Posted on: Stearns County Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Stearns/11397 Surname: VERKENNES ------------------------- My records show Peter Verkennes (Verkennis), b. 1820, Holland, and wife, Ida Clerx, b. 1821, Holland. Children born in 1850s in Stearns: Mathilda, Leonid, Caspar, Anna. There may have been other children, including your Hubert