Nicolaus Hinrich Möller, 1876

Name
Nicolaus Hinrich /Möller/
Given names
Nicolaus Hinrich
Surname
Möller
Birth of a sonRudolph Moeller
April 1840
Birth of a sonHenry W Moeller
June 14, 1843
Note: Form filled out by Emma Moeller Goettsch.

Form filled out by Emma Moeller Goettsch.

James M Fulford

Marriage of a childHenry W MoellerAnna E NissenView this family
1864
Death November 1876

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18431919
Birth: June 14, 1843Besdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Death: June 26, 1919
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Hi, Jim,

Have a great trip to AK! I'm going to NH for 9 days beginning Tues. so will also be out of touch.

My sister Joanne Dyhrkopp Schar is returning to Spencer soon. She just returned from Nairobi and is in Minneapolis with our sister Carol now. She knows Connie and Clifford better than I because she has spent more time in Iowa. Hopefully she can join you when you go to see Connie and Clifford. She can be reached through her mother-in-law Alice Schar. (She lives in Spencer.)

Do you think there are any others in your Moeller family who might know about the European relatives?

~~Donna

--- James M Fulford jfulford@pconline.com wrote:

Donna,

Many thanks for the information. The obit is now on the web site. I am leaving for Alaska on Thursday and will return to Minnesota in early October and will spend more time on this.

Jim

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 19:56 -0700, Donna Dyhrkopp Clarke wrote:

Hi, James,

I am able to offer you some information. Attached is H.W. Moeller's obit from the Everly paper. Unfortunately the page I have does not have the page number nor the date of the paper, and I realized that they were missing when I was no longer in Iowa. I could have checked last summer but forgot that I needed to. I do have the name of the newspaper; I just don't have it available at the moment. Remind me to give it to you. Anyway, it answers your question about their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dyhrkopp mentioned at the end were my paternal grandparents. Chris was Theodore's brother. Both were sons of August.

It says that H.W. emigrated in 1863, but in the census it says 1864 or 1865. It also says that he was born in Besdorf, SH. If he is related to me, he may have grown up in Besdorf, but he was born in the Malente/Sielbeck area (near Eutin). He likely was Mathias Hinrich Wilhelm Möller, son of Nicolaus Hinrich Möller and Sophia Christina Åsbar/Osbar Dürkopp (my great-great grandmother). H.W. was baptised July 23, 1843. There is no record of the family in that area after 1845.

The birthdays in the Malente church book match for H.W. and his brother H. Rudolph who lived in Benton County, IA, when my D relatives did, and lived in the same area of Clay County as my D relatives. Also, my great-grandfather remarried in Iowa in 1876, and Rudolph Moeller was his witness. (It is clear in the Everly history book that H.W. and H. Rudolph were brothers.) Also, European records show that they went to the U.S. (http://www.rootdigger.de/) I've corresponded with the man who has the website and may pay him a little to give me more. He has told me that their father Nicolaus Hinrich Moeller died in Nov. 1876.

I have not found H.W.'s marriage in the Illinois records. Maybe they married across the river in Iowa. That would not be unusual. Their oldest child was born in IL per the census.

I have not been able to get any information from Connie and Cliff even though I know their mother had information because she provided some for the history book. I may not have asked for photos so hopefully they will have those. I don't know what happened to their old family papers. Maybe you'll be more successful than I.

Yes, I do have all the information that Einar has (which my parents gave him). I went to his place in IL in 2004 and took photos of everything.

~~Donna

--- James M Fulford jfulford@pconline.com wrote:

Donna,

Any genealogical information I have is on the web site except for some photos. I have spent most of my time on the Goettsch side of the family and am just getting back to the Moellers. In fact I just postponed a trip to Spencer to see Clifford and Connie, as Connie is out of town for a few weeks. I spent a week on Clifford's farm as a kid and it was a memorable experience. I'am hoping they will have a good supply of old photos I can scan and place on the web site. I think photos make genealogy fun.

I remember visiting Mary Moeller Dehrkoop with my mother Helen Goettsch Fulford and grandmother Emma Moeller Goettsch in Everly as a child. Theodore was gone by then.

