NamePeter Wirth
Spouses
Birth5 Oct 1834, Neuendorf, Mecklenburg, Germany
Baptism5 Oct 1834, Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pokrent, Mecklenburg, Germany
Death9 Apr 1904, Carlisle Township, Lorain County, Ohio
Burial1904, Cleveland Street Cemetery, Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio
MotherCatharina Maria Sophia Koch (1809-1857)
Marriage24 Oct 1883, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Amherst, Lorain County, Ohio
Notes for Katharine Marie Dorothea (Spouse 1)
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.]
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