Dear Listmembers,
My Plate family originated in Munsterland as early as 1670 AD and most of the Munsterland Plates emigrated to USA from 1832 to 1844. There were no Plate relatives coming from Hannover as far as it could be determined. However many Hannover families married into the Plate Family in USA. Their surnames were Tolle, Mueller, Klumpke, Funcke and a few others. Currently, my focus is on the Tolle Family from Goettingen I noticed that most of those people emigrated in 1848-1850 from Hannover before marrying into my family.
An interesting item on the Plate - Plote names in USA was that a Plate from Bremen changed his name to Plote in Indiana, USA in about 1850. Most of the USA Plates came from the Bremen area and a few from Hannover. My research on the Plates from the Munsterland showed only very few Plates there but they were all accounted for from 1699 to 1844 when all of them emigrated to USA.
Laurence L Plate Jr