Doroty Knigge

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  • Name Doroty Knigge 
    Born 1843  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I687  Martin Ancestry
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2007 

    Father Juergen Georg Knigge,   b. 1811,   d. 1850  (Age 39 years) 
    Mother Johanna Dorothea Mueller,   b. 6 Aug 1820, Hanover, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Febr 1863  (Age 42 years) 
    Immigrated 1845  TX, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Ship: Everhard
    Departed: Platendorf, Hanover, Germany 
    Census 3 Sep 1850  New Braunfels, Comal, TX, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Notes 
    • From Nelleene Froboese:
      The two came to America aboard the Everhard in 1845 from Platendorf, Hanover, Germany. They had two children, Johann Heinrich Daniel Knigge, Born May 20, 1847 & Johanna Susanna Dorothea Knigge, Born March 13, 1851,both born in New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas. The 1860 census has them
      has Forshage's.

      The only info I can find on Johann Knigge is on the Guadalupe County Probate Index Records. He died on May 20, 1885, then it has (lunatic).
    Family ID F226  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S32] Immigration: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Ancestry.com).
      Name: Juergen Knigge
      Year: 1845
      Place: Texas
      Family Members: Wife Dor Mueller; Child Ludwig; Child Dor; Child Sophie; Child Henriette
      Source Publication Code: 2484
      Primary Immigrant: Knigge, Juergen
      Annotation: Names 7,000 immigrants, giving European home place, ship taken, and usually birth and death dates. See no. 2504, Geue, for the years 1847-1861.
      Source Bibliography: GEUE, CHESTER W., and ETHEL HANDER GEUE, compilers. A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration to Texas 1844-1847. 1966. New and enlarged ed. Waco [Texas]: Texian Press, 1972. 178p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1982.
      Page: 110

    2. [S32] Immigration: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Ancestry.com).
      Name: Jurgen Knigge
      Year: 1840-1850
      Place: Texas
      Family Members: Wife Dorothea Muller; Child Ludwig; Child Henriette; Child Dorothea
      Source Publication Code: 409
      Primary Immigrant: Knigge, Jurgen
      Annotation: Primarily lists German immigrants who settled in and around New Braunfels, Texas.
      Source Bibliography: BATTAGLIA, MRS. R.B., contributor "Ship Lists (Ships Arriving in Texas in the 1840s)." In Our Heritage. vol. 13:2 (Jan. 1972), pp. 76-81.
      Page: 107

    3. [S32] Immigration: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Ancestry.com).
      Name: Jurgen Knigge
      Year: 1845-1846
      Place: Texas
      Family Members: Wife Dorothea Muller; Child Ludwig; Child Dorothea; Child Henriette
      Source Publication Code: 5012.11
      Primary Immigrant: Knigge, Jurgen
      Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Name of ship and, often, place of origin also provided. Name on cover is Comal County, Texas, and New Braunfels German Immigration Ships, 1845-1845.
      Source Bibliography: McMANUS, J. Comal County, Texas, and New Braunfels, Texas, Germans, 1845-1846. St. Louis, MO: Ingmire (Frances T. Ingmire, 10166 Clairmont Drive, St. Louis 63136), 1985. 58p.
      Page: 30

    4. [S7] 1850 US Federal Census, New Braunfels, Comal, TX, USA.
      Dwelling #66
      Family #66
      Jorgon Knigge, 39, M, Laborer, Ger
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