Articles in the Roelke Category

From History of Frederick County. p. 1095-1096:
John R. Roelke, cabinet-maker and undertaker, Burkittsville, Frederick County, Md., son of Peter and Mary (Anderson) Roelke, was born at Walkersville, Frederick County, Md., October 27, 1866.
The Roelke family came from Hesse Cassel, Germany. They were weavers, and all of them were members of the Reformed Communion.
John Roelke, grandfather of John E; Roelke, weaver, left Hesse Cassel in 1827 with his wife and eight children, four boys and four girls. The voyage from Bremen to Baltimore was made in twenty-one days, then considered very …