Heinrich Arend Bergmann of Steinfeld and Elizabeth Deters of Damme, Germany, were married in St. Viktor's Catholic Church in Damme on April 26, 1803. Both Damme and Steinfeld are geographically close to Oldenburg Germany where many of the other founding families of Mercer and Auglaize counties originated. After their marriage on they lived in or near Damme.
Elizabeth Deters and Heinrich Arend Bergmann had at least eleven children. They were: Franz Heinrich (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881, Married Maria Catherina Stukenborg—both are buried in St. Augustine's cemetery in Minster), Maria Elizabeth Bergmann Beckstedde Duveneck (B. 7 March, 1805—Husband Johann Heinrich Beckstedde then Franz Duveneck), Heinrich Arnold (B. 22 October 1807 D. 1 May 1887, Married Anna Margaret Hoehne, both are buried in St. John's), Johannes (B. 11 January 1810, D. August 1850), Stephan Heinrich (B. 17 February, 1812, D. 1 May 1900. Married Katherina A. Hagart), Maria Agnes (B. 19 August 1814), Maria Catharina (B. 22 March 1817), and twins Johannes Henricus and another Maria Catharina. The twins were born on 17 February 1820 and they died approximately five days later. They also had a third Maria Catharina (31 August 1821) and finally the youngest child, Maria Caroline, was born 8 October 1824.
That is a lot of children named Johannes or Maria Catherina for one family! The convention would have probably been to call one child by their first name and the other by their middle name. For example, one Maria Catharina probably would have been called Maria and the other one called Catherina. It is also possible that the first daughter named Maria Catherine had already died by the time the twins were born and, since they were already looking sickly, she was named in honor of her dead sibling…
Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Finally they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
Elizabeth Deters Bergmann may have died in Germany and could be buried there, although the 1860 census shows that the Henry Bergmann family (spelled phonetically as Henry Birkman) consisted of Henry (Heinrich Arend II) aged 52, Anna aged 44, Caroline aged 12, Stephen aged 8, Catharine aged 33 (possibly H. Arnold's sister), Henry (Heinrich Arend I) aged 86 and Elizabeth aged 84. A Henry Stettenpol, age 13, also lived on the property. He was possibly the nephew of Anna Margaret Hoehne since H. Arnold and his wife adopted and raised her niece and nephew after the death of her brother or sister.
It is not clear when the elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann joined his sons in Maria Stein but he and Elizabeth Bergmann (this time spelled Barkman) are both listed in the 1850 census as living with H. Arnold Bergmann on his farm. It is likely that H. Arnold sent for his family as soon has he firmly established his family farm.
The elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann died on 3 July 1868, and was buried in an unmarked grave at St. John's, not far north of the grave of his namesake, H. Arnold Bergmann. According to family lore, Heinrich Arend was a very strong man who, even though he was over ninety at the time of his death (reports vary between ninety one and ninety-five years old), was out chopping wood up to the week of his death.
With generous help from cemetery guardian, Bob Puhlman, a new marker was placed in memory of Heinrich Arend Bergmann on October 6, 2012 by Heinrich Arend Bergmann's GGGGG granddaughter.
Elizabeth Bergmann is not clearly listed in St. John's records. It is possible she is also buried in an unmarked grave in St. John's or in an unmarked grave at another Catholic Church nearby (St. Augustine's in Minster is one of the oldest local Catholic Churches although she is not in a marked grave their either).
This material is copyrighted and should not be used by you without acknowledgement or permission. So far I am aware of two other Bergman relatives reproducing this exact information and putting their name on it as if it represented their work. They also include my copyrighted photos. This is wrong, even if you Think you are doing it for a good reason. Its not very hard to put an appropriate citation on this, it WAS very hard for me to gather all of this information only to have it blatantly plagiarized. I am saddened that I have relatives who do this kind of thing without any remorse.
