Mini challenge: what is the real Dutch name?

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Hi all,

Tonight I'm searching for emigrants/immigrants from Holland to the US and I find some profiles that can use some Dutch assistance. Who were Unknown Suhida and his wife Anna Unknown? WikiTree also has two daughters Suhida: Mary and Anna. Arethey fiction or can someone find any good sources?
WikiTree profile: Unknown Suhida
in Genealogy Help by B. W. J. Molier G2G6 Mach 9 (91.0k points)

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No sources so far for Unknown Suhida, Mary, or Anna, but the wife of Suhida and mother of Mary and Anna is probably Anna (Ofterheidie) auf der Haide BIRTH 1834 • Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, DEATH 1876 • Bennett, Fillmore, Nebraska, USA.

Father Willem Hendrick auf der Haide, Mother Anna Maria Settelmeier, estimated birth for both parents about 1815.

A quick check of Family Search and Find a Grave produced no results. This family group appears in numerous Ancestry trees, unfortunately, most of them just use each other as sources, and the two or three attached documents. two of the documents actually apply to other family members, and the third, a passenger manifest, may be Anna Maria auf der Heide:

Name: Ann Maria Auf Der Heide
Arrival Date: 24 May 1854
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Port of Departure: Bremen
Ship: Blucher
Ship Type: Bark
Port of Arrival: Baltimore
Place of Origin: Bramscha
National Archives' Series Number: M255
Microfilm Roll Number: 10
List Number: 30
 
by Mary Diamante G2G6 Mach 1 (18.6k points)
The information re her parents, birth, and death are unsourced. Clues only!

Castlegarden says Anna Maria is German, not Dutch. Place of last residence could very well be Bramsche (not Bramscha) in Germany. See also (her father?).

Please note that Reusel-De Mierden is 99,9999% certain a bogus location.

Thank you!

I suspect that the surname Suhida is fictional, maybe that Anna Maria auf der Heide had two children out of wedlock before she emigrated to USA. The part "hida" sounds like the Dutch/German word for Heide.
Yes, and "Su" could be the German Zu, making it "Zu Heide", nearly "auf der Heide".

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