ANDY'S FAMILY - EITING / VOS / DÖINK BRANCH

This page contains brief family summaries for one of Andy's
ancestral branches, the Eiting, Vos, Döink, Micke, Rolf, and
related families from the Bocholt (Barlo) & Lüdinghausen regions
of Westphalia, Germany, and from around Lichtenvoorde
(Zieuwent), Gelderland, Netherlands.

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Surname List: Ardes, Brommelinck, Dekeling, Döink, Eiting,
Eytink, Essing, Fink, Giesberg, Goers, Hebrink, Hidding,
Hulshof, Hummelink, Janer, Kamkes, Kemps, Klümpener,
Leyen, Micke, Middeler, Oolthuis, Penterman, Rolf, Te Harth,
Te Löcken, Te Plate, Ter Leege, Te Vehn, Te Wege,
Vanden Heuvel, Vinkenvleugal, Vriek, Vos,Voss, Vosch,
Wissing, Witthagt.

Map of Ancestral Villages

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Eiting/Vos/Döink/Micke:

My parents were Marie EITING born 1908, and Oscar WEGNER born 1900.  Oscar’s ancestral families are described on separate pages of this website. The towns where ma’s families were from were all in the extreme western part of Germany, somewhat toward the north, near Düsseldorf; or in one case one village was just across the border in Holland.  Those in Germany were all fairly close to the Holland border (some very close).  They were either in what was the German state of North Rhein (Nordrhein) or in what was Westphalia (Westfalen).  Today, the two states are combined into Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Ancestral Villages for Eiting, Vos, Döink, and Related Families

My mother’s parents were William EITING born in Hollandtown, Wisconsin in 1864, and Sibilla KELLERMAN born in Straelen, North Rhein, Germany in 1869.  William’s parents were Antone Eiting, born 1824 in Barlo, Westphalia, Germany and his first wife, Gertrude MICKE born 1838 in Lüdenhausen, Westphalia; while Sibilla’s were Johann KELLERMAN born 1829 in Oedt, North Rhein, and Anna Margaretha WELTER born 1825 in Straelen.

The following paragraphs will tell a little about each of the EITING and MICKE branches, and a separate page in this website will tell about the KELLERMAN, and WELTER branches.

Handed down family stories had always claimed our Eiting’s came from Holland from a city something like Bokolt near the German border.  We had assumed this might be Boekel Holland, since Father Vanden Heuvel that led the earliest settlers to Hollandtown Wisconsin was from that city.  We became aware however of another Eiting family, this one that had emigrated to Ohio, and who knew their ancestors were from Bocholt Germany, which is near the Dutch border.  The family stories of these “Ohio Eiting’s”, by the way, told of “eight cousins that went to Wisconsin”.  We now know that our emigrant Eiting family consisted of exactly eight siblings -- not counting the one that we are fairly sure stayed in Germany and the two we know died as infants.  The key to tracing this line was a single page of names and dates found in a journal kept by the Wisconsin immigrants – sort of a genealogist’s Rosetta Stone that would connect three countries and two continents.

The earliest record we have found of our particular Eiting line was that of Jan (a form of Johann, and pronounced “Yahn”) EITING born around 1650 in or near Barlo, Kreis Borken, Westphalia, Prussia (Germany).  Jan’s father’s name was likely Gerdt.  Barlo was, and is, a small farming village about a mile from the Dutch border and about 3 miles northeast of the larger town of Bocholt Germany (45 miles north of Düsseldorf). Until they built their own church in 1823, the families of Barlo went to St. Georg’s Catholic Church in Bocholt, where the original church still stands today (restored from WWII bombing).

Jan and his wife Alken WITTHAGT had at least ten children born in Barlo, the seventh of which, Wilhelm born 1688, was our direct ancestor.  Wilhelm’s older brother, Johannes Wilhelm, was the ancestor of the Eiting’s that almost 200 years later emigrated to Ohio and Indiana, and also of many Eiting’s still living in that area of Germany today (some of whom we are in contact with).  Our Wilhelm married Aleida WISSING, and they had seven children, the oldest of whom, Johann born 1715 in Barlo, married Elisabeth TE HARTH born 1730 in nearby Mussum.  They had a child born in 1753 and another in 1756, but luckily for us, they (with perhaps some help from the fates) had one more child: Johann Wilhelm (sometimes known as ‘Willem’), --who wasn’t born until 1767.  This late-born child was my great, great, grandfather, and it was most of the children of his two marriages that came to Wisconsin.

