My Trails into the Past

Because the timeline worked so well last month documenting G.W. Lancaster, I have decided to create a timeline first of what I know about Matilda Wollenweber. Then I can work on filling in any missing information. Some of the documents will need to be revisited as I do not have up-to-date links to them. Some may only have a microfilm number. Matilda Wollenweber is my husband’s paternal great-grandmother. Her daughter, Matilda Davey married Joseph Norman Gorrell, who were his grandparents. Matilda “Tillie” Wollenweber Timeline 1859    Matilda was born on 27 August 1859 to Ludwig Wilhelm Wollenweber and Philippina Veringer. She was baptized by Carl Ludwig Daubert, nearly a year later, on 22 July 1860 at St. Paul’s Evangelical Church in Louisville. [1] COMMENT: From a Wikipedia article, St. Paul’s German Evangelical Church was the first German Evangelical Church to be established in Louisville, being founded in 1836 by Rev. George Brandau. [2] She was baptized in the fir...

Johan Anton Hork (1843-1906) was my great-grandfather. He immigrated to the United States in 1870, married Julia Ann Sievert in 1872, had ten children, worked as a tailor, and died in Wyoming in 1906. I wrote about his life in The Family of Johan Anton Hork & Julia Ann Sievert – 12 for ’26 . Now is time to cover his origins in Germany. He was born on 9 November 1843 in Oberhundem, Westfalen. [1] It is a very small village in Kreis (District) Olpe. This area is now in the German state Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhein Westphalia). His baptism record was found and from there, working backward, his parent’s marriage and their baptism records were found. These records were found using microfilm at the Family History Library. Digital images are available now, but only at a FamilySearch Center. This is on my research plan the next time I am there. I want to update my source citations to the online images. For now, the reference will be to the microfilm number. On the name change. The...