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St. Martin Church of Hohnhorst
Schaumburg Province
(Formerly Hessische
Grafschaf Schaumburg)
Lower Saxony, GERMANY
INDEX to all
Church
Record Extractions
1655 to 1850
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Edwin C. Friedrich
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Davis,
California 95616-
eMail address: friedrich@chem.ucdavis.edu
and
Karen
S. Rowe
122 West Saunders Avenue
Lincoln, Nebraska 68521-3925
eMail
address: ksrowe@rerowe.com
Latest
Update 29 April 1997 (Links updated)
The town of Hohnhorst is located
about 30 kilometers east of the city of Hannover and just south of the
Steinhuder Meer. Formerly, this area was in the Hessische Grafschaf Schaumburg
which together with bordering former Schaumburg-Lippe makes up the present
German Province of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony.
St. Martin Church in
Hohnhorst is believed to have been started in the 13th Century. However, the
present church building dates from about 1900. The church is named after St.
Martin who lived in the 4th century and whose name day is November
11.
The existing records of the church go back to 1603, with a break
between 1741 and 1767. It is believed that the missing records
(1741-1767) exist on loose pages at the church but were not included when
the records were microfilmed. The towns included in the St. Martin church parish
(Kirchspiel) in the 1700's and 1800's were: Haste, Helsinghausen, Hohnhorst,
Mathe, Nordbruch, Ohndorf, Rehren, and Rehrwiehe.
During the mid 1800's a
number of members of the St. Martin Hohnhorst parish, as well as from the
neighboring parishes at Beckedorf, Lindhorst, Idensen, Nenndorf and Apelern and
others, emigrated to the United States. Many of these first located in the
western part of Cook County, Illinois near the present town of Schaumburg,
Illinois. However, after a few years a number moved south to farm homesteads in
Will County, Illinois or Lake County, Indiana, west to Bremer County, Iowa or
further to Nebraska, and north to Minnesota.
CONFIRMATION INDEX:
MARRIAGE INDEX:
DEATH INDEX: (Being extracted by Ed
and Karen. To be posted when available from them later in
1997)
BIRTH INDEX:? The records to create such an index do
exist. But it is not clear to the extractors (Edwin C. Friedrich and Karen S.
Rowe) whether there is a real need for a Birth Index, based on the confirmation
records above. Please let them know if you feel there is a need for the
extraction of a Birth Index.
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