There were two strong driving features towards emigration from Lower Saxony and Westaflia that may well have been felt in S-H. The potato famine was not limited to the Irish but extended well across Europe and caused considerable inflation at the same time that the linen industry was collapsing because of the competion from English cotton. For those interested, I recommend they read "The Westfalians from Germany to Missouri" by Walter D. Kamphoefner, Princeton, 1987. They might also search out a copy of Gottfried Duden's book "Report on a Journey to Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri" (1824-27) Columbia MO, 1980. This is an English translation of a book which went through several editions and was widely distributed in "Germany". An interlibrary loan will most likely be needed. I obtained one through our local library in Nova Scotia from the Missouri Historical Society Library. Duden's writings had a great impact on emigration from the 1830's onward. He was a German civil servant who recommended emigration as a policy for handling the problems of over population and the consequences of inheritence laws upon the younger sons.