There was a Heinrich Feldmann listed as a passenger on this list:
http://www.immigrantships.net/v3/1800v3/newyork18590922.html
Look for passenger 594. He was from Neuenkirchen, Germany which is in the Oldenburg area.
There are also Feldmann families listed in the Covington, Kentucky census of 1900.
Also check out this website: Damme-Auswander / -Emigrants Name-List It lists the Feldmann families who left the Damme, Germany and the year that they immigrated.
Does anyone know why so many German immigrants settled in the Cincinnati
Ohio area? I have noticed that there were quite a few who came to
Portsmouth Ohio too (both cities are on the Ohio River and are both port
cities).
Thanks,
David Otto
I grew up in Cincinnati, the grandson of German immigrants from what I
understand is called the Oldenberg-Munster area (Alhausen for grandma,
Visbek for grandpa). It was obvious that about half the folks in Cincy had
German roots, but only in the last few years did I realize that the great
majority of Cincinnatians German roots were from the Oldenberg area. I
think part of the reason is that an Oldenberg émigré came to Cincy in about
1820 (David Stolle?), and apparently was very active in promoting Cincinnati
to the Oldenberg folks back home. It seems that word-of-mouth, and then
having relatives/friends there, became the driving forces. Both Cincinnati
and Oldenberg seem to be predominantly Catholic and socially conservative as
a result of this emigration.
Thank you Christopher,
My maternal grandfather was Catholic and we think his predecessors came from
Oldenburg, but no one could find his name listed in any of the records from
there (Holthinrichs). Someone said that they might have come from the
Netherlands, but I was not able to find that name there either, only Holt
which my grandfather shortened his name to this after the 1920s sometime.
The other "Grosvater" was named Stiers, and they were Protestant. This
evidently caused some friction between the two families, and I have been
trying (without success) to trace the four Stiers brothers (all born in
Cincy) that my grandmother had.
David
David, do you have access to Ancestry.com? I found oodles of Stiers
there, though it's possible none of them is yours.
Also, have you seen the Holthinrichs query to the Oldenburg list back in
2000/2001? I found that with a Google search for "Holthinrichs." And I
found a few in Ohio and Kentucky on Ancestry.com.
Let me now what you've already done and if I can look for anything here
for you.
Marilyn in Wisconsin
Hello David,
the real name of your maternal grandfather is Hölterhinrichs.
The origin is a small cottage (15 hectare) in Damme part Borringhausen, first notice 1724.
The last owner Hülsmann sold the cottage 1907 to the farmer Strieker.
Damme is located in Oldenburger-Münsterland, the catholic south part of the former Dukedom Oldenburg.
Father David say, the area around Minster in Ohio called Ohio-Münsterland, as reference to Oldenburger-Münsterland.
The first name of Minster (from Münster) was Stallotown. The teacher Stallo from Damme was the intiator for emigration movement from Oldenburger-Münsterland to Ohio.
See also: Geschichte der Auswanderung aus dem alten Amt Damme 1830-1880
The name Stiers is there not present, the phone directory listed a concentration in Westphalia, near Duisburg.
I hope it help,
Werner Honkomp
I have Krogmann relatives in Hamilton Ohio, very close to Cincinnati.
My great-great-grandfathers' family emigrated from Oldenberg in 1868.
Most of the family stayed in Baltimore, but one brother and his family
went directly to Hamilton, near Cincinnati. There were already Krogmann
relatives living in that area of Ohio. One brother lived with the rest
of the family in Baltimore for several years and later moved to the
Cincinnati area.
Bernie Punte
Hello Marilyn,
I have not paid the extra money for Ancestry.com but there are indeed some
Stiers listed on there that were my grandmother's (Iva Lucille Stiers) 4
brothers. The contact listed was a Robert Jacob Stiers, but he has neither
replied to my email nor has he returned my recent telephone call.
It's kind of funny because I found that he posted a list of some other
Stiers on a 2nd ancestry-type website, but I don't think that 2nd set is in
the same lineage as the other (1st set) Stiers!
That is curious that you are in Wisconsin - that is where my paternal
grandfather settled in the 1840s. He fought in the US Civil War for a
Volunteer Regiment that was primarily made up of other Germans from that
area. He moved around a little, but the town we have for him is Appleton.
Another curiosity perhaps, is that my mother's sister and my sister sibling
are both named Marilyn Marjorie *Last name*.
