Son of Gerhard Heinrich Kreyling Dirker and Maria Catharina Westendorf Dirker. Married Anna M Catharina Schraring in Bersenbruck, Germany where his eight children were born. His children immigrated long before their father, who left in 1900 after the death of his wife. He lived in St Louis with his children only four years before dying in 1904.
Bersenbrueck, Germany, St Vincent Church, Copy of records obtained from Erika Giftge
Immigration Record St Vincents Church, Bersenbrueck, Germany, entered in birth record of Herm Gerh Dirker, Oct 1813.
Diocese of Osnabrueck and parish archives of Bersenbrueck. St Vincent's Church. Letter. Marie Vonder Haar,
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