This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/556.566.1 Message Board Post: See Bruning below. Perhaps there is some connection between our families. Ruvers/Rues/Rufers/Rovers/Roers/Ruwers/Ruve/Ruwe Family-Germany Henrich RUVERS b 1744 in Holsten died 23.08.1799 Wife Anna WINTER b 1745 in Rheine Children: Joann Bernd 6.1.1769 Gesina 12.10.1770 n NEIMEIER Anna Maria 16.09.1773 n WINTER Johann Herman 1.8.1775 d 29.03.1789 Anna Aleid 19.5.1778 n prope Rheine Joann Dirck 19.6.1780 d 26.7.1798 Gerd Bernd 19.6.1780 d 21.1.1781 Helena 22.8.1783 Anna Cathar 26.9.1785 n in Rheine Johann Bernd b 6.1.1769 in Salzbergen died 28.2.1823 in Holsten wife: Susanna Maria FEHREN 4.11.1774 in Wintels Heuer in Ahlde died 16.5.1848 Parents: Wessel FEHREN and Maria MEYERDIRCKS Children: Herman Henrich 6.9.1800 Anna Maria 27.12.1802 married J Herm NUSSE Joan Gerhard 16.8.1806 married A Aleid FUHNER in Ahlde Joan Herm 24.4.1809 married Johanna KLEINE HoetTING* in Achterberg/Gildehaus to America Helena Aleid 5.12.1811 died 22.1.1814 Anna Margar 31.12.1813 married Bern Herm EGBERS in Bexten Helen Aleid 26.12.1815 Joan Theodor 22.4.1819 died 5.2.1844 in America Herman Henrich married Anna Maria BRUNING born in Holsten Children: Bernard Henrich 4.9.1834 married Matilda DAVIS in Shelby TN 11 nov 1856 daughter Rosa was orphaned and her aunt Maria Adelheid Ruwers Duvel of Cincinnati raised her. She married Harry PRICE. Maria Adeleid 23.5.1839 married John Henry DIECKMAN DUVEL of Hunteburg/Bohmte/Schwege in Cincinnati, Ohio *Johanna KLEIN Hoetting RUVERS married again to John Herman KNEUVEN in Cincinnati in 1840. she is buried in New Alsace Indiana. I have more information on the Duvel and Dieckmann families. Also on the Vogt family of Gesmold.