This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BUHR BURHS SCHWENGELS WARNS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/3438.2.2.1 Message Board Post: I am of the family of Maria Buhrs, born 5 .5. 1805 in Burgforde, Oldenburg. Her parents were Siefke Buhrs and Talke Lene Warns Buhrs. Maria had a son, Johann Dietrich Schwengels 30.11.1824, but was not married to Johann Schwengels, the father of the child. Cannot locate the death of Maria Buhrs. Perhaps she married again. She may have emigrated with her son on September 5, 1850, to St. Louis, Missouri or Washington County, Illinois, but I cannot locate any passenger lists that would tell who traveled with him. His emigration date comes from his Reiss Pass and says he was going to St. Louis, Missouri. He was established in Washington County, Illinois by 1857.