This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Klaseus, Klasges, Bisenius, Rosseler, Hoffmann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DIB.2ACE/392 Message Board Post: Maybe this can help someone....Jacob Klasges and his second wife Angela came to MN, with a son and two daughters. A son Jacob, from his first marriage to Catherine Peifer, had come to the US earlier also came to MN in the late 1850's, living originally in Le Sueur Co Stockigt & Enzen are very small towns in Bitburg, not far from Trier I read it and copied all the Klasges/Klasches/Klesches mentions I noticed, will check it again. Here is a rough inventory of what I have: 1824 Marriage Apr 1 Stockigt Jacob Klesches – Catharina Peifer 1824 MarriageMay 14 Enzen Mathias Rossler - Margaret Klesches 1824 Stockigt Jacob Klesges dau of Jacob Klesges and Catherina Peiffer Also mentioned (sponsors?) Jacob Klesges & Anna Maria Burelback of Stockig 1826 Stockigt Anna Catherine Klesges dau of Jacob Klesges and Catherina Peiffer Also mentioned (sponsors?) Jacob Klesges & Anna Catherine Klesges 1828 Stockigt Anna Maria Kleshes daughter of Jacob Kleshes and Catherina Peiffer 1829 Enzen Susanna Rosseler daughter of Jacob Rosseler and Margaret Kleshes Also named (suscepire – sponsors?) Jacob Clasches and Catharine Peifer of Stockigt And Susanna Helzgen wife of Jacob Clasches of Mettendorf 10 feb 1830 Stockigt death Catharina Peifer (“in secundus nuptus” in second marriage??) wife of Jacob Klasges of Stockigt 7 Oct 1832 death, 1 year 8 months Enzen Anna Maria Rosseler Daughter of Jacob Rosseler and Margaretha Klasches of Enzen Enzen Johannes Rosseler son of Jacob Rosseler “molitoris” and Margaretha Klasches Also named (suscepire – sponsors?) Johannes Achen widower of the deceased Catherine ????? And Maria Klasches daughter of the deceased Johannes Klasches and surviving Catherine Achen of Enzen June 1834 death Anna Catherine Klesches wife of Nicolai Roth of Karperich August 1834 December Enzen Adam Rosseler son of Jacob Rosler and Margaretha Klesches Also named (suscepire – sponsors?) Adam Klesches son of the deceased Johannis Klesches and Anna Heyen (umlaut over y) And A Maria Klesches daughter of the deceased Johannes Klesches and Catherine Achen of Enzen 1835 January Stockigt Marriage Jacob Klasches, widower of deceased Catharine Peifer And Angela Hoffmann daughter of the deceased Dominici Hoffmann and Anna Maria Feltes Witnesses Mathias Schmits of Stockigt and Jacob Bisenius of Stockigt 1835 Mathias Schomer married Anna Maria Klasches 24 daughter of deceased Johannis Klasches and Catharina Aachen 1835 December born Enzen Catharine Rosseler daughter of Jacob Rosseler and Margaret Klasches Also named (suscepere – sponsors?) Johannis Leyen & Anna Getz of Halsdorf And Catharine Klasches wife of Johannis Tholl of Niel 1836 Stockigt born, Elizabeth Klasches daughter of Jacob Klasches and Anna Hoffmann Also named (suscepere – sponsors?) Mathias Schmits , Maria Himes of Stockig and Elisabetha Hoffmann wife of Mathias Schmits of Muenden 1836 Oct death 10 months Stockigt Elizabeth Klasches daughter of Jacob Klasches and Anna Hoffmann 1836 Stockigt born, Mathias Klasches son of Jacob Klasches and Anna Hoffmann Also named (suscepere – sponsors?) Mathias Schmits , Maria Himes of Stockig and Elisabetha Hoffmann wife of Mathias Schmits September 1837 Stockigt born, Michael Klasches son of Jacob Klasches and Anna Hoffmann Also named (suscepere – sponsors?) Michael Weber son of Pauli Weber and Susanna Mueller and Maria Klasches daughter of the deceased Johannis Klaesches and Cathr Achen of Enzen 1838 Enzen death 36 years old Maria Klasges wife of Mathias Schomer of Enzen 1839 Stockigt born, Mathias Klasches son of Jacob Klasches and Anna Hoffmann Also named (suscepere – sponsors?) Jacob Bisenius son of Mathias Bisenius and the deceased Cath. Sontag of Stockigt and Elizabeth Hoffmann wife of Mathias Schmitt of Muenden 1839 Enzen Anna Rosseler dau of Jacob Rosler and Margaretha Klesches Also named (suscepire – sponsors?) Carolus Hauer widower of deceased Margaretha Dederich of Nussbaum and Anna Hauer wife of Nicolaus Fisch of Freiling 1841 October Stockigt born, Catharine Clasches daughter of Jacob Clasches and Anna Hoffmann Also named (suscepere – sponsors?) Nicolaus Bisenius son of deceased Theodori Bisenius and A M Poker of Nussbaum and Catherine Clasches daughter of Jacob Clasches and the deceased Catharina Peifer of Stockigt 1844 Enzen death Margaret Klasges, wife of Jacob Rosseler of Enzen