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PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:49 pm    Post subject: Gerberding Reply with quote

Marie Gerberding and her husband Conrad Stuenkel were among the earliest settlers of the Concordia area. Their pictures are shown below. Additional information about them can be found in the Stuenkel and Bruns family forums.

Marie was born on 26 July 1815 in Evensen, Germany to Friedrich Gerberding and Catharine Margarethe Bruns. She was christened Catharine Marie Dorothee Gerberding as can be seen in the birth certification below. The original text and translation are as follows:

In German:
Catharine Marie Dorothee Gerberding, eheliche Tochter des Hauslings Friedrich Gerberding und Catharine Margarethe Bruns in Evensen, ist im Jahre 1815 den 26ten Julius gebohren; welches aus dem hiesigen Kirchenbuch hiermit sub fide pastorali bescheiniget wird.
Mandelsloh, d. 2ten Decemb. 1821
H. G. Boning

In English:
Catharine Marie Dorothea Gerberding, legitimate daughter of cottager Friedrich Gerberding and Catharine Margarethe Bruns in Evensen, was born in the year 1815 the 26th of July; which is hereby certified [sub fide pastorali] being extracted from the local church books.
Mandelsloh, 2 Dec 1821.
[signed] H. G. Böning.

In a personal diary written by Conrad Stuenkel, the identical birth date and birthplace are recorded for his wife Marie. So this clearly is the birth record for Marie Gerberding Stuenkel.

The church in which her birth is recorded is St. Osdag Evangelical Lutheran Church in Mandelsloh. (See photos below.) Mandelsloh is halfway between Evensen and Esperke, about 2 ½ miles northeast of Evensen. The original basilica was built about 1180 AD with the tower added in the 15th century. It is well known for its excellent acoustics. Heinrich Gottlieb Böning was pastor of that parish between 1802 and 1825.

Note that Marie’s mother was a Bruns. The Johann Heinrich Bruns family lived in Büren, only about a mile northwest of Evensen; while the Heinrich David Bruns family lived in Esperke. It is not known whether or not these families were related or whether they all were members of the church in Mandelsloh. Conrad Stuenkel’s home in Metel is only about two miles southeast of Evensen, so the Stuenkel family may well have known the Gerberdings back in Germany. (A map showing the relative location of all these villages is posted below.)

A copy of the marriage certificate for Conrad Stuenkel and Marie Gerberding can be found in the second part of the Johann Heinrich Bruns Family Immigration posting. As discussed in that topic, the identity of the two Heinrich Bruns’ that were witnesses of the marriage is not clear. Conrad’s sister Marie was the wife of Heinrich David Bruns so he is a likely candidate for one of them. On the other hand, it is possible that Johann Heinrich Bruns (or Heinrich as he was later known) may have been related to the Gerberdings and is also a possibility. (However, the actual date of their arrival in St. Louis needs to be resolved.)

As can also be seen in the marriage certificate, Marie Gerberding stated that she came from Meise[Meitze], Germany. Apparently the family moved to Meitze, 10 miles east of Evensen, after Marie was born. No record of her immigration to the U. S. has been found to date. It is not known if she came by herself or with other family members. What is interesting is that her birth record was extracted from the Mandelsloh records in 1821 when she was only six years old. Was this in anticipation of the family’s emigration or was it somehow connected with their move to Meitze?

Various other Gerberding families have been located in various parts of the U. S. The closest to St. Louis being in Jackson and Randolph County, Illinois. One other Gerberding can be found in the Freedom Township, Lafayette Co., MO census records, namely Henry Gerberding. In the 1870 census, he is listed as a 47 year old tailor from Hannover, with wife Lotte 48, and children Henry (19), Fritz (12) and Louis (5), living next to Henry Duensing and Fritz Evert. In the 1880 census, he is still listed as a tailor living with his wife in the town of Concordia. The St. Paul’s Lutheran Church records show that son Louis was baptized there in 1865. On the other hand, the St. John Evangelical Church funeral records show that wife Charlotte died on June 14, 1899 and Henry died on Sept 14, 1907. Both were buried in that cemetery.

Checking the immigration records, the passenger list for the Bark Ceder from Bremen that arrived in New York City on 2 Nov 1857 includes a 33 year old tailor Henry Gerberding from Hannover. This is a good match to the Henry that lived in Concordia. Was Henry related to Marie? Why else would a tailor who arrived in NYC settle in Concordia unless he knew someone there. If he was a younger brother, this would suggest that Marie’s family remained in Germany after she left.



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:00 pm    Post subject: Gerberding/Langkraehr Connection Reply with quote

As noted above, a tailor by the name of Henry Gerberding also lived in the Concordia area. There is an interesting connection between Henry and the Langkraehr family.

