I am searching for information on the Asselmeyer and Altemuller families who, according to family lore, emigrated from Westfalen. The town name is lost in the mists of time, but might be Sudlohn or Stadlohn (sp?) It was near the border, with family references to nearby towns of Osnabrucke and Munster. Johann Heinrich Altemuller (b.1830) was married three times before he left Germany. 1)Louise Grotthaus; 2) unknown; 3) (Frieda) Wilhomenia Asselmeyer. Upon his marriage to Wilhomenia he assumed the Asselmeyer name. I understand that this was often done when a man married the daughter of a man with no male heirs. The family emigrated to Hoboken, NJ in the late 1800's. My mother's father, Herman, a son of his father's third marriage, came to this country as a young teen in 1892. He was a baker by trade, and became estranged from the rest of his family, changing his surname to Martin. He was in San Francisco briefly, then settled in New Orleans in the first years of this century. His siblings were Frieda Asselmeyer, William Asselmeyer, Julius Asselmeyer, Sophie Asselmeyer. Julius and Sophie never married. Frieda married John Rickens. William married Margaret ?. Other family members who emigrated about the same time were August Altemuller, b.1867, a son of Johann Heinrich's first marriage. He married Dorothea Louise Altemuller, a cousin, before he left Germany. He was supposedly the first of the family to emigrate, sponsoring the others later. I am interested in ANY information about these two family surnames. Thanks! Jill Oswalt Goodwin 401 No. 5th St. Alpine, TX 79830