I have told here of only our Eiting ancestors, but we know also of the ancestors of their spouses, usually back to the early 1600’s, and as you will see for one line, back to the 1400’s.  We also know many of the siblings of these ancestors, and their spouses and descendants.  Please refer to the Detailed Genealogy pages of this web site.

I will here, however, list some of the other ancestral marriages associated with the Eiting line during the 1600’s to 1730 period, all from the Bocholt area:
a WISSING married to a HEBRINK, a TE HARTH to a TE WEGE, TE HARTH to TE VEHN, TE HARTH to KLÜMPENER, a “GOERS known as TE VEHN” married a TEN VEHN (descendants carried TE VEHN name), a “DEKELING know as TE WEGE” married a DÖINK (descendants went by TE WEGE), and DÖINK to BROMMELINCK.

Those EITING’s that emigrated to Wisconsin starting in 1846 and those that went to Ohio in the 1850’s, were to each other at that time, third cousins - twice removed (that is, the common ancestors between them, Jan Eiting and Alken Witthagt, were g, g, grandparents to the Wisconsin emigrants, and g, g, g, g, grandparents to the Ohio emigrants), but they were cousins nevertheless, and since they came from the same small area, they knew of each other, and incorporated the information into their family stories.

Our Johann Wilhelm (or Willem), born 1767, married Johanna DÖINK on January 12, 1808 at St. Georg’s church in Bocholt.   [The surnames of the spouses of Johanna DÖINK’s father, and paternal grandfather and great grandfather, were ESSING, TE LÖCKEN, and HIDDING, respectively.  See Detailed Genealogies sections for more info.]  Johanna was 25 at the time of her marriage, and he was 41 (we need to look for a possible earlier marriage of his -- but just in general our Eiting ancestors did tend to marry late).  Later that year their first child was born, but he died 2 months later.  A daughter, Johanna Elizabeth, was born the next year (1809).  We do not know what happened to her, but she may well have survived childhood, because no record of her death was found.  The following year another daughter was born, but she died at 7 months.

During the period 1814 to1822, six more children were born, all of whom survived:  Johanna Catherina in 1812, Johannes in 1814, Catherina Elisabeth in 1816, Johann Heinrich in 1817, Johanna in 1819, and Bernard Heinrich February 13, 1822.  Three weeks later on March 3rd, 1822 (2 years before my great grandfather Anton was born), their mother, Johanna Döink, died at age 39, probably of complications from Bernard’s birth.  Each of these children were born in Barlo, Prussia, and baptised at St. Georg church.  The baptism records listed their father as a farmer.  After 1822, we could find no further record of the family in the St. Georg church records.

Later, we discovered that in 1823, the community of Barlo built their own church (still exists), and kept separate records.  Our Anton Herman’s  birth in 1824 and his brother Johann Wilhelm’s in 1826 were recorded there, with a Derksken VOS listed as their mother (my g, g, grandmother).  Although Derksken’s husband (Willem Eiting born 1787) was from Germany, and although Derksken’s  two sons were born in Germany, she was undeniably Dutch.  She was born in 1787 on a farm outside the small village of Zieuwent in the province of Gelderland in Holland, more properly called the Netherlands.  Zieuwent is only seven miles from Barlo.

We say she was undeniably Dutch because at least fifteen generations of VOS's have continuously lived near Zieuwent.  In 1970, the Vos family in Holland documented this history in the book "500 Jarig Geslacht (500 Year Family) VOSS-VOSCH-VOS, 1470-1970".   Note how the spelling of the name changed over the years.  Our oldest known ancestor was Johan VOSS who was born in 1470 (Columbus would not 'discover' America for another 22 years).  We know that Johan was a "poortwachter" (gatekeeper) in the nearby city of Lichtenvoorde, and that he owned a house and small piece of land.  As was the custom, the land was inherited and handed down (and added to) through the generations within the family, usually through the oldest son: first to Berent, then to Garrit, and to another Berent [HUMMELINK], and another Garrit [VRIEK], then successively to Koenen, Reynder [HULSHOF], Künen [TE PLATE], Harmen [OOLTHUIS], and Reinder. Reinder's older sister was my great, great, grandmother, Dersken VOS.

