Kelting Family Genealogy
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Great-great-great-grandmother Anna Kelting, born March 20, 1820, was baptized April 3, 1820 in the Second Pastorate of the Church of Elmshorn. The sponsors were Abellona Kruse at the mill (heitmuehle), Margaretha Witt in Elmshorn, and Maria Leiter at Wehdenkamp in Elmshorn. The Kelting family was Lutheran. They originated in Hamburg, Germany, but moved to the outskirts of the town of Elmshorn. Anna Kelting is listed in a compiled listing of emigrants from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is listed as the daughter of Johann Hinrich Kelting and Magdalena Schoof/Schof. The surname was also recorded as Kelbing or Kesting. Although it is possible that Theodor Frank and Anna Kelting may have met in Germany, it appear more likely that they met on their ship on the voyage to the New World. Anna probably converted to Catholicism before the wedding. The following transcriptions relate to the Kelting family: Register of Baptisms Elmshorn-Kompastorat (Second Pastorate) (--/1820) p. 699 * March 24th, 1820 ~ April 3rd, 1820 Anna Kelting, legitimate daughter of the "Heuerling" Johan Hinrich Kelting uebern Stegen and Magdalena née Schof. Godparents: 1. Abellona Kruse at the Heitmuehle 2. Margaretha Witt in Elmshorn 3. Maria Leiter at Wehdenkamp. Comments: "Heuerling" -- the word "haeuern (häuern)" and "heuern" are the same as the English word "to hire." A "Haeuerling" (also: Heuerinste, Haeuerinste) farmed on land that he had leased from a farmer. It was usually land of minor quality that the farmer himself would not wish to cultivate. Quite often, the farmers would cancel the lease-contract after a few years, when the useful "hireling" had collected the stones from the field, had plowed manure into the ground, had removed shrubs and weeds. The "Haeuerling" usually worked his lease off as a day laborer for the landlord. He may have leased a cottage along with the land. Uebern Stegen: a place in Elmshorn. Steg = a little bridge. There was a place called Vorm Stegen (this side of the bridge), and Uebern Stegen was the place on the other side of it. Heitmuehle: a mill. 3. Maria Leiter auf d ... : hard to read. But Wehdenkamp makes sense, a place in Elmshorn. And there was a Maria Leiter in Elmshorn. Register of Marriages Herzhorn (7/1819) p. 499 married Oct. 3rd, 1819 The bachelor Hinrich Kelting, legitimate son of the late Hinrich Kelting in Hamburg and Catharina née (?) and the spinster Magdalena Schoof, illegitimate daughter of Hinrich Schoof and Anna Koelln from Hainholz. The required testimonials of both were produced. Register of Deaths Herzhorn (17/1841) p. 546 † Sept. 13th, 1841 ± Sept. 17th, 1841 (Johann) Hinrich Kelting, "Haeuerling" behind the Herrenfeld, legitimate son of the peat-bargee (shipping peat from the peatbogs, used for heating, along the Elbe-River-estuary to Hamburg) Hinrich Kelting and Catharina Lent, in Hamburg, 45 years and 10 months old. He leaves five children by his wife Magdalena née Schof: 1. Anna, 2. Hinrich, 3. Catharina, 4. Ida, 5. Magdalena. Surnames of those in my direct ancestral line appear in BOLD. Descendants of Hinrich Kelting 1 Hinrich Kelting b: in Hamburg, Germany d: Bef. 1820 .. + Catharina Lent/Lenten b: unknown d: unknown .......... 2 Johann Hinrich Kelting b: Dec. 1795 d: Sept. 13, 1841 in Herzhorn .............+ Magdalena Schoof/Schoff b: Nov. 15, 1799 in Elmshorn ............... m: Oct. 3, 1819 in Herzhorn d: Feb. 14, 1891 in Neuendorf ....................... 3 Anna Kelting b: March 24, 1820 in Elmshorn, Holstein, Denmark (presently DEU) .......................... m: Bef. 1850 d: Feb. 6, 1901 in Addison, Wisconsin .......................... + Theodor Frank b: Sept./Nov. 08, 1817 in Koblenz, Germany d: May 23, 1888 in WI ................................... 4 Joseph Frank b: Jan. 24, 1850 in New York d: March 29, 1913 in Addison, WI ......................................+ Maria Franziska "Mary" Doll b: July 21, 1857 in WI d: June 23, 1928 in WI ................................... 4 Anna Mary Frank b: Jan./July 24, 1856/1858 in St. Lawrence, WI d: July 9, 1864 ....................... 3 Johann Hinrich Kelting b: unknown d: unknown ....................... 3 Catharina Sophia Kelting b: unknown living in: Altona in 1891 d: unknown ....................... 3 Ida Kelting b: unknown d: unknown .......................... + Michael Moeller b: unknown living in: Neuendorf in 1891 d: unknown ....................... 3 Magdalena Kelting b: unknown d: Bef. 1891 |
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