Nicholas Pincemaille arrived may 1853 in New York with his parents Theodore Pincemaille x Catherine Schumacher and they installed them in Holy Cross, Ozauke Co, Wisconsin. Pincemaille was hard to pronounce by Americains. So this family used Passmel instead. At left we see a foto of the children of Nicholas Pincemaille (Passmel) x Elizabeth Tibor.His daughter Minnie Passmel married in 1897 with John Cook. We see here again ca 1925 on a picture (at right) with 4 generations of woman starting with her mother Elizabet Tibor and at the end her grandchild Sherley Winkler.

At left we see John Passmel the oldest son of Nicholas Passmel together with his nevew Theodore Bode son of his aunt Mary Passmel

At right his brother Anthony Passmel

We have knowledge of the official change of Nicolas Pincemaille to Passmel in 1880.  At his marriage in 1872 we find yet Pincemaille, but  when he asked his naturalisation  18/19th September 1880 in Barnes Co, No Dakota he did it  under the name of  Passmel.