Brief Life History of Cathrine Wilhelmine
When Cathrine Wilhelmine Langenkamp was born about 14 October 1815, in Versmold, Kreis Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Johann Heinrich Langenkamp, was 30 and her mother, Anne Catherine Stroekers, was 18. She married Wilhelm Heinrich Friedrich Thies on 23 May 1841, in Versmold, Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She immigrated to New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1857. She died on 16 May 1864, in Randolph, Illinois, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Bremen, Randolph, Illinois, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (23)
- Catharine M Thies in household of Henry W Thies, "United States Census, 1860"
- Catharine Wilhelmine Langenkamp, "Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898"
- Catharine Wilhelmine Langenkamp, "Germany Marriages, 1558-1929"
Spouse and Children
1813–1864 Male
1815–1864 Female
Children (7)
1841–1908 Female
1844–1908 Male
1846–1846 Male
1848–1908 Female
1850–1937 Male
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Parents and Siblings
1786–1824 Male
1798– Female
Siblings (1)
1815–1864 Female
World Events (8)
1818
Age 3
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 4
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 15
Name Meaning
Dutch and North German: habitational name from any of the places so called in Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a long field, kamp being the North German word for ‘enclosed field’ or ‘domain’. Compare Langenfeld .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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