> EIGHT GERMAN GREAT GRANDPARENTS > > > MOTHER'S FAMILIES: > > GOESSLING Herford, Hausheide - Diebock, Westphalia > BIERMANN Lenzinghausen, near Borgholzhausen, > Westphalia > BRUNE near Borgholzhausen, Westphalia > JUNGE Echte, South of Hannover in the > foothills of the Herz Mountains > > > FATHER'S FAMILIES: > > BAUER Taeferrot, a wide spot in the road of > Stuttgart, Wuerttemburg > STROTHOTTE Guetersloh, Westphalia > MEISTER Hesselteich, Westphalia, a > smallerwide spot > KOENIG (also known as Meister), Steinhagen, > Westphalia > UPMEYER Borgholzhausen, Westphalia > KINDERMANN Gross Raueschen, near Dresden, Saxony > > > NOTES: > Junges arrived in New Orleans in 1846. > Bauer sailed from LaHavre to New Orleans. > Others sailed from Bremen to New Orleans in 1852 to 1858. > Then, on a Mississippi steamboat to St. Louis, > Strothotte & husband Meister sailed 1858 from Hamburg to New York. > All lived in North St. Louis German Colony, scattered after 1918 and > the close of WWI, > mostly to the West End. >