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I have stated in the publication referred to, my urging to recover the lost volume, and the success. The thanks of the church were mine for restoring it to them.

As I may not introduce the information gleaned from that lost and found volume, into the genealogical part of this work, I will place it here. The abstract, consisting of nineteen items, with foot notes, was made by the proper officer or custodian of records of the church at Gemen, to which the family belonged, certified under his signature and seal. It is as follows:

"In the church books of the Evangelical Parish at Gemen, Germany, are found the following inscriptions concerning the family Levering or Lefering. Latin records interpreted.

PRESBYTERY

OF THE

EVANGELICAL PARISH

AT

GEMEN.

1674.

No. 1.  Sunday Occuli, of the year '74, for the first time is proclaimed, 
          John Wigard Levering, Rosier's son, with the 
          chaste virgin Magdalena Bokers, of Essen. 
(NOTE.--Occuli: Fourth Sunday before Easter, in 1674, was March 22d, according to the Churchman's Almanac, by Wm. A. Whitworth, M. A., published in London, in 1882. J. L.)

1675.

No. 2.  Anno., 1675, on the 16th of January, the parents Wigman-Rosier, 
          and Magdalena Bokers, have caused their young 
          female child to be brought to holy baptism. 
        Witnesses, godfathers and godmothers were Anne de Walle, 
          daughter of the Bramfrow,^(*) Anne Sophia Bokers and 
          Erndt-Rosier. The child was given the name ANNA 
          SOPHIA. 

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