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Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum

 
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Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum
1823 - 1898

 

Hermann was born in Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, a small community about mid-way between Münster and Osnabrück. He emigrated from Ladbergen at the age of 18, travelling with his father, Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum, his mother, Catherina Elsabein (Hagen) Fiegenbaum, and his unmarried sister, Christina Elisabeth Fiegenbaum. His family was accompanied by two other, related families. His married sister, Anna Elisabeth (Fiegenbaum) Aufderhaar, her husband, Johann Aufderhaar and their three oldest children also made the voyage. The other family was that of his other married sister, Anna Christine (Fiegenbaum) Bierbaum, her husband, Johann Bierbaum, their child and her sister-in-law, Sophia Bierbaum. In all, 13 members of this extended family left Ladbergen together in 1841. By 1843, when Hermann's older brother, Heinrich, emigrated, the entire family had left Germany.

The three families voyaged on the bark Leontine, departing from Bremen, Germany and arriving in the port of Balitimore, Maryland on 28 June 1841. The passenger list shows that of the 102 persons aboard, more than half were from Ladbergen or nearby villages.

Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum Family - passenger list, Baltimore, 1841

The Fiegenbaum family settled on a farm in Warren County, Missouri, where they were members of the German church at Holstein, Missouri. It was here that Hermann and Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte Wehrmann were married and all of their 12 children were born.

At some point between 1880 and 1890, Hermann and Florentine moved their family to Lafayette County, Missouri and settled in the neighborhood of Mayview and Higginsville.

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Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte Wehrmann's family

Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum and Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte Wehrmann were married on 18 February 1853 in Warren County, Missouri, USA. The marriage was recorded in the archives of the Evangelical Church on Charrette in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). Wilhelm Steineker and Ernst Büscher were witnesses (Ernst was also a witness at the marriage of Florentine's sister, Friedricke, about one month earlier).

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