This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hetzel, Noelker, Schiffmann Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XNB.2ACI/379.1 Message Board Post: I have found some Bollmeyer's in the church record book for Trinity Lutheran Church in Norborne, MO.. Maybe there is a connection. Karl Ludwig Bollmeyer b 10 Jan. 1889 baptized 6 Feb 1889 son of Louis Bollmeyer and Anna Wolf Bollmeyer Witnesses were Karl Mueller and Ludwig Wolf Friedrich Wilhem Bollmeyer b. 8 Sept. 1890 baptized 23 Nov. 1890 Son of Louis Bollymeyer and Anna Wolf Bollmeyer Witnesses were Friedrich Wolf and Wilhem Strathmann Ida Maria Helena Bollmeyer b. 22 Apr. 1893 baptized 11 June 1893 Daughter of Louis Bollmeyer and Anna Wolf Bollmeyer Witnesses were Maria Wolf and Helena Wolf Heinrich Hermann Karl Bollmeyer b. 17 Sept. 1895 baptized 10 Nov. 1895 son of Luis Bollmeyer and Anna Wolf Bollmeyer Witnesses were Heinr. Bollmeyer (something else is written in German beside this name) it looks like auswaerts perhaps it means absent. Also witnessing were Chas. Wolf and Herm. Noelker Wilhelmine Mathilde Friederike Bollmeyer b. 14 Mar. 1899 baptized 11 June 1899 daughter of Luis Bollmeyer and Anna Wolf Bollmeyer Witnesses were Minna Bollmeyer, Mathilde Knackstedt, (abrv? Paten?) Friederike Beckemeier, Elise Stoffregen There isn't any record of Louis (or Luis) and Anna being members of the church. They were not recorded in the marriages and were never recorded as taking communion with the church. There are some church minutes that might hold some more info. I will try to look through them in the near future. One interesting note is that there were several Wolf family members that were very active in the church for many years. Maybe this Anna Wolf was a relative of these Wolf's but her husband for whatever reason never joined the church or moved his membership to this congregation. There were several German Lutheran families that lived between Hardin and Norborne in the late 1800's, bordering on the Ray-Carroll County line. A few still live in the area. I hope this helps. If I find more, I'll pass it on.