Thanks for this davecapps. I had come across it in my research of this Mammen line and was puzzled that some of the names didn't fit my findings. On the record for Mamme Rolfs 2nd marriage in London to Rose Ruth Dressler nee Tuffrey at St. Leonards Shoreditch, 13 Aug 1899, he states that his father is Johan Teoppels Mammen, weaver. I found Johan Teoppels in the Buttforde, Lower Saxony records (where many of this family are from), and he and his wife Frauke Margerethe Kunstfreund did have a son Mamme Roolfs in 1831/2. It would seem that the record you sent the link to is for Johan Teoppels' brother Warner Rohlfs (1805 - 1836). One of the witnesses is another brother, Rolef Behrend Mammen (1788-1852). It has taken me some time to untangle all this, as the records are often very confusing: the families in this Lower Saxony area sometimes give the father's surname to a child, and sometimes the father's christian name as the child's surname. Thus a Mamme Rohlf could name a son with Rohlf as the surname, or use the Mamme to make Mammen. Sometimes they even take the mother's name, presumably to keep open an important female line. It makes record hunting very interesting... The Catherina Margaretha Friedricke Hadde line is still eluding me, even with this knowledge!
Many thanks again for your research into this problem.
