Fiegenbaum, Johann Heinrich

Male 1791 - 1847  (56 years)


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  • Name Fiegenbaum, Johann Heinrich 
    Born 24 Mar 1791  Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Died 3 Jul 1847  Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I220  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2010 

    Father Fiegenbaum, Hermann Heinrich,   b. 2 Sep 1764, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Mar 1829, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Horstmeier, Anna Christine Katharina,   b. 21 Oct 1759, Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Jan 1830, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 20 Nov 1785  Lienen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

    •      The newly married couple lived in the Horstmeier Heuerhaus located in Bauerschaft Holperdorp, a section of the town of Lienen. Their first child was born there. It would appear that within a few years the family had moved. The couple's second child was born in the nearby village of Ladbergen. By 1800, the family had built a house at Ladbergen-Wester 21, located in the section of the village know as "In der Laake." Hermann died in this home in 1829 and Anna passed a year later. In 1840, the house was sold. It may be that some of the proceeds from this sale helped finance Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum's family emigration to the USA in 1841.
           In addition to being a carpenter or house builder, Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum was a Heuerling or tenant farmer. Tenant farmers were low on the social scale in Ladbergen at the time. "They owned no land, and they lived in rented houses on larger farms. Every large or middle-sized farm in Ladbergen had one or more tenant houses (in German: Heuerhäuser) scattered over the farm. The highest number on any farm in Ladbergen was seven; two or three was common. Each tenant farm house had its own plot of 7 to 12 acres. The tenants rented the houses and plots for life. The tenant farmers were not the same as sharecroppers or rental farmers in the American sense. They had only a small plot to themselves, and they did not need to give any of the yield to the landowner. They were essentially renters of houses who paid for their dwellings with a small amount of cash and a specified number of days of labor. In the 19th century the tenants were typically relatives of the landowners, but this was decreasingly the case after the turn of the century."
    Family ID F8  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Lagemann, Anna Elisabeth,   b. 8 Mar 1788, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1831, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Married Abt 1818  Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    • Three children were born to this couple.
    Children 
    +1. Fiegenbaum, Christine Maria,   b. 17 Apr 1824, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Feb 1881, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     2. Fiegenbaum, Anna Catharine Elizabeth,   b. Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F87  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Stork, Christine Elisabeth,   b. 7 May 1791, Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Apr 1867, Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 17 Feb 1832  [12
    • One son was born to this marriage.
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F1134  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 24 Mar 1791 - Ladbergen, Grafschaft Tecklenburg Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Abt 1818 - Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 3 Jul 1847 - Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1] Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research.
      Johann Henrich Fiegenbaum; born 24 March 1791.

    2. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 5, 7.
      Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum, child of Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Christine Katharina Horstmeier, was born 24 March 1791 at Ladbergen, Westphalia, Germany.

    3. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), pages 5, 7.
      Johann Hermann Fiegenbaum died 3 July 1847 at Lagbergen, Westphalia, Germany.

    4. [S4] Lieselotte (Freese) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research, Letter of September 1981 to Jane (Fiegenbaum) Paget; page 3.
      "About the parents of Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum I could find out the following particulars: [here Lieselotte Fiegenbaum included birth information for Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Catherina Fiegenbaum née Horstmeier].
           "They [Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Catherina Fiegenbaum née Horstmeier] were married on 20th November 1785.
           "They lived in Lienen-Holperdorp in the 'Heuerhaus' Horstmeier. (Heuerhaus: A smaller house standing on the ground of the farm and belonging to it. The tenant-farmer livining therein had to pay the rent partially in work.)"
           On page 1 of the letter, Lieselotte had included additional information about this couple:
           "Hendrik Fiegenbaum and his wife, née Horstmeier - the parents of J.H. Fiegenbaum - most probably bought some ground were [sic] upon they built their house which received the number 21, which means it was the 21st house built in Wester. In the year 1840 the house was sold. In 1865 a Fiegenbaum took over the number 21 for his newly built house. This property of Hendrich (which is equal to Hendrik) is already mentioned as Wester 21 during the year 1800.
           "About this fact I have to ask for some further information at the Münster Record Office. As soon as possible I shall give you the correct information about that."

    5. [S1] Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research.
      Hermann Henrich [sic] Fiegenbaum and Anna Christine Katharina Horstmeier were married on 20 November 1785 in Lienen.
           In a letter dated 15 September 1996 to J. W. Fiegenbaum, Hermand wrote: "That couple Fiegenbaum-Horstmeier had seven children, one son died as infant, one son and two sisters stayed in Ladbergen. They built or bought a house near village Ladbergen called 'In der Laake'. That house isn't but I saw the plot of land, last year it was a big cornfield. He was a carpenter like the sons. He died in this house on March 11. 1829. He had water dropsy and need a doctor. So is it written in the church record."

    6. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 4.
      Hermann Hendrick Fiegenbaum and Anna Christine Katharina Horstmeier were married 20 november 1785 at Lienen, Westphalia, Germany.

    7. [S230] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Germany Vital Records Index" in FamilySearch Record Search—Pilot Site at (http://pilot.familysearch.org/).
      Accessed on 10 October 2010. Index entries compiled from "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898," a FamilySearch database; data derived from: Evangelische Kirche Lienen (Kreis Tecklenburg). Kirchenbuch, 1711-1908. Family History Library Film 526268: "Heiraten, Tote 1733-1798 - Taufen 1779-1802." Salt Lake City, Utah: The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1967. Indexing Project (Batch) Number C95402-3. Original records in Evangelisches Landeskirchenamt, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany.
           Everd Jacob Wilhelm Fiegenbaum, son of Herman Hinderich Fiegenbaum and Anna Catharina Horstmeyer; born 2 June 1786; baptized 11 June 1786 at "Evangelisch, Lienen, Westfalen, Prussia."

    8. [S104] Personal communication, Letter from Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum on 15 September 1996 to J. W. Fiegenbaum.
      "This Fiegenbaum, father from Adolph, was Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum, born Sept. 2. 1764 in Ladbergen. His wife was Anna Christien [sic] Katharina Horstmeier from Lienen. That is a little village near by."

    9. [S1] Hermanda (Lagemann) Fiegenbaum, Genealogical research.
      In a letter to J. W. Fiegenbaum dated 15 September 1996, Hermanda wrote: "He was a carpenter like the sons."

    10. [S8] 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), pages xxii-xxvi.
      "Land Ownership" (section 4) in the Preface. The quote on tenant farmers (Heuerlinge) was taken from page xxiii.

    11. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 7.
      Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum and Anna Elisabeth Lagemann were married about 1818 at Ladbergen, Westphalia, Germany. This marriage produced three children.

    12. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 7.
      Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum and Christine Elisabeth Stork were married 17 February 1832. No place given. This marriage produced one child, a son.