This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: OTT ROTH BAKER UTZ SUMMERS HOPPER in Harrison & Floyd Counties Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3h.2ADE/439.484 Message Board Post: Bill, I don't know how helpful this will be, but my ROTH ancestors came to America from Karbach, Bavaria, and settled at least temporarily in Lanesville. Traveling with the on the Ship Manchester was a BAUER family, also from Karbach. One of the ROTH brothers married the daughter of Arnold BAUER who, unfortunately, died soon after arriving in Harrison County giving birth to their first child. The ROTH family eventually moved on to Wisconsin, but the BAUERs remained in Indiana mostly in the Lanesville area, but some went over to Clark Co. Looking at the passenger list for the Manchester, I did not see Lorenz HIMMELHAVER nor BAUER, but apparently many other Bavarian families from that same area settled in or near Lanesville, coming at different times on different ships. Karbach is located just west or Wurzburg. The records for St. Vitus Catholic Church in Karbach are not available in LDS records. They are archived in Wurzburg, and you would have to hire a researcher to obtain any information. The Ship Manchester sailed from Havre in early 1854, and arrived in New Orleans on May 1 (see ISTG Vol. 3). From New Orleans, the ROTHs and BAUERs sailed up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to arrive in Harrison Co. Just to satisfy my own curiosity, how did Lorenz assume the name of HIMMELHAVER if his parents were BAUERS??