KarensGen.Com - Families - Friedrich Gottlieb Luecke (1800-1852) and Henriette Meyer (1822) from Segelhorst and Deckbergen, Germany to Crete, Will Co., IL

Updated December 2006

Friedrich Gottlieb Luecke
Born: 23 AUG 1800 in: Segelhorst, Germany 1
Baptized: 31 AUG 1800 in: Marien Church of Segelhorst, Germany 2
Died: 15 OCT 1852 in: Crete, Will Co., IL 3
Buried: in:
Occupation/Residence: Zimmermann (Carpenter)
Father: Johann Conrad Luecke (1778-1840) from Grossenweiden, Germany
Mother: Dorothea Louise Buddensieck (1771-1845) from Segelhorst, Germany

Sophia HENRIETTE Elisabeth Meyer
Married: 21 FEB 1822 in: Segelhorst, Germany
Born: 06 JUN 1803 in: Deckbergen #2, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: in: St. Petri Church, Deckbergen, Germany
Died: AFT 1844 in:
Buried: in:
Father: Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer (1756-1807) from Deckbergen, Germany
Mother: Friederieke Louise Gelis (1762-1818)

How is this family related?

Friedrich Luecke
Born: 31 DEC 1836 Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 18 NOV 1883 St. Johns Eagle Lake Cemetery, Beecher, Will Co., IL
Married: 26 APR 1860
Friederica Grupe
(she later married 1887 to Heinrich Conrad Christoph Rust from Idensen).
Born: 30 OCT 1840 Germany
Died: 18 SEP 1925 Crete, Will Co., IL

Luecke-Grupe children:
1. Scharlotte Justine SOPHIA Luecke 10 JAN 1861 - 02 AUG 1926 married 1881 Johann JOHN Roth.
2. Friedrich Chr. Joh. Ernst Luecke 09 MAR 1863
3. Sophia CAROLINE Luecke 18 DEC 1865 - 10 MAY 1935 married 1887 Heinrich Wilhelm Bruns.
4. Heinrich HENRY Ferdinand Chr. Luecke 24 MAR 1868 - 13 APR 1950 married 1893 Sophia Wehmhoefer, daughter of Wilhelm Wehmhoeffer.
5. ANNA Maria Luecke 25 JUN 1870 - 19 SEP 1940 married 1890 Heinrich Christian WILHELM Bruns.
6. Emma Anna Luecke 02 NOV 1873 - 11 JUN 1952 married 1898 Wilhelm Brands.
7. Engel Maria MARY Luecke 12 NOV 1876 - 18 MAY 1951 married 1903 Wilhelm F. Koelling (Riverside Lawn/Chicago).

How is this family related?

Heinrich Wilhelm Luecke
Born: __ JAN 1852 Segelhorst, Schaumburg, Germany
Died:
Son of ???
Sophia Wilhelmine Frederike Louise Wilkening
Born:09 JUN 1854 Ostendorf, Ksp. Deckbergen, Germany
Died:
Daughter of ???

Luecke-Wilkening known children:
1. Heinrich Wilhelm Luecke 18 DEC 1873 - 11 APR 1916;
married 1893 Caroline Koelle Faribault, Rice Co., MN.
2. Friedrich FRITZ Luecke 23 OCT 1876
3. Caroline Sophia Frederike Luecke 26 AUG 1883

How is she related?

Sophia Louise Luecke was born 01 APR 1834 at Obernkirchen?, Kr. Schaumburg, Germany, daughter of ???. She married 13 NOV 1852 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete, Will Co., IL to Christoph Heinrich Scheiwe (1827-1902) from Helsinghausen #21, Schaumburg, Germany. They are buried at Eagle Lake St. John's Cemetery, Beecher, Will Co., IL.

How is this family related?

Ernst and Sophia (SURNAME) Luecke of Rehren, Germany (not found in Hohnhorst records) had two children who immigrated:
1. Charlotte Luecke 29 JAN 1829 - 18 APR 1918 married 15 NOV 1850 in Cook Co., IL to Friedrich Nacke from Landringhausen. They are buried at Crete, Will Co., IL.
2. Heinrich Chr. Luecke 08 OCT 1830 - 05 SEP 1895 married 28 JUL 1855 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete, Will Co., IL to Sophia Justine Huckemeyer (27 MAY 1837 - 08 OCT/SEP 1916) from Bergkirchen.

Luecke-Meyer children

1 Friederike Henriette Luecke
Born: 25 DEC 1823 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: in:
Died: in:
Buried: in:

2 Friedrich Conrad Luecke
Born: 31 FEB 1824 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 06 JUN 1828 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany

3 Caroline Wilhelmine Henriette Luecke
Born: 08 MAR 1827 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 06 NOV 1827 in: Segelhorst, Schaumburg, Germany

4 Wilhelm AUGUST Luecke
Born: 04 OCT 1828 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 19 OCT 1828 in: Marien Church of Segelhorst, Germany
Died: 14 OCT 1893 in: Woodworth, Iroquois Co., IL
Buried: in: St. Paul Luth. Cemetery, Woodworth, IL
Spouse: Anna SOPHIA Caroline Hue
Born: 19 APR 1832 from Reinsen #4, Germany
Died: 20 AUG 1902 Woodworth, Iroquois Co., IL
Daughter of Heinrich Christoph Hue and Engel Sophia Caroline Meyer.
Sister to Friedrich Conrad Hue of Beecher, IL.
Married: 23 JUL 1852 in: Trinity Luth. Ch., Crete, Will Co., IL 4
1880 Census: Ash Grove Twp., Iroquois Co., IL.

