Fiegenbaum, Christine Maria

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• Immigration: 1845, New Knoxville, Auglaize County, Ohio, USA

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Immigration:

     Christina was 21 years old when she left Germany with her husband, Hermann Hünefeld (at age 27) and their daughter, Catherine (between 7 and 14 months old).
     They traveled with another family from Ladbergen that they knew: Herman Wiethoff (at age 47); his wife, Anna (born Fiegenbaum; at age 40); and their three sons, Hermann (at age 19); Heinrich Wilhelm (at age 12); and Heinrich Wilhelm (not more than 7 months of age).
     The trip could not have begun before May 1845, because Heinrich Wilhelm Wiethoff was born in Ladbergen, Prussia towards the end of that month. The two families were related through the adult women, who were 4th cousins once removed.

Christine married Hünefeld, Hermann Heinrich Wilhelm 19 Jul 1844, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia. Hermann (son of Hünefeld, Johann and Maneke, Anna) was born 8 Nov 1818, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia; died 16 Mar 1898, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA; was buried , Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]

1. Hünefeld, Catherine Sophie was born 21 Sep 1844, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia; died Yes, date unknown.

Johann married Lagemann, Anna Elisabeth Abt 1818, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia. Anna was born 8 Mar 1788, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg; died 21 Oct 1831, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Three children were born to this couple.

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Birth:
This man's second given name is reported variously as Hendrik, Hedrich, Henrich and Heinrich. Alternative dates of birth are sometimes given as 9 February or 17 March 1764.

Died:
According to the church records in Ladbergen, Hermann died of water dropsy and was in need of a doctor.

Hermann married Horstmeier, Anna Christine Katharina 20 Nov 1785, Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. Anna was born 21 Oct 1759, Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg; died 9 Jan 1830, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Anna was born in Lienen (in the township of Holperdorp), a neighboring village to the east to Ladbergen.

Died:
Anna was 70 years, 2 months and 19 days old when she died.

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Married:

     The newly married couple lived in the Horstmeier Heuerhaus located in Bauerschaft Holperdorp, a section of the town of Lienen. Their first child was born there. It would appear that within a few years the family had moved. The couple's second child was born in the nearby village of Ladbergen. By 1800, the family had built a house at Ladbergen-Wester 21, located in the section of the village know as "In der Laake." Hermann died in this home in 1829 and Anna passed a year later. In 1840, the house was sold. It may be that some of the proceeds from this sale helped finance Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum's family emigration to the USA in 1841.
     In addition to being a carpenter or house builder, Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum was a Heuerling or tenant farmer. Tenant farmers were low on the social scale in Ladbergen at the time. "They owned no land, and they lived in rented houses on larger farms. Every large or middle-sized farm in Ladbergen had one or more tenant houses (in German: Heuerhäuser) scattered over the farm. The highest number on any farm in Ladbergen was seven; two or three was common. Each tenant farm house had its own plot of 7 to 12 acres. The tenants rented the houses and plots for life. The tenant farmers were not the same as sharecroppers or rental farmers in the American sense. They had only a small plot to themselves, and they did not need to give any of the yield to the landowner. They were essentially renters of houses who paid for their dwellings with a small amount of cash and a specified number of days of labor. In the 19th century the tenants were typically relatives of the landowners, but this was decreasingly the case after the turn of the century."

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• Occupation: Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg; farmer

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Occupation:
Johann and his family lived at Hölter 11. Hölter is one of the three 'Bauernshaften' in the village of Ladbergen. A 'Bauerschaft' is an ancient grouping of farms that emerged from the earliest agricultural settlements, and comprised the earliest administrative units of a community. Until the early 1960s, Ladbergen had three Bauernshaften: Hölter, Overbeck and Wester. These settlement areas are still recognized in present day Ladbergen. Recently, the residential sections of the village center have become known by street names and a fourth section of Ladbergen, called 'Dorf' [village] has been created. The number 11 would indicate that this was the 11th farm established in this Bauerschaft. In 1980, Hölter 11 was renamed Ostbeverner Damm 40 and is the home of Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum.

Johann married Grotholtmann, Catharina Elisabeth 14 Aug 1763, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg. Catharina (daughter of Grotholtmann, Johann Heinrich and Norendorff, Anna Margaretha) was born 11 Nov 1731, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg; died 19 Apr 1816, Ladbergen, Kingdom of Prussia. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
From 1813 to 1816, in the closing days of the Napoleonic era, the village of Ladbergen was liberated from French occupation and was governed provisionally by the Kingdom of Prussia, until the formation of the Province of Westphalia.

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Married:

     At the time of their marriage, Johann was 24 years, 4 months and 11 days old; Catharina was 31 years 9 months and 3 days old.
     At the time of the births of each of their children, the father and mother were the following ages, respectively: Hermann Heinrich, 25 years, 4 days and 29 days & 32 years, 9 months and 21 days; Johann Henrich, 27 years and 8 months & 35 years and 22 days; Cord, 30 years, 10 months and 15 days & 38 years, 3 months and 7 days; Anna Elisabeth, 34 years, 2 months and 7 days & 41 years, 7 months and 9 days; Anna Elsabein, 38 years, 4 months and 13 days & 45 years, 9 months and 5 days.
     Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum, of Ladbergen, surmises that Catherina Elisabeth Grotholtmann was a sister to Anna Elsabein Grotholtmann (1746-1818), who married Hermann Wilhelm Fiegenbaum (1745-1813) on 5 August 1770.