| From: LeRoy Felzien Sent: Friday, 03 September, 2004 13:59 To: Dan Felzien Subject: Felzien Family History ----- Original Message -----
From: David
Murray
To: LeRoy Felzien
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Felzien Family History Yes you are missing something! :) Did you receive the
attachment titled "Johann Christoph Welsin Family" ? Ernst and Fred's
father is Johann Christoph Welsin and their mother is Friedericka Sophia
Rosenkrantz. The children listed on the Johann Christoph Welsin Family
Group Sheet are Ernst and Fred and their siblings. It is a bit confusing
because according to the baptism records Ernst & Fred had the exact same
names.
The family group sheets for Auguste Leonore Fredricke Velsin and the one
for Johann Christian Friederich Schroeder is Ernst and Fred's sister, the one
for Carl Heinrich Rosenkrantz is Ernst and Fred's maternal grandparents, and I
forgot to send you one for Lindhorst, which is another sister.
Vonnie
Here is the family group sheet for the Johann Christoph Welsin Family again
in case you didn't receive the attachment.
Let me know if you need any of the others. I can send you the one on
Lindhorst if you want it.
Name: Johann Christoph WELSIN1 (THIS IS ERNST AND FRED'S FATHER) ---------------------------------------- Death:
bef 18632 Father:
Jochen WELSIN (-<1816) Marriage:
3 May 1816
Helpt, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany1 ---------------------------------------- Spouse: Friedericka Sophia ROSENKRANZ3 (THIS IS ERNST AND FRED'S MOTHER) ---------------------------------------- Birth:
11 Dec 1789
Helpte, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany3 Death:
10 Dec 1863
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany2 Burial:
13 Dec 1863
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany2 Father:
Carl Heinrich ROSENKRANZ (~1761-<1816) Mother:
Maria Sophia PAETZEN Children: ---------------------------------------- 1 F:
Sophia Friederica Ida WELSIEN4
(THIS IS ERNST AND FRED'S SISTER) Birth:
19 Aug 1816
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany4 Death:
26 Aug 1828
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany5 ---------------------------------------- 2 F: Johanna Christiana Friederica WELSIN (ANOTHER SISTER) Birth:
28 Apr 1818
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany6 Death:
2 Jun 1819
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany7 ---------------------------------------- 3 F: Hanna Sophia Friedericka WELSIEN8 (ANOTHER SISTER) Birth:
3 May 1820
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany8 Spouse:
Carl Friedrich Joseph LINDHORST Marriage:
15 Oct 1847
Badresch, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany9 ---------------------------------------- 4 M: Johann Joachim Friedrich VELZIEN10 (ERNST AND FRED'S BROTHER) Birth:
21 Feb 1823
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany10 Death:
2 Sep 1828
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany11 ---------------------------------------- 5 F:
Auguste Friedrike Wilhelmine VELSIEN12
(ANOTHER SISTER) Birth:
22 Jun 1825
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany12 ---------------------------------------- 6 M: Ernst Christian Friedrich VELSIEN/FELZIEN13 (THIS IS ERNST) Birth:
3 Mar 1828
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany13 Death:
11 Jan 1886
Kenesaw, Adams Co., Nebraska, U.S.A.14 Spouse: Christine Auguste
KORTZ Marriage:
abt 1859
Illinois15 ---------------------------------------- 7 F:
Auguste Leonore Friedrike VELSIN16
(ANOTHER SISTER) Birth:
26 May 1830
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany16 Spouse: Spouse:
Johann Christian Friedrich SCHROEDER Marriage:
22 Oct 1857
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany17 ---------------------------------------- 8 M:
Ernst Christian Friedrich VELSIN/FELZIEN18
(THIS IS FRED) Birth:
27 Oct 1838
Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany18 Death:
21 Feb 1933
Hastings, Nebraska19 Spouse:
Sophia Elizabeth EINSPAHR Marriage:
25 Apr 1869
Blue Island, Cook Co, Illinois19 Notes for Johann Christoph
WELSIN Johann's occupation was a
laborer. This small bit of
information tells us volumes about his life and also helps us to understand why
his sons, Ernst and Fred immigrated to America. As a laborer on area farms he would have
been very knowledgable about
farming and livestock and probably had a love of the land, yet never in his life
would he have had the opportunity to own land for himself. During this time period in Mecklenburg if a man
was a laborer he would always be a laborer. Johann had neither the opportunity to
own land, nor could he have changed his occupation and learned a skill. As a laborer's sons, Ernst and Fred also
could only have been laborers. A
laborer's children did not have the right to learn a skill either, nor could
they own land. There were no future
prospects for them in Mecklenburg.
