This is probably not much help, but I am well aware of both the May and Kirchen families in Cascade. The kirchen family was a next door neightbor to my parent's and John & Anggie , both unmarried, lived in the newer house for years. Their dad was a school teacher (before my time). The May family built and ran a brewery. It is still a significant stone building. Some of them married into distant relatives of lines I'm searching. Have nothing as to their origins in Luxembourg. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: <Carolee62@aol.com> To: <IADUBUQU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: [Dub'que] Re: IADUBUQU-D Digest V03 #6 > Is anyone searching for the following surnames: Ernster, Maei also spelled > May, Abel, Kirchen. These early families settled in Dubuque County in and > around Cascade, Iowa arrived abt. 1848-49. I've been unable to find their > names in any ship''s manifests. Their homeland was Luxembourg. I am > particularly searching for the birth and death dates for Nicholas John > Ernster. He is supposedly buried in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Cascade. > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Carolee62@aol.com > > > ==== IADUBUQU Mailing List ==== > Have you visited the *NEW* RootsWeb/Ancestry Message Boards yet? Take a > tour soon & learn how time-saving those "Gateway" messages are compared > to trying to find the *new* ones on your own. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >