Genealogy Sources
People - L
- Goldberg Evangelical Church Records,
1815-1864, Goldberg, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany
LDS FHL Microfilm 69125
- Baptism Record
- Born 21-Apr-1841
- Baptized 24-Apr-1841
- Name: Lisette Sophia Christina
- Father: Carl LABORN
- Mother: Lisette KUHRMANN
- Sponsors: L.Sahr, S. Kuhlmann, C.Kuhn
- Confirmation Record
- Date of confirmation: 13-May?-1855
- Name in confirmation record: Lisette Sophie Christine Laborn
- Date of birth: 21-Apr-1841
- Father: Carl Laborn of Medow
- FHL Microfilm 1324471 - Church records,
1859-1921
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Niagara Falls, New York
Item 6 - Deaths
- 09-Jan-1907 (p.10) - Elizabeth Mesker, age 60
- 1880 U.S. Census
- Elisabeth Mesker, her husband Frank, and their five children are living
in Niagara, Niagara County, New York
- Age: 39
- Birth place: MECK
- Birth place of father and mother: MECK
- Occupation: K.H. (i.e., Keeping House, which could mean housewife)
- Boarding List for the Sailing
Ship Rudolph, from Hamburg, 15-Sep-1857
- Name is Elise Labron
- Age: 17
- Place of Residence: Malow in the country Meichlburg
- Newspaper article about the Rudolph "Poison
Ship"
- Place of birth: Mido, near Geldburg, in Alsace-Lorraine
- Family History Sheets by William
E. Smith, 1981 and 1987
- Goldberg Evangelical Church Records,
1815-1864, Goldberg, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany
LDS FHL Microfilm 69125
- Baptism Record
- Born 01-Sep-1846
- Baptized 05-Sep-1846
- Name: Fridericke Dorothea Wilhelmine
- Father: Carl Christian LABORN of Medow
- Mother: Sophia Elisabeth KÖRMANN
- Sponsors: Fridericke Stechert, Dorothea Johanna Baumgarten of Medow,
Wilhelm Carl Jackmann of Medow
- 1880 U.S. Census
- Friedrike King, her husband George, and their three children are living
in Buffalo, Erie County, New York
- Age: 34
- Birth place: SCHWERIN
- Birth place of father and mother: SCHWERIN
- Occupation: Keeping House (which could mean housewife)
- Boarding List for the Sailing
Ship Rudolph, from Hamburg, 15-Sep-1857
- Name is unreadable
- Age: 10
- Place of Residence: Malow in the country Meichlburg
- Newspaper article about the Rudolph "Poison
Ship"
- Place of birth: Mido, near Geldburg, in Alsace-Lorraine
- Birthday: 01-Sep
- Age at time of sailing on 15-Sep-1857: 11
- Upon arrival in the U.S., she went to live at the home of her uncle,
Mr. Westfall, of Niagara Falls
- Married George King 27-Mar-1867 in the Congregation Church at Suspension
Bridge
- George King died 35 years before the article was written
- Family History Sheets by William
E. Smith, 1981 and 1987
- Goldberg Evangelical Church Records,
1815-1864, Goldberg, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany
LDS FHL Microfilm 69125
- Baptism Record
- Born 11-Dec-1843
- Baptized 16-Dec-1843
- Name: Sophia Christiane Dorothea
- Father: Christian Carl LABORN of Medow
- Mother: Elise Sophia KÜHRMANN
- Sponsors: Frau Sophia Kührmann, Christiane Prestin, Frau Dorothea
Bumgard
- Confirmation Record
- Date of confirmation: 01-Sep-1857
- Name in confirmation record: Sophia Christiane Dorothea Laborn
- Date of birth: 11-Dec-1843
- Father: Christian Carl Laborn of Medow
- Sophia's confirmation record is unique, because hers is the only
one performed on this day. In all other cases, the confirmations involved
groups of children.
- In the Goldberg Church records, the surname ROHLOFF frequently appears,
so perhaps this was the name of Sophia's husband
- Boarding List for the Sailing
Ship Rudolph, from Hamburg, 15-Sep-1857
- Name is Sophie Labron
- Age: 14
- Place of Residence: Malow in the country Meichlburg
- Newspaper article about the Rudolph "Poison
Ship"
- Place of birth: Mido, near Geldburg, in Alsace-Lorraine
- Family History Sheets by William
E. Smith, 1981 and 1987
- Given name: Katherine
- Married name: Ruhloff?
