In the years 1847 - 1849 a number of inter-related families from Prussia who had lived in several small towns located in area south of Duren settled in Pewaukee Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin near the village of Duplainville. Members of this group were the founders of St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Duplainville. It is possible that they were preceded to Pewaukee Township by Henry SCHMITZ who came to the US in 1845. Arriving in the US in June of 1847 were my great grandparents Johann Wilhelm JANNES, his wife Maria Anna FARBER with four children; Maria's father, Johann FARBER; her brother Caspar FARBER and Julia and John FARBER (relationship unknown); Mathias GENTZ and his wife Josephine JANNES (sister of Johann?) and their two children and Aloisius VIEHOEVER and his second wife Caecila REUTER. After arriving in Waukesha County, they almost immediately applied to purchase Federal Land for adjacent farms in section 24 of Pewaukee Township. In the following months they were joined by Johann HÜRTGEN, John Jacob WIRTZ and Killian DICK. More from the same area came in 1848 including, William REUTER (son of Caecila VIEHOEVER), Conrad NETTESHEIM and Henry ADAMS. After their arrival in Pewaukee Township these families continued to intermarry and have created many confusing relationships. These later arrivals purchased land in the adjoining section 13. I have some information including extracts from the scanty Church records on all of the above families and also for several more of the families from St. Peter and Paul Church and would like to make contact with anyone who is descended from any of these families. Henry Rumm Columbus, Ohio