This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoferkamp, Mollman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/3844.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Robin, I may have a little bit of interesting info for you. My family name is Hoferkamp. My immigrant ancestor, Henry Hoferkamp, was from Hanover, Germany. Like you, I realize that this is the "Kingdom of Hanover", and I have been trying to narrow down a specific town that they were from. I have not come up with anything exactly for him, but I did run across an immigration record online that listed a John Hoferkamp that was from Quackenbruck. (Correct spelling being Quakenbruck.) So, I am thinking that just maybe my Hoferkamp family came from there. After reading your message board here, what is interesting to me is that in the 1880 Census, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky (Page 370A) my ancestor is listed as H. Hoferkamp, living with his wife Mary, son William, and mother listed as MOLLMAN. I always thought that was a strange name for someone, but maybe it was a surname? I just thought it might be a connection. I think there were some Hoferkamp's in Peoria t! oo, so there could be some kind of link here. This woman was 70 years old in 1880, so she would have been born in 1810. There is no listing for a "Mollman Hoferkamp" in the death records, but there is for a Mary Hoferkamp, who is buried in a single, unmarked grave in Cave Hill Cemetery. She died from old age on February 7, 1884, so maybe this is her. If you know of any connection, I would be interested in hearing about it.