Hallo Barbara,
that is indeed very heavy finding the place of the birth of an ancestor.
Often are incorret or false the dates of the age on the marriage-date or
death-date and when one didn't know where was the place of the birth one
must search long time! It is so as searching a needle in a
hay-heap.
Do you know where is Brockhagen? I think that is near of Bielefeld and
Versmold.
From where did you write?
Schniedermann und Schneidermann are two nearly equal names without any
different. Many persons are evgl. as your ancestor and other are Catholics.
One know that often die Catholics did live any hundred years ago in catholic
regions as in the region of Paderborn or Muenster and the evgl. Christs did
live in an evgl. region as Bielefeld, Brockhagen, Versmold, Guetersloh,
Herford.
I hope, I could help you a little.
I chearch as you since more as twenty years the birth-place and the year of
the birth of my Ancestor Simon Theodor Koelling. I have the year of his
marriage as you and I know exactly when and where he did die: April 28 1802
in Rietberg. He was there a miller of a whater-mill taked on lease. But in
Rietberg lived on these time 98% Katholics. So it is very heavy finding the
birth-place. But I hope the fortune is on any day for me.
Regards
Bernhard Christoph