33. Heinrich Gerwing
According to NARA database Heinrich Gerwing travelled to America on the ship SS Ohio arriving at Milwaukee on 6/9/1871. The ship originated from Bremen and travelled via Southhampton.The ship record lists his age at 24 years and his occupation as a farmer.
The 1880 USA census lists the following info for Heinrich's household:
Henry GERWING
Self M Male W 33 PRUS Farmer PRUS PRUSBernadina GERWING
Wife M Female W 27 PRUS Keeping PRUS PRUS
HouseBernhard GERWING
Son S Male W 5 MN At Home PRUS PRUSHenry GERWING
Son S Male W 4 MN At Home PRUS PRUSAnton GERWING
Son S Male W 1 MN At Home PRUS PRUSMaria GERWING
Dau S Female W 6M MN At Home PRUS PRUSNote the colum headings for the nine columns below each person's name are as follows:
Relation, Marital Status, Gender, Race, Age, Birthplace, Occupation, Father's Birthplace, Mother's Birthplace
Bernadine's name on the birth records is
listed as "Maria Bernadine Rohling". She was known as "Dina"
Her mother's maiden name is Maria Elizabeth Kramer .
Bernadine's siblings listed in order of birth including Bernadine:
John Henry Rohling Sr. 1852 - 1941, Maria Bernadine Rohling 1853 - 1888,
Maria Agnes Rohling 1855 -1888, Maria Anna Rohling 1857 -1931,
Infant Rohling 1858 -1858. All were born in Oldenburg, Germany.
The girls were all given the name "Maria" after their mother.
Death of Bernadine was due to cholera ot typhoid fever.
Bernadine arrived in USA from Germany by way of Baltimore arriving on May 11, 1868.
Burial place is currently unknow but was possibly St. Joseph Catholic Cementery Pierz Minnesota USA.
47. Maria Gerwing
Maria is listed as being 6 months of age in the 1880 USA Census
Anna was born to Johann Roetger (1799-1877) and Anna Joanna Gertrude (Orthaus)Bessler (1809-1861)on the Bessler family farm, Number 23, in the village of Alstatte, Ahaus, Westfalen, Prussia, Germany located 1/4 mile from the Dutch border. She was the tenth of eleven children--all boys but Anna and her sister Johanna. She was christened at Sankt Marien Catholic Church in Alstatte.
In 1871, Anna, her father and sister Johanna and her family all left Germany for America. The traveled together on the "Steamship Ohio" arriving in Baltimore, Maryland 9 Jun 1871. From there they likely took a train to Cincinnati, Ohio where they were met by her brothers who had come over previously.
Anna stayed in Cincinnati for several years likely keeping house for her father and brothers. As they married and moved to their own homes, Anna got a job working as a servant. During this time she met her future husband, Gerhard Heinrich Wessling (1842-1886). About Jan 1879 she and her father moved to Millhousen, Decatur County, Indiana where she married Gerhard on 6 Feb 1879 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.
First husband's Full Name: Gerhard Heinrich "George" Wessling.
Gerhard was born in Wuellen, Ahaus, Westfalen, Prussia, Germany. He immigrated to America in 1871 eventually winding up in Millhousen. He married Anna Bessler 6 Feb 1879 in Millhousen.George initially worked as a laborer. Together with his earnings and wages his wife earned working as a servent in Cincinnati before her marriage they were able to buy some land.
On 8 Sept 1883 they bought 40 acres for $400.00 about a half mile from Millhousen. On this farm they raised cattle and had a small dairy operation.
George and Anna had five children. Anna Marie, Catherina Elizabeth, Henry Herman, Maria Adeleida and Herman Henry. The first four children died between the ages of 9 and 18 months. Only Herman Henry (1886-1919) lived to adulthood. Herman married 4 Feb 1913 in Pierz, Minnesota to Marie Schulte (1893-1981) & had four children: Ida, Herman, Alex & Martha. He homesteaded in Lake Lenore, Saskatchewan, Canada.
George died 1 June 1886 and on 19 July 1886 Anna Wessling sold the 40 acre farm for $475.00. She remained in Millhousen with her only child, Herman, until November of 1888.
On 28 Nov 1888 Anna married Henrich Gerwing, a widower with nine children, and moved to Morrison County in Minnesota. They later had two children, Albert (1889-1955) & Gerhard (1891-1908). They eventually immigrated to Lake Lenore, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1904.
55. Gerhard Gerwing
Gerhard died from pneumonia which developed after an autumn goose hunting outing.
56. Louise Gerwing
Adopted daugher of Anna Bessler/Wessling/Gerwing. (source 1926 Census record)