Family history · Rhineland, Missouri

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Rhineland name index

73 historical entries

Names and origin groups as reported in the source. Page links open the original scan.
Historical person	Reported origin	Source
Bossman, Wilhelm	Kleve	p. 5
Bruckerhoff, Gerhart	Loikum	p. 5
Budding, John B.	Bocholt	p. 4
Dyckman, Nicholas	Kleve	p. 5
Eldringhoff, Henry	DingdenPlace identity uncertain; see notes	p. 5
Elsenraat, Simon	Haffen-Mehr	p. 5
Elsenrath, Theodore	Haffen-Mehr	p. 5
Essing, Henry	Wesel	p. 5
Essing, Johanna	Bocholt	p. 4
Fehlings, John	Millingen	p. 4
Fehlings, Lambert	Millingen	p. 4
Giesing, Wessel	Haldern	p. 5
Gosen, Franz	Millingen	p. 4
Gross-Holtwick, John	Bocholt	p. 4
Grotewiel, Henry	Millingen	p. 4
Grotewiel, Johan	Wesel	p. 5
Hartmann, Gerhard	Millingen	p. 4
Heisterkamp, Johanna	Millingen	p. 4
Heying, Bernard	Bocholt	p. 4
Heying, Franz	Millingen	p. 5
Heying, Wilhelm	Bocholt	p. 4
Holschlag, Bernard	Bocholt	p. 4
Holtwick, Hermann	Bocholt	p. 4
Holtwick, William	Bocholt	p. 4
Holzum, Johan	Wesel	p. 5
Holzum, John	Millingen	p. 5
Hovel, Gertrude	DingdenPlace identity uncertain; see notes	p. 5
Hulkenburg, Peter	Millingen	p. 5
Kateman, Henry	Millingen	p. 5
Koenig, William	Werth	p. 5
Kohman, Bernard	DingdenPlace identity uncertain; see notes	p. 5
Kohmann, Elisabetha	Loikum	p. 5
Kohmann, Hermann	Loikum	p. 5
Kohmann, William	Loikum	p. 5
Kolks, William	Bocholt	p. 4
Korman, Elizabeth	Wesel	p. 5
Korman, William	Bocholt	p. 4
Lensing, Gerhard	Rees	p. 5
Monnig, Oscar	Rees	p. 5
Neyenhaus, Aleida	Millingen	p. 5
Overcamp, Johan	Wesel	p. 5
Overkamp, Henry	Loikum	p. 5
Pottebaum, Herman	Bocholt	p. 4
Salamink, Johanna	Millingen	p. 5
Schlatt, Aleida	Loikum	p. 5
Schluss, John	Bocholt	p. 4
Schluss, John	Haldern	p. 5
Schluss, John	Loikum	p. 5
Scholten, John Henry	Haffen-Mehr	p. 5
Scholten, Reinhart	Haffen-Mehr	p. 5
Steigers, Christian	Kleve	p. 5
Stockhorst, Adelheida	Werth	p. 5
Stockhorst, Gerhard	Loikum	p. 5
Stockhorst, Gerhard	Wesel	p. 5
Straatman, William	Kleve	p. 5
Struteman, Hendrina	Haldern	p. 5
Strutman, Henry	Bocholt	p. 4
Struttman, Aleida	Haldern	p. 5
Struttman, Henry	Haldern	p. 5
Theissen, Wessel	Millingen	p. 5
Van Beek, Wilhelm	Kleve	p. 5
Van Booven, Rutger	Kleve	p. 5
Van Meegen, Theodor	Kleve	p. 5
Van Straaten, Anna	Kleve	p. 5
Van Straaten, Henry	Kleve	p. 5
Verholt, Conrad	Kleve	p. 5
Weibring, Arnold	Millingen	p. 5
Wendering, Johan	Millingen	p. 5
Wendering, Wilhelm	Millingen	p. 5
Winkelman, Herman	Haldern	p. 5
Winkelman, Theodore	Haffen-Mehr	p. 5
Winkleman, Catharina	Bocholt	p. 4
Wissen, Angelina	Kleve	p. 5

How to read this index

Names retain the source’s spellings, including variations such as Kohman/Kohmann and Overcamp/Overkamp. Similar names and repeated names in different towns remain separate entries. They have not been merged into family trees.

Dingden: the article questions whether the place is “Dingen.” Its identity has not been resolved here, so these entries are not assigned map coordinates.

The Millingen list continues onto printed page 5. Wissen, Angelina continues the Kleve list at the top of the right column on that page. Printed pages 4 and 5 are PDF pages 1 and 2; your PDF viewer may show the first page even when a page link is supplied.

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The source behind the names

Connie Fabula, Rheinland, Germany to Rhineland, Missouri, MoSGA Journal, Winter 1994, pp. 4–5. The scan is hosted by the Montgomery County Historical Society. This factual index is transcribed from the article’s lists; the article’s narrative and images remain available at the original source.

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