In brief

Born August 27, 1792, in Orsfeld, Duchy of Luxembourg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany). She married January 16, 1816, in Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia. She died September 21, 1830, in Bitburg, Rhine Province, Prussia (now Germany).

Family

Father
Peter Brand
no. 353
Mother
Christina Junck
no. 354
Spouse
m. 1816

Children

  • 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
  • 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

Life story

A Maidservant's Short Life

Maria Magdalena Brand was born on August 27, 1792, in Orsfeld, in what is now western Germany, the daughter of Peter Brand and Christina Junck, and worked as a maidservant in the local steel industry before marrying Matthias Bedessem in 1816. She died in Bitburg on September 21, 1830, at the age of thirty-eight.

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