This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buelt, Hermsen, Lepping Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Gk.2ADI/37.39.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: My husband's gr-gr-grandfather Henry Buld/Buelt married a Maria Helena Hermsen 13 Sept 1865 in St. Louis City, MO. They had one son Bernard Joseph Buelt. She died soon after his birth. Living in St. Louis at the same time was a Gerhardt Hermen Hermsen. Could this connect to your Hermsens somehow? This has been a formidable brick wall as Henry Buld/Buelt soon remarried and had six more children, and memories of Marie Hermsen faded away. I found mention of the marriage in St. Louis Catholic Church marriage records.