Towns in Hannover

Hello fellow researchers,
This list-serve is truely great. In my research I have four towns that I am
unable to find on maps. Perhaps in the translations the names are misspelled
or perhaps they are no longer there. Any help to find them and family research
in them would be most helpful.

1] Flethe, Amt Stotel (listed as birthplace of GESINA EBBERFELD on a website.
Might Flehste, Amt Stotel be the same as Flethe that is listed as the
birthplace of her her father, Berend EBBERFELD in 1762.
2] Schiffdorf, Hannover - family HENRY EIBE STEERS born 1821
3] Osterndorf, Hannover or is it Ostendorf, Hanover? - family Anna Christina
MÜLLER born 1824
4] Etzhorn, Amt Oldenburg, Oldenburg - where to find Oldenburg information.
Oltmann SCHWARTING born abt 1776.

Thanks for any help.
Barbara Schwarting

Hello Barbara,

     There is a town by the name of Fleeste which is near the town of
Stotel. Both are near Loxstedt south of Bremerhaven.

     Schiffdorf is east of Bremerhaven (east of Highway 27).

     There is an Osterndorf near Beverstedt (which is east of Stotel and
Loxenstedt).

     Etzhorn is north of Oldenburg near Highway 29.

     The LDS has church records for Loxstedt, Schiffdorf, Beverstedt, and
I'm not sure where the people of Etzhorn went to church. I could be
Ohmstede, but there are no LDS records listed that I see.

    You may want to use mapquest.com to see these towns on a map. Go to
Maps, then choose Germany, and search for each town.

Barbara

1] Flethe, Amt Stotel (listed as birthplace of GESINA EBBERFELD on a
website.
Might Flehste, Amt Stotel be the same as Flethe that is listed as the
birthplace of her her father, Berend EBBERFELD in 1762.

----> close to the small town Stotel you can find the village Fleeste, located just south of Bremerhaven

2] Schiffdorf, Hannover - family HENRY EIBE STEERS born 1821

----> the village Schiffdorf is located on the east site of Bremerhaven

3] Osterndorf, Hannover or is it Ostendorf, Hanover? - family Anna
Christina MÜLLER born 1824

----> Osterndorf is a part of Beverstedt, about 20 miles easterly of Stotel/Fleeste

4] Etzhorn, Amt Oldenburg, Oldenburg - where to find Oldenburg information.
Oltmann SCHWARTING born abt 1776.

----> Etzhorn is a part of Oldenburg city,
      there is local citizen organization see: http://www.buergerverein-etzhorn.de/

regards,
Werner Honkomp

     Etzhorn is north of Oldenburg near Highway 29.

I'm not sure where the people of Etzhorn went to church. I could be
Ohmstede, but there are no LDS records listed that I see.

The records should be at St. Lamberti church in Oldenburg city.

But you can not find Lutheran church records of the Oldenburg city and province by LDS.
The church books are archived at Staatsarchive in Oldenburg.
Werner