Hollenkamp Name Study - Approach and Sources

Date: 1500 to 2023
Location: Global
Surnames/tags: Hollenkamp Hollencamp

Contents 1 Why this page? 2 Our Approach 3 Phase 1: Place of origin: Hollenkamp Vollerbe, Ankum Parish 3.1 Phase 1a: Church books, Ankum Parish 3.2 Phase 1b: Connect the dots, pre-church books 3.3 Phase 1c: Lutheran records of St. Georg, Bippen 3.4 Phase 1d: Document Lineages, Emigrants, Settle-Down Loactions, Leavers and "Hard Cases" 4 Phase 2: Emigrants 4.1 Phase 2a: Immigrants to the United States 4.2 Phase 2b: Immigrants to the Netherlands 4.3 Phase 2:. Immigrants to other countries 4.4 Phase 2d Non-Emigrating "Ankum-Leavers" 5 Phase 3: Deep Dive into Settle-Down locations 5.1 Phase 3a: Cincinnati, Ohio 5.2 Phase 3b: Dayton, Ohio 5.3 Phase 3c: Xenia, Ohio 5.4 Phase 3d: Aviston, Illinois 5.5 Phase 3e: Germantown, Illinois 5.6 Phase 3e: Breese, Illinois 5.7 Phase 3f: Louisville, Kentucky 5.8 Phase 3e: San Francisco, California 6 Phase 4: Follow a line and/ or complete a profile 7 Project Backlog 7.1 Current 7.2 Next 7.3 Later 7.4 When Time 7.5 Done 8 Sources

Why this page?

The goal of this section is to list the sources we have been using as part of this name study, so that fellow researchers, now and in the future, have a broad overview of what types and what specific sources or groups of sources we have looked at as part of the name study. In addition, this should also help to keep our team on track, knowing that we will find things that will allow us to go off-track should we want to. Ideally, this page will keep the study organised at a high level, if only in a fairly basic way. Also, if for whatever reason, we cannot continue the project, others might pick up from where we left off and might not have to re-do all the work (although that is always welcome, and part of a good research process).

Our Approach

The Hollenkamp last name (with its variations Hollencamp and Holenkamp/ Halenkamp) is a "place name", hence it makes sense to start from that place. There are potentially two places in modern Germany that we have identified as yet:

1. the farm "Hollenkamp" farm in Ankum, Lower Saxony, which was a Vollerbe in the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück in the Holy Roman Empire. The first written records where the farm is called "Hollenkamp" (or similar) go back as early as the 1500s,
2. the farm Holenkamp (sometimes called Halenkamp, Hollenkamp) in Menslage, Lower Saxony.

Primary focus: "Ankum Hollenkamps" (currently) To focus our efforts, we are currently ONLY working on number 1, the Hollenkamp farm in Ankum. The plan is to follow the different lineages from the Hollenkamp families of Ankum, who were living on the farm or in other buildings in the same or neighbouring parishes as much as possible.

Phase 1: Know your Roots and Identify Lineages We will therefore start with the church books of St. Nikolaus Ankum, and aim to cover all Hollenkamp births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials that can be found in this parish. As a result, we will have only very basic Wikitree profiles at this stage of the study, with only one, two, three or maybe a handful of sources attached. The focus is on building "the structure", i.e. identifying the different Hollenkamp Lineages. This is also critical for the Hollenkamp Y-DNA Project as it helps to avoid unnecessary expenditures.

During this phase, we will track the data here on Wikitree but also use other platforms, like Ancestry, MyHeritage, Familysearch.org, Findagrave, Findmypast etc. to assist in creating correct lineages.

Phase 2: Emigrants This leads us into the next phase where we will look at "Emigrants" from Ankum. We know from the analysis of the Hollenkamp Name Distribution that in modern times (=today) the Hollenkamp last name is more common in the United States than in Germany. The reason is a massive wave of emigration in the 1830s to 1920s from Ankum into different locations in the United States.

Basically, this means we will look at any Hollenkamp that has left Ankum parish either to find work, build a home and / or family in

1. a different country, i.e. classic emigration.
2. a neighbouring village (Alfhausen, Osnabrück, Hagen, etc.), or somewhere else in modern-Germany-

Here, our current focus is primarily on the United States, although we have already identified a few emigrants to the Netherlands and a few "movers" to Alfhausen, Hagen a.T.W. and other nearby places in modern Germany.

(Side comment: Note, that even prior to starting this study, we have identified the lineage of Gerdt (Hollenkamp) Schulte to Brinke (abt.1625-abt.1697) in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald who changed his last name to "Schulte to Brinke" upon marriage in 1651. A key personal goal of the study coordinator and its current members is to link this lineage back to one of the main Hollenkamp lines from one of the two farms, mentioned above. For us, personally, this line is already fairly well documented in our own personal genealogy work. We therefore will not (yet) put much effort into documenting our previous findings on WikiTree. Of course, this should be a future step, too).

