Hi Louise- In the 1860 census, he is listed as Nicolaus and he is living with his father Peter, mother Susanna and 5 siblings in Belgium, Ozaukee County Wisconsin. In all of the other available records on Ancestry.com, he is listed as; N. Thill, N. A. Thill and Rev. N. A. Thill. Sorry but I can't help with the A initial. There's an article mentioning his death on June 16, 1898 in Jefferson and his brother taking over his position. This was at St John the Baptist Parish in Jefferson. This article can be viewed online at; Wisconsin History Society's web page<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/articleView.asp?pg=1&id=7297&key=thill&cy=>. If you have any problems viewing it, contact me an I can send you the file via e-mail as I have saved it temporarily. Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:40:57 EDT > From: Billnwese@aol.com > Subject: [WIMILWAU] N. A. Thill > To: wimilwau@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <cde.c9f60ba.33391959@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hello Listers, > > I recently received copies of two old prayer cards: one in German so my > translation will be imperfect. Rev. N. A. Thill born in Holy > Cross Wisconsin on > Feb 15, 1849, ordained to the priesthood at St. Francis Dec 22, 1872, > died > at Jefferson WI Jun 16, 1898 and buried in Port Washington WI Jun > 23, 1898. > The second card was of his housekeeper, Miss Nora Gales who died > in Jefferson > May 24, 1895 and was buried at Gilbertsville Iowa. My question is what > is > Rev. Thill's name and what church in Jefferson was his posting? > > Thank You all, Louise > Port St Lucie FL