Zimmermann-Monckemeyer

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Good morning,

I am trying to locate the hometown of Heinrich Zimmermann and his wife Wilhelmina Monkemeyer and their family which left from Bremen on the ship Bark Elsie for the United States in 1857 with three children, Heinrich age 8, Wilhelmina age 6 and Friedrich age 2 years, arriving in New York on May 7, 1857. They listed their final destination as Wisconsin.

Heinrich was born was born on September 14, 1812 in Hannover, Germany. Wilhemina was born on April 3, 1822.

I have found several different spellings of Wilhelmina's maiden name. I believe it was orginally spelled with an umlaut over the o. I have also seen, Moenkemeier, Moenckemeyer and other combinations.

She was the mother of 14 children only three of which survived to become adults. The older two children who came over from Germany did not survive and the last two surving children were born in Wisconsin.

On Heinrich's declaration of intent to become a citizen he relinquished his citizenship of the Kingdom of Hannover.

Other Monkemeyers that I have found list Brille, Reilefzen or Polle as their birth places. So far I have not found a connection to them

These were my husband's great grand parents.

Any direction you can give me is greatly appreciated.

Nancy Zimmermann

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Hi Nancy,

    I wish I had a quick answer to your questions. There are far too many
Zimmermanns to do anything but guess! So, I've looked for the Mönkemeyer
(Mönckemeyer) name. I would think the cities of Holzminden, Hameln,
Bodenwerder would be the best places to look - which you may have already
done.

  The three names appear in this research:
    
Startseite Search for both names. You can
ask for research help there as well.

   Look up both spellings here and you can see the area where those names
are located today. Use the umlaut.
   Geogen Deutschland (Onlinedienst) - christoph.stoepel.net

   On the German phone book you'll see 10 Mönckemeyer names. However, there
are MANY Mönkemeyers, most in northern Germany.

    Is the August Monkemeyer on Rootsweb.com any relation to your Wilhemina
Monkemeyer?

   I'll do some more hunting later.

Barbara

Good morning,

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Nancy,

  I came across this website.
http://www.mönckemeyer.de/kontakt.htm

You could write the Mönkemeyer there. Nothing to lose!

Here's another:
  http://db.genealogy.net/vereine/daten_form.php enter the name of
Mönkemeyer

Another: http://db.genealogy.net/vereine/daten_search.php
    
Not terribly helpful there....

Barbara