KarensGen.Com - Families - Johann Heinrich Christoph Korthauer (*1807) and Engel Maria Sophia Duhlmeyer (1803) and sons from Ohndorf, Germany to America.

Updated October 2006

Johann Heinrich Christoph Korthauer
Born: 10 AUG 1807 in: Ohndorf #27, Schaumburg, Germany 1
Baptized: 16 AUG 1807 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Baptism sponsor: Johann Conrad Rorsen Ohndorf #16.
Died: AFT 1838 in: America 3
Buried: in:
Occupation.: Tageloehner Mauer (brick)
Father: Harm Christoph Korthauer (*14 JUL 1769 twin - 02 JAN 1824 son of Johann HEINRICH Korthauer 1738-1772)
Mother: Ilsa Maria Tegtmeyer (*ca 1770 Idensen - 24 JUN 1828 ?married at Idensen)

Schaumburger Auswanderer #1478: Korthauer, Ohndorf, Maurer, mit Sohn uber 14J. ohne Verm. nach Amerika 1853 (StA M 16 II 14 Nr. 23 Bd. 2 S. 9)

Schaumburger Auswanderer #2678: Korthauer, Johann Heinrich Christoph, Ohndorf Nr. 27, geb. 1809, verh., mit Sohnen Johann Otto Christoph, geb. 17.1.1836, u. Hans Heinrich, geb. 10.1.1838, nach Amerika, 11.4.1859. Wochenbl. (weekly newspaper) 1859 S. 110; Kb. Hohnhorst Seelenliste S. 137, Seelenliste Ohndorf Nr. 26.

There is a death in the Zion Lutheran Sollitt, Kankakee Co., IL records of a Heinrich Korthauer died 07 OCT 1877, no age given?

Engel Maria Sophia Duhlmeyer
Married: 04 NOV 1832 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 4
Born: 05 JAN 1803 in: Ohndorf #42, Schaumburg, Germany 1
Baptism sponsor: Engel Maria Laeseke Ohndorf #3.
Baptized: 09 JAN 1803 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Died: AFT 1838 in: America
Buried: in:
Father: Hans Heinrich Duhlmeyer (1768-1845) from Ohndorf #42, son of Hans Heinrich Duhlmeyer and Engel Maria Hattendorf.
Mother: Engel Maria Blomberg (1773-1855) from Ohndorf #31 married 12 FEB 1796 at Hohnhorst daughter of Johann Heinrich Blomberg and Anna Eleonora Meyer.

Her brother Hans Heinrich Duhlmeyer (*1798) also immigrated.

1807 Hohnhorst Baptism

1803 Hohnhorst Baptism

1832 Hohnhorst Marriage

3 known children of Heinrich Christoph Korthauer and Engel Duhlmeyer

1 Hans Heinrich Korthauer
Born: 03 MAR 1833 in: Ohndorf #27, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 08 MAR 1833 in: Martin Church of Hohnhorst, Germany 2
Baptism sponsor: des Kindes Grossvater Harm Christoph Korthauer... der Mutter Bruder Johann Heinrich August Dulmeier aus Ohndorf #42. Note in this baptism record that his parents were married 04 NOV 1832.
Died: in:
Buried: in:

2 Johann Otto Christoph Korthauer
Born: 17 JAN 1836 in: Ohndorf #27, Schaumburg, Germany 5
Baptized: in:
Died: 27 NOV 1880 in: Beecher, Will Co., IL 3
Buried: in: St. Paul Lutheran, Beecher, Will Co., IL 6
Spouse: Louise Seemann
Born: 12 SEP 1845 Hanover, Germany
Died: 05 DEC 1920 Beecher, Will Co., IL
Married: in:

3 Hans Heinrich HENRY Korthauer
Born: 10 JAN 1838 in: Ohndorf #27, Schaumburg, Germany 5
Baptized: in:
Died: __ JUN 1893 in: Wells, Faribault Co., MN
Buried: in: Rose Hill Cemetery, Wells, MN
Spouse: ENGEL Maria Schaber? Schafer? Scheyer? Schaper? Schermer?
Born: ABT 1845
Died: between 1883-1885
Married: 21 JUN 1868 in: Trinity Lutheran, Crete, Will Co., IL 3
Spouse: Sabine Sommer, widow of Devrick Gathman.
Married 29 JUN 1885 Kankakee Co., IL 3

... Her last name, "Schaber" comes from the baptismal records of her children, but it appears, in the clearest readings to have been transcribed from earlier records. Henry and Engel were married on 21 June 1868, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete, Illinois. In that record the best reading of her name is "Scheyer".
...Henry Korthauer's traditional date of birth was 10 JAN 1838... the date also found in the Schaumburger Auswanderer book
...Korthauer families in the US. My family which I label the Will County Korthauers who settled around Grant Park, Beecher and Crete, Illinois; the Bensenville Korthauers, a very prominent family that settled in Addison Twp, DuPage County and Bensenville, Illinois; and the Texas Korthauers who settled near Rehburg, east of Austin, Texas. Both the Bensenville Korthauers and the Texas Korthauers came from the area a few miles west of Hannover, from villages that lie within a 25 mile NW to SE corridore beginning at Steinhuder Meer and extending through Ohndorf. The Bensenville clan came from Osterwalde and the Texas clan from Rehburg (in Germany) and around the lake. I have always believed they were related, but it wasn't until I found Wilhelm Korthauer, from Osterwalde, and his son, Erasmus Korthauer, who married into Ohndorf to start my line there, that I have no doubt that the Ohndorf and Osterwalde clans (the Will county and Bensenville clans respectively) are related....Gary Mischke

Sources:
1 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany CONFIRMATION records.
2 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany BAPTISM records.
3 Information from Gary Mischke.
4 St. Martin Church, Hohnhorst, Schaumburg, Germany MARRIAGE records.
5 Information from Gary Mischke; Ohndorf-700 Years 1289-1989 by Heinrich Munk.
6 Beecher Cemetery Readings, Will Co., IL Compiled by W.L. Eilrich, Sept. 1992.