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The farmer Johann Schild and his wife Margareta nee Lunkenheimer (sp. Longenheimer also found) came in 1846 with their children Angela (1825-?), Lorenz (1827-1904), Elisabeth (1830-1913), Catherine (1833-1912), Margaretha (1836-1872), Anna Maria (1839-1939), John/Johann (1842-1924), and Agnes (1845-1928) from Wallhausen (55595, Kreis Kreuznach), Rhine-Prussia, to the USA. Passage: ship Elisha Dennison, arrived in New York on September 17, 1846. They subsequently had another daughter, Mary (1851-?). In 1850 and 1860, the family resided in Addison (Washington Co.), WI. The family was Roman-Catholic. Lorenz, my ancestor, married Christine Karbach, see below.
Among the other children of Johann Schild and Margareta Lunkenheimer, very little is known about Angela, except that she shows up on the 1870 census (but not in 1850 or 1860) with her parents. Elisabeth married Jacob Simon (1819-1898, of Ittersdorf, Rhine-Prussia). Catherine married Christopher Lang (1816-1897, of Darmstadt). Margaretha married Johann Girlinger (1831-1891, of Alsace). Anna Maria married Johann Dengel (1833-1912, of Waldhilbersheim, Kr.Kreuznach). Johann married Anna Catharina Spartz (1849-1921, of Granville Twp., Milwaukee Co., WI). Agnes married John Freiburger (1839-1918, of Alsace). The only reference to Mary is on the 1860 census.
Christine Karbach, who was born in Büdesheim near Bingen, Hesse-Darmstadt, immigrated in 1850 with her three year-old son Lorenz (1847-1920) on ship Maria Elisabeth via Rotterdam to New York and married Lorenz Schild shortly thereafter. In the 1850s Lorenz and Christine moved to Rubicon (Dodge Co.), WI. They had four more children, Katherina (1852, died as child), my ancestor Katherine (1856-1923), Angeline (1858-1950) who married Fred Meister (1853-?), and John (1860-1925) who married Wilhelmina Crowfoot (?-1907), then Mary Doll (1857-1928).
Christina's sister, Catherine Karbach, emigrated with her in 1850, and shortly thereafter married Niklaus Uhrmacher in Wisconsin. They moved to Livingston County, Missouri around 1870. A younger brother, Sebastian Karbach, emigrated to the United States at some point. He fought in the Civil War as first lieutenant in the 45th Wisconsin infantry; he was in the 2nd infantry (from Hustiford, Dodge Co) from May 1861 to June 1864 and the 45th from Sept 1864 to 6 Nov 1864. The 45th was stationed in Nashville, TN. By 1870, he, too, moved to Livingston County, Missouri.
I'm also interested in the earlier generations and the origin of the Karbach family. I have searched Catholic Church records in Büdesheim and only found baptisms of her siblings and the death of her father, but nothing earlier. The family seems to have been in this town for only a short time. There are indications that earlier generations might have lived in or around Damscheid.
BLACKMORE, BRIEHL, CONWAY, CROWFOOT, DEUTSCH, DeVOY, DINGEL, FREIBURGER, FREY, GÄLLWEILER, GIRLINGER, KARBACH (alt. CARBACH), KLEIN, KOOB, LUNKENHEIMER, McKEE, MEFFERT, MAYER, MEISTER, MOUNDEN, SCHILD, SCHULTE, SCHWÖRBEL, UHRMACHER WEBER, WELTER, WINCK.
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This page prepared by Urs Geiser. Last updated April 25, 2007