Brief Life History of Catharine Wilhelmine
When Catharine Wilhelmine Langenkamp was born about 14 October 1815, in Versmold, Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, her father, Johann Heinrich Langenkamp, was 30 and her mother, Anne Catherine Stroekers, was 18. She married Heinrich Wilhelm Thies on 23 May 1841, in Versmold, Halle, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 3 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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- 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"
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1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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