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From: "Dorothy Falk" <>
Subject: [ILCLINTO] Rensing, Kriger, Korte, etc
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 18:37:56 -0500

Surnames: RENSING KRIGER KORTE RANSING APKEN STOELZING KRUEGER APKE
HEIDEMANN
Submitter: Diana Rensing Hancock ()
Date: 30 Jun 2000

My Great Great Grandfather, Johann or John (called Herman or Harmon) Herman
Rensing, Sr. (often misspelled Ransing in many records), came with his wife
Adelheid or Helena Adelheid Krueger (also Kriger or Kruger) on the ship
Louisa Friederich from the port of Bremen, Germany to Damiansville, Clinton
Co., IL in 1839. They were from the Kingdom of Hanover, Germany. Lived in
Slagharen, Holland before coming to America. They had many children, but
only three lived into adulthood. My Great Grandfather, John Herman Rensing,
Jr. (called Herman), Anna Aleida or Catherine Anna Rensing, who married a
man named John Albert Apken or Apke. She died in 1886 at Beaver Prairie,
Clinton Co. There third and youngest son Henry Herman or Gerhard Henry who
married Christina Heitzmann. My Great Great Grandfather, Johann Herman
Rensing, Sr., after the death of Adelheid Krueger in 1852, married Marie
Catharine Korte. and had many more children. One being William Rensing, who
inherited the home farm on section 24. His des. still live on section 24.
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