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Gertrud Blindauer

Generation 5 back

In brief

1790s–1810s

Born 31 December 1793 in Greimerath, near Trier, to Theodor Blindauer and Gertrud Frenz; baptized the same day at Zerf.

1820s–1830s

Married Matthias Leinenweber, a Greimerath farmer. Children Margaretha (1822), Magdalena (1825), Luzia (1827), Peter (1829), and Michael (1837) were born.

1840s–1860s

Widowed in 1848. Died in Greimerath on 22 April 1868, the year her son Michael left for America.

Family

Father

Theodor Blindauer

Mother

Gertrud Frenz

Spouse

Matthias Leinenweber

Children

Margaretha Leinenweber
b. July 6, 1822, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Matthias Bernardi, January 10, 1849, in Zerf, Rhine Province, Prussia
Magdalena Leinenweber
b. February 26, 1825, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Matthias Naumann, February 27, 1851, in Taben, Rhine Province, Prussia
d. September 22, 1888, in Sherill, Iowa, USA
Luzia Leinenweber
b. April 7, 1827, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
Peter Leinenweber
b. November 14, 1829, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
m. Helena Oestereich, January 20, 1860, in Zerf, Rhine Province, Prussia
d. Greimerath, Prussia
Michael Leineweber · in this line
b. May 20, 1837 · Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia (now Germany); baptized at Zerf
m. Katharina Gansemer, September 29, 1874, at SS. Peter & Paul Church in Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowa
d. June 12, 1902 · Sherrill’s Mound, Peru, Dubuque County, Iowa

Siblings

Full siblings — children of Theodor Blindauer and Gertrud Frenz

Johann Blindauer
b. December 9, 1796, in Zerf, Sarre, French Republic
d. October 6, 1798, in Zerf, Sarre, French Republic

Half-siblings — children of Matthias Müller and Gertrud Frenz

Margaretha Müller
b. June 8, 1776, in Greimerath, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
m. Johann Thielen, June 1, 1798, in Zerf, Sarre, French Republic
d. March 22, 1826, in Oberzerf, Rhine Province Prussia
Gertrud Müller
b. September 21, 1777, in Zerf, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
Helena Müller
b. May 22, 1779, in Greimerath, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
m. Matthias Hauser, February 2, 1815, in Zerf, Sarre, French Empire
d. December 29, 1922, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
Matthias Müller
b. October 28, 1782, in Greimerath, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
m. Anna Maria Hilgert, September 9, 1807, in Zerf, Sarre, French Empire
d. November 17, 1854, in Greimerath, Rhine Province, Prussia
Michael Müller
b. March 23, 1788, in Zerf, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
Maria Anna Müller
b. April 25, 1790, in Greimerath, Electorate of Trier, Holy Roman Empire
m. Matthias Marx, May 21, 1812, in Kell, Sarre, French Empire
d. April 25, 1839, in Schillingen, Rhine Province, Prussia

Life story

Gertrud of Greimerath

Gertrud Blindauer was born on December 31, 1793, in Greimerath, a village near Trier in the Electorate of Trier, and baptized that same day at Zerf, with Peter Lindauer and Gertrud Wagner of Greimerath as godparents. Her father was Theodor Blindauer. Her mother, Gertrud Frenz, had been married before, to Matthias Müller, and Gertrud grew up with six older Müller half-siblings; her own full brother, Johann, died as a baby in 1798.

Gertrud married Matthias Leinenweber, a farmer in Greimerath, and had five known children: Margaretha in 1822, Magdalena in 1825, Luzia in 1827, Peter in 1829, and Michael in 1837, when she was forty-three. Matthias died in 1848, and Gertrud lived on in Greimerath as a widow for twenty years. She died there on April 22, 1868. That October her youngest son, Michael, landed in New York on his way to Iowa, where he became Meghan's 2x-great-grandfather.

Sources (2)

Heribert Scholer, ed., Einwohnerbuch der ehemaligen Burgermeisterei Zerf (Koln-Widdersdorf, Germany: Westdeutsche Gesellschaft fur Familienkunde e. V., 2009), page 81, 394, 496-497.
Bernd Heinz, Tabener Auswander: Von Taben nach Amerika 1850-1899 (Taben-Rodt, Germany: Bend Heinz (author), 2017), pages 86-88.