Additional information about Maternal Line:
There is a town of Rossow within Mecklenburg(-Schwerin), but no currently known connection. Suffix -ow generally denotes a Wend (Sorb), although this was Eva's father's surname, and the Wendish towns were located elsewhere. U5b could be Baltic German (Belarus), or Slavic (Ukraine). The Belarus match shows Ashkenazi, but B. Greenspan opined admixture. U5b is susceptible to migraine and occipital stroke. (3) Carl Gustav Wulbrand = Eva Rossow (2) Lorenz Crull = Lena (Magdalena) Wulbrand (1) Christian Leverenz (b. 1828, Casdorf) = Frederica Crull (b. 1830, Rosenow) Casdorf / Kasdorf = parish town. No marriage rec.; but, 1st dau. bapt. 1854. Imm. 1855 from Rosenow to Ports of Hamburg and NYC, thence to Cheektowaga (1855) and (by 1870) to West Seneca, Erie Co., NY. Christian's 1893 death rec. in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in W. Seneca. Fredericka's ca. 1906 death in Buffalo was indicated by her last listing in 1905 directory.