Daughter of Michael GREIDENWEIS and of Maria Sibilla STRAUB Greidenweis (both buried with no extant markers in St. Laurentius the Martyr Catholic Church Cemetery in Göcklingen bei Landau, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland) and first wife of Valentin (later Valentine) GEIGER, with whom she had three children:
– Johann Jacob GEIGER (buried in the old Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, Rapides, LA),
– Franz (later Francis) Solomon ("Frank") GEIGER Sr. (buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris, TX) and
– infant daughter Franziska GEIGER (burial with no extant marker in St. Laurentius the Martyr Catholic Church Cemetery in Göcklingen bei Landau, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland).
In the 1850's, at the time of her immigration to Louisiana, the place of her birth (the village of Göcklingen bei Landau) belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria.
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Translation of the original Latin birth & baptismal record shown here of Anna Maria GREIDENWEIS Geiger:
On the twelfth of May in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty-one, I, A. Forch at St. Laurentius Martyr pastor in the village of Göcklingen [near Landau/Pfalz], baptized the infant born the same day at the second hour of the night to Michael Greidenweiß [sic], blacksmith, and to Sibilla née Straub, legitimate married couple of the same village, to whom was given the name Anna Maria. Godmother was Anna Maria Bengert, wife of Ulrich Straub, day laborer of the village named. Here with me the following signed with their own hand
Father: Michael Greidenweis, his wife signing with " X " and I, A. Forch, the pastor named above.
– Johann Jacob GEIGER (buried in the old Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, Rapides, LA),
– Franz (later Francis) Solomon ("Frank") GEIGER Sr. (buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris, TX) and
– infant daughter Franziska GEIGER (burial with no extant marker in St. Laurentius the Martyr Catholic Church Cemetery in Göcklingen bei Landau, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland).
In the 1850's, at the time of her immigration to Louisiana, the place of her birth (the village of Göcklingen bei Landau) belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria.
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Translation of the original Latin birth & baptismal record shown here of Anna Maria GREIDENWEIS Geiger:
On the twelfth of May in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty-one, I, A. Forch at St. Laurentius Martyr pastor in the village of Göcklingen [near Landau/Pfalz], baptized the infant born the same day at the second hour of the night to Michael Greidenweiß [sic], blacksmith, and to Sibilla née Straub, legitimate married couple of the same village, to whom was given the name Anna Maria. Godmother was Anna Maria Bengert, wife of Ulrich Straub, day laborer of the village named. Here with me the following signed with their own hand
Father: Michael Greidenweis, his wife signing with " X " and I, A. Forch, the pastor named above.
Daughter of Michael GREIDENWEIS and of Maria Sibilla STRAUB Greidenweis (both buried with no extant markers in St. Laurentius the Martyr Catholic Church Cemetery in Göcklingen bei Landau, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland) and first wife of Valentin (later Valentine) GEIGER, with whom she had three children:
– Johann Jacob GEIGER (buried in the old Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, Rapides, LA),
– Franz (later Francis) Solomon ("Frank") GEIGER Sr. (buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris, TX) and
– infant daughter Franziska GEIGER (burial with no extant marker in St. Laurentius the Martyr Catholic Church Cemetery in Göcklingen bei Landau, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland).
In the 1850's, at the time of her immigration to Louisiana, the place of her birth (the village of Göcklingen bei Landau) belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria.
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Translation of the original Latin birth & baptismal record shown here of Anna Maria GREIDENWEIS Geiger:
On the twelfth of May in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty-one, I, A. Forch at St. Laurentius Martyr pastor in the village of Göcklingen [near Landau/Pfalz], baptized the infant born the same day at the second hour of the night to Michael Greidenweiß [sic], blacksmith, and to Sibilla née Straub, legitimate married couple of the same village, to whom was given the name Anna Maria. Godmother was Anna Maria Bengert, wife of Ulrich Straub, day laborer of the village named. Here with me the following signed with their own hand
Father: Michael Greidenweis, his wife signing with " X " and I, A. Forch, the pastor named above.
– Johann Jacob GEIGER (buried in the old Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, Rapides, LA),
– Franz (later Francis) Solomon ("Frank") GEIGER Sr. (buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Houston, Harris, TX) and
– infant daughter Franziska GEIGER (burial with no extant marker in St. Laurentius the Martyr Catholic Church Cemetery in Göcklingen bei Landau, Südliche Weinstraße, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland).
In the 1850's, at the time of her immigration to Louisiana, the place of her birth (the village of Göcklingen bei Landau) belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria.
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Translation of the original Latin birth & baptismal record shown here of Anna Maria GREIDENWEIS Geiger:
On the twelfth of May in the year one thousand eight hundred twenty-one, I, A. Forch at St. Laurentius Martyr pastor in the village of Göcklingen [near Landau/Pfalz], baptized the infant born the same day at the second hour of the night to Michael Greidenweiß [sic], blacksmith, and to Sibilla née Straub, legitimate married couple of the same village, to whom was given the name Anna Maria. Godmother was Anna Maria Bengert, wife of Ulrich Straub, day laborer of the village named. Here with me the following signed with their own hand
Father: Michael Greidenweis, his wife signing with " X " and I, A. Forch, the pastor named above.
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