To see if you are descended from this Heinrich Arend or one of his children visit Greg Bergman's extensive history site:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/r/Gregory-A-Bergman-MD/index.html
Elizabeth Deters and Heinrich Arend Bergmann had at least eleven children. They were: Franz Heinrich (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881, Married Maria Catherina Stukenborg—both are buried in St. Augustine's cemetery in Minster), Maria Elizabeth Bergmann Beckstedde Duveneck (B. 7 March, 1805—Husband Johann Heinrich Beckstedde then Franz Duveneck), Heinrich Arnold (B. 22 October 1807 D. 1 May 1887, Married Anna Margaret Hoehne, both are buried in St. John's), Johannes (B. 11 January 1810, D. August 1850), Stephan Heinrich (B. 17 February, 1812, D. 1 May 1900. Married Katherina A. Hagart), Maria Agnes (B. 19 August 1814), Maria Catharina (B. 22 March 1817), and twins Johannes Henricus and another Maria Catharina. The twins were born on 17 February 1820 and they died approximately five days later. They also had a third Maria Catharina (31 August 1821) and finally the youngest child, Maria Caroline, was born 8 October 1824.
That is a lot of children named Johannes or Maria Catherina for one family! The convention would have probably been to call one child by their first name and the other by their middle name. For example, one Maria Catharina probably would have been called Maria and the other one called Catherina. It is also possible that the first daughter named Maria Catherine had already died by the time the twins were born and, since they were already looking sickly, she was named in honor of her dead sibling…
Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Finally they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
Elizabeth Deters Bergmann may have died in Germany and could be buried there, although the 1860 census shows that the Henry Bergmann family (spelled phonetically as Henry Birkman) consisted of Henry (Heinrich Arend II) aged 52, Anna aged 44, Caroline aged 12, Stephen aged 8, Catharine aged 33 (possibly H. Arnold's sister), Henry (Heinrich Arend I) aged 86 and Elizabeth aged 84. A Henry Stettenpol, age 13, also lived on the property. He was possibly the nephew of Anna Margaret Hoehne since H. Arnold and his wife adopted and raised her niece and nephew after the death of her brother or sister.
It is not clear when the elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann joined his sons in Maria Stein but he and Elizabeth Bergmann (this time spelled Barkman) are both listed in the 1850 census as living with H. Arnold Bergmann on his farm. It is likely that H. Arnold sent for his family as soon has he firmly established his family farm.
The elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann died on 3 July 1868, and was buried in an unmarked grave at St. John's, not far north of the grave of his namesake, H. Arnold Bergmann. According to family lore, Heinrich Arend was a very strong man who, even though he was over ninety at the time of his death (reports vary between ninety one and ninety-five years old), was out chopping wood up to the week of his death.
With generous help from cemetery guardian, Bob Puhlman, a new marker was placed in memory of Heinrich Arend Bergmann on October 6, 2012 by Heinrich Arend Bergmann's GGGGG granddaughter.
Elizabeth Bergmann is not clearly listed in St. John's records. It is possible she is also buried in an unmarked grave in St. John's or in an unmarked grave at another Catholic Church nearby (St. Augustine's in Minster is one of the oldest local Catholic Churches although she is not in a marked grave their either).
This material is copyrighted and should not be used by you without acknowledgement or permission. So far I am aware of two other Bergman relatives reproducing this exact information and putting their name on it as if it represented their work. They also include my copyrighted photos. This is wrong, even if you Think you are doing it for a good reason. Its not very hard to put an appropriate citation on this, it WAS very hard for me to gather all of this information only to have it blatantly plagiarized. I am saddened that I have relatives who do this kind of thing without any remorse.
To see if you are descended from this Heinrich Arend or one of his children visit Greg Bergman's extensive history site:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/r/Gregory-A-Bergman-MD/index.html
Heinrich Arend Bergmann of Steinfeld and Elizabeth Deters of Damme, Germany, were married in St. Viktor's Catholic Church in Damme on April 26, 1803. Both Damme and Steinfeld are geographically close to Oldenburg Germany where many of the other founding families of Mercer and Auglaize counties originated. After their marriage on they lived in or near Damme.
Elizabeth Deters and Heinrich Arend Bergmann had at least eleven children. They were: Franz Heinrich (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881, Married Maria Catherina Stukenborg—both are buried in St. Augustine's cemetery in Minster), Maria Elizabeth Bergmann Beckstedde Duveneck (B. 7 March, 1805—Husband Johann Heinrich Beckstedde then Franz Duveneck), Heinrich Arnold (B. 22 October 1807 D. 1 May 1887, Married Anna Margaret Hoehne, both are buried in St. John's), Johannes (B. 11 January 1810, D. August 1850), Stephan Heinrich (B. 17 February, 1812, D. 1 May 1900. Married Katherina A. Hagart), Maria Agnes (B. 19 August 1814), Maria Catharina (B. 22 March 1817), and twins Johannes Henricus and another Maria Catharina. The twins were born on 17 February 1820 and they died approximately five days later. They also had a third Maria Catharina (31 August 1821) and finally the youngest child, Maria Caroline, was born 8 October 1824.
