Hello Paulette and Tom,

I am a little confused about Frank Bellin Jr and Amanda Schoessow. I never found them as married. I think the Freistadt book may be wrong. I see it is also wrong on the following line (John Knuth married Dorothea Sophia Wilhelmine Bellin, not Albertine.) This is what I have on Frank Bellin Jr.

married Rosalina Sophie Henrietta Prahl - 25 May 1890
- 1 son Theodore - lived in Waltham, MN, buried St. Michael's
Rosalina died 03 Jan 1892 - buried at Freistadt
married Hanna Caroline Mathilda Koepsell - about 1892
-Herman m. Alma (Wendt) Radue - buried Friestadt
-Martha died age ~25 - buried Freistadt
-Henry m. Verona Steinback - buried Friestadt
-Reinhold d. age 22 buried Freistadt
-Bernhard - m: Elenaora Steinbach - buried Freistadt
-Frieda - m: Elmer Kopp (sp?)
- not sure where buried, but SS says last in Mequon

Frank Jr. and his 2nd (last) wife are buried at Freistadt, as are all of his brothers and sisters.

Did Frank Jr. have 3 wives? Entirely possible if, as Freistadt says, he married Amanda in 1884. Then I would assume she died before 1890, but strange she isn't found in the Freistadt cemetery.

I do have an Amanda Schoessow (BORN in 1883) that married Arthur Bellin, a nephew of Frank Bellin Jr. They are also buried at Freistadt.

Not sure where the Bellin info in the blue book came from, but there is a lot wrong. Like Tom mentioned, they did not immigrate in 1839, but in 1841.

-toby