The Family Of: Anselm Weigang
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Birth: 14-SEP-1830 Voigtsdorf, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Marriage: 18-JAN-1857 in Hammer; Anslem a "Stuckmann" there.
Death: 01-AUG-1878 Guadalupe Co., Texas
Burial: Comal Cemetery, New Braunfels, Texas
Father: Josephus Antonius Weigang (Joseph)
Mother: Maria Magdalena Tschoepe Weigang (Magdalena)
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Wife: Carolina Lauffer Weigang
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Birth: 10-AUG-1833 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: - -1885 New Baden, Robertson Co., Texas
Burial: Comal Cemetery, New Braunfels, Texas (?)
Father: Joseph Stephanus Lauffer (Joseph)
Mother: Maria Anna Mader Lauffer (Marianna)
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Children
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Agnes Weigang Loehmann [F]
Birth: 22-APR-1857 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: 15-JUL-1944 Seguin, Guadalupe Co., Texas
Spouse: Henry Loehmann
Anna Weigang [F]
Birth: 13-JUN-1859 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death:
Spouse:
Maria Weigang (Twin of Anna) [F]
Birth: 13-JUN-1859 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death:
Spouse:
Albertine Weigang Niemann (Bertha) [F]
Birth: 20-SEP-1860 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: Robertson Co., TX
Spouse: John Niemann
Reimund Weigang (Raymond) [M]
Birth: 07-FEB-1863 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: 17-NOV-1940
Spouse: Lena Altenhoff Weigang
August Emil Fritz Weigang (Augustin) [M]
Birth: 28-APR-1864 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: 26-JAN-1948 Seguin, Texas
Spouse: Marie Mattfeld Weigang
Maria Theresia Weigang [F]
Birth: 22-SEP-1865 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death:
Spouse:
Philomena Weigang [F]
Birth: 09-DEC-1866 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death:
Spouse:
Joseph Weigang [M]
Birth: 05-NOV-1868 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: 22-OCT-1940
Spouse: Mary Lindemann Weigang
Maria Weigang Mattfeld (Mary) [F]
Birth: 13-FEB-1871 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death: 01-SEP-1951
Spouse: Emil Konrad Mattfeld
Heinrich Weigang [M]
Birth: 15-JUL-1872 Hammer, Habelschwerdt, Silesia, Prussia
Death:
Spouse:
Comments for: Anselm Weigang
Residence: Schumannsville Community, 6 miles from Seguin,
TX
Came to U.S.A. in 1874(?), landing at Indianola, Texas.
Emmigrated from:
DORF - Hammer
KRIES - Habelschwerdt
BEZERK - Breslau, Germany (Schlesien)
When the Weigang's left Germany, the three eldest boys got
lost while waiting on the warf at the port of Bremerhaven.
Raymond was 12 and a "rover", August was 10, Joe was 8;
and Raymond wanted to go watch the birds -- probably sea
birds around the beach. When police found them all they
could say was they wanted to go to North America.
Raymond's sister Mary Weigang Mattfeld was only 3 yrs.
old and her father Anselm held her up in his arms as they
watched the German shoreline recede.
Immigrated 1872 according to 1900 Census records of Joseph
Weigang and 1871 according to Mary Weigang Mattfeld.
Some say the Weigang's intended to go on to Australia.
But after landing in Texas they never undertook that voyage,
which would have taken them south around South America. They
did not yet have a Panama Canal to use.
Anselm died near Schumansville of injuries from a
horse and wagon accident, aged 47.
Comments for: Carolina Lauffer Weigang
Carolina Weigang:
Appears in 1880 Census, vol 15, ED 74, 268, line 38
Guadalupe County, Texas. (Soundex no. W252 in index)
Commissioner's Precinct no. 3., Long Creek Settlement
White, female, age 45, householder, born Prussia.
Children (all born in Prussia):
Agnes, age 21
Bertha, age 18
Raymond, age 16 (farmer)
August, age 15 (farmer)
Joseph, age 10 (at school)
Mary, age 8 (at school) (married Mattfeld)
Also on 259 (Sheet 33), line 40:
William [Wilhelm] Weigang(residing with cousin Louis
Tschoepe), age 36, farmer, born Prussia