Phase 3: Deep Dive: Settle-Down Locations (for lack of a better term) After a while of orientation, emigrants like to settle down at a certain location in their new home country. Some Hollenkamps have settled in Ohio, others in Kentucky, and others in California. We are looking to identify these locations within the US (the Netherlands, etc.) and focus our research on that location to develop the lineages further structurally. Since emigration happens in generational waves, the immigrants often settle near where some of their grandparents, uncles, aunts or 2nd cousins have settled. Hence, focusing on these "settling locations" makes sense to follow the lineages genealogically.

Phase 4: Follow a line and/ or complete a profile By then, we should be in a position to understand enough about these families, and we should also have identified source material to improve the profiles. Also we might want to follow a line, just because it is fun, or work on a specific profile, e.g. a notable Hollenkamp.

Waterfall, Agile, Controlled Chaos or Where us the wind blows? Now, we cannot go through this in a waterfall manner. We are not robots, but humans, and if we find an interesting Hollenkamp profile, or are able to make a connection to a living Hollenkamp, we will always want to prioritise our efforts into this area, without losing track of our overall roadmap. Hence we will organise the study in an agile way.

Phase 1: Place of origin: Hollenkamp Vollerbe, Ankum Parish

Phase 1a: Church books, Ankum Parish

Goals:

• Identify Ankum lineages
• Build lineage structure
• Keep a list of the "hard cases" that we could not add to a lineage (=that form their own lineage, until we can connect them)
• Identify emigrants, and countries to which they emigrated
• Fully cover the Ankum church books for baptisms, marriages and burials
• Identify all Hollenkamps with no death/burial record in Ankum (so we know we need to look elsewhere)
• Identify all Hollenkamps with no birth record in Ankum (but a death record in Ankum; also so we know to look elsewhere)

Below is a list of sources that we are using during this phase:

Location/Theme	Source	Description	Degree of coverage
Ankum, Lower Saxony	Catholic church books Ankum	Baptisms	Fully
Ankum, Lower Saxony	Catholic church books Ankum	Marriage	Fully, up until 1914
Ankum, Lower Saxony	Catholic church books Ankum	Burials	Worked on the indexes, now going through the burial books themselves IN PROGRESS
Ankum, Lower Saxony	Catholic church books Ankum	Name Indexes	Fully

Ankum burial records that have not yet been associated to a Hollenkamp in Wikitree:

Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Name	Age	Suspects	Comment
1676-03-22[1]	Anna Alheid	2 years	TBD	filia Hinrich Hollenkampff (who is the father?!); birth date about 1674 Henrich Hollenkamp (abt.1615-aft.1679), would have been abt 60 years => unlikely Henrich (Hollenkamp) Henning (abt.1645-1684), would have been abt 29 years => likely Henrich Hollenkamp (abt.1655-), would have been about 19 years => less likely, but possible
1683-09-10[2][3]	Lucke	not given	Lücke Hollenkamp (abt.1637-) Lücke Hollenkamp (abt.1642-) Lücke Alheit Hollenkamp (1672-)
1684-12-23[4]	Johan	not given	Johann Hollenkamp (abt.1612-aft.1665) Johan Hollenkamp (abt.1641-) Johan Hollenkamp (abt.1644-) Johann Hollenkamp (abt.1684-)
1686-08-05[5]	Johan	not given	Johann Hollenkamp (abt.1612-aft.1665) Johan Hollenkamp (abt.1641-) Johan Hollenkamp (abt.1644-) Johann Hollenkamp (abt.1684-)
1695-10-25[6]	Anna Ahleid	not given	Alheid Hollenkamp (abt.1681-)
1699-09-18[7]	Anna	not given	Anna (Henning) Hollenkamp (abt.1641-) Anna Hollenkamp (abt.1660-) Anna (Kersting) Hollenkamp (abt.1663-) Anna Hollenkamp (abt.1667-) Anna Ahleid Hollenkamp (abt.1696-)	viatico pvisa est
1746-10-25[8]	Joannes	85	Johan Hollenkamp (abt.1665-abt.1746) Johan Hollenkamp (abt.1665-aft.1722)	Mismatch: 85 years in burial book vs. 80 years calculated

Phase 1b: Connect the dots, pre-church books

The St. Nikolaus Ankum church books start in 1657. We will find the deaths of people that were before records were held. During this phase, we want to look at non-church book records and try to connect the dots from the various lineage starting points (for example, we will be trying to answer questions like: Anna died in 1669, age 70, Johann died in 1670, age 74. Where they siblings?).

