Great Great Grandparents

My Sixteen

Listing our 16 great great-grandparents was started by Kirsi Dahl on her post after Mightier Acorn listed his on Family Reunions post.

Here are mine:

Eilert HEYENS BALTJENS

Birth: abt 1777 in Germany

Death: 1843 in Neuscharrel, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Regina Haÿens EILERS SCHMIDT

Birth: 1788 in  Neuscharrel, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Death: 1828 in Neuscharrel, Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany.

There is some debate about the Schmidt name, although it’s listed in their children’s birth records.

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Gerd Heinrich MEYER

Birth: 1789 in Lengerich, Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany.

He immigrated to the US in 1853 and possibly died in Evansville, Indiana

Maria Elizabeth KAISER

Birth: 1791 in Südmerzen, Osnabruck, Lower Saxony, Germany

Death: 1851 in Bottum, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Michael MAGIN

Birth: 1802 in Ruchheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Death 1885 in Saint Wendel, Indiana

Susanna WEIBEL

Birth: 1802 in Laumersheim, Rheiland-Palatine, Germany

Death:1865 in Saint Wendel, Indiana

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John SCHATZ

Birth: 1827 in Büchenbach, Bayreuth, Bayern, Germany

Death: 1905 in Fulda, Indiana

Margaretha HERZING

Birth: 1828 in Hohenmirsberg, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany

Death: 1904 in Fulda, Indiana

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Louis J DEYSS

Birth: 1840 in Rechtenbach, Main-Spessart, Bavaria, Germany

Death: 1917 in Evansville, Indiana

Eva Maria BAYER

Birth: 1843 in Royaume, de, Baviere, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France

Death: 1912 in Evansville, Indiana

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George K HAAG

Birth: 1810 in Goecklingen, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany

Death: 1859 in Evansville, Indiana

Catharina BURK

Birth: 1817 in Arzheim, Plalz, Bavaria, Germany

Death:1895 in Evansville, Indiana

I wrote about her in this post.

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Friedrich DEWIG

Birth:1823 in Ruccheim, Rheinland, Bayern, Bavaria, Germany

Death: 1899 in Evansville, Indiana

Margaret FREIHAUT

Birth: 1832 in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany

Death: 1888 in Evansville, Indiana

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Last but not least is my brick wall. The only information I have on them is their name, which is listed on the church marriage record of their son, John Simpson (my great-grandfather). According to John’s census records, they were both born in Pennsylvania. John came to Indiana from Pittsburgh, PA, with an unrelated family when he was 10. Lucia’s surname could be spelled wrong. I’ve looked at all spellings, including Winchell, but had no luck. There is no birth verification on John except for census records that place him born between 1828 and 1833. I have no DNA that matches this line.

Richard SIMPSON

Birth: abt 1800 in Pennsylvania

Lucia Elizabeth  WUNSCHULD

 Birth: abt 1800 in Pennsylvania

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It’s interesting that my brick wall is the one where they are born in the US!

That’s my family - my sixteen!