The NAMES in [SQUARE BRACKETS] are surnames of their spouses.

The Vos farm continued in the family, first to Reinder's son Drieks, then to Jan, and Tone, and then to the current owner Jozef (Joep) and to his eldest son Ino.  In the barn -- which is attached to their modern, brick house built in traditional architecture -- they milk a herd of Red Holstein cows that can be seen grazing in the very flat, very green fields.  They look just like our black and white Holsteins, except the black splotches are a deep reddish brown.  Joep (pronounced Yoop) and his brothers Bernardus and Antonius (who wrote the “500 Year” book) are my fourth cousins.  They, along with many others of our relatives, still live in or near Zieuwent.  Johan Vos, born 1470, was my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandfather.

We are not sure of the English equivalent of the name Derksken (although one Wisconsin record refers to her as Johanna), but for some reason in Holland the male names Derk and Theodor, and the female names Derksken and Theodora were used interchangeably.  In Dutch, Vos is pronounced  “fose”.

Although born in Zieuwent Holland, Derksken was baptised in the "Katholieke Cruiskapel" (Catholic Christ Chapel) in Hemden Germany, a daughter of "Harm and Trine Voss" (maiden name was OOLTHUIS).  In those days the Catholic Church diocese that was centered in Münster Germany extended into Holland, but the Dutch Reform Church, which was the State church in Holland, would not allow the Catholic bishop to build any churches in Holland, so he built a series of small chapels all along the border -- often within feet of it.  The Catholics would then cross the border for certain religious events.  The Hemden Chapel, which was only a couple miles from Barlo, was likely in operation from about 1760 to at least 1823 (today a grotto marks its location).  Under the influences of Napoleonic rule, the villages in Holland were eventually allowed to build their own Catholic churches (and Zieuwent built a very large one indeed!) and thus the need for and the attendance of the chapels declined.  1823 is also a key date because at that time the church diocese borders were made to be the same as the national borders.  For anyone interested, more information about the chapels can be found in the archive at Aalten Holland.  While we’re on historical matters, before 1811 only church records existed, after 1811 civil records were also kept.

My great great grandparents, Wilhelm (called “Willem” in Holland) Eiting and Dersken Vos were married in Zieuwent Holland on November 23, 1787, but they then lived in Barlo Germany, until at least after our Anton Herman and his brother Johann Wilhelm were born in 1824 and 1826 respectively.  Sometime between 1826 and 1829 however, the family moved across the border to Zieuwent.  Germans often moved across the Dutch border to follow agricultural work or the availability of land, which is possibly what Willem and Derksken did.  We believe we have located their farm -- a few miles southwest of Zieuwent Holland -- on which an Eiting descendant still lives. This Eiting farm in Holland is not to be confused with the old Eiting farm northeast of Barlo Germany, nor with the old Vos farm northeast of Zieuwent.

The Eiting’s were listed in the 1829 Zieuwent population registers (sort of like a census, except it covered a range of years).   Willem is listed as the head of a residence.  The registers show the children as being at home or as working on another farm.  There is also indication of further movement of some of the children between Holland and Germany.  It is not clear whether Johanna Elizabeth (born 1809) is listed at all.  She might have died as an infant or as a child (either in Germany or in Holland), or she may have married or taken outside employment – possibly even before the family moved to Holland.  We are fairly sure however that she did not emigrate to America, because her name was not included in a prayer/genealogy/accounting journal kept by the Eiting siblings around the time they emigrated.  Either she died, or her younger siblings lost track of her existence.  This journal, now owned by one of Johann Wilhelm’s (born 1826) descendants, did however give the parents and the six youngest children of the first marriage, as well as the two sons of the second, including their exact birth dates, as well as when and from where they emigrated – all of which was later independently confirmed by information we found in German and Dutch records.  The journal also listed the death dates of several other individuals.

