oldenburg-l - Nachricht 2008-02 00102

[Werner Honkomp <werner(a)honkomp.de>]

Hello Angela,

I have some records of Anna Maria Niemann from Dinklage-Bahlen - a friend in Dinklage have the whole history.
I could not find any records for Kaufmann or Osterhaus in the Oldenburg province - you are sure that the spelling is correct? Could it be Kathmann or Osterhues (in Steinfeld)?
There is a concentration of the name Osterhaus in the Osnabrück area.

We have a lot of places called "Steinberg" in Germany, but not in the Oldenburg province.

Sincerely,
Werner Honkomp


> I am the great great granddaughter of Ferdinand Bernard Kaufmann born
> around 1810 in Oldenburg, serving in the army and then emigrating to the
> USA via Bremen on 20 Jun 1837 ending up in Effingham County, Illinois.
> This information is from my Uncle Gus Hoene's research he did in 1976.  I
> have all of the USA history.
> I have been unable to locate anything further on this Kaufmann family in
> Oldenburg and am hoping someone can get me further information.

> Ferdinand married Anna Maria NIEMANN (born in 1820 - I believe of Bahlen,
> Dinklage, Oldenburg).  She was a widow of John Frederick OSTERHAUS (born
> in 1806 in Oldenburg).  He also served in the army and was discharged at
> Osnabruck in April 1833.  He then emigrated to the USA also ending up in
> Effingham County where he married Anna Niemann (daughter of Herman Niemann
> and Mary Selhorst (SEELHORST) in 1841.  I have all the USA history.
> I have been unable to locate anything further on this Osterhaus family in
> Oldenburg (could have come from the Stienberg area?) and am hoping someone
> can get me further information.

> I am a descendant of many of the Dinklage area farms (Hoene, Buenne
> (Bunne), Langwege) and have found the history fascinating.  My father and
> many of his brothers and uncles were all farmers in Illinois, Idaho and
> Montana.  It seems our descendants started in Dinklage, emigrated to the
> Greencreek (Effingham County) area of Illinois and then on to Green Creek
> (Idaho County) area of Idaho.

> I appreciate any assistance you can offer.  FYI - I am an ancestry.com and
> familysearch.org user.

> Angela Romain in Phoenix, Arizona
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