That is a lot of children named Johannes or Maria Catherina for one family! The convention would have probably been to call one child by their first name and the other by their middle name. For example, one Maria Catharina probably would have been called Maria and the other one called Catherina. It is also possible that the first daughter named Maria Catherine had already died by the time the twins were born and, since they were already looking sickly, she was named in honor of her dead sibling…
Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Finally they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
Elizabeth Deters Bergmann may have died in Germany and could be buried there, although the 1860 census shows that the Henry Bergmann family (spelled phonetically as Henry Birkman) consisted of Henry (Heinrich Arend II) aged 52, Anna aged 44, Caroline aged 12, Stephen aged 8, Catharine aged 33 (possibly H. Arnold's sister), Henry (Heinrich Arend I) aged 86 and Elizabeth aged 84. A Henry Stettenpol, age 13, also lived on the property. He was possibly the nephew of Anna Margaret Hoehne since H. Arnold and his wife adopted and raised her niece and nephew after the death of her brother or sister.
It is not clear when the elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann joined his sons in Maria Stein but he and Elizabeth Bergmann (this time spelled Barkman) are both listed in the 1850 census as living with H. Arnold Bergmann on his farm. It is likely that H. Arnold sent for his family as soon has he firmly established his family farm.
The elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann died on 3 July 1868, and was buried in an unmarked grave at St. John's, not far north of the grave of his namesake, H. Arnold Bergmann. According to family lore, Heinrich Arend was a very strong man who, even though he was over ninety at the time of his death (reports vary between ninety one and ninety-five years old), was out chopping wood up to the week of his death.
With generous help from cemetery guardian, Bob Puhlman, a new marker was placed in memory of Heinrich Arend Bergmann on October 6, 2012 by Heinrich Arend Bergmann's GGGGG granddaughter.
Elizabeth Bergmann is not clearly listed in St. John's records. It is possible she is also buried in an unmarked grave in St. John's or in an unmarked grave at another Catholic Church nearby (St. Augustine's in Minster is one of the oldest local Catholic Churches although she is not in a marked grave their either).
This material is copyrighted and should not be used by you without acknowledgement or permission. So far I am aware of two other Bergman relatives reproducing this exact information and putting their name on it as if it represented their work. They also include my copyrighted photos. This is wrong, even if you Think you are doing it for a good reason. Its not very hard to put an appropriate citation on this, it WAS very hard for me to gather all of this information only to have it blatantly plagiarized. I am saddened that I have relatives who do this kind of thing without any remorse.
To see if you are descended from this Heinrich Arend or one of his children visit Greg Bergman's extensive history site:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/r/Gregory-A-Bergman-MD/index.html
Elizabeth Deters and Heinrich Arend Bergmann had at least eleven children. They were: Franz Heinrich (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881, Married Maria Catherina Stukenborg—both are buried in St. Augustine's cemetery in Minster), Maria Elizabeth Bergmann Beckstedde Duveneck (B. 7 March, 1805—Husband Johann Heinrich Beckstedde then Franz Duveneck), Heinrich Arnold (B. 22 October 1807 D. 1 May 1887, Married Anna Margaret Hoehne, both are buried in St. John's), Johannes (B. 11 January 1810, D. August 1850), Stephan Heinrich (B. 17 February, 1812, D. 1 May 1900. Married Katherina A. Hagart), Maria Agnes (B. 19 August 1814), Maria Catharina (B. 22 March 1817), and twins Johannes Henricus and another Maria Catharina. The twins were born on 17 February 1820 and they died approximately five days later. They also had a third Maria Catharina (31 August 1821) and finally the youngest child, Maria Caroline, was born 8 October 1824.