Derksken VOS died January 19, 1844, and the day before Christmas in 1845, her husband Willem died.  The very next spring some of their children emigrated to the United States.  It is not clear just who emigrated when, but we believe Johannes (known as John in America), our Anton Herman (Antone), and Johann Wilhelm (William) came in 1846, along with possibly Bernard Henrich (known as Bernard or Barney in USA) and Catherine Elizabeth.  Their handwritten journal says they left Zieuwent on May 7, 1846 and came to Boston on July 20 of that same year.  It is possible that Bernard came a few years later, because Nebraska family records indicate he was married before coming to America.  Bernard’s eventual wife, Petronella GIESBERG, wasn’t born until 1832 and so would have been too young to marry in 1846.  1900 Nebraska census records indicate Petronella emigrated in 1848.  My guess is Bernard did come as early as 1846 and that he and Petronella married in Boston.  We need to find their marriage record, either in Holland, or Boston, or Wisconsin.  Also, when Antone filed his intention to become a citizen papers in 1875, he claimed he arrived in Philadelphia in 1848.  We really do need to look for ship logs.  It is possible that only William (born 1826) came in 1846.

There is an entry in the journal that suggests they were still in Boston on December 26, 1849, which would agree with other informantion we have that they did not arrive in Brown County Wisconsin until the spring of 1850.  Father Van den HEUVEL from Boekel Netherlands led a group of Catholics to Little Chute and Hollandtown Wisconsin in the spring of 1850.  Our Eiting’s did show up in the 1850 Wisconsin Census.  It is possible that the Eiting's joined that party in Boston and traveled the rest of the way to Wisconsin with them.  Based on an affidavit that Antone and William signed years later, we do know that they were still in Boston on August 14, 1849 -- attending the funeral of a family friend, Henrina VINKENVLEUGAL (name later changed to FINK).  The affidavit was in support of a government pension for the deceased woman’s husband, who had subsequently lost a son in the U.S. Civil War.  From records of this family, we know the Eiting’s lived on Havre Street in old East Boston and worked as coopers (barrel makers).  Just in general, it would be interesting to find out more about their lives in Boston.

Continuing to account for the other Eiting siblings, Johanna (born 1819) married Josef LEYEN (born 1809) on March 28, 1858 as his second wife, and had a child born in Barlo in March of 1862.  The child died a few days later.  We have no indication of further children, and Johanna died in 1883 (presumedly in Germany, since record of her death was noted in a German archive).  We assume she did not emigrate to America.  Her brother, Henry (born 1817), married Mary TER LEEGE in Holland and had five children there, one of whom may have died.  His Dutch population register record says that he and his wife and four children left for America on June 30, 1870.  Written (in Dutch of course) on the bottom of this register was:  "State of Wisconsin. Four brothers and 1(?) sister already in America, and all goes well”.  Henry’s sister, Johanna Catherina (born 1812), married Derk Henrich PENTERMAN August 6, 1846 in Holland.  They had five children and all emigrated to Wisconsin (Woodville Township of Calumet County) in 1870, possibly on the same ship as Henry and his family (?). This rounds out the emigration of Eiting siblings.  As best we can determine then, seven of them came.

A few loose ends:  1. We know one of the daughters of Henry (born 1817) married a John KAMKES in Wisconsin, but we do not know what happened to Henry’s other 3 children (we haven’t really searched).  This is a good project for someone.   2.  We are pretty sure Catherina Elisabeth Eiting (born 1816) came to America, because the above note on the population register indicates that at least one of the sisters came before 1870, and we see her name several places in Wisconsin records as a witness to a marriage.  We don’t know what happened to her however.  If she did not marry, she should still show up somewhere on a census record.  Another good project for someone.

Summarizing then:  The 11 Eiting siblings were all born in Barlo Germany, and most or all of them that survived infancy moved to Holland between 1826 and 1829:
Johannes #1 born 1808:  Died as infant.
Johanna Elisabeth born 1809: May have died young, or if not, likely stayed in Germany or Holland and lost track of the rest of her siblings.
Johanna Catharina #1 born 1811:  Died as infant.
Johanna Catharina #2 born 1812:  Married a PENTERMAN in Holland and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1870.
Johannes #2 (John) born 1814: Emigrated in 1846 or shortly afterward, first to Boston then to Wisconsin in 1850.
Catherina Elisabeth born 1816:  Likely emigrated in 1846 or shortly afterward, probably to Boston then to Wisconsin.
Johann Henrich (Henry) born 1817:  Married a TE LEEGE in Holland and emigrated to Wisconsin in 1870.
Johanna born 1819:  Married a LEYEN in Germany and likely did not emigrate from Germany.  Died in 1883, likely with no surviving descendants.
Bernard Henrich (Barney) born 1822:  Emigrated in 1846 or shortly afterward, probably first to Boston then to Wisconsin in 1850 and in 1877 to Nebraska.
Anton Herman (Antone) born 1824 of father’s second marriage:  Emigrated in 1846 (or 1848?) to Boston and on to Wisconsin in 1850.
Johann Wilhelm (William) born 1826:  Emigrated in 1846 to Boston and on to Wisconsin in 1850.

