Paulus WESTERHOLD ancestors
This may provide help to the Westerhold searchers.
Paulus (Paul) was born in Wesseling, Prussia (near Cologne) in 1830.
He was the 8th of ten children: Anna Catherina, Caspar 1818-1819, Eva, Elisabeth,
Anna Maria, Caspar, Melchior 1828-1829, N. died at birth 1832 and Melchior.
Note the renaming for deceased children.
He immigrated to Sandusky, Erie Co, Ohio in 1850.
He married Mary Hagy of Grafenhausen, Baden in Sandusky.
His parents were Friedrich Westerhold b. abt. 1783 and Anna Catharina Volkmuth b. 1794.
His grandparents were Everhard Westerhold and Anna Maria Beckmann and Johann Georg Volkmuth and Anna Elisabeth Engels.
One set of his great grandparents identified are Melchior Engels and Maria Gertrud Loh.