This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Verkennes, Immel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/971.1003.1095.1098.1.1 Message Board Post: I was told by Mary (David) Vanzwoll of Lansing, MI, that the parents of Mechtilda/Mathilda Mary, Anna, Casper/Kaspar, and Leonid V. were Pieter Mathis V., b. 1 Dec. 1820 in Limburg Melik and Ida Clerx, b. 18 OCt. 1821 in Limburg Maasniel. I haven't personally researched the Verkennes family because my interest is in my great uncles Jacob Immel and Peter Immel. They married Anna V. and Mathilda V., respectively, in Stearns Co. Mary Vanzwoll is a descendant of Peter Immel and has researched his family. As of the 1880 census, Jacob Immel and wife were in Stearns and had two children, names unknown.