The Notes for these siblings given in the Detailed Genealogies pages of this website tell more about the pioneer’s lives in Hollandtown in the early years.

In the census of 1850, John Eiting, occupation carpenter, Antone, farmer, and  William, farmer, all listed as having been born in Germany, were living in the same house in Kaukaulin Township of Brown County, Wisconsin, none of them apparently having married at that point. Bernard, age 28, farmer, and his wife "Eleanor", age 18, both listed as having been born in Holland, were living in Kaukaulin Township (by the next census, this area was called the township of Holland, or just ‘Hollandtown’).

In the census of 1860, John, now listed as a farmer, born Holland, was living in Holland township with his wife Mary, born Netherlands.  Anton and William were apparently still single, and were living with John and Mary.  Bernard (Barney), and his wife, now listed as Petronella, along with children William, age 9, Anna, age 8, a girl Francis, age 7, Mary, age 4, Catharine, age 2, and John, age 1 (a busy ten years!) were living in Holland township.

Fast forward ten years to the 1870 census, and John, now listed as a cooper (makes and repairs barrels and casks), and Mary, have finally gotten John's two younger half-brothers (Antone and William) out of the house.  My great grandfather Antone, listed as a farmer, and his wife, Gertrude MICKE, had three children: William (my grandfather), age 5, Elizabeth, age 4, and Berendina, age one.  We had always thought Gertrude’s last name was Mielke, but now we know it was Micke.  Antone’s brother William was living in Buchanan township of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, with his wife, Margaret, born Holland, and one year old Anna M.

On the bottom of the 1875 plat map of Hollandtown township is a "Business Directory of Holland Town" that includes the entry "J. Eiting - Cooper.  All kinds of Coopering done to order."

By the 1880 census, John, cooper, and an Ellen, age 52 (apparently his first wife, Mary, had died and he had remarried), were living at the same residence.  William and Margaret had a total of six children, and were still living in the town of Buchanan. Most of the Eiting’s currently living in the Brown/Outagamie County area of Wisconsin are their descendants

A check of plat maps for 1889 indicates that although William and Margaret were living in a different county, they were still, literally, next door. The William Eiting homestead was at the northwest corner of what was until recently County Q (now CE) and County Line (also called Buchanan) Road (a house and barn are still there). About one quarter mile to the east on the same side of the road (about 0.8 miles west of County N) was the Antone Eiting farm (now the site of Star Orchards buildings).

In 1880, Henry  and wife Mary were listed as living in the township of Holland.  By then, Bernard and Petronella and most of their children had already moved to Butler County Nebraska (near David City).  Descendents still live there.                                              Photo to right:                                              Barney Eiting (born                                              1822) & wife                                              Petronella Giesbers Bernard’s granddaughter, Helen M. Eiting, wrote: "In 1877 they purchased land in Center Township, Butler County Nebraska and moved their children to their new home.  William the oldest son remained in Wisconsin [so did at least oldest daughter Johanna B.].  Son John …… died in a [train] accident on the trip and was the first to be buried in St. Francis [in Butler County].  …… There were many Catholic families from the Hollandtown [Wisconsin]  area, who settled in Center, once called Alverno.  They were all instrumental in helping to develop and build St. Francis parish. …… The Eiting farm was located in the first section south of the church. Also by the 1880 census, my great grandmother Gertrude MICKE (Anton Eiting’s wife), and daughter Berendina, had met their tragic death by drowning (May 26, 1876).  See the MICKE section below for accounts of her death.

