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Fiegenbaum, Anna Elisabeth

Female 1737 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Fiegenbaum, Anna Elisabeth 
    Born 20 Feb 1737  Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I1559  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2010 

    Father Wiethoff, Hermann,   b. Feb 1706, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Apr 1758, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Mother Fiegenbaum, Anna Elisabeth,   b. 4 Feb 1711, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Apr 1770, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 28 Feb 1734  [3, 4, 5] 

    •      Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum states that Anna Elisabeth was her father's heir (in German, Erbtochter). It was often the case, but not always so, that the spouse of an heiress would changed his surname at marriage so he would have the farm's name. Such was the case in this instance, and the eleven children assumed the surname Fiegenbaum. This practice, not completely unknown even in the 20th century in Ladbergen, is mentioned in 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).
    Family ID F252  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S4] Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research, Letter of 23 November 1981 to Jane (Fiegenbaum) Paget.
      Anna Elis. Fiegenbaum, child of Johann Wiehoff and Anna Elisabeth Fiegenbaum, was born in 1737.
           Anna Elisabeth Fiegenbaum was the heir to the farm and her children took her surname, not her husband's.

    2. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 3.
      Anna Liesabeth Fiegenbaum, child of Anna Elizabeth Fiegenbaum and Herman Wiethoff, was born 20 February 1736/1737 at Ladbergen, Westphalia, Germany.

    3. [S29] Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann, Genealogical research.
      From a document shared with J. W. Fiegenbaum in 1993.
           Herman Wiethoff and Anna Elizabeth Fiegenbaum were married on 28 February 1734. No place given. Herman changed his surname from Weithoff to Fiegenbaum. This couple had 11 children; the seventh was Hermann Wilhelm Fiegenbaum.

    4. [S4] Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research, Letter of 23 November 1981 to Jane (Fiegenbaum) Paget.
      Johann Wiethoff and Anna Elisabeth Fiegenbaum were married 28 February 1734.
           Lieselotte lists 10 children born to the marriage. She then writes: "The children were named Fiegenb. [sic] The name of the farm is always the same."

    5. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 3.
      Herman Wiethoff and Anna Elizabeth Fiegenbaum were married 28 February 1733/1734 at Ladbergen, Westphalia, Germany.


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