Photograph of Windheim House 25, courtesy of Anneliese Scheumann
Photograph of Windheim House 25, courtesy of Anneliese Scheumann
Windheim is a church district in Westphalia which includes the villages of
Windheim itself, Ilse, Joessen, Haevern, Rosenhagen, Neuenknick, Seelenfeld, and
Doehren. The church records begin in the autumn of 1669 and are almost
continuous. Many immigrants from Windheim settled in and near Fort Wayne, Allen
Co., Indiana from 1836 to 1900.
From 1989 to 1996 I read these records and attempted to record all events
(baptisms, marriages and burials) in a relational database for the years
1669-1800. I have followed some families up to the present day.
Common surnames include Bultemeyer, Gallmeyer, Doehrmann, Boese, Kolle, Humbke,
Mentzing, Salge, Strangmann, Westenfeld, Meining, Piepenbrink, Dicke, Roembke,
Witte, Stoppenhagen, Jackemeyer, and Nuerge.
The on-line database below is fully searchable but is for demonstration purposes
only. It contains about 5000 names, and is not updated. I am responsible for any
errors.
Please review my policy concerning errata.
If any of these names connect to your families, you may write to me for more
complete information.
Write to Richard Scheimann
Families of Windheim, Surnames Index
People of Windheim, Surnames Index
Map of the Windheim area in Germany
Emigrants to Fort Wayne, Indiana, from Windheim