Henry Gerberding did not die until 1907; so his name should appear in the 1900 federal census records. An excerpt of the entry for Freedom Township, sheet 11 is shown below.



He is listed as the step-father of “Henry Langrar”. (Note that the spelling and handwriting of census enumerator William Walkenhorst was very poor in those records.) Henry Gerberding’s age is listed as 77 (but the year of birth is off by 10 years) and his occupation is given as a retired farmer. Apparently, he also did farming in addition to being a tailor. He declared that he came to the U.S. in 1858. This is close to the date when the Ceder arrived in NYC as noted in the early posting above. He either didn’t remember the exact date or was possibly referring to when he arrived in Missouri.

The name of his son-in-law was a bit confusing but was finally resolved to be Henry Langkraehr. The wife Anna and children Louis, Emma, and Martha match that family. So it appears that Henry Gerberding married Henry Langkraehr’s mother. As noted above, the 1870 census shows him married to “Lotte” with a 19 year old son Henry. The following details how I was able to trace this relationship.

The key records were the tombstone inscriptions for St. John Cemetery as found in the St. John Records listed in Vol. 6 of Marty Brunetti's Tombstone Inscriptions of Lafayette County, Missouri. The following are all of the entries in that file relating to the Gerberdings and Langkraehrs during that period of time in the order they are listed. (Several of the death records are duplicates of the tombstone inscriptions.)



[Note. After reviewing the St. John Church funeral records, it was noted that there is no entry for a "Louise Gerberding". Instead, they show the death of a “Louise Gehring”, wife of Herman, with same date of death and age as shown above. So the last name was transcribed incorrectly. There apparently was no Louise Gerberding living in the area.]

The second entry indicates that Heinrich Gerberding had married Charlotte (nee Mahler) who was the widow of a Langkraehr.

Other entries can be found in the St. John Church records. There are two related baptisms to children of Deke and Charlotte (nee Mahler) Langkrehr, namely Dorethea Emma (b. Apr. 20, 1854) and Heinrich Friedrich (b. Mar. 11, 1858). The confirmation records show a Friedrich Langkraehr confirmed in 1873. The marriage records show Heinrich Langkraehr marrying Anna Droege on Feb. 19, 1875. Finally, the funeral records list the following. The entries for the deaths of Heinrich and Charlotte Gerberding match those shown above. In addition, a child of the Gerberdings is listed as having died in 1870.

There are several related entries in the St. Paul’s Church records. Louis Gerberding was baptized on Jul. 23, 1865. Heinrich Langkraehr was confirmed there in 1865.

Searching the Missouri death records, one can find the death certificate for Henry Langkrahr, who died July 17, 1938. It lists his birth on Nov. 2, 1850 in St. Louis. His parents are listed as Dietrich Langkrahr and Charlotte Mahler.

Finally, the Bureau of Land Management records were searched and the entry shown below was located. Note that the patent is for 80 acres of land being the North half of the Northeast quarter of Township 49N, Range 24W, Section 36. This is the lower half of the Heinrich Langkraehr farm shown in the 1897 plat map of Freedom Township. It is about a mile north of Emma, MO just south of Davis Creek. While the patent was officially filed in Washington, DC on Jan 15, 1856, these filings were generally a year or two after the actual purchase. So, Deke (or Dietrich) Langkraehr probably purchased the land during 1854.



Given all of this information along with the 1870 census information in the earlier posting, one can finally piece together the connection between the Gerberdings and the Langkraehrs.

Dietrich (“Deke”) Langkraehr and his wife Charlotte (born Mahler in Abbensen, Germany) had immigrated to the U.S. by 1850 when they were living in St. Louis, MO and their oldest son Heinrich was born there. Within a few years (at least by early 1854), they moved to the Concordia area, where Dietrich bought 80 acres of land just north of Emma, MO. There they had a daughter Dorethea Emma in April of 1854 and another son Heinrich “Friedrich” (a.k.a. Fritz) in March of 1858.

In November of 1857, Heinrich Gerberding arrived in New York City. It is not known how and when he traveled to Concordia, MO. He was not found in the 1860 census records. Sometime between 1858 and 1870, Dietrich Langkraehr died and Heinrich Gerberding married his widow Charlotte. Since Louis Gerberding was born in the summer of 1865, this marriage must have occurred by 1864.

The 1870 census records then match the combined Gerberding/Langkraehr family. Henry and Fritz were the sons of Dietrich Langkraehr. Dorothea Emma is not listed in the family, so she may have died by then (although it is possible that she was working for another family). The youngest son Louis was the child of Henry and Charlotte Gerberding. The inscription on the St. John cemetery tombstones list the death of a “Luis” Gerberding in August of 1870, just two months after the census enumeration. There are several inconsistencies with the transcription of this tombstone, in that the age is listed as 3 years and the mother as “Louise”. However, the age may be a typographical error (it should have been five if Louis was baptized in 1865). [The church funeral records simply list a death of the "son of Gerbeding" with no first name or date.] The tombstone lists him as "sohn H & L". (Henry's wife Charlotte was commonly known as Lotta.) The transcriber apparently assumed that the name of Henry's wife was Louise.

