Looking for family of my great-grandparents, Martin Maahsen and Wilhemine Gille. Martin and Wilhemine married and had at least 2 children, Carl and Edmund Maahsen, perhaps a daughter Elsie and/or a daughter Paulina. Martin died when his son Edmund was 2 years old which was in early 1868. After his death, my great-grandmother Wilhemine remarried a Johann Herman Eberhard Hoefken (or Hoeffgen). She and the family emigrated from Antwerp, Belgium on 17 Dec. 1883 aboard the SS Westernland.
My grandfather Edmund's Declaration of Intention states that he was born in Mulheim, Germany. I believe that Martin (and Wilhemine) would have been from either Mulheim an der Ruhr or Mulheim am Rhein (near Koln) in the Rheinland Province of Prussia. But it is possible that the Maahsens originated from the southwestern village of Mulheim in Baden near the Black Forest!
I would truly love to hear from anyone having any knowledge of this family or of these areas of Mulheim! Thank you.