Source of her birth and confirmation information: Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pokrent, Mecklenburg.
Her baptismal sponsors were three single women: Katherine Marie Sophie Koch of [Gross?] Renzow, [her mother’s sister] Anna Maria Dorothea Koch of Niendorf [Neuendorf], and Magdalene Dorothea Elisabeth Koch of Luetzow.
She was confirmed in
Source of her immigration information: Hamburg Direct List-1864. Ship’s register in Hamburg.
She emigrated from Hamburg to New York on the Prinz Albert, leaving Hamburg on April 5, 1864. She traveled with her sons Johan, age 7, Joachim, age 5, and Carl, age 2. Joachim Heinrich Christoph Wiech, age 40, and his son Joachim, age 16, traveled with her. All were listed as being from Neuendorf.
[The Prinz Albert was the same ship taken by her stepfather, Hans Joachim Ludwig Kohn, and his family from Hamburg to NYC in 1862.]

Source: Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pokrent, Mecklenburg.
In 1857 and 1859 he lived in Lutzow. In 1860 he lived in Boize bei Zarrentin, southwest of Pokrent in the Schaalsee area.

Source: Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pokrent, Mecklenburg.
He was living in Schoenwolde when his son was born in 1862. Schoenwolde is due west of Pokrent.

Source of the information in Mecklenburg: Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pokrent, Mecklenburg.
Heinrich’s parents were Peter Ludwig Wiech, a workman in Alt Pokrent, and Katharine Sophie Koester. His baptismal sponsors were Franz Jochim Krueger, Jochim Christoph Steinfall of All Pokrent, and Heinrich Nicolaus Koester of Koeltzin (?).


Source of the immigration information: Hamburg Direct LIst--1864: Ship’s register in Hamburg for the Prinz Albert.
Heinrich emigrated to New York from Hamburg on the Prinz Albert with his 16 year-old son Joachim Wiech on April 5, 1864. He was traveling with Catherine Koch and her sons Johan, 7, Joachim, 5, and Carl, 2.
His name was also given as Weich and Wieg.