Wissman, Wissmann from Venne Germany

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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Bening on January 13, 2013 at 2:37pm

Wissmann, Johann Rudolf b 18/9/1795 Spouse: vor dem Hagen, marie Adelheit born 1798 Emigrated 1837 to Vansville, Pr. George's Co, MD

Ref: Thörner, Udo. Venne in America, Osnabruck: 2008, (Immigrant index).

Additional info and stories about Friedr Wilh Wissmann (1850 Broxten, Venne, Kr. Wittlage, Hannover) immigrated to Jonesville, Indiana. (p 139) plus extensive info on immigrants' life in Venne and immigration.

Thoerner, Udo. Venne in America: The historical account of the emigration from a Lower Saxony Village in Germany to the Americas in the 19^th century.  Rosalie Horstman Haines, trans. 323 pp., 2008 ($32 incl pstg from Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 15865, Cincinnati, Ohio 45215)

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