Hello,
Don't know if this helps you.
Came across..
. Shrine of St. Joseph Church, St. Louis Archdiocesan Parish Records, 10 Nov 1913, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
"Ego infrascriptus [prae] misses 2 denuntiationibus et mutuo contrahentium consensu habito , per verba de prasenti matrimonio conjunsi Leonem Feldhaus ex loco St. Louis Filium Martin Feldhaus et Cath. Grotepehler et Annam Jaschinski ex loco St. Louis Filiam Jacob Jaschinski et [Angnestae Bon?] Prasentibus testibus [Goidon?] Haynes et Christinen Jaschinski. FJ Vallagga S. J."
Don't know if you have an Augusta Bohn in your tree. Noted that there was a Theresa Bonn/Bohn/Bohne next door neighbor to my grandparents Feldhaus in St. Louis in 1880.
Barbie
Hallo Virginia:
My g-grand was from Gesmold! I see you have been given the location by Rolf
& Falk - although I must disagree with Falk - Gesmold is only about 15 miles
ESE of Osnabr�ck and a fraction of that west of Melle. It is currently a
town/village of about 3,000 and my 3rd 1/2 cousin advises me that it is and
has been a predominantly Roman Catholic town.
I assume the name Bohnes is a fairly common one but find it interesting that
my grand-aunts married men with names that can be found in this small town.
My grandfather's oldest sister was born in 1857 and married a Bohn (no e) in
St. Louis. The Bohns were also involved in various businesses with the
Stoltman(n) family of St. Louis. I am assuming that these marriages were to
men within families that my g-grand was familiar with in Hannover and
especially Gesmold and it's immediate surrounds.
There is a book my cousin sent to me entitled Gesmold but it is obviously
written in German and I don't "lesen" (read it) but looked at some of the
indexes without finding the name. Of course, that in no way means that
Bohnes didn't live there.
St. Petrus church in Gesmold holds many secrets. I understand that many, if
not all, of the family records, are not available in the Osnabr�ck (what we
would call archdiocese) records. St Petrus has family histories going back
to 1668 indexed in the basement of the church. You may want to hire someone
to search.
By the way, where & when did Johann Heinrich emigrate and what was his
trade?
Gary Stoltman
Mercerville, NJ (originally St. Louis)