Hello..I recently discovered that my GGrandfather, Arjen RUSSMANN was born in Dornum,Hannover in 1858. His father's name was Herman.Mother's name unknown. Believe he had a brother Haro( or Hero) b. 1850...uncertain of the birth city. Arjen emigrated to the US in 1873,according to the 1900 and 1910 Chicago census', settling in Chicago by 1879..Unable to find Passenger List for Arjen and family. No record of the family on Tazewell County Illinois.

Arjen married Katharina FRIEDERICHS, b. Esens, 1856, in Chicago in 1883.

The RUSSMANN surname doesn't seem to be too common in Ostfriesland..or for that matter, in the province of Hannover .Know the family were Lutherans.

Any suggestions? Have looked at surname spelling variations..I have Ancestry,com subscription and have searched New Orleans Passenger Lists available on line and Germans to America..no info found.

Regards..

Noreen
Woodland, California

Noreen,

both places are in Northwest Germany, East Frisia.

Dornum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornum
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornum
www.dornum.de
http://www.genealogie-forum.de/ostfrld/kirchen/regionen/auri...

You get in your next family research center:
a) Zivilstandsregister 1812: Film 1257058 Items 16-20
b) Kirchenbuchduplikat 1827-1874
Taufen, Tote 1827-1852
Geburten, Heiraten, Tote 1847-1848
(Juden) Taufen 1853-1872 Film 1187680 Items 10-11
Taufen 1873-1874
Heiraten, Konfirmationen, Kommunionen 1827-1852
Heiraten 1853-1874 Tote 1853-1874 Film 1187681 Items 1-4
c) Zivilstandsregister d. jüdischen Gemeinde 1815-1911 (Film 1257052 Items


Esens: www.esens.de
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esens



I am living in Esens and will look next week in the churchbooks for Katharina Friederichs or Friedrich.

You get best help also:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnogsm/index.htm

Klaus Meyer

Kirchenbuch Esens, Taufen 1853, pag. 4, Nr. 28:

Catharina Dorothea FRIEDRICHS
*22. March 1853 Esens
~14.April 1853 Esens

Parents:
Ricklef FRIEDRICHS, Arbeiter in Esens and his wife
Gretje SCHIPPER

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Kirchenbuch Esens, Taufen 1863, pag. 270 Nr. 84

Anna Margarethe Catharina FRIEDRICHS
*02.06.1860 Esens
~26.06.1860 Esens
parents:
Ricklef FRIEDRICHS zu Esens and his wife Gretje SCHIPPER

7th child, 4th girl
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Just few days ago there was a query in the mailing list of the researchers of the east frisian city of Esens looking for Russmann. Are you still interested? I never got an answer to my last reply.

Klaus Meyer

My GGrandfather, Arjen RUSSMANN, b Dornum 1858..married Katharina Dorothea FRIEDERICHS, from Esens in 1883 in Chicago,Illinois. I am interested in any RUSSMANNS in Ostfriesland.

The surnames marrying into my RUSSMANN line include:ADEN, ALTS, JACOBS, ARENDS, SCHIPPER,HEYKEN, BARTELS,FRIEDERICHS,
SIMMERING,von SüDENBORG,UFFKEN, BEHRENDS, BUSS, JANSSEN,
FREESE, ZIMMERMAN,EDEN, FISHBACK, FOKKEN, HARMS, ENGLEKEN, HABBEN, HARMS, HEINRICH,HAYEN.