This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Block, Reynders, Vandrey / Fandrey, Grulke / Gruhlke, Lohrcke Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/501.3.1 Message Board Post: I went back to my grandmother's original handwritten notes on the Block family. Some of it was mistranscribed from her notes. I find that Charlie Block (Minnie's brother) had children by the name of Earl, Mary Rose and Kathryn. Charlie married Katherine. Minnie was listed as having married Dr. George Reynders (no mention of a second husband); her children were listed as Alfred, Minnie, Edward and Patty. I don't know why the name Patty was included; maybe they had a fourth child who didn't survive long? Maybe Patty was a child of Alfred, Minnie or Edward. Or perhaps my grandmother was given incorrect information. The notes are clearly not meant to be the finish copy of the information she was gathering, so more research is needed to verify it. I can scan her handwritten notes and email them to you if you would like. Also I've done some research on Minnie's mother (Rose Fandrey) and father (Frederick William Block) and found the following in LDS records: Friedrich Wilhelm Block was christened Dec. 26, 1828. The gravestone in Marquette County gives his birth year as 1828. Friedrich's parents were listed as Christoph Block and Catharina Lohrcke. [Evangelisch, Battrow, Westpreussen record] LDS record shows Friedrich Wilhelm Block married Rosina Vandrey on Jan. 22, 1854 in Lobsens record [from LDS Patron Sheets in batch #8327623 - Lobsens, Posen, Prussia Evan. Church Record] -- the marriage record says Friedrich was age 25 and his wife 19 My grandmother had one handwritten note that said a maternal grandmother had the last name of Gruhlke. I found a record that may be Rosina's parents: An LDS record (SN#3890-8, p. 725 in Lobsens, Posen, Prussia MF #C99919-1 re: 1840-1874, p.725) shows Paul Vandrey and Justine Grulke had a son named Johann Friedrich Vandrey (b. Feb. 1, 1841). [I understand that the letter "V" and "F" are often interchangeable in the translation between early Prussia and English.] Paul Vandrey (age 32) married Justine Grulke (age 26) on Feb. 9, 1834 [LDS Lobsens, Posen, Prussia marriage record - LDS Patron Sheets Batch #8327623] -- I haven't found Rosina' Vandrey's birth record yet Wilhelmine Block, b. July 31, 1859, christened Aug. 10, 1859, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm and Rosine Vandrey [NOTE: this record spells Rosine with "e" while other records show her name spelled Rosina with "a" at end] [LDS record from Lobsens, Posen, Prussia Microfilm batch #C999190-1, record #-07004-8, p. 97] Johann August Block, b. Aug. 16, 1857, christened Aug. 30, 1857, son of Friedrich Block and Rosine Fandry [this time record spells Fandry with "F" instead of "V" -- MF batch #C999190-1, record #06224-6, p. 97] Ottilie Emilie Block, b. Oct. 22, 1861, christened Oct. 1861, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Block and Rosine Vandrey [LDS MF #C999190-1, record #0789707, pg. 97) [I believe this is Minnie's sister "Delia" since Ottilie is the name they used on their immigration paperwork too] My grandmother's handwritten note said Friedrich and Rosine came to America with their children at Castle Garden, NY, July 28, 1870. In "Germans to America, Vol. 24", I found Friedrich Ploch (age 41), Rosine (age 35), Wilhelm (age 15), August (age 12), Wilhelmine (age 10), Ottilie (age 8), Eduard (age 6), Theodor (age 4), August (age 2) and Caroline (age .03 infant). They came to America through Bremen on the "Marco Polo" ship on July 28, 1870 (which matches my grandmother's note). Apparently immigration clerks misspelled Block. The records I found in Prussia clearly spell the name BLOCK.