Do you have the name of the church your grandfather was christened in?? He may not have been in a church..... The oldest Lutheran Church I was able to find used to be near 13th & Mitchell St. It was St. Jacobi's Evangelical Lutheran Church.....the bldg. was dedicated in 1873....I do not know when they actuallystarted to build it......it was to serve Lutherans who emigrated from Germany..... They may have had a congregation started prior to that with fewer people....and may have met in peoples homes or even at a school until an actual church was built.... A new church was constructed in 1906......They continued with German-language services until 1971.....The church purchased land on 86th & Forest Home Ave. The old church was demolished in 1977. This is the only info I have......

Gypsy Woman, Thank you for the information on the German Lutheran Churches in Milwaukee. My German/Lutheran Families arrived around 1870.... William Frederick August Hoppe arrived in1871. He was born in or around Arnsberg, Pomerania. 921--23rd Street; 538R--26th Street, and 2442 Elm, 3908 N. 28th St. Milwaukee, WI. His brother, Otto Frederick Hoppe, came to the U.S. in 1872, they settled for a couple of years in Buffalo, New York. Otto took a lake boat bound for Milwaukee, landing there in fall of 1881. He became a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Does anyone know the names of the closest Lutheran Churches to these streets? 921--23rd Street: 538R--26th Street: 2442 Elm St.: 3908 N. 28th St. Many of the HOPPE Family are buried at Wanderer's Rest Cemetary, Milwaukee, WI; The SCHRAMM's are buried in Union Cemetary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Anyone, who may know of the closest Lutheran churches to these addresses--I would love to know...thank you, Susan snokes@tscnet.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <GipCWoman@aol.com> To: <WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] Finding a church in 1860 > Do you have the name of the church your grandfather was christened in?? > He may not have been in a church..... > The oldest Lutheran Church I was able to find used to be near 13th & Mitchell > St. It was St. Jacobi's Evangelical Lutheran Church.....the bldg. was > dedicated in 1873....I do not know when they actuallystarted to build > it......it was to serve Lutherans who emigrated from Germany..... > They may have had a congregation started prior to that with fewer > people....and may have met in peoples homes or even at a school until an > actual church was built.... > A new church was constructed in 1906......They continued with German-language > services until 1971.....The church purchased land on 86th & Forest Home Ave. > The old church was demolished in 1977. > This is the only info I have...... > > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >