Re: Anna Kolbaum
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In reply to:
Anna Kolbaum
Sara Wedebrand 9/27/03
Hello,
My name is Mirja Kolbaum-Vösterling. Maybe we are distantly related.
My great great great …. father Christoffer Friderik Kolbow was born in the middle of the 18th century in Fehmarn (a little island in the Baltic See, Germany).
He had a son named Johann Joachim Xopher Kollbohm, who was born 1779 or 1781 in Rambow, a small village in the region Mecklenburg in Germany.
Johann Kollbohm had 8 children:
Gertrud Kollbohm, born 1812
Catarina Margaret Kollbohm, born 1813
Peter Kollbohm, born 1816
Christoffer Kolbaum, born 1818
Elsabé Kollbohm, born 1821
Jürgen Kollbohm, born 1823
Hans Kollbohm, born 1826
Johann Friedrich Kollbohm, born 1830
You surely noticed the oddity that the surname changed from Kolbow to Kollbohm and from Kollbohm to Kolbaum. At that time it happened often that (God knows why) for whatever reason the priest did not enter the correct name on the church register for birth and weddings. Although registered as Kollbohm in the church register, people used the name Kolbaum in general. So in Germany the family name Kolbaum became accepted.
Jürgen Kolbaum, his wife Doris and their children emigrated on May 12th 1868 (with Steamer Cimbria, departure harbour Hamburg) to the USA. In 1868 Jürgen Kolbaum had 3 children: Anna (18 years), Doris (14 years) and Rudolf (7 years).
Now you have to check if the data you have got from Anna complies with the above given data….
I am descendend from Christoffer Kolbaum, the older brother of Jürgen, father of Anna.
I hope that these information is helpful for you. If you do have questions please contact me, I would be happy to help you.
Best regards,
Mirja Kolbaum-Vösterling
PS: The family name Kolbaum is not widely spread, I can say that every Kolbaum is a near or distant relative ….