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Maria Gertrud Repking

Birth
Holthausen, Landkreis Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany
Death
17 May 1824 (aged 4 months)
Holthausen, Landkreis Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany
Burial
Oythe, Landkreis Vechta, Lower Saxony, Germany Add to Map
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Notes from the Sacramental Book of the Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary in Oythe..

Her Baptism is recorded on Page 54. She was number 28 Baptized in1823. Geborn December 26 Baptized December 27 Maria Gertude Der Alten Franz Anton Repking Lynuaruinn in Holzhausen und Maria Anna Geborn Kuhlman Der Gebatten Johan Heinrich Bruns und Marie Gertrude Cohorst geborn Repking

Death: Page 38 1824 Tage des Todes May 17 Tage des Begradenisses May 18
Marie Gertrudis Int Franz Anton Repking Zuisaduinuin in Holzhausen und Marie Anna Geborn Kuhlmann 4 monat 21 tage

The Church record shows she died in 1824, but her name appears in the landing record for the Bark Rob Roy which landed in New Orleans on November 5, 1849. Her elder sister's name, Catharina Elizabeth, does not appear in the passenger list (See Franz Anton Repking)

Did Catharina used Gertrud's name in order to leave Oldenburg? We may never know the answer because after 1849, no mention of Catherina appeared in any of the census or St Francis Catholic Church records.
Notes from the Sacramental Book of the Church of The Blessed Virgin Mary in Oythe..

Her Baptism is recorded on Page 54. She was number 28 Baptized in1823. Geborn December 26 Baptized December 27 Maria Gertude Der Alten Franz Anton Repking Lynuaruinn in Holzhausen und Maria Anna Geborn Kuhlman Der Gebatten Johan Heinrich Bruns und Marie Gertrude Cohorst geborn Repking

Death: Page 38 1824 Tage des Todes May 17 Tage des Begradenisses May 18
Marie Gertrudis Int Franz Anton Repking Zuisaduinuin in Holzhausen und Marie Anna Geborn Kuhlmann 4 monat 21 tage

The Church record shows she died in 1824, but her name appears in the landing record for the Bark Rob Roy which landed in New Orleans on November 5, 1849. Her elder sister's name, Catharina Elizabeth, does not appear in the passenger list (See Franz Anton Repking)

Did Catharina used Gertrud's name in order to leave Oldenburg? We may never know the answer because after 1849, no mention of Catherina appeared in any of the census or St Francis Catholic Church records.


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