- Correspondence from Marge
Thomas, Jan-2003
- b: December 27, 1908
- d: January 28, 1982
- Genealogy of Lucien Stab at http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/lstab
- LANG, Anne Catherine
- Daughter of Gaspard LANG and Anne-Marie BRENNER
- Décès : 12 avril 1748 à Hottviller,57720,,Moselle,France
- Genealogy of Lucien Stab at http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/lstab
- LANG, Véronique
- Daughter of Gaspard LANG and Anne-Marie BRENNER
- Naissance : Hottviller,57720,,Moselle,France
- Décès : 28 janvier 1740 à Hottviller,57720,,Moselle,France
- Social Security Death Index
- LORAINE L MYERS
- Residence: 93108 Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
- Born 20 Nov 1908
- Died 5 Aug 2002
- Correspondence from Alice Staebell Smith, August 2002
- Died 05-Aug-2002 in Santa Barbara, Calif., at age 93
- Conversation between Donald Voegele and Alice Staebell Smith, December 2000
- Second husband: Herbert(?) Myers
- Correspondence from Marge
Thomas, Jan-2003
- d: July 02, 1967 in Pittsburgh, PA
- Civil Records in the Ontario Archives
- SNIDER, Sarah Jane - death record
- MS935 R.181, vo. 26, death record #31386 of 1910
- Married
- Died 26-Dec-1910 at Lot 8 Com 4 in Humberstone
- Born 14-Jul-1833
- Age 77y 5m 12d
- Occupation: Housekeeper
- Father: Jacob Learn, born Bertie
- Mother: Penelope Buchner, born Crowland
- Cause of death: Vascular lesion of heart
- Jacob SCHNEIDER to Sarah Jane LEARN - marriage record
- MS932 reel 35, marriage record #011460
- 19-Apr-1880 in Willoughby
- Sarah Jane LEARN of Willoughby
- Age 46
- "Spinster"
- Parents: Jacob LEARN and Penelope BUCHNER
- Place of birth: not noted
- Church Records, St. Joseph's Catholic
Church in Snyder, Welland County, Ontario
FHL Microfilm 1404211
- Marriage of Jacob Schneider and Sarah Joan Learn
- 19-Apr-1880 (p.128)
- Marriage of Jacobum SCHEIDER and Sara Joanna LEARN
- Son of Petri SCHNEIDER and Barbarae KLEIN
- Daughter of Jacobi LEARN and Penelope BANGNER
- Sponsors: George MINNES and Maria Anna MINNES (nee BAUER)
- This signed statement appears with the marriage record:
- "I Jane Learn testify hereby before God the Omnificent
and the witnesses here present and subscribed, that I shall never
and in no way hinder my future husband Jacob Schneider or his
children in the practice of his or their holy catholic faith,
and moreover that I shall rear all our ___? children of both sex
in the same catholic religion, even in the case that my husband
should die before me. New Germany, 19-Apr-1880 (signed) Sarah
Jane Learn
- 1851 Canada Census
- Sarah Jane Learn, age 19, living in Willoughby Township with parents
Jacob and Penelope Learn
- The 1851 census of Willoughby tended to overstate ages by one year
- 1891 Canada Census
- The family is living in Humberstone Township
- Wife of Jacob is Jane, age 58
- Probably married after 31-Mar-1783 and before 27-Aug-1784, based on how she is described as the godmother in the baptism records below.
- Soufflenheim microfilm FHL # 740080
- Church records, 1743-1793
Volume 1
- 08-Jun-1765 (p.347) - Maria Bernarda Benedicta - parents: Jacobi LEMANN and Maria Anna SCHMITT
- Patrinus (godfather): Ignatius SCHOFFTER, only son of Jacobi SCHOFFTER and Barbara KAPPLER?
- Matrina (godmother): Maria Bernarda WAGNER, only daughter of Laurentÿ WAGNER and Margaretha MANINGER?
