KarensGen.Com - Families - Heinrich Christoph Rohlwing (1798-1872) and Eleonore Gellermann (1826-1831) from Apelern and Schoholtensen, Germany to America.

Johann Heinrich CHRISTOPH Rohlwing
Born: __ NOV 1798 Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 15 NOV 1798 Apelern, Amt. Rodenberg, Landkreis Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 25 JUL 1872 MN
Buried: St. John UCC Cemetery, Rice Co., MN
Father: Heinrich Rohlwing from Dankerson, Germany
Mother: Maria Louise Meyer 1767-1828 from Wiersen, Germany

#1 Wife: Hanna Wilhelmine Eleonore Gellermann
Married: 01 JAN 1826 Apelern, Amt. Rodenberg, Landkreis Schaumburg, Germany
Born: 20 SEP 1801 Schoholtensen #8, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized:
Died: 15 AUG 1853
Buried: St. Peter Luth. Cem., Schaumburg, IL
Father:
Mother:

Wife #2 Engel Maria Dorothea Margarethe Homeyer
Married: Germany? (There is no marriage or proclamation in the church at Bergkirchen).
Born: 05 NOV 1812 Winzlar #43, Bergkirchen, Sch.Lippe, Germany
Baptized: 08 AUG 1812 Bergkirchen, Sch. Lippe, Germany
Died: 12 AUG 1882 MN
Buried:
Father: Johann Heinrich Philipp Homeyer vulgo Struckmeyer
Mother: Anna Ilse Maria Widdel

Engel Homeyer had a brother and sister who also immigrated to America (Palatine and Chicago, IL).

Baptism sponsors: Anton Heinrich Philipp Widdels Nr. 3, Harm Heinrich
Friedrich Hasemanns Winzlar #19, Johann Dieterich Wilkenings ehefrau Winzlar #52,
Johann Heinrich Fischers witwe Nr. 32 und Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Hoegrefen
ehefrau Nr. 15 daselbst (Information courtesy of Alexandra Blume).

She was previously married to Johann Hermann Heinrich Abelmann.
Married: 11 OCT 1833 Bergkirchen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany
Born: 10 JAN 1802 Winzlar #44 Died: 25 APR 1853 Winzlar #53
Son of Johann Heinrich Abelmann and Anna Engel Hartmann.
Children of Joh. Hermann Heinrich Abelmann and Engel Homeyer:
Son born 10 DEC 1833 (There is a burial of Heinrich Abelmann NOV 1833 - 30 OCT 1889 in the St. John's UCC Cemetery, Wheeling Twp., Rice Co., MN)
Daughter born 07 OCT 1835 - 05 MAR 1836
Daughter born 10 FEB 1838.

6 Children of Christoph Rohlwing and Eleonore Gellermann

HEINRICH Friedrich Wilhelm Rohlwing
Born: 05 SEP 1826 Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 10 SEP 1826 Apelern, Amt. Rodenberg, Landkreis Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 13 MAR 1870 in: Schaumburg, Cook Co., I
Buried: St. Peter Luth. Cem., Schaumburg, IL
Spouse: Dorothea Caroline Wilhelmine Freise (1823-1906)
Daughter of Friedrich Ludwig Freise and Sophia Charlotte Scheibe

HANNA Wilhelmine Eleonore Rohlwing
Born: 21 AUG 1828 Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 31 AUG 1828 Apelern, Amt. Rodenberg, Landkreis Schaumburg, Germany
Died: __ ___ 1844
Buried:

Johann Heinrich CHRISTOPH Rohlwing
Born: 12 JUL 1831 in: Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 13 JUL 1831 in: Apelern, Kreis Schaumburg, Germany
Died: 13 JUL 1885 in: Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA
Buried: in: St. John Crane Creek, Tripoli, IA

Schaumburger Auswanderer #681:
Rohlwing, Johann Heinrich Christoph, Wiersen Nr. 17, Sohn des Johann Heinrich Christoph
R., geb. 14.7.1831, nach Amerika, 1846 (Kb. Apelern Taufen 1831 S. 371)
Note in baptism record to Amerika 1846.
There is a Christoph Rohlwing and Engel Freise family in the baptisms of
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Denver, Bremer Co., IA. (Marriage record 1852 in
the records of St. Peter Luth. Church, Schaumburg, IL.)

