Re: LAHRs -- Germany to WI
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Re: LAHRs -- Germany to WI
7/09/01
Hi Gerhard :)
Wow, you're living in Darmstadt!I'd give my eye teeth, as we say, to be in that area of the world!On my Lahr (surname) ancestors, I have little besides the information (copied again below) that my great-great grandfather, Rev. Conrad Samuel Lahr, put in a short autobiography before he died.Though he'd lived in Wisconsin, U.S.A., for quite a few years by that time, he wrote it in German, so it took us awhile to get it translated (eventually by his grandson).I do know that Conrad put his birthplace down as Affrtim, Offstein, Germany.But I've never been able to find anything on a German map named anything close to Affrtim (though I've found Offstein).Conrad's father, Johann (d. 1854 in Offstein, Hesse) was married to Elizabeth ~ we don't know her last name.All we know about her is that she'd be married before to a man named Jacob Mueller and had a son Jacob Mueller Jr. before marrying Johann Lahr.Elizabeth Mueller Lahr also had a sister who'd moved to Albany, New York sometime before son Conrad and his sister Barbara moved to the U.S. (about 1850).I'm trying to figure out who the other Lahr people were that were on the boat to the U.S. with Conrad in 1852: Peter, Henry, Louis, and Elizabeth.Is your family from the Offstein area at any time back, Gerhard?And did they have Lahr relatives that went to live in America?Would love to know their story as well.Best to you! Kathe Bienemann (Cunningham).
P.S. The Lahr family is my mother's name.My father's side is the Bienemann family, from Geiselbach, Bavaria.I sure would love to travel to Germany one of these days!Write back if you can :)
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Conrad Samuel Lahr (an Evangelical preacher) was born in Offstein, Hesse, Germany (near Darmstadt, not far from Worms) in 1834, son of Johannes and Elizabeth Lahr (Her maiden name is unknown). The father, Johann, died in 1845. Conrad's sister's name was Barbara LAHR Augustine (Mrs. Samuel G.), born in 1825. She emigrated to Racine, WI sometime before her brother, Conrad, did, because he joined her from Germany in 1852, staying for some time first with their mother's sister in Albany, NY. According to the ship's passenger list, Conrad was traveling with other LAHRs, though I have no other record of these people: Eliz (@ age 17), Henry (@ 7), Louis(@ 15), & Peter Lahr(@ 6). Conrad married Amalia Schlicke in WI and had 5 sons: Ben, Sam, Albert, Wilhelm, and Edward, all born in the 1860s and 1870s in various places in WI, I think.
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