I too am curious if these tie into the Gerke's in my line that come from
the Ft Wayne Indiana area?---Bob
There were Bultmanns living among immigrants from Hannover in Ripley Co. Indiana in the mid 1800s. Some of them intermarried with my RIMSTIDT/Rhemstedt ancestors from Bruchhausen. The RIMSTIDTS arrived in Indiana in the early 1840s. Some of the other Hannover names were SEVEUS / LUERTE / HOMFELD / LULLMAN / MEIERS / PAPPENHAUS / EHLERS. (Most males seemed to use John as their given name)
Does anyone have any strays who might fit into these families or know whether any available German (presumably Protestant) church records exist in the area around Bremen?
Barbara Rice
Bob Marhenke wrote:
I too am curious if these tie into the Gerke's in my line that come from
the Ft Wayne Indiana area?---Bob
Bob, have we discussed the GERKEs before? I have one (Louis) that married Auguste SCHWAN in Illinois, then lived briefly in Nebraska before returning to Fort Wayne.
BTW, Richard Gerke died earlier this month. His obit and photo were in the on-line Fort Wayne Newspapers on 10/18/2005.