It is not known whether they made it to the U.S., where they settled if they did make it, or what happened to the couple or the three daughters. Their names do not appear on any passenger list published in the set of books called, Germans to America . Had they made it safely to the U.S., it would seem that some contact would have been made with one or both of Hanne's sons or grandchildren, but no one in the generation that might have remembered that had such a recollection. It can only be speculated that their's was one of those flimsy sailing ships that didn't make it across the ocean. Carl Dietrich Wilhelm Bultemeier was born on 2 Dec 1808, the son of the late Johann Conrad Bultemeier and Anne Catherine Ilsebein Schutte of Bierde Nr.42.
Church records at Ev.
Ch. at Lahde, Germany. Correspondence with wife of pastor of above church. Stories told by Berg family in Germany during 1984 visit. Berg family traditions in this country.