Matthias Leinenweber
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Gregory James Leineweber ← John James Leineweber ← John Baptiste Leineweber ← Michael Leineweber ← Matthias Leinenweber
In brief
1790s–1810s
Born 10 February 1798 in Greimerath, near Trier, then in the French Republic's Sarre department, to Matthias Leinenweber and Angela Brausch; baptized the same day at Zerf.
1820s–1830s
A farmer in Greimerath, married to Gertrud Blindauer. Children Margaretha (1822), Magdalena (1825), Luzia (1827), Peter (1829), and Michael (1837) were born.
1840s
Died in Greimerath on 2 October 1848 and was buried at Zerf.
Family
Children
- Margaretha Leinenweberb. July 6, 1822, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussiam. Matthias Bernardi, January 10, 1849, in Zerf, Rhine Province, Prussia
- Magdalena Leinenweberb. February 26, 1825, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussiam. Matthias Naumann, February 27, 1851, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussiad. September 22, 1888, in Sherill, Iowa, USA
- Luzia Leinenweberb. April 7, 1827, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
- Peter Leinenweberb. November 14, 1829, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussiam. Helena Oestereich, January 20, 1860, in Zerf, Rhine Province, Prussiad. Greimerath, Prussia
- Michael Leineweber · in this lineb. May 20, 1837 · Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia (now Germany); baptized at Zerfm. Katharina Gansemer, September 29, 1874, at SS. Peter & Paul Church in Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowad. June 12, 1902 · Sherrill’s Mound, Peru, Dubuque County, Iowa
Siblings
- Maria Leinenweberb. November 19, 1792, in Zerf, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empired. March 9, 1799, in Zerf, Sarre, French Republic
- Magdalena Leinenweberb. November 23, 1794, in Greimerath, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empirem. Conrad Thielen, February 2, 1821, in Zerf, Lower Rhine, Prussiam. Matthias Neusius, February 5, 1831, in Zerf, Rhine Province, Prussiad. September 21, 1856, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
- Michael Leinenweberb. September 24, 1801, in Greimerath, Sarre, French Republicd. May 8, 1803, in Greimerath, Sarre, Frech Republic
- Peter Leinenweberb. March 10, 1803, in Greimerath, Sarre, French Republicd. March 10, 1803, in Greimerath, Sarre, French Republic
- Margaretha Leinenweberb. December 6, 1804, in Greimerath, Sarre, French Empirem. Peter Heck, February 8, 1832, in Besseringen, Rhine Province, Prussiad. Likely USA
Life story
A Farmer in Greimerath
Matthias Leinenweber was born on February 10, 1798, in Greimerath, a village near Trier that the French had annexed as part of their Sarre department; after 1815 it became part of Prussia's Rhine Province. He was baptized the same day at Zerf, the parish church, with Matthias Brausch of Britten and Margaretha Müller of Greimerath as godparents. His parents were Matthias Leinenweber and Angela Brausch. Of his brothers and sisters, Maria, Michael, and Peter died as children, Magdalena married twice in Zerf, and Margaretha married Peter Heck in 1832 and probably emigrated to America.
Matthias was an Ackerer, a farmer, in Greimerath. He married Gertrud Blindauer, a Greimerath woman four years older than he, and they had five known children: Margaretha (1822), Magdalena (1825), Luzia (1827), Peter (1829), and, much later, Michael (1837), who would emigrate to Iowa and become Meghan's 2x-great-grandfather. Matthias died in Greimerath on October 2, 1848, at fifty, and was buried at Zerf. His son Michael emigrated in 1868, and his daughter Magdalena also made her way to America; both died in Sherrill, Iowa.
Sources (2)
- Heribert Scholer, ed., Einwohnerbuch der ehemaligen Burgermeisterei Zerf (Koln-Widdersdorf, Germany: Westdeutsche Gesellschaft fur Familienkunde e. V., 2009), page 123, 221, 393-395, 524, 748.
- Bernd Heinz, Tabener Auswander: Von Taben nach Amerika 1850-1899 (Taben-Rodt, Germany: Bend Heinz (author), 2017), pages 86-88.