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Johann “John” Bedesem

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

Born

January 1, 1821, in Prüm, 2/Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia (now Germany)

Died

Between 1871 and 1882 · Philadelphia, PA

Married

February 24, 1846, in Prüm, Prussia (now Germany)

Also known as

John Bedesam

Family

Father

Matthias Bedessem

Mother

Maria Magdalena Brand

Spouse

Anna Maria Spanier

Siblings

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

In brief

Born January 1, 1821, in Prüm, 2/Bitburg, Lower Rhine, Prussia (now Germany). He married February 24, 1846, in Prüm, Prussia (now Germany) and worked as shoemaker. He died Between 1871 and 1882 in Philadelphia, PA.

Life story

A Shoemaker from Prüm

Johann “John” Bedesem was born on January 1, 1821, in Prüm, then part of Prussia's Lower Rhine province, and worked as a shoemaker there before emigrating to Philadelphia, where he continued the trade for the rest of his working life. He married Anna Maria Spanier in Prüm on February 24, 1846, before the family's emigration, and last appears in the Philadelphia records around 1871.

At a glance

Work

Shoemaker

Sources (9)

Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Helena Bedesem; Archdiocese of Philadelphia, St. Peter the Apostle Parish, Baptisms, image 433, Find My Past (https://search.findmypast.com/record/browse?id=S2/US/RC/PHILLY/BATCH2/0010/130-01/00437 : accessed 18 March 2023).
Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms, Helena Bedesem; Archdiocese of Philadelphia, St. Peter the Apostle Parish, Baptisms, image 82, Find My Past (https://search.findmypast.com/record/browse?id=S2/US/RC/PHILLY/BATCH2/0010/130-02/00085 : accessed 18 March 2023).
“Death registers, 1860-1903,” images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-DZGQ-9D : accessed 15 September 2023), Death Register for unnamed Bedesem, 1866, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Gopsill’s Philadelphia City Directory (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: James Gopsill, 1871), 202; “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995,” digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2469/images/2867096 : accessed 15 September 2023); (1871) 116.
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Irmgard Schmitz, Werner Naumann, and Werner Lichter, Familienbuch Bitburg (Bitburg, Germany: Geschichtlichen Arbeitskreis Bitburg Land, 2017), 1:154-158.
“After 55 Years, Printer’s Devil of ‘Sun’ Returns,” Colusa Sun-Herald (Colusa, CA), 23 July 1940, page 1, col 2 (continued page 4, col 6-7; web archives (https://www.newspapers.com/image/993816172/ : accessed 26 October 2023).