Hello Gernot
Is Knoke possibly another spelling for Knoche or is it entirely different?
Also Wiepking for Wiebke?
My husband's family - August Diedrich Knoche married Anna Catherine
Wilhelmina Wiebke in Fort Wayne, IN. However both families came from Germany;
August in 1881 & Wilhelminia's parents (Diedrich Carl Christian & Wilhamine Hanne
Friedrich (Prange) Wiebke) in 1859.
Not exactly sure of where they came from but do know August's parents
married in Ehlienworth in the Lutheran church in 1858. They went from Bremen to
New York. Diedrich Wiebke was born in Lahde & Wilhamine Prange in Westphalia
according to her obituary. Not sure where they left from or arrived at
Betty Knoche