Hello Rolf,
My wife is researching Thunhorst. Her Great Grandfather was Heinrich F.
Thunhorst (dob July 11, 1861 in Hannover, dod Jan. 30, 1936 Cleveland, Ohio.
She is having trouble connecting the which Frederick Wilhelm is her Great Great
Grandfather. There are 2 born in the same year. He married Marie Elisse
George. They were Lutheran and attended the Trinity Lutheran Church in Cleveland.
Let me know if you are related or if we can help you in any way. Rick
Wagner
Hi Rick,
I am living in Germany and am researching the same area you are looking at. For some reason I've got the following data in my files though at this moment I cannot tell you from where I got it.
Heinrich Thunhorst * 1861
father: Friedrich Wilhelm Thunhorst * 01 Jan 1834 Huesede
mother: Marie
Grandfather: Johan Jobst Friedrich Wilhelm Thunhorst
Grandmother: Anne Marie Clara Elisabeth Witte *1789 +28 Sep 1844 Huesede
Parents of the grandmother:
Johan Friedrich Witte and Anne Marie Elisabeth Jibker (not sure of the speling of the last name, this name is not familiar to me at all and I may have misread it)
This could be the connection you are looking for.
Okay, I just saw, I probably copied the data from the webpage of Wilma Campos at http://home.earthlink.net/~schloetzer/surnames.htm
Sorry, so it is not new to you.
But I may be able to help you anyhow:
I am hoping to check the church books of Bad Essen some time in May and if you have not been able to confirm the data by then I could check for your wife. You probably know that the name is still in the area, don't you?
Erika