hannover-l - Nachricht 2007-06 00064

[R&B Stewart <raybarbara(a)comcast.net>]

Hi Linda,

  Look on this page:
    http://feefhs.org/de/han/hanrl/hanrl.html

 scroll down to "Knoepfel, Don" and you will see some Duensings from the
Nöpke area. Don has been on this list - so if you don't hear from him, you
could write to him at the email listed there.

   Have you looked at the Hannover archives?

http://aidaonline.niedersachsen.de/

I saw a number of Duensings listed there, but not your specific family.
Maybe you can find a connection there. Enter the name of Duensing and Nöpke
and you will find several returns. Or put Johann Duensing and you will get
other returns. I can help you if you have trouble managing that site--I
don't really know German, but have managed to fumble around enough to find
somethings in German records.

Barbara 


 Hello,
> 
> I am new to this list and do not know any German, but I do have
> friends who can possibly translate any answers from German to English.
> 
> I am looking for information concerning the Johann(es) Heinrich
> DUENSING family who emigrated from the village of Nöpke (near
> Rodenwald) in Hannover, arriving at New Orleans on October 21, 1843 on
> board the ship "Everhard". The family members included the following
> persons (the DUENSING surname is misspelled on the ship's manifest):
>       "Joh. Hch. Dunsing", age 57 (Johann Heinrich or Henry Duensing,
> b. ca. 1776)
>       "Doroth. Dunsing", age 54 (Dorotha or Dorothy Duensing, b. ca. 1779)
>       "Wilh. Dunsing", age 24 (Wilhemine/Wilhelmina or Louisa
> Duensing, b. Oct 12, 1818)
>       "Maria Dunsing", age 24 (Maria or Mary Duensing, b. Oct 12, 1818)
>       "Ferd. Dunsing", age 11 (Ferdinand Duensing, actually age 14, b.
> Nov 24, 1828)
>       "Wilh. Dunsing", age 7 (Wilhelm or William Duensing, b. Feb 21, 1836)
> 
> The entire family is found on the U.S. census records beginning in
> 1850 in Greene Co., Indiana, then later in Cumberland County,
> Illinois. Wilhelmine Louisa Duensing also appears to have first
> emigrated to the U.S. alone earlier than the rest of her family. She
> is found as "Louise Duensing" on the brig "Julia" which arrived in
> November of 1838 at New Orleans. She must have then returned to
> Germany and traveled again to New Orleans with her family in 1843.
> 
> Both Louisa DUENSING and her twin sister, Maria, seem to have married
> husbands with the surname GROSSCUP (probably GROßKOPF in German). No
> given names for either husband have been found.
> 
> If anyone from this list can recommend how I might obtain more
> information about the DUENSING family from this area of Hannover and
> their connection to the GROSSKOPF family, I would greatly appreciate
> hearing from you.
> 
> Thank you,
> Linda (Wood) Ott