Keipe / Keiper connection?
Has anyone researching the KEIPER name found a connection to KEIPE?
My immigrant ancestor is Ferdinand W. KEIPE, who arrived in the US with his wife, Louise BENZEL, and 2 of their children, Henriette & Emilie Anna, in about 1864 or 1865.They settled in Green Lake County, Wisconsin.They originated in the area of Moshütz, Wirsitz, Posen, Prussia.
A fellow researcher suggested that the KEIPE name may have originally been KEIPER.I have researched this family back to about 1800 & have found the name only as KEIPE.