- 10-Jan-1783 (p.750) - Maria Anna Fuchs
- The godmother is Bernarda LEHMANN, the only daughter of Jacobi LEHMANN and deceased
Maria Anna Schmitt
- Soufflenheim microfilm FHL # 740080
- Church records, 1743-1793
Volume 2A - Baptisms, 1783-1791
- 31-Mar-1783 (p. 5) - Bernharda Drechsler
- The godmother is Bernharda LEHMANN, daughter of Jacobi LEHMANN and
deceased Maria Anna Schmitt
- 27-Aug-1784 (p.36) - Bernarda Fuchs
- The godmother is Bernarda LEHMANN, wife of Antonii MULLER
- 06-Mar-1786 (p.77) - Maria Anna - parents: Antonii LEHMANN and Eva Arn
- The godmother is Berarda [sic] MULLER, nata LEHMANN
- From Soufflenheim Marriage Contracts collected by Robert Wideen:
- ANTON MÜLLER & MARIA ANNA WILT, 1788
- Marriage contract dated 10 January 1788
- Anton Müller is the widower of Bernarda Lehmann
- Correspondence from Marge
Thomas, Jan-2003
- b: 1884 d: 1959
- Sister of Nicholas Ferdinand Lehnerd
- Wife of John F. Steibel
- Correspondence from Marge
Thomas, Jan-2003
- b: 1876
- Brother of Agnes Mary Lehnerd
- Husband of Rose M. Steibel
- Ancestry.com on-line database: Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 (available in the World Explorer Package)
- Her name is given as "Susanna Levenig" in her 18-Nov-1820 marriage record in Hoinkhausen
- Her name is given as "Susanna Levenig" in the baptism records of these children of hers in Hoinkhausen:
- Caspar Joseph Baltasar, 15-Nov-1822
- Franciscus Ludovicus Balthazar, 14-Jun-1824
- Caspar Henrich Balthasar, 03-May-1827
- Wilhelmus Bartholomee, 20-May-1829
- Maria Theresia Balthasar, 09-Feb-1832
- Franciscus Balthasar, 29-Jul-1834
- Immigration: Ship Constitution, arriving 04-Sep-1837 in New York
- In the passenger list, her age is 36
- Family History of Evelyn M. Schaefer,
2000
- Name: Suzanna Lobenicht
- Died: prior to 1855
- Wife of Christopher Balthasar
- Message posted to www.familyhistory.com Ludwig Surname Message Board by
Marie Schu, 24-Oct-1999:
- "Margaretha Ludwig b. Germany, d. 19 Apr. 1874, Lancaster, Erie,
NY, m. Anton Nuwer b. Germany, d. 4 Dec. 1857, Lancaster, Erie. NY."
- Letter from Dr. Donald C. Nuwer to Brian Smith, Dec-2000:
- "Antoine Nubere (that name is on grave marker), and Margaretha
Ludwig Nubere markers still stand (though toppling) at the top of the
hill [in St. Mary's Cemetery, Lancaster] near large tree, not far from
Jos. Voegele [1788-1868] the first."
- Soufflenheim microfilm FHL # 740028
- Civil records, marriages, 1793-1832
- Marriage record of Antoine Nuber and Marguerite Ludwig, 11-Apr-1818
- Marguerite born 02-Nivose-y.4 (3-Dec-1795) in Soufflenheim
- Marguerite's parents:
- Joseph Ludwig, present
- Catherine Messner, present
- Family History Report contributed by Germaine Stenger, March, 2005
- LUTZENBURGER Anne Marie Barbe
- naissance circa 1687
- mort 17.10.1715
- Genealogy of Lucien Stab at http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/lstab
- LUTZENBURGER, Anne Barbe
- Naissance : vers 1687 à Nousseviller,57720,,Moselle,France
- Décès : 17 octobre 1715 à Nousseviller,57720,,Moselle,France
- From the website of Didier
Ott at http://ott.fr
- Husband of Anne Marie JUCHS
- Son of Jean Henri LUX and Anne-Marie ENNESSER
- Birth: 1710, Oberbetschdorf,,Bas-Rhin
- Occupation: forgeron
- Death: 10 MAY 1790, Surbourg
- Second wife: Anna Ursula Henrica HECK
- Marriage: 17 JUL 1780, Surbourg
- No known children from this second marriage
- From the website of Didier
Ott at http://ott.fr
- Birth: 1679, Oberbetschdorf,Bas-Rhin
- Death: 1753, Surbourg
- Married Anne-Marie ENNESSER
- Kutzenhausen civil records
from Bas-Rhin Online Records
- LUX, Madelaine (death)
- Kutzenhausen 1817 D (deaths), page 2 of 13, record # 4
- Died 09-Mar-1817
- Age 78
- Born in Kutzenhausen
- Widow of Nicolas WEBER
- Lived in Kutzenhausen
- Parents not named
- Witnesses:
- Michel WOLFF, age 48
- Jean WEBER, age 52
- From the website of Didier
Ott at http://ott.fr and from e-mail correspondence
with Didier Ott in Apr-2007
- Wife of Nicolas WEBER
- Daughter of Jean Adam LUX and Anne Marie JUCHS
- Birth: 22 OCT 1739, Surbourg,67250,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE
- Death: 9 MAR 1817, Kutzenhausen,67250,Bas-Rhin,Alsace,FRANCE