Getuige: Busemann Johann Bernard Ackersmann zu Langenberg, Brümmer Maria Gesina Ackersfrau zu Schalberg
Hij is getrouwd met Maria Catharina - Katherine Wübkes.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 30 april 1895 te Hebelermeer, Twist, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany, hij was toen 38 jaar oud.Bron 5
Getuige: Meyer Gerhard Heinrich Haussohn zu Hebelermeer Mensen Helena Dienstmagd zu Rühlertwist
Kind(eren):
Bernard Joseph - Bernard Mensen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Maria Catharina - Katherine Wübkes |
Pauline Berens: Genealogienetwerk zus Greetje Berens voorheen EemslandBoekweitBoerenImmigratie
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-dutch-connection/I3810.php
73 Menzen Johann Bernard Brokmann Helena Ackersleute Hebelermeer V Bernard Joseph 18560810 18560811, # nr naam-vader naam-moeder beroep-ouders woonplaats-ouders geslacht naam-kind geboortedatum doopdatum opmerkingen
http://clintonilgenweb.net/cemetery/
Pauline Berens: The Hebelermeer birth and marriage (30 APR 1895) records say B.J. Mensen was born in 1856, so do the emigration records. The grafestone and American census records though mention 1871 as year of birth, which is not correct. I double checked the Hebelemeer church records, there's no way some older brother born in 1856 died young and a younger brother with the same name born in 1871 married M.C. Wüpker. The mistake showed up the first time in the 1900 American census.
Bob Behnen:
Emigration: Bremen to Baltimore on the ship Weimar arriving 3 Oct 1895: Bernhard Mensen, 40 (ancestry notes age as 46 but the record actually shows 40); Maria Mensen, 29 from Hebelermeer traveling to Clinton, IL. She is a half-sister to the Schlepers from Breese, IL.
The 1900 census shows him being born Aug 1870 and the 1920 census shows birth year about 1871 too. His burial record at St. Dominic's in Breese notes "Bernard Joseph Mensen, son of John B. Mensen and Catherine Brockman, born 1 Aug 1868".
https://web.archive.org/web/20170305121752/http://emslanders.com/emigrants_list_wesuwe.htm
Mensen Bernard Joseph 1856 Mensen, Joh Bernard Brockmann, Anna Hel Hebelermeer 1895 Clinton Co, IL
4 Mensen Bernard Joseph Haussohn zu Schöninghsdorf 18560810 Hebelermeer Mensen Johann Bernard Brokmann Helena Eigener Wübkes Maria Catharina Haustochter 18660205 Hebelermeer Wübkes Hermann Heinrich Benen Margaretha Colonist Schöninghsdorf 18950430 Wesuwe: Hebelermeer