Hello Armin,
This is great news about your wife being related to Meier of Windheim. I
should write to this house # 8 once I discover more about Sophie Louise. I
did find Sophie's christening record. See below:
Sophie Wilhelmine Louise Meier
Germany Births and Baptisms
Name: Sophie Wilhelmine Louise Meier
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 21 Jan 1849
Christening Place: Windheim, Westfalen, Preußen, Germany
Birth Date: 08 Jan 1849
Father's Name: Friedr. Wilh. Meier
Mother's Name: Louise Chr. Dammeier
Witte is also an old relation living in Frestorf, Stolzenau, where my great
grandmother, Auguste Meyer lived. Auguste married Dietrich Nahrwold
(1869-1908), the son of Sophie Louise Meier (1849-1908) and Dietrich
Nahrwold (1849-1910) of your wife's area of Windheim.
My grandmother, Mary Nahrwold, the daughter of Dietrich Nahrwold and Auguste
Meyer, told my parents that her great great grandmother, Sophie Louise Meyer
is related to Auguste Meyer, Sophie Louise's daughter-in-law.
I do not know how Augusta Meyer born in Frestorf is related to Sophie Louise
Meyer in above christening record from Windheim, Minden, Westfalen.
Frestorf and Jossen, Minden are very remote from each other.
More to discover.
Tanya