Below is a list of sources that we are using during this phase:

Location/Theme	Source	Description	Degree of coverage
Ankum, Lower Saxony	NLA OS Rep 100 Abschnitt 188 Nr. 7/1	Volkszählung in der Diözese Osnabrück mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Konfession - Dekanate Cloppenburg, Emsland, Fürstenau, Iburg, Vechta, Wiedenbrück und Wittlage, 1651 - 1663	100%, no (!) Hollenkamp found

Other sources:

1. Have checked without success:
   1. 1512: NLA OS Rep 100 Abschnitt 89 Nr. 1 a
   2. 1630-1775: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 38
   3. 1654: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 54
   4. 1629-32: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 32
   5. 1639-59: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 57 Nr. 1 (Hodesachen)
2. Remaining to be checked:
   1. 1458: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 3
   2. sources later than 1650 will likely end up with his descendants being mentioned as farm operator i.e. Johan Hollenkamp
   3. 1659: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 59
   4. 1659-67: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 60
   5. 1661: NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 62
   6. 1664-7:NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 78/1
   7. 1665:NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 69
3. Have checked with success:
   1. NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 34, see Mencke Hollenkamp (abt.1568-bef.1650)
   2. NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 15, see Mencke Hollenkamp (abt.1568-bef.1650)
   3. NLA OS, Rep 100, Abschnitt 88 Nr. 16, see Mencke Hollenkamp (abt.1568-bef.1650)
   4. Visitation und Erhebung des Religionszustands im Stift Osnabrück, NLA OS Rep 100 Abschnitt 367 Nr. 31, various Hollenkamp profiles created (children of Mencke; uncertain)

Phase 1c: Lutheran records of St. Georg, Bippen

Lutheran inhabitants of Ankum were noted in Bippen, St. Georg, the church books Bippen St. Georg at Archion have an index:

Location/Theme	Source	Description	Degree of coverage
Bippen, Lower Saxony	Baptism index, letter H	1690-1701: http://www.archion.de/p/f0960a0add/ 1702-1760: http://www.archion.de/p/5b08fdedb2/ (and following pages) 1761-79: http://www.archion.de/p/13c1c1d25a/ (and following)	fully - no Hollenkamp
Bippen, Lower Saxony	Burial index, letter H	1690-1735 http://www.archion.de/p/04a431a377/	fully - no Hollenkamp
Bippen, Lower Saxony	Marriage index, letter H	1690-1735 http://www.archion.de/p/165cd4520c/	males fully - no Hollenkamp; females is a to-do, still, but means going through all index records
Category:Bippen, Niedersachsen	Letter H	1853-1873 http://www.archion.de/p/efa780da68/ (ff.)	fully - no Hollenkamp

Phase 1d: Document Lineages, Emigrants, Settle-Down Loactions, Leavers and "Hard Cases"

Lineages

• Hollenkamp Lineages

Emigrants

• Refer to Hollenkamp US Immigrants to see a list of settle-down locations in the United States during this phase, as well as a list of Hollenkamps with their profile sourced (and still unsourced US immigrants); also see the category Category:US_Immigrants,_Hollenkamp_Name_Study, that might include more profiles than listed in the table
• Refer to Category:Netherlands_Immigrants,_Hollenkamp_Name_Study to see a list of settle-down locations in the

Leavers

• Not started

Hard Cases

• Hollenkamp Family Brick Wall - Unconnnected profiles we have not been able to connect to a lineage or a branch.
• Category:Hollenkamp_Name_Study_-_Has_Research_Questions - Here, there is more work to do (this category is used across all phases of the study)

Special questions:

• Johann Theodor Heinrich Hollenkamp (1834-1901) and Henrich Bernd (Hollenkamp) Hollencamp (1811-1872) are said to be nephew and uncle. Our current understanding is that they are 1st cousins once removed. What is true?

Phase 2: Emigrants

Goals:

• Be able to follow the emigrants abroad
• Continue Ankum lineage into the new country
• Understand "settle down"-locations in the new home country
• Identify Hollenkamps that cannot be matched back to lineage from Ankum parish (phase 1)

Phase 2a: Immigrants to the United States

Below is a list of sources that have been used for this name study:

Location/Theme	Source	Description	Degree of coverage
Germany, Passerteilung	NLA OS	Passports given out before leaving Germany; search NLA OS database for "Hollenkamp"	100% (2 records only, -314, -252)
Passenger Lists (US Immigration)	Familysearch.org	Hollenkamp search termn	In progress
Passenger Lists (US Immigration)	MyHeritage German immigrants	Hollenkamp search termn	In progress
Passenger Lists (US Immigration)	Statue of Liberty website	Hollenkamp search termn	In progress
Passenger Lists (US Immigration)	New Orleans Arrivals (where is this from?)	Hollenkamp search termn	In progress
Passenger Lists (US Immigration)	National Archives	Hollenkamp search termn	In progress

