This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/885.1105.1 Message Board Post: Well, I have Peter & Margaret Brosemer living in Fair Haven Twsp in 1870 with 4 children: Mathias, Martha, John P. & William. Peter & Margaret Brosemer claim to be from Belgium. Also living in Fair Haven Twsp in 1870: Peter Bach and his wife, Marie, nee Brosemer, also claiming to be from Belgium. They had one child age 7/12, named Mary Bach. Mary was born 21 Dec. 1869. They had at least 2 more children registered in Stearns County: Margretha Bach, b. 3 Aug. 1871; Catharina, b. 14 Nov. 1873. The three little girls were baptised at St. Wendelin Parish in Luxemburg, MN. Back to the Brosemers: children were: Margaretha, born about 1864; died 23 Sept. 1874 at Luxemburg, MN William, b. 29 Dec. 1868 at Lux'g, MN & died 14 Oct. 1874 at Lux'g, MN. Peter, b. 26 June 1871 at Luxemburg, MN Susanna b. 14 April 1873 at Lux'g, MN ; died 30 Sept. 1874 at Lux'g, MN Dominic b. 29 May 1876 at Lux'g MN. The Brosemer children's baptisms and burials are from the St. Wendelin parish records. I also found a Maria Bauer, nee Brosemer, in the 1870 census in Brockway Twsp. She died 7 Nov. 1875 and was buried at St. Joseph Parish Cemetery, St. Joseph, MN. The 1870 census said she was born in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in about 1830.