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Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte (Wehrmann) Fiegenbaum

 
photo of Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte (Wehrmann) Fiegenbaum
Missouri; date?
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Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte (Wehrmann) Fiegenbaum
1834 - 1903

Florentine, as she was known, was born in Almena, Principality of Lippe (in northwestern Germany). At about the age of 17, she; her father; her step-mother, Wilhelmine (nee Meier); her brother, Conrad Heinrich Adolph Wehrmann; her sister, Friederike Henriette Wehrmann; and her half-sister, Dorothea Charlotte Wehrmann; emigrated from Germany. The family departed Bremen aboard the ship Rebecca and landed in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 4, 1851. They settled in eastern Missouri.

In 1853, Florentine married Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum and became the mother of 12 children. Records of the marriage, of the births, baptisms and also some deaths of her children are recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Church on Charrette at Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA.

At some time between 1880 and 1890, Florentine and Hermann moved their family to Lafayette County, Missouri, where they were members of Zion Church in Mayview.

 

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Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum'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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