1. Bode, Wilhelm Heinrich Carl August, *22.12.1870 in L�thorst,
confirmed 29.3.1885 in Dassensen
2. Bode, Dorette Johanne Louise Wilhelmine, *22.1.1875 in L�thorst,
confirmed 25.3.1889 in Dassensen
3. Bode, Heinrich August Wilhelm, *27.6.1882 in Rotenkirchen ((part
of the parish of Dassensen)), buried 13.7.1882 in Dassensen
4. Bode, August Carl Wilhelm, *13.10.1883 in Rotenkirchen, buried
5.11.1883 ((in Rotenkirchen))
5. Bode, Georg Carl August, *27.1.1885 in Rotenkirchen
6. Bode, Johanne Georgine Minna Anna, *8.6.1888 in Rotenkirchen,
+11.11.1889 ((in Rotenkirchen))
This is the complete entry #3836 in the book that I checked again to exclude another reading mistake on my part. Here is my comment on the entries that goes both ways, however.
The given name "Minna" is the short form of "Wilhelmine".
Your mentioned place "Laredhorst" is certainly the "L�thorst" that I referred to. L�thorst is spelled Luethorst, if you don't have a QWERTZ keyboard and can't use the Umlaut �.
Your data suggest a connection between the entries #307, #3837 on one part, and the entries #3836 and #4169 on the other part that I could not verify from the mentioned source "Ortsfamilienbuch Dassensen, Wellersen, Rotenkirchen" and I've posted previously.
The marriage in #3836 mentioned without a date and place may well be the same as the one mentioned in #3837, which took place in L�thorst, the bride's birthplace, and where she most likely lived at the time of the marriage. The fact that the marriage was mentioned in the church book of Dassensen is caused by the banns that also had to be read out twice and recorded in the bridegroom's church congregation Dassensen before the marriage.
I am somewhat puzzled that the Bode family arrived in Galveston TX in Sept. 1884, as you wrote, when their two youngest children mentioned in the book were born in 1885 and 1888 in Rotenkirchen, part of the parish of Dassensen. Am I understanding something wrong here?
I hope the above comments are helpful.
Regards
Gerd Hillebrecht