The information about the family in Höste is rather scarce.
According to website DCKruis.nl, important genealogical data come from the so called mill registers, in which the families needing a mill for milling their grain, are recorded. The mill register from 1755 mentions the family of Jörgen Bardelmeyer in Höste with wife, daughter older than 12 years, son younger than 12, and a person older than 60.
He lived there in a hired house. This suggests that Jörgen Barlmeyer was a so-called Heuerling, a farm-worker who was dependent on the farmer who provided accomodation and a piece of arable land, in exchange for working on his landlord's farm at any moment the farmer wished - for free. The Heuerling was during centuries a most common phenomenon in the agricultural society of North-West Germany, partly because of the inheritance rules, dictating that a farm could only be turned over to one child (often the youngest). The others had to care for themselves: the girls married, for the boys the only way of life was often to become a Heuerling or to emigrate (Dr. Christof Spannhoff).
The Höste family tree embraces only three generations. This does not imply that it became extinct. Unknown family members may have generated additional branches, possibly being part of the Fragments, published elsewhere on this website.
Sources: (1) www.dckruis.nl (Dutch text). (2) www.kreisheimatbund-steinfurt.de/author/dr-spannhoff/, see also http://suite101.de.