SIEVERS / SEVEUS? / LULLMAN /HOMFELD - surnames!

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I am searching for records on my families from "Hannover" and their
German ancestors.

    Is it possible that the surname "Seveus" might be a misreading of
"Sievers"?
According to a Centennial History of Ripley County Indiana, "Adeline
SEVEUS" (born around 1804 depending on whether she was adding or subtracting)
married John "Gerd" RIMSTIDT (Rhemenstedt?) of Bruchausen "in sight of Bremen".

    The "family historian" had Addie's surname as something like "LURTKE" or
LUEKER - (I was never comfortable with her handwriting when the word was
unfamiliar, and subsequent writings of it were no clearer.) I have found some
similar names in German records, but nothing quite like it. As I think
handwritten capital "L" and "S" look very similar in US Census records in the mid
1800s, I even wonder whether all the variants might be the same. A tall German
ending S might have resemble the taller letters in "Lurtke".

    Another ancestor appears as LULLMAN/LUHLMAN?. I have found something
resembling this on German sites, and "Homefields"/HOMFELD look-alikes seem to be
the most common of my missing names. John Gerhard LULLMAN (1810-1899)
married Margaret "HOMEFIELDs" (1812-1892) Both were born in Hanover according to
the tombstones. All their children were girls, so it is even harder to trace
cousins who might have more information.

    I would appreciate opinions from anyone interested in handwriting and in
German surnames found in this area who might have suggestions for where to
look and how to spell it !

Barbara FEIGEL Rice
RIMSTIDT /
Hessen Darmstadt BIEDENKOPF /MAYGOLD ...
Oldenberg - SCHNEIDER /HELDER ...

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Hi Barbara,
in that area mentioned by you the name Riemenstedt (also in the spellings Rehmstedt, Remstedt) appears.
Regards from Berlin
J�rgen

3

Dear Barbara,

It is Bruchhausen (or Bruchhausen-Vilsen) you are looking for.
Your ancestors must have had pretty good eyes, it is 7 miles S
of Bremen where you find Bruchhausen.

The name REHMSTEDT, also spelt RIEMENSTEDT and REMSTEDT is to be found there
and in the surroundings,
as well as HOMFELD. HOMFELD is a village in the church parish Vilsen, but an
old
family name as well, in some of the neighbouring church parishes you find it
in the
eldest tax lists of 1530.

We do have LUELLMANN (there should be these dots over the U) as well.
It seems that they were called auf dem Luelle first in the village Sapelloh,
church parish Warmsen, between Nienburg and Minden, both cities on the river
Weser.

You will have to search several places to find the right place of origin.

Sincerely yours

Falk Liebezeit

Diepholz