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From: "Karen Rowe" <>
Subject: [IABREMER-L] Rohlwing Family From Apelern, Germany to Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:46:59 -0500

Dear Sandra,

Thank you for your email. Here is information on one immigrant Rohrwing family to America/Cook Co.,
IL/Rice Co., MN/Bremer Co., IA with my sources.

Is this the family you are interested in or related to? I can also provide information on the next
generation for you.

Karen S. Rowe



Family Group Sheet

Husband: Heinrich CHRISTOPH Rohlwing
Born: 14 NOV 1798 in: Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany 1
Baptized: 15 NOV 1798 in: Apelern, Kreis Schaumburg, Germany 2
Died: 25 JUL 1872 in: MN 3
Buried: in: St. John UCC Cemetery, Rice Co., MN
Father: Heinrich Rohlwing
Mother: Maria Louise Meyer
To America 1846.

1st Wife: Hanna Wilhelmine ELEONORE Gellermann
Married: 01 JAN 1826 in: Apelern, Kreis Schaumburg, Germany 4
Born: 20 SEP 1801 in: Schoholtensen #8, Schaumburg, Germany 5
Baptized: in:
Died: 15 AUG 1853 in:
Buried: in: St. Peter Luth. Cem., Schaumburg, IL
Father:
Mother:

M Child 1 HEINRICH Friedrich Wilhelm Rohlwing
Born: 05 SEP 1826 in: Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 10 SEP 1826 in: Apelern, Kreis Schaumburg, Germany 2
Died: 13 MAR 1870 in: Schaumburg, Cook Co., IL 6
Buried: in: St. Peter Luth. Cem., Schaumburg, IL
Spouse: Dorothea Caroline Wilhelmine Freise
Married: 18 APR 1852 in: St. Peter Luth. Church, Schaumburg, IL 7

F Child 2 HANNA Wilhelmine Eleonore Rohlwing
Born: 21 AUG 1828 in: Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany
Baptized: 31 AUG 1828 in: Apelern, Kreis Schaumburg, Germany 2
Died: __ ___ 1844 in: 2
Buried: in:

M Child 3 Heinrich CHRISTOPH Rohlwing
Born: 12 JUL 1831 in: Wiersen #17, Schaumburg, Germany 8
Baptized: 13 JUL 1831 in: Apelern, Kreis Schaumburg, Germany 2
Died: 13 JUL 1885 in: Fremont Twp., Bremer Co., IA 9
Buried: in: St. John Crane Creek, Tripoli, IA
Spouse: Engel Maria Sophia Eleonore Freise
Married: 04 SEP 1853 in: St. Peter Luth. Church, Schaumburg, IL 7
Spouse: Dorothea (SURNAME)
Married: in:
Schaumburger Auswanderer #681, to America 1846.
Note in baptism record to Amerika 1846.

F Child 4 Engel Maria Sophia Rohlwing
Born: 03 AUG 1834 in: Wiersen, Kr. Schaumburg, Germany 10
Baptized: in:
Died: 26 NOV 1913 in:
Buried: in: St. Peter Luth. Cem., Schaumburg, IL 10
Spouse: Johann JOHN Meyer
Married: 04 SEP 1853 in: St. Peter Luth. Church, Schaumburg, IL 11

M Child 5 Friedrich Christoph Rohlwing
Born: 28 NOV 1838 in: 12
Baptized: in:
Died: AFT 1869 in:
Buried: in:
Spouse: Friedericka Abelmann
Married: in: 7

F Child 6 Engel Rohlwing
Born: __ ___ 1843 in: 5
Baptized: in:
Died: in:
Buried: in:

2nd Wife: Engel Maria Aberland
Married: in:
Born: 15 NOV 1812 in: Winzlar, Birgkirchen, Sch.Lippe, Germany 5
Baptized: in:
Died: 12 AUG 1882 in: MN
Buried: in:
Father:
Mother:

F Child 1 Louise Rohlwing
Born: 11 JUN 1855 in: Winzlar, Birgkirchen, Sch.Lippe, Germany 12
Baptized: in:
Died: 17 DEC 1941 in: Faribault, Rice Co., MN 7
Buried: in: St. John UCC Cemetery, Rice Co., MN
Spouse: Wilhelm Friedrich Hachfeld
Married: 09 APR 1875 in: St. John UCC, Wheeling Twp, Rice Co., MN 7


1 Information from Jeffrey M. Kindseth; Email:

2 Apelern church BAPTISM records, Kr. Schaumburg, Germany

3 St. Johns UCC, Wheeling Twp., Rice Co., MN burial records.

4 Apelern church MARRIAGE records, Kr. Schaumburg, Germany

5 People of Schaumburg Township, Cook Co., IL website address:
http://web54.sd54.k12.il.uw/district54/socst/schaumb/people/fasse.htm

6 Information from Larry Nerge; Internet Address:
www.familytreemaker.com/users/n/e/r/Larry-G-Nerge/

7 Information from Larry Nerge; Email:

8 Schaumburg Auswanderer 1820-1914, by Heinrich Rieckenberg, Rinteln, Germany.

9 Bremer Co. Cemetery Records, Bremer Co. Genealogy Society, Iowa May 1983

10 Cook Co., IL ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/il/cook/cemetery/stpeters.txt

11 St. Peter Lutheran Church records, Schaumburg, Cook Co., IL

12 People of Schaumburg Township, Cook Co., IL website address:
http://web54.sd54.k12.il.uw/district54/socst/schaumb/people/fasse.htm
Information from Larry Nerge; Internet Address:

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