Dear Ann,
Our ancestors (PAULING, RIDDER,) also settled first in Bensenville and were
members of Zion. They came from Norddrebber/Neustadt. I checked a book of
the history of Norddrebber which was compiled in 1990 for its 1000th
celebration. In the listing of residents in 1585 there is an Arendt ASCHE.
In the individual house history for Meierhof Nr. 4, it states: 1553 Heinrich
ASCHE; 1555/1599 Arendt Asche. He is followed by Deitrich Meier in 1636 and
Dietrich Lose, Frau Dorothea, geb. Asche in 1648/1664. After that, the Asche
name disappears on this house. Other house names are LOSE, QUITMEYER,
DUENSING, GLEUE, and SOEHNHOLZ.
The listing of 1859 surnames in the village include:
Dierking, Rump, Gleue, Martens, Bohm, Garms, Pauling, Ridder, Rode, Plesse,
Oehlerking, Lorenz, Dove, Juergens, Nordholz, Bartling, Quietmeyer,
Linnemann, Dannenberg, Gerdelhoff, Blanke, Goehrs, Gerbers, Heide.
Linda Pauling
researching my Asche ancestors in DuPage Co., Illinois. They
are in church records of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on Bensenville,
IL,
I have not been able to find towns of origin in Germany for my ancestors -
only Hannover. Hoping that sometime, someone will recognize the names
Asche