This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bock or Barmeister Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nMB.2ACI/105 Message Board Post: J W Bock was the son of Georg Hermann Bock born 1814 in Dutzow, Mecklenberg, Germany and Mary McCracken born 1825 in Virginia. They were married in Hermann Mo on Oct 2, 1840. (Georg Hermann Bock was the son of Johann Wilhelm Bock born in Germany and emigrated in 1833.) Hermann and Mary Bock of Gasconade County had 5 children, Amelia born 1841, and Sarah F born 1842, JW in 1843, Anna Regina born in 1847 and Georg Hermann (Jr.) born 1849. Their father Georg Hermann Bock died in the Cholera epidemic in Hermann in 1854. His widow and children went to live with Julius Barmeister after that. Mary married Julius Barmeister and had at least two more children Charles and Mary. Please help - I am looking for siblings descendents - can take you far back.