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Matthias Bedessem

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Descent: Benjamin James Weber ← Virginia Anne Kelble ← Mary Dolores Bedesem ← Paul Peter Bedesem ← Peter Paul Bedesem ← Johann “John” Bedesem ← Matthias Bedesem

In brief

Born February 14, 1794, in Bitburg, Duchy of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany). He married January 16, 1816, in Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia. He died March 25, 1857, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia (now Germany).

Family

Mother

Anna Margaretha Bedessem

Spouse

Maria Magdalena Brand

m. 1816

Spouse

Katharina Mertes

m. 1831

Children

With Maria Magdalena Brand

Christina Bedessem
b. Abt. 1817, in Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia
d. February 23, 1819, in Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia
August Bedessem
b. May 6, 1819, in Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia
Johann “John” Bedesem · in this line
b. January 1, 1821, in Prüm or Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia (now Germany)
m. Anna Maria Spanier, February 24, 1846, in Prüm, Prussia (now Germany)
d. Between 1871 and 1882 · Philadelphia, PA
Johann Bedessem
b. January 1, 1821, in Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia
Heinrich Bedessem
b. May 14, 1823, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Fredericke Clemens, March 3, 1851, in Hillesheim, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Agnes Weingart, November 23, 1863, in Hillesheim, Rhine Province, Prussia
Matthias Bedessem
b. January 11, 1826, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Anna Maria Woltersdorf
Theodor Bedessem
b. May 14, 1828, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
d. March 8, 1830, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia

With Katharina Mertes

Peter Bedessem
b. March 16, 1832, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Margaretha Colling, February 15, 1858, in Vianden, Luxembourg
Katharina Bedessem
b. December 12, 1834, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
Joseph Bedessem
b. April 22, 1839, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
d. May 19, 1865, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
Matthias Joseph Bedessem
b. July 30, 1841, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia
Anna Maria Bedessem
b. December 13, 1843, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia

Life story

A Day Laborer of Bitburg

Matthias Bedessem was born on February 14, 1794, in Bitburg, in what is now western Germany, and worked as a day laborer there, marrying twice — first in 1816 and again in 1831. He died in Bitburg on March 25, 1857.

Sources (1)

Irmgard Schmitz, Werner Naumann, and Werner Lichter, Familienbuch Bitburg (Bitburg, Germany: Geschichtlichen Arbeitskreis Bitburg Land, 2017), 1:157-158.