I have been trying to find immigration records for the Mollers and have not had any success. Did Anna Nissen and William H Moller come to this country as a couple or did they meet here. I don't know and have so far been unable to find any information on this. Perhaps you know. Any help would be welcome. I am sorry I can't give you the information here that you are looking for.

I am not familiar with Dreamweaver, but www.curbscape.com uses free software (PhpGedView) available to anyone. It seems to accomplish what I want most of the time. It is made for sharing updating responsibilities with others, but am not sharing yet.

Most Internet Service Providers can support the PhpGedView software. Search the net for it and you can see that it is becoming popular. I am working with my ISP to upgrade to the new and improved version of the software, but am leaving town soon, for about 6 weeks, so it will be delayed.

All of this is relatively new to me as I started less that one year ago. You have a lot more experience with genealogy. What I have learned is that it is addicting and time consuming and I can't seem to quit.

In regard to getting clean copies of census pages, I use ancestry.com. I always expand them to 150% for good viewing. Then click on save to get the maximum resolution on the copy saved. If you use the 50% setting, which is the default, you will get a lower resolution copy saved on your computer, and it will be hard to read. I am unsure what you get if you use the 100% setting.

If you would like to experiment with the PhpGedView software, I can give you a username and password that would allow you to update the www.curbscape.com website. I am sure you cannot hurt anything. Even if you did, I keep daily backups and it can easily be restored. If you find a Moller Dyhrkoop connection I would let you use the website as if it were your own. Also I will point out that anything on the website can be downloaded and saved on a computer by anybody. Feel free to take what you want.

If you use Dreamweaver you must have a web site. Is it something I can look at?

Clifford suggested that you talk to a distant cousin, Einar Dyhrkopp in Illinois, as he has done some family research. You may have already done this, as Clifford says you know him.

Lets keep in touch.

James M Fulford

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 05:18 -0700, Donna Dyhrkopp Clarke wrote:

Hi, James,

I think that your great-grandfather and mine (August Duhrkoop) were half brothers (same mother). I have nothing to suggest that is not the case and many clues that support it, but I would like to find a more explicit mention of it. Do you have anything suggesting that Mary and Theodore were cousins? Do you have any information about your Moeller great-great grandparents in Europe?

If we can confirm our connection, I have a lot of information for you. Apart from that, I have copies of a few of your family's obituaries from the Spencer and Everly papers. I grew up in Spencer, but now live in Maryland. I know your second cousins Connie and Clifford.

Yours is a wonderful website. Did you design it? What software was used? I wish mine were done; I'm still learning Dreamweaver. How did you get such clean copies of the census pages?

~~Donna

--- James M Fulford jfulford@pconline.com wrote:

Donna,

My Grandmother was a Moeller born in Keystone, Benton county Iowa and the family moved to Everly in 1885. Mary Moeller, her sister, married Theodore Dehrkoop in Everly.

See www.curbscape.com for more information.

This email is in response to your message on Genealogy.com forum.

Let me know if this is helpful.

James M Fulford

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Posted by: Donna (ID *****5566) Date: March 20, 2005 at 06:01:25 In Reply to: Moeller in Schleswig-Holstein by Tom Severn of 464

Hi, my great-great-grandmother Sophia Christina Arber (Osbar) from Harmherst/Lensahn (a widow with several children and step-children from Durkop) married Nicolas Moeller in the Sielbeck area of S-H in Feb. 1835. Together they had four Moeller children, all born in Sielbeck and baptized in Malente: Anna Catharina Margaretha, born Jan. 13, 1836 Hans Hinrich, born March 14, 1838 Han Hinrich Rudolph, born April 18, 1840 Matthias Hinrich Wilhelm, born June 14, 1843.

They left Sielbeck about 1844. I think that the youngest two ended up first in Benton County, IA, then in Clay County, IA. I would like to know where they were from 1844 until c. 1869 when they emigrated to the US. They may have gone to Denmark because that is where my great-grandfather married in 1858, but I can't find them in the Danish census records (online).

My great-grandfather Johan Heinrich August Dührkoop, son of Klaus Heinrich Dürkopp, was born in Malente in 1831 and lived in Sielbeck where his parents ran an inn until his father died in March 1834, leaving 9 children, one not yet born. His father had come from Arensbok in 1802. His mother then married Nicolaus Heinrich Moeller, born in 1802 in Wermstorf.

Hope we find a connection,

Donna