Phase 2b: Immigrants to the Netherlands

Not started

Phase 2:. Immigrants to other countries

• Do a global search for Hollenkamps in other countries (non-US, non-NL)

Not started

Phase 2d Non-Emigrating "Ankum-Leavers"

• Search Hollenkamps in nearby parishes
• Search for living Hollenkamps in Germany

Not started (except for Gerdt Hollenkamp descendants, see Gerdt (Hollenkamp) Schulte to Brinke (abt.1625-abt.1697)

Phase 3: Deep Dive into Settle-Down locations

Phase 3a: Cincinnati, Ohio

Location/Theme	Source	Description	Cincinnati, Ohio	The Cincinnati directory (1819)	Letter H	Fully, but no Hollenkamp found
Cincinnati, Ohio	Williams' Cincinnati directory (1850-1851)	Name Hollenkamp under letter H	In progress

Other sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

• https://drc.libraries.uc.edu/search?query=Hollenkamp&spc.page=1

Phase 3b: Dayton, Ohio

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 3c: Xenia, Ohio

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 3d: Aviston, Illinois

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 3e: Germantown, Illinois

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 3e: Breese, Illinois

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 3f: Louisville, Kentucky

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 3e: San Francisco, California

Sources to consider (to be integrated into the table above): (store any source or group of sources you found, here)

Phase 4: Follow a line and/ or complete a profile

• Currently done a bit randomly

Other sources, and specific tasks we want to follow, our Bucket List, things we WANT to do:

• Will of Hollenkamp-491
• Henry Hollencamp, war veteran, died 1880
• Complete profile: Bishop Dwenger
• Complete profile: Ruud Hollenkamp

• The followimg three questions are also important to help determine the death date of Anna Catharina Margaretha Hollenkamp (abt.1744-abt.1744).
  • What do we know about the death of Anna Maria (Hollenkamp) Will (abt.1735-)?
  • What do we know about the death of Joannes Hermannus Henricus Hollenkamp (abt.1737-)?
• * What do we know about the death of Joannes Gerardus Hollenkamp (abt.1743-)?

Project Backlog

Here is a list of backlog items we will be working on next:

Current

1. Ankum: Map burial records to existing Wikitree profiles
2. Emigrants: Map passenger list records to existing Wikitree profiles

Next

1. Settling-Down: Location Cincinnati
2. Settling-Down: Location Dayton
3. Settling-Down: Location Xenia
4. Settling-Down: Location Aviston
5. Settling-Down: Location Germantown (maybe switch this with Aviston)
6. Settling-Down: Location Bresse
7. Create a space for "Notable Hollenkamp" profiles

Later

1. Emigrants: Immigrants to the Netherlands

When Time

1. Ankum: Add profiles for people where Hollenkamps were a godparent or baptismal witness
2. Ankum: Add profiles for people where Hollenkamps stood witness at their marriage

Done

1. Ankum: Add all Hollenkamps baptised in St. Nikolaus, Ankum
2. Ankum: Add all Hollenkamps married in Ankum and their spouses
3. Emigrants: Identify Hollenkamps on Passenger Lists, US immigrants
4. Cincinnati: Identify early baptisms
5. Cincinnati: Identify marriages
6. Complete profile: Henrich Bernd (Hollenkamp) Hollencamp (1811-1872)
7. Complete profile: Bernard Francis Hollenkamp (1918-1943)

Sources

1. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F301_1-1 (1. Januar 1675 – 31. März 1706, 0001) > picture 0003.Beerdigungen 1675-1676.
2. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F301_1-1 (1. Januar 1675 – 31. März 1706, 0001) > picture 0020.Beerdigungen 1683-1684.
3. ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1523931/need-help-transcribing-deciphering-church-records-please
4. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F301_1-1 (1. Januar 1675 – 31. März 1706, 0001) > picture 0022.Beerdigungen 1684-1685.
5. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F301_1-1 (1. Januar 1675 – 31. März 1706, 0001) > picture 0024.Beerdigungen 1685-1686.
6. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F301_1-1 (1. Januar 1675 – 31. März 1706, 0001) > picture 0040.Beerdigungen 1695
7. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F301_1-1 (1. Januar 1675 – 31. März 1706, 0001) > picture 0048.Beerdigungen 1699-1700.
8. ↑ Matricula online > Deutschland > Osnabrück, rk. Bistum > Ankum St. Nikolaus > Beerdigungen F302-2 (March 1, 1743 – Jan. 31, 1766, 0005) > picture 0008.Beerdigungen 1746-1747.