This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Feld Feldhaus Heuer Meeman Schonhoff Middendorf Wielage Stock Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/3230.2.1.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Research has reached the 1778-1790 era and the villages of Herzlake, Langen and others thirteen miles east of the Netherlands into the Emsland of what became the Kingdom of Hannover. The family of Bernard Veld and Angela Veldhaus included a son named Bernard Heinrich; the family of Peter Heuer and Anna Meeman included a daughter named Anna Catherine. During this time the family of Elantharius Schonhoff and Anna Middendorf included Theodore; the family of Gerardi Wielage and Maria Stock included Anna. Bernard Heinrich Feld married Anna Catherine Heuer in 1817 and Theodore Schonhoff married Anna Wielage in 1828. Johan Clemens Feld (born-1829) and Maria Anna Schonhoff (b-1837) arrived in New Orleans on the Bremen Schiff (Ship) Sirius on November 20, 1858 and settled in St. Louis, marrying at St. Joseph Catholic Church on December 7, 1858. Theodore and Anna Schonhoff and family (except for one son who stayed in Germany) arrived in New York in 1871, settling in Quincy, Illinois.