Jane, You might also try the Strasbourg civil records. Microfilms of these records can be rented at your local LDS Family History Center. (If you still live in the St. Louis area, we have 2 good ones.) ===================== Etat civil (naissances), 1792-1882 Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin). Officier de l'état civil (Main Author) Civil registration of births for Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; also called Straßburg, Elsaß-Lothringen, Germany. This contains the births only. The marriages and deaths are cataloged separately. Text in French and German. Includes annual and ten-year indexes. ===================== You also mentioned some records indicate she was from Mannheim, Baden. (As a member of the B-W mail list, I notice you have not posted a similar query there.) There are civil and church microfilmed records for Mannheim. In the case of church records the family religion can help narrow your search. ======================== Familienstandsbogen, 1807-1900 Mannheim (Baden). Standesamt (Main Author) Civil family registers for Mannheim, Baden, Germany.. Kirchenbuch, 1515-1960 / Evangelische Kirche Mannheim (A. Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1577-1961 / Evangelische Kirche. Dreifaltigkeitsgemeinde Sandhofen (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1632-1962 / Evangelische Kirche Feudenheim (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1641-1962 / Evangelische Kirche Seckenheim (A. Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1650-1962 / Evangelische Kirche Neckarau (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1652-1847 / Französisch-Reformierte Kirche Mannheim (Baden) Kirchenbuch, 1652-1962 / Evangelische Kirche. Unionkirche Käfertal (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1679-1746 / Wallonisch-Reformierte Kirche (Magdeburg) Kirchenbuch, 1685-1821 / Wallonisch-Reformierte Kirche Mannheim (A. Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1685-1912 / Katholische Kirche. Militärgemeinde Mannheim Kirchenbuch, 1685-1926 / Katholische Kirche Sankt Ignatius-Franziskus Xaverius Mannheim Kirchenbuch, 1696-1900 / Katholische Kirche Feudenheim (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1736-1903 / Katholische Kirche Sankt Jakobus Neckarau (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1771-1900 / Katholische Kirche Sandhofen (Mannheim) Kirchenbuch, 1783-1900 / Katholische Kirche Sankt Laurentius Käfertal (Mannheim) ======================== Notice there is a Französisch-Reformierte Kirche, that is a (French) Huguenot Church. There is also a microfilmed book of the old families of Mannheim. ============================= Alte Mannheimer Familien Waldeck, Florian (Main Author) Early Mannheim families and their descendants. ============================= Not to discourage you, but in the case of both Strasbourg and Mannheim, they are administrative centers ("county seats"). It was common in those days, as it is today, when you are from a small village, to identify your home as a larger nearby community. In both cases this expands the scope to several hundred villages considering a 10 mile radius. BTW, there is an entry in the online LDS Pedigree Resource Files Index at FamilySearch for this family. You might try to contact the submitter to see if he has any additional information. By doing a surname search at FamilySearch, it indicates the surname Lepique is present in the Mannheim area. ============================= IGI Individual Record FamilySearch™ International Genealogical Index v5.0 Barbara Carolina Lepique Birth: 09 MAY 1808 Evangelisch, Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden Christening: 10 MAY 1808 , Mannheim, Baden Father: Johann Philipp Lepique Mother: Elisabetha Franziska Hepp Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. Batch No.: C921435 1800 - 1818 1192143 ============================= At 02:00 AM 5/17/2008, you wrote: >From: "Jane Brown" <brownj6610@verizon.net> >Subject: Re: [A-L] 1836 Strasbourg census looking for LePique or LePicque >To: <ALSACE-LORRAINE@rootsweb.com> > >My great-grandmother whom I know as Caroline >Lepique emmigrated to the U.S. on 16 Aug 1850 >and married Ernst Fasold the following October >in St. Louis, MO. All the US census data lists >her birth location as Baden, but it has always >been passed down to us that she was from Alsace >Lorraine. I have never been able to locate her >family, don't have any more information on their names or where they're from. > >I came upon a web site that indicated the >existence of an 1836 census for the city of >Strasbourg, with a Lepique listing. Does >anybody have this data, and can they enlighten >me if this might be my great grandmother's >family. My information on her birth year ranges from 1828 to 1832. > >The application for her immigration says that >her last known residence was Mannheim. However, >no Lepique shows up on German databases. Any >help will be appreciated. Castle Garden records >show that she immigrated on the Nord America, >origination Hamburg, that she was a farmer, and >her first name was spelled Karoline. Any help will be appreciated. > >Jane