Johannes Leins

Johannes married Anna Maria Schneider on 22 Oct 1732 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Anna was born on 1 Feb 1711 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Johann Georg Wahl on 27 Jan 1761 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Johann was born on 8 Jan 1731 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a farmer. On birth and death records he is listed as Johann Friedrich and on the marriage record he is listed as Georg Friedrich. But no other Friedrich Liens is listed between 1784 and 1826, so it is assumed they are the same person.

Email from Dot Williams, dated May 23, 2005:

A belated Thank you for mailing me the German Family Church Records. Several years ago you forwarded some of these that you had received by e-mail (I think it was) from a man in Germany. I took my copies with me when I went to Salt Lake City that year, and asked for help reading them from a lady who worked in the International Department. The Old German was very difficult to read, but she did it as if she was reading the morning paper. I was amazed. Anyway, I compared what she had read for me, with this information from Kathy Bonnell, and found 3 places where we did not agree.

1) Adam Benkelman was born in 1825 not 1835.

2) (Generation 3) Christoph Stahle married Barbara Fritz not Frey. I just took another look at the original record, and it sure looks like Fritz to me.

3) (Generation 5-last page) Georg Friedrich Leins was born 25 January 174(5)?. There is a line in the copy that goes right over the last digit but it looks like a 5. But it certainly was not 11 Apr 1740 (as per Kathy Bonnell). The death date was correct. I'm not going to change my information, because I truly think it is more accurate than hers. But it is a good summary of the Benkelman collateral lines, and Thank You for sending it to me.

Dot

Johann married Eva Herb on 26 May 1767 in Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Eva (daughter of Conrad Herb and Maria Catharine ???) was born about 6 Aug 1748 in Unterberken, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; died on 13 Sep 1826 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Johann Leonhard Baur on 17 Apr 1798 in Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Johann (son of Johann Georg Baur and Anna Maria Stegmaier) was born on 4 Nov 1760 in Breech, B?rtlingen Parish, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; died on 14 Dec 1835 in Breech, B?rtlingen Parish, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Georg Friedrich St?hle on 4 Nov 1794 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Georg (son of Christoph St?hle and Barbara Fritz) was born on 10 Dec 1768 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; died on 15 Jul 1850 in B?rtlingen, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kathy Bonnell shows that she was not married, but that she was the mother of Johann Georg Schaufele, born 31 Jan 1822 in Breech, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany.

Maria married Georg Heinrich Kaiser on 15 Apr 1828 in Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Georg was born on 12 Sep 1799 in Hundsholz, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; died on 26 Aug 1864 in Breech, B?rtlingen Parish, G?ppingen, Donaukreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On "January something" in 1983, Bonnie Jacobs wrote "A search for some years has finally yielded information for me. As you have probably heard, the last of the 10 Benkelman children to emigrate from Germany were the four girls and their mother [Dorothea, age 52, and daughters Dorothea age 23, Catharina, age 21, Maria, age 13, and Lena, age 7]. We had heard from family legends that the mother died at sea and I have pursued that information for years. I have finally retrieved it. It is a painstaking process to get the facts, but I finally found an obituary that identified the port of entry as Baltimore---a stroke of luck since Baltimore was one of the few American ports of entry that did have a Customs passenger list. I have retrieved the film from the Archives in Washington--but it has brought a new mystery. It is remarkable that finding the answer to one question almost always raises another. Missing from the party of four daughters and the mother is the second eldest daughter, Catharina. She was released from the Empire with the others on 20 September of 1853--but there is no record of her having arrived in Baltimore!

At least I have a death date on the mother now. She died at sea on 22 October, barely a month into the voyage. The ship arrived in Baltimore on December 15. Can you imagine being packed into one of those filthy sailing vessels for six to nine weeks? Try to imagine the day to day living with no privacy, no way to bathe or attend to personal needs and only buggy, dried food to eat! Our ancestors suffered much. I will go and try to retrieve the Captain's actual report now that I know the ship and the Captain--to see if a cause of death is listed. Cholera was rampant that year, but I think it was not the cause since the part of the list I have seen shows only one other death during the voyage."

BonnieMargaret Jacobs shows her, on her transcription of the familienregister page of the Benkelmann family, as a daughter of George Friedrich St?hle and Anna Maria REIK or RECH. However, Anna Maria REIK is actually the mother of Dorothea's daughter-in-law Catharina Schaufele, who married Dorothea's son Adam Benkelmann. Kathy Bonnell, on her transcription of G?ppingen church records, shows her mothers maiden name was LEINS. BonnieMargaret appears to have been simply confusing the two Anna Maria's. Additionally, the family register for the family of Georg Friedrich St?hle, listing his wife and children, shows his wife Anna Maria was born to Georg Friedrich Leins, a farmer.

On the Oberant Welzheim Emmigrants list, 1818-1891, She is listed as Maria Dorothea, Witwe (widow) des Bauers Johann Leonhard Benkelmann von Schneiderhof, Gd. Waldhausen geb. den 5ten Januar 1800. Their guarantor was Johann Georg St?hle, Bauer von B?rtlingen.

(BonnieMargaret's full source citation was: Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg, "Verzeichnis der Auswanderung aus dem Oberamt Welzheim 1818-1891" F 214 B?schel 91 Fortlaufende Number 42 [or possibly 47] ).

Maria married Johann Leonhard Benkelmann on 20 Nov 1822 in Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. Johann (son of Johann Jakob Binkelmann, III and Maria Catharina Baur) was born on 6 Feb 1796 in Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany; died on 24 Feb 1848 in Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]