Hi Barbara,
You wrote:
<<Many relatives in northeastern Nebraska absolutely refuse to
accept the fact that the name originally was R�schen . They want to believe
that the name was always Lammers.>>
There's none so blind as those who refuse to see
The surname change of the man was normal practice throughout all of Europe.
In the 1800's a prominent male line of my family died out.
My branch tried to claim the family castle but lost out to a female cousin and her husband and he had to legally change his surname to inherit the estate for his children.
<<It gets very confusing. I have ancestors in
early Haren (Emsland) in the 1600'2 where the same woman is listed with two
different surnames in her children's records. I first thought there were 2
wives, but it is not the case. What explains that situation, I don't know.
Perhaps, in small towns the surname wasn't that important and so, the priest
wrote down either the father or the mother's name(??).>>
It sounds similar to the custom in some parts of Scotland, which didn't die out until the 19th century, where the wife was always known by the surname she was born with. The difference between your 1700's situation and mine is that I have an 1833 marriage cert. plus baptisms and an 1841 census entry of adults and children which prove the historians are correct.
Referring back to your disbelievers, my son in law took my daughter's surname when they married because he didn't like his own surname - he is now on his third wife but didn't change his 'new' surname again. I'm guessing it's because he wants all his offspring to have the same surname.
St. Marcus United Church of Christ, St. Louis, Missouri
Burial Index, 1847-1879
Confirmation Index, 1848-1870 (link)
Marriage Index, 1847-1865 (link)
Below a sampling of surnames. There are many more. European places of origin are even documented for some families.
SPRINGMEYER
VONDOEREN
MACHENHEIMER
SARBAUM?? MEINECKE (SEIBUM?)
METJER
MICHEL
PAGELS/JUST (Poggel?)
RIECHMANN/KOLLMEIER
AMELUNG -
HAUPT/BLAETZ
GERHARD ***
HARTMANN ***
MARZLUFF
HORMANN ***
HUMMERT ***
KERN ***
KLATT/MROTZ
Because most of my Hannover ancestors are believed to be catholic faith I hadn't thought to view non-catholic records...
However...
Surnames with *** are also found in sacramental registers for Shrine of St. Joseph Catholic Church in St. Louis, Missouri.
Many on the list are probobly familiar with this online data but I write just in case.
The site is in English. If you use English-German translation tool like babelfish or some other...copy/paste the english first..then copy/paste to translator rather than translating entire site because translator might translate the surnames oddly....
Many relatives in northeastern Nebraska absolutely refuse to
accept the fact that the name originally was R�schen . They want to believe that the name was always Lammers.
Barbara,
Did any of your Lammers go to south-central Nebraska. I have some Lammers relatives in Buffalo County, Nebraska.
Mona,
The original John Lammers (my great-grandfather) from Sustrum
Hannover came without family, but with a few friends, in about 1853 or
perhaps before. He first lived in Cincinnati, married there in 1854 and had
one child. They moved to New Vienna Iowa for a few years having more
children and finally settled in northeastern Nebraska. It was (and still) is
a farming community with small towns in Cedar County, NE. There were 18
children and they all had many more children. Some of them left that area
through the years. If any moved to south-central Nebraska, I couldn't be
sure. If you give me names, I could look them up in the huge book we have
of all his descendants.
Barbara
Mona,
The original John Lammers (my great-grandfather) from Sustrum
Hannover came without family, but with a few friends, in about 1853 or
perhaps before. He first lived in Cincinnati, married there in 1854 and had
one child. They moved to New Vienna Iowa for a few years having more
children and finally settled in northeastern Nebraska. It was (and still) is
a farming community with small towns in Cedar County, NE. There were 18
children and they all had many more children. Some of them left that area
through the years. If any moved to south-central Nebraska, I couldn't be
sure. If you give me names, I could look them up in the huge book we have
of all his descendants.
I have record of Harm Lubben Lammers and wife Margaretha Sophia Friedricka Eils. One son Henry Harm immigrated in 1880. Another son Amo immigrated in 1884. Immigration dates according to census records, and I've often found those dates to be off a bit. I have that Henry was born in Hannover, and Amo was born Friedricksgraden, Germany.
Three sons of Amo Lammers three of my dad's sisters. I haven't really researched the Lammers family.
Not sure if the parents came to the US. Henry and Amo lived in Buffalo County, Nebraska.