As was common in those days, especially when there were small children, Antone shortly remarried (Nov 29, 1876). He and his new wife, Elizabeth ROLF (daughter of Henry Rolf & Gertrude KEMPS), had a daughter a year later that they named Berdina, apparently after the girl that had drown (this was also common practice). Three years later they had another son, Henry.  Also yet at home in the 1880 census was our grandfather William, age 16, and Elizabeth (Lizzie), age 15.  Antone's marriage record, to Elizabeth Rolf, lists him as a farmer.  We know that Berdina married Bernard RUHOFF and that they moved to Minnesota and had lots of kids, but what happened to Berdina’s brother Henry?  We have a picture of him and his wife, but no further information.  This is another project for someone.

As a final bit of information, the Eiting surname in German and Dutch and even in Wisconsin records, had many spelling variations:  Eitink , Eyting , Eytink, Eütink, Eitinck, Oiting, etc, etc.

As was noted earlier, my great grandfather Anton Eiting (born 1824, Barlo Germany, migrated to Zieuwent Holland, emigrated to Boston about 1846, and migrated to Wisconsin 1850) married in Hollandtown, Brown County, Wisconsin around 1864 to Gertrude MICKE (born 1838 in Lüdinghausen, Westphalia, Germany, emigrated to Wisconsin in 1862).

Although her descendants would become well established on these shores, her time here would be limited.  As reported by the Appleton Post June 1, 1876 (and re-published in 1976 in the Appleton Post Crescent's "Looking Back 100 Years Ago" section), and in the Appleton Crescent June 3, 1876, Gertrude and her daughter Bernadine, died a tragic death.  The Appleton Post’s account:

A FATAL ACCIDENT. A Woman and Daughter Drowned. We are called upon this week to report a most distressing accident. The particulars, as we learn them from a reliable source, are as follows: On Saturday last, Mr. Anton Eiting, a well-to-do farmer from Hollandtown, was driving into the village of Kaukauna with his wife and two daughters--the eldest a young lady and the youngest a little girl about 8 years old. While crossing the bridge connecting the Town of Buchanan with the Village of Kaukauna, his team -- a span of mules -- became frightened and backed against the railing, which giving way, precipitated the four occupants of the wagon into the rapids beneath. Mr. Eiting and his eldest daughter escaped; but his wife and little daughter of eight years were carried down the rapids and drowned. The appeals for help of the unfortunate woman were heard for many minutes after she was thrown in the stream, but it was not possible to reach her or render her any assistance. The bodies were not recovered until the following day. This is one of the most distressing accidents that has ever happened in this county. It is rumored that the county will be prosecuted for damages."

The Appleton Crescent has some of the details a little different:

"DROWNED! Off Kaukauna River Bridge! On Saturday last, Mr. Anton Eiting drove on to the main river bridge at Kaukauna from the Buchanan side of the River, his wife and four children [we are only aware they had three] being in the wagon. Meeting a mule team, the horses became frightened, and backed the hind wheels off the bridge, precipitating his wife and daughter into the Rapids, and of course they were drowned. Another child was rescued, a strong hand grasping her as she was going over. The horses clung to the bridge, when they discovered the trouble they had caused, or all would have been lost."

Handed down family stories tell that she asked the rescuers to save her daughters first, which resulted in her own death.

The MICKE, and related JANER, ARDES, and MIDDELER families, were from the medium-sized town of Lüdinghausen (pronounce “Lewr den hausen”) and nearby small towns of Bectrup, Hiddingsel, and Buldern, which are in Kreis (County) Lüdinghausen in Westphalia (Buldern might be in Kreis Coesfeld).  The city (Stadt) of Lüdinghausen is 47 miles northeast of Düsseldorf and 17 miles south southwest of Münster (see above map).  JANER is pronounce “Yah ner”.

The parents of Gertrude MICKE (born 1838) were Henry Anton born about 1786 and Catherina Elisabeth ARDES born 1799.  Henry Anton’s parents were Joan Heinrich MICKE born about 1751 and Anna Catharina JANER born about 1762; while Catherina Elisabeth’s were Joan Heinrich ARDES and Maria Elisabet MIDDELER.  All of these people were from Lüdinghausen, although related family lines were from the smaller nearby villages mentioned above (see Detailed Genealogies pages of this website, for much more information, including siblings of Henry Anton MICKE <and their spouses and descendants> and also siblings, etc, of Gertrude MICKE).
 

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