That is a lot of children named Johannes or Maria Catherina for one family! The convention would have probably been to call one child by their first name and the other by their middle name. For example, one Maria Catharina probably would have been called Maria and the other one called Catherina. It is also possible that the first daughter named Maria Catherine had already died by the time the twins were born and, since they were already looking sickly, she was named in honor of her dead sibling…
Heinrich Arend II, later known in America as H. Arnold, and his brother Stephan Heinrich were sailors. They crossed the Atlantic in the commission of their duties in a sailboat. Eventually they sold their sailboat in New Orleans and purchased a steamship to haul freight from New Orleans up and down the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Finally they decided to retire entirely from sailing. They sold their boat in Cincinnati and stayed in Ohio after the 1830s. Cincinnati was also the location of a government land office where many settlers of Mercer and Auglaize counties purchased their farms.
Brothers, H. Arnold and Stephen, like so many other Germans of the time helped dig the Miami and Erie Canal. They are purported to have worked on the segment between Toledo and Cincinnati. In the 1840s they each purchased farmland in Mercer county Ohio and moved to Maria Stein.
H. Arnold's first farm was forty acres and he purchased it from the U.S. government on 5 August 1844. It was located one and a half miles south of Maria Stein on St. John's Rd. (later owned by Joseph Kemper). By 1867 or 1868 H. Arnold purchased another one hundred and twenty acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Wilfred Bergman, and another one hundred and seventeen acre farm which was later passed down at least as far as his great grandson Otmar Bergman.
The brothers and longtime partners, H. Arnold and Stephen Heinrich are both buried in the church cemetery behind the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist. This region is colloquially known as "St. John's," as many towns, such as Maria Stein, support more than one Catholic Church. If you were from "St. John" or "St. Rose," it meant you lived geographically close to that church and, presumably, you were a member of that Church's community.
Their oldest brother, Franz Heinrich Bergman (B. 19 October, 1803, D. 11 January 1881), settled with his wife from Steinfeld Germany, Maria Catherina Stukenborg (B. 7 September 1805, D. 17 July 1873), on a farm off of Egypt Rd. one and a half miles west of nearby Minster Ohio (also known as the Andrew and Victor Osterloh farm). Franz bought the eighty-acre farm from Francis Heigenrother of Cincinnati in 1848 for $330 payable in annual installments over six years. Franz even became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1844.
Elizabeth Deters Bergmann may have died in Germany and could be buried there, although the 1860 census shows that the Henry Bergmann family (spelled phonetically as Henry Birkman) consisted of Henry (Heinrich Arend II) aged 52, Anna aged 44, Caroline aged 12, Stephen aged 8, Catharine aged 33 (possibly H. Arnold's sister), Henry (Heinrich Arend I) aged 86 and Elizabeth aged 84. A Henry Stettenpol, age 13, also lived on the property. He was possibly the nephew of Anna Margaret Hoehne since H. Arnold and his wife adopted and raised her niece and nephew after the death of her brother or sister.
It is not clear when the elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann joined his sons in Maria Stein but he and Elizabeth Bergmann (this time spelled Barkman) are both listed in the 1850 census as living with H. Arnold Bergmann on his farm. It is likely that H. Arnold sent for his family as soon has he firmly established his family farm.
The elder Heinrich Arend Bergmann died on 3 July 1868, and was buried in an unmarked grave at St. John's, not far north of the grave of his namesake, H. Arnold Bergmann. According to family lore, Heinrich Arend was a very strong man who, even though he was over ninety at the time of his death (reports vary between ninety one and ninety-five years old), was out chopping wood up to the week of his death.
With generous help from cemetery guardian, Bob Puhlman, a new marker was placed in memory of Heinrich Arend Bergmann on October 6, 2012 by Heinrich Arend Bergmann's GGGGG granddaughter.
Elizabeth Bergmann is not clearly listed in St. John's records. It is possible she is also buried in an unmarked grave in St. John's or in an unmarked grave at another Catholic Church nearby (St. Augustine's in Minster is one of the oldest local Catholic Churches although she is not in a marked grave their either).
This material is copyrighted and should not be used by you without acknowledgement or permission. So far I am aware of two other Bergman relatives reproducing this exact information and putting their name on it as if it represented their work. They also include my copyrighted photos. This is wrong, even if you Think you are doing it for a good reason. Its not very hard to put an appropriate citation on this, it WAS very hard for me to gather all of this information only to have it blatantly plagiarized. I am saddened that I have relatives who do this kind of thing without any remorse.
To see if you are descended from this Heinrich Arend or one of his children visit Greg Bergman's extensive history site:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/e/r/Gregory-A-Bergman-MD/index.html
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