Gottlieb Samuel FUHRMANN
was born on 24 January 1819 in Obornik (Obornicki, Poland) Prov. Posen, South
Prussia as a son of Johann Benjamin Fuhrmann and Anna Louisa
Peterson.
He died in September 1888 in Town Jackson, Washington County, Wisconsin.
He emigrated in 1843 as an “Old Lutheran” from Prussia to prevent from the persecution of the Prussian administration after the compulsory merger of the reformed churches to the Unitary Church, which the Old Lutherans didn’t merge. So the family of his later wife did, too.
He came to the States in 1844 via New York to Town Jackson in the “Territory of Wisconsin”, what became later the State of Wisconsin.
Gottlieb was married on 13 November 1845 in the David-Star-Church of Town Jackson to Friedericke Louise Henrietta Heckendorf from Schwantus, county Wollin in Pommerania, daughter of Christian Friedrich Hoeckendorf and Anna Maria Knoll.
the marriagerecord of Gottlieb Samuel Fuhrmann and
Friedericke Louise Henriette Heckendorff
The Hoeckendorf family asked (together with the whole Old Lutheran community of
Schwantus) for emigration ( the pastor of the community asked for the permit
for his communitymembers) in 1838 for 3 families and they got the permit in 1839
and they left Prussia abt. 1840-1842.
Gottlieb and Friedricke had 7 children ( 4 girls and 3 boys) but till now we could not discover all descendants of them.
Marie Louise Henriette
was married in
1868 to Christian Beutell from Polkow in Mecklemburg-Schwerin.
Elisabeth K. was married in 1875 to Peter C.Peterson from Norway
(see picture on the starting page).
They had 5 Children.
John Paul – see previous page
Julius and Hulda were both unmarried
Gustavus was a blacksmith and died in Feb 1907 in Burlington, Iowa. It is not
known if he was married or had children.
Naturalisation-Document of Gottlieb Fuhrmann, 16 Sept.1845
