"Maurice Woolsoncroft" <wrightcroft@earthlink.net> wrote:-
<<Hi Rena,
I am not currently looking at German except the messages on the listings.
Glad you are still digging. I am having good luck in the Virginia and North Carolina states and working to prove an ancestor moved to Tennessee in 1783.... >>
Hi Maurice
Thanks for your good wishes. In my search for a Sophie Ehlers, I've found some documentation from which I've made up a few small EHLERS family units, but baptisms of the children of this couple below elude me, so far I've only found reference to one 1823 Klein Mahner baptism but from the 1852 Salzgitter census (when they had 2 Flemme grandchildren living with them) they were procreating up to 1840 at least 
Ackerknecht Johann Heinrich Ehlers zu Flachst�ckheim und Johanna
Katharina M�lm zu Gr. Floethe.
From what I can glean of my mother's grandfather Hermann Flamme/Flemme it
was a life of hardship: he was SENT with another boy to England when he was less than 10 yrs old in 1860's. This means his parents were poor? I've found the Bielstein musical school in England where the children were trained to busk the streets. I've also discovered the addresses of the 2 grocery shops Hermann Flamme/Flemme had until they were set upon when the English showed disapproval of all things German.
Best wishes,
Rena, researching Ev.Lutheran and Catholic 'Flamme/Flemme'