1st Wife: Engel Maria Sophia Eleonore Freise
Married: 04 SEP 1853 in: St. Peter Luth. Church, Schaumburg, IL
Born: 15 OCT 1827 in: Reinsen #11, Heuerssen, Germany
Baptized: 21 OCT 1827 in: St. Juergen Church, Heuerssen, Germany
Died: 23 AUG 1874 in: Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA
Buried: in: St. John Crane Creek, Tripoli, IA
Father: Johann Friedrich Freise
Mother: Engel Maria Sophia Homeyer

Children of Heinrich Christoph Rohlwing and Engel Freise:
Anna C. Rohlwing Born: 21 NOV 1855 Cook Co., IL Died: 03 MAY 1916 Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., IA
Spouse: John C. Steege Married: 22 JAN 1874
John C. Rohlwing Born: 18 SEP 1857 Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA Died: 08 DEC 1941 Rockford, Floyd Co., IA
Spouse: Minnie Caroline Karstens Married: 26 OCT 1882 St. John Crane Creek, Tripoli, IA
Maria Rohlwing Born: 04 MAY 1861 Died: __ MAY 1861
Friedrich FRITZ Rohlwing Born: 04 MAY 1861 Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA Died: 29 JAN 1946 Clarksville, Butler Co., IA
Spouse: Caroline Becker Married: 26 FEB 1885 St. John Crane Creek, Tripoli, IA
Heinrich HENRY Gustav Rohlwing Born: 12 FEB 1864 Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA Died: 05 DEC 1925 Walum, Griggs Co., ND
Spouse: Emma Charlotte Buesing Married: __ SEP 1893 Bremer Co., IA
Louise D. Rohlwing Born: 26 JUN 1868 Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA Died: 03 MAR 1947 Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., IA
Wilhelm WILLIAM C. Rohlwing Born: 06 JAN 1871 Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA Died: 11 NOV 1939 Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN
Spouse: Sophia Dorothea Louise Woebbeking Married: 05 APR 1893 St. Paul Lutheran Church, Waverly, IA

2nd Wife of Heinrich Christoph Rohlwing (born 1831): Dorothea (SURNAME)
Married: in:
Born: 30 DEC 1826 in: Germany
Baptized: in:
Died: 18 DEC 1884 in:
Buried: in: St. John Crane Creek, Tripoli, IA
Father:
Mother:

Engel Rohlwing
Born: 03 AUG 1835 Wiersen, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized:
Died: 26 NOV 1913
Buried: St. Peter Cemetery, Arlington Hghts., IL
Spouse: Johann JOHN Heinrich Chr. Meyer
b. 28 SEP 1823 d. 06 OCT 1893
Married: 04 SEP 1853 St. Peter Luth. Church, Schaumburg, IL

1893 Obituary
Engel Rohlwing Meyer

Friedrich Christoph Rohlwing
Born: 28 NOV 1838
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Friedericke Abelmann
Settled in Rice Co., MN

Engel Rohlwing
Born: __ ___ 1843
Baptized:
Died:
Buried:

1 Known child of Christoph Rohlwing and Engel Homeyer

Louise Rohlwing
Born: 11 JUN 1855 (No baptism found in Bergkirchen, Germany)
Baptized:
Died: 17 DEC 1941 Faribault, Rice Co., MN
Buried: St. Johns UCC Cemetery, Wheeling Twp., Rice Co., MN
Married: 09 APR 1875 St. Johns UCC, Wheeling Twp., Rice Co., MN
Spouse: Wilhelm Friedrich Hachfeld (12 SEP 1853 - 26 FEB 1923)

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