Many many thanks to all of you who answered my query on Johan Wehrkamp (my great great grandfather) and his father Jobst Rosemann called Wehrkamp. I not only found Jobst and several generations preceding him, but I found out that Jobst Rosemann married the widow of Johann Friedrich Wehrkamp and, when he did, the farm (perhaps just the lease to the farm) became his as did the farm-name. This has been a very big breakthrough for me. Thank you all again.
Now I am going to ask a series of questions that will reveal how really ignorant I am. Can anyone tell me if it was illegal for the woman to own property (Johann Friedrich Wehrkamp died in 1807)? If the farm were prosperous might Frau Wehrkamp choose not to marry or was she pressured into marrying soon for other reasons than to keep herself and her children from starving? Diana Wright mentioned that Jobst was the leaseholder in Natrup. After Rosemann called Wehrkamp died in 1855, who would inherit the farm? One of his children or one of Johann Friedrich Wehrkamp's children? Would it have been possible for a daughter to inherit?
Finally would it be possible to find the address of the farm from records in Germany? Or to get the deed records/history of the address? As leaseholder, who was he leasing from? Would he have been a tenant farmer of a large land-owner? Probably it has been overtaken by city, but possibly not. I would like to go to Hannover in 2005 and it would be interesting to see the property. I have no intention of bothering the present owners.
Can anyone direct me to a website with photos of the countryside surrounding Natrup?
Carole in California