Did you try just typing in on your engine Lippe Germany. Try and see what you get. I use Google. Bonnie ----- Original Message ----- From: <RayAOne@aol.com> To: <BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 11:24 AM Subject: [BAVARIA] Need help to locate origin of John Adam Scheller >I have a lot of information pertaining to my gr,gr,grandfather, John Adam > Scheller but can not find out where his home town is in "The Kingdom of > Bavaria. > > Facts I have proof of: > > * Born 4/28/1814 (year confirmed by census reports in 1860 and 1870) > * Died 12/26/1888 in New York City (confirmed by death certificate) > * Adam was Lutheran > * Buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Village, NY (confirmed by death > certificate and > Cemetery records) > * Became a citizen 10/21/1852 in New York (confirmed by NARA) > * Married Dorothea Eva Goring (confirmed by Family Search IGI) - date un > known > Dorothea was born 11/10/1825 and died 12/12/1875 (Per death > certificate) > * Had 5 children (one died early) > * Census information: > 1860: Adam Schiller - 44 (?); Doretta (?) 34; Adam 11; Amelia > 9; > Henry 6; Margaret > 2/12; Adam and Doretta's listed place of birth was > Bavaria > Adam was a cabinet maker. > > 1870: Adam Scheller - 56; Dorothy 45; Adam 21; Henry 16; Minnie > 9 > Adam and Dorothy's listed place of birth was Bavaria > Adam was a cabinet maker. > > 1880: Nothing found for Adam - Dorothea passed away in 1875. > Son > George Adam > Sheller listed with his family. Census shows birth > place for both Adam and > Dorothea to be "Lippe". > > * Dorothea Eva Goring emigrated from "Deutschland" on the Ship Howard. > Arrival date was > May 28, 1847, Her age was 22. Port of Departure was Hamburg, Germany. > Port of Arrival > was New York. On the same ship was a passenger named Adam Schille (?). > This info > came from the New York, 1820-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists. > > * A search at _www.jewishgen.org_ (http://www.jewishgen.org) reveals the > following about Lippe: > > Lippe - located 274.6 miles W of Berlin > Lippe - located 260.7 miles W of Berlin > Lippe - located 29.8 miles SE of Berlin > Lippe - located 204.1 miles W of Berlin > Lippe - located 289.0 miles WSW of Berlin > Lippe - located 260.8 miles WSW of Berlin > Lippe (Emscher-Lippe) - located 264.5 miles W of Berlin > > Any help received will be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance. > > > > > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > Have you consider the volunteering of transcribing parish records to be > added to WorldGenWeb Archives for others to research? > Contact mailto:dsam@sampubco.com?subject=transcribing_records > >