Where does your Goos family come from? My Bernhard Heinrich Goos (4 Jan 1820 in Westerbeck, Germany - 16 Nov 1888 in Old Monroe, Lincoln, Missouri, USA. Bernhard's parents were Johann Herman Goos and Catherine Charlotte Tuepker. Catherine was born in WesterKappeln, Germany. Bernhard married Katherina Elizabeth Dieckbernd in Germany. They came to the US in about 1857.