A laborer also lived a life of poverty. Most of them lived in rented cottages in
the village and went to work each day at the nearby farms. The wages they earned barely covered
their cost of living.
We found it interesting that
vaccinations the children received were recorded in the church record book. They were vaccinated as a baby and again
when they were confirmed. Johann
and Friedericka lost three children to epidemics. The first to die was their second
daughter, Johanna. She died in 1819
at the age of 1 year. At this point
we don't know what the disease was as the word was abbreviated and was an
old-fashioned term that my friend was unfamiliar with, but there was a list of
children who had died from the same disease. The second epidemic that they lost
children to was a measles epidemic in 1828. In this epidemic they lost their oldest
daughter Sophie Friedrike Ida at the age of 12 years and their first-born son
Johann Joachim at the age of 5 years.
Ernst was 5 months old at this time. Notes for Friedericka Sophia
ROSENKRANZ Baptism witnesses were
whiskey brewer, Michel Mein; Sophia
Paetzen of Holzendorf, Friederica Burwigs of Holzendorf.3 Friederica Sophia Rosenkranz
confirmed 1805 Helpt, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany.20 Sources 1. "Marriage Record," 3 May
1816, Helpte, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Marriage 2., Page 219, Microfilm
#006756, LDS Family History Library. 2. "Burial Record," 13 December
1863, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Burial 7., Page 204, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 3. "Baptism Record," 11 Dec
1789, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 7, Page, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 4. "Baptism Record," 1 Sep
1816, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 8, Page 22, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 5. "Burial Records," 26 August
1828, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Burial 8., Page 169, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 6. "Baptism Record," 3 May
1818, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 8, Page 30 (28),
Microfilm #0069756, LDS Family History Library. 7. "Burial Record," 4 June
1819, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Burial 16, Page 161, Microfilm
#006756, LDS Family History Library. 8. "Baptism Record," 11 May
1820, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Page 33, Microfilm #0069756,
LDS Family History Library. 9. "Marriage Record," 15 Oct
1847, Badresch, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Marriage 1., Page 164, Microfilm
#0069709, LDS Family History Library. 10. "Baptism Record," 2 Mar
1823, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 2, Page 37 (?),
Microfilm #0069756, LDS Family History Library. 11. "Burial Record," 5 September
1828, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Burial 9, Page 169, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 12. "Baptism Record," 3 July
1825, Holzenburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 10, Page 46, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 13. "Baptism Record," 16 March
1828, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 7, Page 53, Microfilm
0069756, LDS Family History Library. 14. "Burial Record," 14 January 1886, Zion Lutheran Cemetery,
Ledger A-266, Zion-Wanda Lutheran Church, R.R. 1 Box 102, Juniata, Nebraska
68955. 15. "1860 U.S. Federal Census,"
Worth Twp, Cook Co, Illinois, Blue Island P.O., 4 June 1860, Electronic Image,
Ancestry.com, 20 May 2003. 16. "Baptism Record," 30 May
1830, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 5, Page 59, Microfilm
#0069756, LDS Family History Library. 17. "Marriage Record," 22
October 1857, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Marriage 1., Page 249,
Microfilm #0069756, LDS Family History Library. 18. "Baptism Record," 11
November 1838, Holzendorf, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, Baptism 16, Page 80,
Microfilm #0069756, LDS Family History Library. 19. "Felzien Family Tree," LeRoy
W. Felzien, May 1983. 20. "Confirmation Record," 1805,
Helpte, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany, LDS Family History Library Microfilm
#0069756, Page 184. ---------------------------------------- Last Modified:
19 Jun 2004 Created:
20 Jun 2004
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