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Another Catharine Marie Dorothee Gerberding

 
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:23 am    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’s name 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 the parents 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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