This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schroeder, Schroder, Stolte Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1737 Message Board Post: Is there anyone that might be related to this Schroeder/Stolte family or can add some information? I have hit a brick wall at William Schroeder's father. I also am beginning to think that H. Heinrich Schroeder's wife, Mary, might have been a Stolte. In 1870 a Frederick Stolte was living with Henry and Mary Schroeder, William Schroeder's parent's. I would love to know who these Stoltes are and if Mary Unknown Schroeder was a Stolte. As far back as I have gone, and all the info I have on these Schroeders, is below. Our family is a descendant of Heinrich and Mary (? Stolte?) Schroeder through their son, William (Wilhelm) Schroeder. Thanks for any help! E-mails Welcome: BerryglenPlace@aol.com 1. H. HEINRICH1 SCHROEDER was born July 02, 1821 in Hanover, Germany, and died June 03, 1870 in Black Hawk Co., Iowa. He married MARY UNKNOWN. She was born Abt. 1824 in Hanover, Germany, and died Unknown. More About H. HEINRICH SCHROEDER: Burial: Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Black Hawk County, Iowa Children of H. SCHROEDER and MARY UNKNOWN are: 2. i. WILLIAM HENRY2 SCHROEDER, b. Bet. 1841 - 1855, Holyhofen, Hanover, Germany; d. February 07, 1898, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. ii. DORA SCHROEDER, b. Abt. 1852. 1870 Census, Fox Township, Black Hawk County, Iowa, page 438B (surname spelled Schroder) Mary Schroder, age 46, keeping house, b. in Hanover Dora Schroder, age 18, at home, b. in Hanover William Schroder, age 15, at home, b. in Hanover Henry Schroder, age 47, Farming, real estate - 850, b. in Hanover Frederick Stolte, age 39, Farm Hand, real estate - 100, b. in Hanover Sophia Stolte, age 33, at home, b. in Hanover Henry Stolte, age 6, at home, b. in Hanover Dora Stolte, age 4, at home, b. in Hanover Anna Stolte, age 1, at home, b. in Hanover 2. WILLIAM HENRY2 SCHROEDER (H. HEINRICH1) was born Bet. 1841 - 1855 in Holyhofen, Hanover, Germany, and died February 07, 1898 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He married EMMA SOPHIA BUTTKE June 14, 1877 in Zion Lutheran Church, Black Hawk Township, Black Hawk Co., Iowa, daughter of CARL BUTTKE and DOROTHIA LULOFF. She was born August 27, 1857 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and died November 11, 1942 in Waterloo, Black Hawk Co, Iowa. 1880 Census, Fox Township, Black Hawk Co., Iowa, page 479A William H. Schroeder, age 25, Farmer, b. in Hanover, Germany Emma, age 22, keeping house, b. Wisconsin Mary, age 56, mother, b. in Hanover, Germany Certificate of Marriage says that he was born in Holyhofen, Hanover, Germany. This location has not been found in the province of Hanover, Prussian or Saxony. The person that recorded his application (A. J. Edwards, Clerk) might have spelled it as he/she heard it. Here are 3 of the locations/districts that have been named as possible places (Holy means Heilig in German): 1. Heiligenhafen, (now Schleswig Holstein), Germany, which is close to Oldenburg, Hanover. 2. Hollenhof, Kreis of Zeven, Hanover. It is a little farm which belonged to the village of Bruettendorf. 3. Hollinghofen, Hochsauerlandkreis, present state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Declaration of Intention Record: Record C, page 23, page 2103, A. J. Edwards, Clerk of District Court, Black Hawk Co., Iowa William H. Schroeder, a native of Germany, ... landed in the United States on or about the 15th day of November 1863. ... Signed on Sept. 15, 1884.