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From: Linda Hopp <>
Subject: Re: SCHROEDER (velett@pioneerplanet.infi.net)
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 16:10:16 -0500


Connie Downs wrote:
>
> Hi Laurie!
>
> I have only been in this group for a short while as I have recently
> discovered that my great-great grandfather was born in Elmshorn,
> Schleswig-Holstein 4 Nov 1864. His name was Peter Frederick (Terdnau?)
> SCHROEDER. From what I have been told, he stowed away on a boat to the
> United States as a young man, and then later went back because he was
> worried about his mother (name unknown). Evidently, he again stowed away
> to America after she died. Peter then married Melvina (Mellie) HENRY, and
> they had two children: Mearl Thomas SCHRODER and Anna (Ana) Marie
> SCHROEDER, both born in Douglas, Wyoming. You might notice that Mearl's
> last name was spelled differently. My understanding is that he had the E
> legally dropped when he got older. It appears that Jacob could have been
> an uncle to Peter, as the age would be about right. However, I don't know
> how common the SCHROEDER name was in the area at that time.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Connie (Schroder) Downs
Hi! Perhaps you should check "Germans to America" and/or passenger
lists. Many of us have "stow away" ancestors only to learn that is a
romanticized emblishment and they can the regular way. Good luck, Linda

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