I checked the 1860 and 1870 census online (don't have 1850). The only BRANDKAMP's I found were both in 1870 census:
Edward BRANDKAMP, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Age 50, Born Prussia.
Stephen BRANDKAMP, Cole, Missouri, Age 66, Born Prussia
I will check the 1850 census the next time I get to Cincinnatti. I'll also check the city directories since so many Germans came through there in the 1840s.
I haven't been able to spend anytime lately in the Hannover or Oldenburg lists, but you asked several months ago about Johann Heinrich SCHMIESING. I checked the 1850 census and the Cincinnatti city directories. The only SCMIESING's I found were:
Frank SCHMIESING, Born Oldenburg 1825
Anton SCHMIESING, Born Oldenburg 1828; Wife Gertrude, Born Oldenburg 1838
Living in Stearns, Minnesota.
Hello Ted
I read that you say that there is a city directory for Cincinnati. I wonder
if it is possible that there is some where that I may find a copy of it on
the internet. I am searching for information about
John Heinrich Decker who married Maria Engel Grubins on 28 Oct 1846. I have
a copy of the marriage license from the Court of Common Pleas and signed by
Francis Maurice Raching a minister of the Gospel. It would be interesting to
know at what church Raching was a minister. Robert Rau of Cincinnati also
sent me a copy of a page from the St. Mathaius Church of Cincinnati where
their names were mention but I don't remember that having to do anything
with a marriage.
If it is the family that I am looking for they later lived in Santa Claus,
Indiana.
Thank you in advance for any help that you may offer.
Jim Decker
Title Restored Hamilton County, Ohio marriages, 1808-1849 / indexed by
Jeffrey G. Herbert.
Author Herbert, Jeffrey G.
Publisher Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1998.
Description 2 v. (viii, 644 p.) ; 28 cm.
Depending on where you live, your local library may have a copy. There
is one in the Denver Public Library. There is another book which lists later
marriages in Cincinnati as well.