In 1870, the Henry Gerberding family was living on the Langkraehr farm, although he still listed his occupation as a tailor. Some time before 1880, Henry Langkraehr appears to have taken over the family farm and Henry and Charlotte Gerberding moved into the town of Concordia where Henry continued his tailoring practice. Fritz Langkraehr was furniture salesman living in Alma, MO in 1880 and a bottler living in Higginsville by 1900.

After Charlotte died in 1899, Henry moved back to the Langkraehr farm living with his step-son’s family until he died in 1907.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:22 pm    Post subject: Another Catharine Marie Dorothee Gerberding Reply with quote

When scanning the Niedersachen State Archives, I came across several entries (Hann. 74 Burgwedel Nr. 1480 and Hann. 80 Lüneburg Nr. 467/1) which list the following:

Johann Heinrich Conrad De(e)ke, Meitze, wife Catharine Marie Dorothee, nee Gerberding, along with son Heinrich August (born 25 May 1839) and 3 other children emigrated to America in 1845.

What is interesting is that the wife’s name is exactly the same as Conrad Stuenkel’s wife. The family emigrated from Meitze, Germany, the same village that Conrad’s wife listed as her previous home.

The marriage records of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Concordia, MO list Catherine Dorathea Deke marrying Johann Phillip Flandermeyer on 5 Feb 1847. So the Deke family came to Concordia, but Johann Heinrich Deke apparently died before 1847. No death record could be found for Johann Heinrich because St. Paul’s Church only kept baptismal records until the arrival of Pastor Franke in 1847.

Family 1253 in the 1850 census records for District 46 of Lafayette County (which includes Freedom Township) lists a 'Philip Flannemier', with wife 'Dorthy', and children including two Henrys (16 and 11 years old), William (10 years old) and Christina (4 years old). This appears to be the Philip Flandermeier family based on the age similarities to the following census.

The Freedom Township 1860 census, pg 26, lists 57 year old Philip Flandermeier with 55 year old wife Charlotte(?), children 21 year old Henry Daka (Deke?), 13 year old Christina Daka (Deke?) and 20 year old Wm. Flandermeier. 25 year old Henry Flandermeier and his wife Charlotte [Frerking] were living next door. (Wm. and Henry were apparently children from Phillip’s previous marriage.) Although the name of Philip’s wife does not match, but it probably was Catharine. No record of Johann Philip Flandermeyer’s death was found (but it must have been before 1870 because of the census record cited in the next paragraph).

Son Henry married Marie Frerking on 21 Mar 1862 with whom he had four children; Adolph, Anna, William, and Berta. (Interestingly, the St. Paul’s Church marriage records list Henry as the “stepson of Ph. Flandermeier”.) The 1870 census shows his 63 year old mother (listed as Dorothea Deke) and a 23 year old Christina Deke (his sister) living with the family. Mother Catharina Dorothea Deke Flandermeyer died on 9 Jan 1872 and wife Marie died the same year on 18 June. Henry then married Marie’s cousin Louise Frerking on 4 Apr 1873 with whom he had three more children; Gus, Henry, and Edwin. [Note. Louise was the sister of Charlotte, the wife of Henry’s step-brother Henry Flandermeier.] The 1880 census lists Henry and Louise and the seven children. Wife Louise then died on 11 Nov 1881 after which Henry married widow Sophie Hartman Franke on 9 Feb 1891. The 1900 census lists Henry living with his third wife Sophia, sons Henry and Emil (born Dec 1891), sister Christina, and step-daughter Flora Franke. The 1910 census shows Henry still living with his wife Sophia, son Emil, and sister Christina. Henry died on 4 Dec 1918.

A Deke/Gerberding family tree is posted by Steven Bruer at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/r/u/Steven-M-Bruer/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0336.html. In it, Catherine’s birth date listed as 15 Dec 1806. Note that this date is fairly consistent with the census records above but earlier than Conrad Stuenkel’s wife. It lists her parents as ‘John Friedrich Gerberding’ and ‘Katherin Margarete Bruns’ which appear to be the same as those of Conrad’s wife. I have been unable to determine the sources used for the information posted in this family tree. Could it be possible that they were sisters with the same given names? I have seen other cases where a family had children with the same given names but were known by a different one of their christened names during their lives. If this were the case, Conrad Stuenkel's wife immigrated to the U.S. earlier while still single, while the other Catharina Marie Dorothea married Johann Deke back in Germany and immigrated later.
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