Leerhafe Onken/Groot

hannover-l
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Hallo all,
New information found on marriage license.

  Friedrich ONKEN had a Plants & flowers greenhouse in Leerhafe, Ostfriesland,

Germany. He married Maria Groot

Friedrich had 4 children:

Wilhelm F. ONKEN: born on 23 Jul 1885 in Leerhafe Ostfriesland Germany --

Immigrated to USA arriving March 18, 1902 at Ellis Island. Married & died in Benson,

Illinois USA -- He is my husband's grandfather.

  Friedrich ONKEN was born in Germany. He died in Germany? He took over a

Family greenhouse?

       Johann C. ONKEN was born about 1880 in Leerhafe, Ostfriesland, Germany. He

immigrated on 8 Mar 1895 to Iowa. He married, had no children and he died in

Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois.

      Marie ONKEN was born in Germany. She married and they had a casket

business in Germany which they moved to Greece. She died in Athens, Greece?

Thank you for the help!

Laraine Wilson Wessels
Peoria, Illinois
lwessels@yahoo.com

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Hi Laraine:

I don't know if you have the following information:
Leerhafe is in the church district Wittmund. The following records are available for the Leerhafe Parish:

Leerhafe
  1672- Baptism

  1672- Marriage

  1675- Burial

  1876- Confirmation

  1768- People who
recieved Lord`s
Supper

This is courtesy of Jens M�ller-Koppe at the following URL:
http://www.hist.de/ywittmund.htm

I am not sure, but I blieve that the dash after the dates means that it is from that date to the present or something like that. To be sure, you may want to ask Jens at hrs@hist.de

This appears to go back a little further than what the LDS have.
Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1794-1874 Evangelische Kirche Leerhafe (Kr. Wittmund

Sounds like you are picking up some good info.

Gale