Hi there, In rereading my post to you I see I forgot to include the Noltes I found in the 1880 census in Cumberland, Allegany, MD...sorry! Our electricity went out twice yesterday afternoon..lots of storms moving across Ohio...so I kept losing whatever I hadn't saved! Here they are: --------------------------------------------------- Census Place Cumberland Central, Allegany, Maryland Louis NOLTE Self M Male W 24 MD Printer GER GER Ella NOLTE Wife M Female W 18 MD Keeping House MD W.V. --------------------------------------------------- Census Place Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland John NOLTE Self M Male W 48 GER Shoemaker GER GER Amelia NOLTE Wife M Female W 49 GER Keeping House GER GER Harman NOLTE Son S Male W 20 MD Laborer GER GER Fredric R. NOLTE Son S Male W 18 MD Laborer GER GER --------------------------------------------------- (All the other Noltes that I found in Maryland (about 40 of them) were in Baltimore, Maryland) There were a lot more in West Virginia. . BTW, the reason that Conrad Nolte (who had married Margaret Eyerman back in 1858 in Cumberland) did not appear in the 1880 census for Allegany Co. MD is simple: he and his family had moved on by then...to WV. I found them in: --------------------------------------------------- Census Place Berkeley Springs, Morgan, West Virginia Conrad NOLTE Self M Male W 49 GER Shoemaker GER GER Margaret NOLTE Wife M Female W 45 GER Housekeeper GER GER George W. NOLTE Son S Male W 18 VA Shoemaker GER GER Margaretta NOLTE Dau S Female W 12 VA GER GER Annie NOLTE Dau S Female W 7 VA GER GER --------------------------------------------------- (Note that the three children are listed as born in VA rather than MD) It is interesting to note that 48 year old John Nolte (of Cumberland) and 49 year old Conrad Nolte (late of Cumberland), both German born, are both shoemakers as well. Since such "skill" professions were often family trades, it would seem very likely that John & Conrad were either brothers or closely related. Hmmm? ~~~ Bye for now, Kathleen