Dorndiel: Vierlings and Bolls

I received another recent email from somebody in Germany who was looking for information about Boll descendants who had emigrated to America. Well, as a result of Peter Schaefer marrying Maria Magdalena (MM) Vierling, we became Boll descendants because MM's mother was Maria Magdalena Boll. Our family tree has indicated that Vierlings and Bolls came from a place called Dorndiel, just southeast of Frankfurt, but I have never gotten as far as trying to verify that. Not only was the email correspondent (with a Boll surname) writing to me from Radheim, a stone's throw from Dorndiel, but he also sent scanned pages from the area Familienbuch confirming all our Vierling and Boll origins.  How cool is that?

So I was able to let our German contact know that at least three children of Georg Vierling and MM Boll made it to America: Adam, Johannes (John), our MM, and possibly also MM's sister Catharina. Interestingly, he already knew about a sister of MM Boll, Catharina Franziska Boll, who had married Johannes Hiemenz, and they had also emigrated to America and settled in St. Cloud, Minnesota, for which there is plenty of information to be found. So that means there are more relations in America than we knew about - admittedly not very closely related, but related just the same - we all have some origins in Dorndiel!