Lastly, I might have been the original poster looking fir the Holthinrichs
on Ancestry.com but nothing ever came of that. I'll look again, just to
make sure.
With warmest personal regards,
David Otto
Hallo auch Werner,
Vielen Danke mein guter Freund!!
This would of course explain why my search has gone no further.
I hope I can help you in some manner; please just let me know.
David
Thank you Bernie,
My grandfather and great-grandfather's middle names were both Bernard.
Coincidentally it looks like most, if not all, of my ancestors emigrated
about the same time, and were all my G-G grandfathers, or G-G grandmothers.
Some of my ancestors were listed as having been from Hamilton, or Hamilton
County, also.
Regards,
Dave
Greetings,
This is Fr. David Hoying from the "Ohio M�nsterland".
Yes, check Werner's site for information.
I have record of over 2000 individuals from "Oldenburger
M�nsterland" who settled in the "Ohio M�nsterland" (the area
around Minster, Fort Loramie, Maria Stein and Saint Henry),
with over 500 of them coming from Damme alone!
I have been working on putting this all together with
a history and a cultural study. It is has been taking me
quite a long time to do this (15 years or so) and I have much yet to do.
I have a parish to take care of, so, do not swamp me with
too many inquiries. And for the moment, also do not expect long
answers.
Than you, Fr. David Hoying, CPPS
Hello Werner, Hello David,
i have found a record about some "Hölterhinnerkes".
In 1800 Anna Maria Elisabeth Hölterhinnerkes married Johann Bernardus
Bultman named Hölterhinnerkes.
Anna was born in the Damme area and Johan was born in Nellinghof /
Neuenkirchen. They had 9 Children....
If you need further informations on this please let me know..
Best Regards and a nice Weekend..
Jan Timphaus
Neuenkirchen
My Ancestor Surnames:
Timphaus, Hagedorn, Steinkamp, Zumdohme...
Hello Fr David,
i have in my files a Heinrich Antonius Hoying.
Do you know him?
Regards
Jan Timphaus
Ancestors: Timphaus, Hagedorn, STeinkamp, Zumdohme
Hello Bernie,
where is you origin in the Oldenburg Area?
Regards
Jan Timphaus
Ancestors: Timphaus, Steinkamp, Zumdohme, Hagedorn
We are searching for information on the Themann and Gedding families from Oldenburg in the mid 1800s. They sailed on the ship "Baltimore" from Bremen and arrived in Baltimore 26 Nov 1870. They came from the Province of Oldenburg with destination listed as Cincinnati. Anton Themann was 18 years old and Franzicka was 21. They were Catholic and settled in Cincinnati.
Doug Fricke in Indiana
Sorry, I have no information that you asked about but did take note of your
last name, Fricke. Any possible relation to Henrich (Henry) FRICKE born
about 1809 in Dessau, Anhalt, Germany, and came to Fond du Lac Co.,
Wisconsin in 1847? He was married to Friedericka ZANDER. Their children
were Amalie b 1835 (+ROLLMAN), Reinhardt b 1840/41 (+SCHUNKE), Lewis b abt.
1843 (+Dora), Waldemar b 1843 (+CARPENTER), and Sophia b 1839. My husband
descends from Waldemar, who ended up in Lancaster Co., Nebraska.
Just curious, since I don't run across too many Frickes!
Nora,
Thanks for checking but we have no known connection to Wisconsin. We are also searching for the birthplace and parents of Charles W. Fricke, born in Kingdom of Hannover 1836, emigrated to Cincinnati about 1850, died 1913 in Ohio.
Doug Fricke in Indiana
My Punte ancestors were from the Muenster, Langförden. This is in the
Vechta diocese. The town I have found in the church records is Varrel.
The same town name appears for 4 generations. I can find no record of
this town in current records.
Hi Bernie,
the current spelling is Vardel. Look here: Stadtplan Deutschland » Karte auf 11880 Maps and you have an idea how small it is.
Bye
Otto
"Bernie Punte" <berniepunte@yahoo.com> schrieb:
Hello Doug,
Gedding could be Gerding. I have two places of origin of Gerding in catholic part of Oldenburg, one in Lohne-Zerhusen, the other in Goldenstedt-Ambergen.
Then I have three places of origin for Themann: Vechta-Telbrake, Vestrup-Hausstette, Damme-Ondrup.
Goldenstedt and Vechta have a common border, therefore could be that this couple came from this parishes.
I think you should check the LDS records for this parishes.
Good luck,
Werner Honkomp