Amy & Anthony Fettkether schrieb:
I am looking for information on my GG Grandfather and his family. His name in
church records in Iowa after immigrating is:
Heinrich Ludwig Carl Horn b. 21 OCT 1831 and is from Stederdorf, Hannover.
Wife: Anne Catharine Sophie Hansen also from Stederdorf b. 14 May 1835
Believed to have emigrated to Iowa in 1868
Children:
Anne Catharine Wilhemine Sophie Horn
Hans Heinrich Friedrich Jurgen Horn
Anna Henriette Dorothea Horn
Hans Heinrich Jungen Friederich Bernhard Horn
Hans Heinrich Hermann Horn
All born in Stederdorf (Bernhard may be a nephew?)
Daniel Georg Horn (Born in Iowa 1871)
Dear Fettkethers,
I cannot help directly with more about the 1831 and 1835 born HORN and HANSEN,
but can tell you something about Stederdorf. You surely know the place, which is
a bit south of Uelzen. Your people emigrated short before the railway came there
in 1873, when the railway station was build. For 1965 there are given the
following informations, which I translate out of "Der landkreis Uelzen.Geschich-
te.Landschaft.Wirtschaft. Gerhard Stalling Wirtschaftverlag (Hrsg.)1965,S.329:
"Stederdorf: 573 inhabitants, 573 acres, railway station, bus sattion in Wrestedt
distance 0,5 km, different schools in Wrestedt, sewerage is planned,�urification
plant in Wrestedt-Stderdorf, Lutheran church, cemetary, police station, fire
brigade, one private home for the aged with 50 beds, 11 agricultural farms, one
dairy from 1892, 12 trade businesses, amog these one building-trade, one doctor,
three innkeepers - ... A lot of woods, magnificent river valley (Stederau), fo-
rest ways. 700 years ago Stederdorf was a "border castle"(Grenzburg) in the so
called "Varembeck". Sights: Romanic church (about 1000) with a baptismal font
(1364), altar and pulpit (1650) and a late Gothic bronze bell (1520), rich
private collections of prehistoric findings."
on page 324 are given the inhabitant totals of 1821: 169, 1939: 368 and 1964: 573
If cannot find the parish-books of Stederdorf with the Mormons, you may be lucky
under Wrestedt, which has always been of about double size of Stederdorf and very
nearby. Today both places are grown together, but still held as places of its
own.
Greetings and good luck Hans Peter Albers
P.S.: Having finished the mail, I read that one of heinrichmunk. So things seem
to be already cleared, but perhaps you want nevertheless have the information of
the second Stederdorf. HPA