Fiegenbaum, Johann Wilhelm

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Died:
Johann Wilm died 10 days after his sister, Anna Liesabeth. He was 9 years, 11 months and 6 days old.

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Birth:
Johann was born about 1 year and 1 month after his brother, Hermann, his next eldest sibling. In the year of his birth, 1707, Grafschaft Tecklenburg was sold to Friedrich I, King of Prussia.


Died:
Johann Jacob was 50 years, 11 months and 10 days old when he died. He died 2 months before his brother Hermann (52 years old); and 2 days after the death of his son, Johann Henrich (23 years, 10 months and 13 days old); and 2 months and 18 days before his sister Anna Katharina (aged 69 years, 10 months and 2 days).

Johann married Schowe, Christine 26 Sep 1732. Christine was born 1704, Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg; died 1 Feb 1782, Westerkappeln, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Christine was about 77 or 78 years old at the time of her death in Westerkappeln, a community about 14 miles northeast of Ladbergen. In 1786, it had a population of 3,249. The church in the village was the oldest in the district of Tecklenburg. Its location to the west of Osnabrück gave the village its name - 'western chapel'. A similar church east of Osnabrück provided the foundation for the name of the village of Osterkappeln.

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Married:
This marriage, Johann's second, occurred 11 months and 3 days after the death of his first wife, Anna. Johann was about 25 years old; Christine was about 28 years old.
     The parents of seven children, Johann and Christine were approximately the following ages, respectively, at the birth of each child: at Johann Henrich's birth, 27 and 30; at Johann Wilhelm's, 28 and 31; at Anna Liesabeth's, 30 and 33; at Johann Hermann's, 32 and 35; at Christina Lisabeth's, 34 and 37; at Cord Wilm's, 36 and 39; at Anna Elsabein's, 40 and 43.
     Of the seven children, four died before their father, who passed away nearly 24 years before his wife.

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Birth:
Church records in Ladbergen prior to 1707 are no longer extant.

Heinrich married Suhrheinrichs, Enneke Grafschaft Tecklenburg. Enneke was born Abt 1672, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg; died 24 Jul 1736, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Enneke died 21 years and 10 days after the birth of her last child, and 4 years and 5 months before her husband. Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum reports that Enneke was 64 years old at the time of her death.

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Married:
Details of the marriage are not known at this time.
     The parents of eight children, Henrich and Enneke were approximately the following ages, respectively, at the birth of each child: at Wilm's birth, 32 and 27; at Hermann's, 39 and 34; at Johann's, 40 and 35; at Christina's, 42 and 37; at Gerdt's, 44 and 39; at Anna Elisabeth's, 47 and 42; at Anna Katharina's, 48 and 43; and, at Tonies', 50 and 45.

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Birth:
The details of this man's existence lacks documentary evidence, but is based on assumptions. Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum of Münster, Germany writes that records of the evangelical church in Ladbergen prior to 1707 no longer exist. The first reference to the Fiegenbaums occurs in 1715 with the brief mention of the death of "old Fiegenbaum's wife." The absence of any given names for this woman is thought to be an indication that there was at that time only one family with that surname residing in Ladbergen; further identity was not necessary. That the husband himself is not mentioned in the written record leads to the conclusion that he was born and died prior to 1707. It is not known whether further research will add more details to this story. The Fiegenbaums appear to have belonged to a social class that did not leave many literary records.

[--?--] married [---?---], [--?--]. [--?--] was born Bef 1707; died 1715, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
At her death in 1715, this woman was known simply as "old Fiegenbaum's wife." The names of her parents, her date of birth, and even her own identity before her marriage, are lost.

Died:
Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum of Münster, Germany writes that records of the evangelical church in Ladbergen prior to 1707 no longer exist. The first reference to the Fiegenbaums occurs in 1715 with the brief mention of the death of "old Fiegenbaum's wife." The absence of any given names for this woman is thought to be an indication that there was at that time only one family with that surname residing in Ladbergen; further identity was not necessary. The wife's age at her death was not recorded. We are left to assume that the birth occurred before the extant records, before 1707. Her given names, baptismal names and maiden name are lost.
     The conclusion is that the woman who died in 1715 is the mother of the four Fiegenbaum men who appear later in the Ladbergen church records: Henrich (born about 1667/68; died 1741), Gerdt (born about 1678; died 1731), Johann (born at a date unknown; died 1716) and Emanuel (no dates of birth or death).

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Married:
The fact of a marriage is implied by the phrasing of the entry in the church book: "The old Fiegenbaum's wife died in 1715." Ladbergen church records prior to 1707 are no longer extant; the date of the marriage is not known.