5 DOROTHEA Louise Wilhelmine Luecke
Born: 12 AUG 1831 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany 5
Baptized: in:
Died: 14 SEP 1895 in: Hanover Twp., Lake Co., IN 6
Buried: 16 SEP 1895 in: Zion UCC Cemetery, Dyer, Lake Co., IN 7
Spouse: Johann Elting
Born: 10 DEC 1825 Menslage, Quakenbruch, Hannover, Germany
Died: 04 MAY 1867 Hanover Twp., Lake Co., IN
Son of Gehrhardt Elting (01 FEB 1794 - 24 JUL 1863)
Married: BEF 1854 in:
Spouse: Theodore Becker
Born: 25 OCT 1842 Grimmen, Germany
Died: 26 JUL 1926 Crete, IL
Son of Christian Becker (1807-1881) and Maria Reppenhagen (1817-1896)
Married: 31 MAY 1868 in: Zion UCC, Dyer, Lake Co., IN 8
Elting descendents lived at Davenport, NE

6 Henriette Caroline CHARLOTTE Luecke
Born: 22 SEP 1834 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany 2
Baptized: 27 SEP 1834 in: Marien Church of Segelhorst, Germany
Died: 03 OCT 1911 in: Beecher, Will Co., IL 9
Buried: in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL
Spouse: Christian Ludwig Tegtmeyer
Married: 22 AUG 1855 in: Trinity Luth. Ch., Crete, Will Co., IL 4
Immigration 1859 per Schaumburger Auswanderer #2807.

7 Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Luecke
Born: 13 MAY 1837 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 12 JUL 1837 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Buried: 16 JUL 1837 in: Segelhorst, Schaumburg, Germany

8 Heinrich FRIEDRICH Luecke
Born: 19 NOV 1838 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany 10
Baptized: in:
Died: 09 OCT 1900 in: Will Co., IL 9
Buried: in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL
Occupation: Shoemaker
Spouse: Caroline MARIA Sophia Bahlmann
Born: 16 APR 1842 Beckedorf #61, Germany
Died: 13 JUN 1876 Beecher, IL
Daughter of Heinrich Bahlmann and Engel Maria Meyer
Married: 25 NOV 1860 in: Zion UCC, Dyer, Lake Co., IN 8
Spouse: Sophia ENGEL Schreck
Born: 10 JUN 1858 Hessen, Germany
Died: 11 FEB 1922 Will Co., IL
Daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm Schreck of Kreuzriehe #17, Germany and Engel Maria SOPHIA Scheive from Helsinghausen #21, Germany
Married: 12 MAR 1877 in: Eagle Lake St. Johns, Beecher Will Co IL 11
1862-1863 Washington Township, Will Co., IL Militia Roll.
1865 Census Washington Township, Will Co., IL 3 sons under age 10.
Moved to Iroquois County, IL in 1880.
1920 Census: Washington Twp., Will Co., IL.
1860 Zion UCC marriage records place of residences from Stuhe, Oldenburg.

9 Louise Charlotte Henriette Luecke
Born: 20 MAY 1841 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany 1
Baptized: in:
Died: AFT 1860 in: America
Buried: in:
To America 1860: Schaumburger Auswanderer #2807.
There is a marriage in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete, IL records of a Louise Luecke of Segelhorst and Friedrich Luhmann of Bachehausen, Prussia, in 1859. A son Carl August Luhmann born 23 FEB 1860; baptized 18 MAR 1860 Crete.

10 Ernst Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Luecke
Born: 05 MAR 1844 in: Segelhorst #18, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: in:
Died: in: America
Buried: in:

Sources:
1 Schaumburg Auswanderer 1820-1914, by Heinrich Rieckenberg, Rinteln, Germany.
2 Information from Angelika Schierhoelter, Schaumburg, Germany
3 Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete, Will Co., IL Death Records.
4 Trinity Lutheran Church, Crete, Will Co., IL Marriage Records.
5 Approximate birthdate calculated from age at death.
6 Zion UCC, Dyer, Hanover Twp., Lake Co., IN Death Register.
7 So Great a Cloud of Witnesses, The People of Zion Church, Hanover Twp.,
Lake County, Indiana by Rev. David McDonald 1996.
8 Zion UCC, Dyer, Hanover Twp., Lake Co., IN Marriage Records.
9 Beecher Cemetery Readings, Will Co., IL Compiled by W.L. Eilrich, Sept. 1992.
10 Information from Susan (Scheiwe) Keevan
11 St. Johns Luth. Church Eagle Lake, Beecher, Will Co., IL Marriage Records.