This is a copy of a previous email that I had sent looking for help. I will continue to lift my sticky finger to the heavens until something sticks to it that will help me end my search, or until a bolt of lightning strikes it on some rainy, cold, gray, Northern European type morning that will also end my search. We have mornings like that you know here on the coast of California. It reminds me of Northern Germany and it makes me feel good.
Hello!
I was "cleaning out my inbox" when I came across this email and it
looks like you never got a response. I found this listing on a immigrant
ship in 1846:
172 J. H. Decker Hunteburg Farmer 25
173 Engel Grube Hunteburg 28
Do you think they could be your people? The trouble is the birthdate
seems to be about 10 years off. That name of Engel Grube could be the
eventual wife? Maybe mispelled?
Here's the webpage and you can see others on the same ship:
http://immigrantships.net/v7/1800v7/johannes18461007.html
Hunteburg is north and a little east of Osnabrück. It is north of the
town of Bohmte.
Maybe these are your relatives? The LDS have some church records for
Hunteburg (both Evangelical and Catholic).
I don't want to mislead you at all.
Good luck,
Barbara
There are several Deckers in the German telephone in that area today
Hello Barbara
Thanks for taking time to send me this info. I will check with the LDS files
and see if I can find more information about Hunteburg. I looked at the
other names on the list and did not recognize any of them. I do have a
feeling that they from the Osnabr�ck as so many of their neighbors came from
around there.
Best regards
Jim