Family: Fiegenbaum, Hermann Heinrich / Horstmeier, Anna Christine Katharina (F8)
m. 20 Nov 1785-
Father | Male
Fiegenbaum, Hermann Heinrich
Born 2 Sep 1764 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg 
Died 11 Mar 1829 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Buried Married 20 Nov 1785 [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Father Fiegenbaum, Johann Hermann | F5 Group Sheet Mother Grotholtmann, Catharina Elisabeth | F5 Group Sheet
Mother | Female
Horstmeier, Anna Christine Katharina
Born 21 Oct 1759 Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died 9 Jan 1830 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Buried Father Mother
Child 1 | Male
Fiegenbaum, Everd Jacob Wilhelm
Born 2 Jun 1786 Lienen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Died 8 May 1870 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Buried Spouse Deerhake, Christine Elisabeth | F1126 Married 27 May 1806 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Spouse Schröer, Anna Elisabeth Christine | F1127 Married 1817
Child 2 | Male
+ Fiegenbaum, Johann Heinrich
Born 12 May 1788 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died 12 Mar 1861 Warren County, Missouri, USA Buried Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA Spouse Hagen, Catherina Elsabein | F9 Married 13 Jul 1810 Ladbergen, Grand Duchy of Berg
Child 3 | Male
+ Fiegenbaum, Johann Heinrich
Born 24 Mar 1791 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died 3 Jul 1847 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Buried Spouse Lagemann, Anna Elisabeth | F87 Married Abt 1818 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Spouse Stork, Christine Elisabeth | F1134 Married 17 Feb 1832
Child 4 | Male
+ Fiegenbaum, Adolph Heinrich
Born 19 Dec 1793 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died 11 Jan 1877 Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Buried Garner, Hancock County, Iowa, USA Spouse Peterjohann, Christine Elisabeth | F89 Married 25 Oct 1820 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia
Child 5 | Male
Fiegenbaum, Johann Hermann Adolph
Born 6 Feb 1797 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died 4 Jan 1798 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Buried
Child 6 | Female
+ Fiegenbaum, Anna Katharina Elisabeth
Born 1 Feb 1799 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died Yes, date unknown Buried Spouse Schröer, Wilhelm Heinrich | F90 Married 17 Oct 1824 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia
Child 7 | Female
Fiegenbaum, Anna Christine
Born 22 Dec 1802 Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Died 14 Jan 1871 Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Buried Spouse Feldwisch, Hermann Heinrich | F91 Married 30 Jan 1825 Spouse Wierwille, Johann Wilhelm | F92 Married 22 May 1829
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Notes 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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Sources - [S4] Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research, Letter of September 1981 to Jane (Fiegenbaum) Paget; page 3.
"About the parents of Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum I could find out the following particulars: [here Lieselotte Fiegenbaum included birth information for Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Catherina Fiegenbaum née Horstmeier].
"They [Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Catherina Fiegenbaum née Horstmeier] were married on 20th November 1785.
"They lived in Lienen-Holperdorp in the 'Heuerhaus' Horstmeier. (Heuerhaus: A smaller house standing on the ground of the farm and belonging to it. The tenant-farmer livining therein had to pay the rent partially in work.)"
On page 1 of the letter, Lieselotte had included additional information about this couple:
"Hendrik Fiegenbaum and his wife, née Horstmeier - the parents of J.H. Fiegenbaum - most probably bought some ground were [sic] upon they built their house which received the number 21, which means it was the 21st house built in Wester. In the year 1840 the house was sold. In 1865 a Fiegenbaum took over the number 21 for his newly built house. This property of Hendrich (which is equal to Hendrik) is already mentioned as Wester 21 during the year 1800.
"About this fact I have to ask for some further information at the Münster Record Office. As soon as possible I shall give you the correct information about that." - [S1] Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research.
Hermann Henrich [sic] Fiegenbaum and Anna Christine Katharina Horstmeier were married on 20 November 1785 in Lienen.
In a letter dated 15 September 1996 to J. W. Fiegenbaum, Hermand wrote: "That couple Fiegenbaum-Horstmeier had seven children, one son died as infant, one son and two sisters stayed in Ladbergen. They built or bought a house near village Ladbergen called 'In der Laake'. That house isn't but I saw the plot of land, last year it was a big cornfield. He was a carpenter like the sons. He died in this house on March 11. 1829. He had water dropsy and need a doctor. So is it written in the church record." - [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 4.
Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Christine Katharina Horstmeier were married 20 november 1785 at Lienen, Westphalia, Germany. - [S230] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Germany Vital Records Index" in FamilySearch Record Search—Pilot Site at (http://pilot.familysearch.org/).
Accessed on 10 October 2010. Index entries compiled from "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898," a FamilySearch database; data derived from: Evangelische Kirche Lienen (Kreis Tecklenburg). Kirchenbuch, 1711-1908. Family History Library Film 526268: "Heiraten, Tote 1733-1798 - Taufen 1779-1802." Salt Lake City, Utah: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1967. Indexing Project (Batch) Number C95402-3. Original records in Evangelisches Landeskirchenamt, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany.
Everd Jacob Wilhelm Fiegenbaum, son of Herman Hinderich Fiegenbaum and Anna Catharina Horstmeyer; born 2 June 1786; baptized 11 June 1786 at "Evangelisch, Lienen, Westfalen, Prussia." - [S104] Personal communication, Letter from Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum on 15 September 1996 to J. W. Fiegenbaum.
"This Fiegenbaum, father from Adolph, was Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum, born Sept. 2. 1764 in Ladbergen. His wife was Anna Christien [sic] Katharina Horstmeier from Lienen. That is a little village near by." - [S1] Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research.
In a letter to J. W. Fiegenbaum dated 15 September 1996, Hermanda wrote: "He was a carpenter like the sons." - [S8] Friedrich Saatkamp, Ladbergen: Out of the History and the Present of the 1000-year Westphalian Village, edited and translated by Dean R. Hoge (New Knoxville, Ohio: New Knoxville Historical Society, 1985), pages xxii-xxvi.
"Land Ownership" (section 4) in the Preface. The quote on tenant farmers (Heuerlinge) was taken from page xxiii.
- [S4] Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research, Letter of September 1981 to Jane (Fiegenbaum) Paget; page 3.