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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ernestine Dorothea Sophie Schmeling: Birth: ABT. 1826 in Germany.

  2. Ferdinand Schmeling: Birth: BEF. 1826.

  3. Charlotte Karoline Friderike Schmeling: Birth: 1827 in Germany.

  4. Dorothea Ernestine Schmeling: Birth: ABT. 1829.

  5. Wilhelmine Ernestine Josophin Schmeling: Birth: 2 NOV 1829 in Germany.

  6. John Schmeling: Birth: BEF. 1832 in Germany. Death: 1903 in Immanuel Luth Ch, Acoma Twp, McLeod, MN

  7. Karoline Sophie Friderike Schmeling: Birth: 24 JUL 1834 in Germany. Death: 12 DEC 1871 in McLeod Co., MN

  8. Wilhelmina Schmeling: Birth: BEF. 1836 in Germany.

  9. Ernstina Schmeling: Birth: 24 NOV 1836 in Germany/Prussia. Death: 19 AUG 1910 in Acoma Twp, McLeod, MN

  10. Joachim Friedrich Wilhelm Schmeling: Birth: 1 SEP 1838 in Tribsow, Pommern, Preussen. Death: 10 JUN 1927 in Acoma Luth. Cem., McLeod Co., MN

  11. Ferdinand Schmeling: Birth: 24 AUG 1842 in Tribsow, Pomerania, Germany. Death: 26 MAR 1915 in MN

  12. John Schmeling: Birth: 1849 in Wisconsin. Death: BEF. 1905


Family
Marriage:
Sources
1. Title:   schmel.ged
Author:   Cindy Adams
Publication:   Received 11/6/99
2. Title:   Friestad, WI Churches
Page:   69 - Schmeling, Johann Christoph Friedrich family
Publication:   unknown date - aft. 1954
3. Title:   FamilySearch Ancestral File v. 4.19
Page:   www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=24141390
4. Title:   1885 Minnesota Census, Acoma Twp., McLeod Cty
Page:   Family 83 - page 12/13
5. Title:   Immanuel Ev. Luth. Church Centennial
Author:   Acoma, McLeod, MN
Publication:   1864-1964
6. Title:   1855 Wisconsin Census index

Notes
a. Note:   Johann immigrated to America in 1843. Johann and Caroline had a total of 13 children. However, 7 of the 13 had died by the time Caroline died. Only 6 immigrated to America with their parents. The German naming practices make matching individuals from secondary sources somewhat tricky. I recall reading that the Germans often used the name of a saint as the first name, and often they went by a second or third name. It was not uncommon to have several children with the same first name! Some German families also practiced naming children in a pattern, such as the 1st son would be named after the father's father, the second the mother's father, etc.


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