Dear Listers,
Thank you for your patience. I think the best I can do is list each one on my list and tell you what I know about them. Some are family, some are Sponsers. But I have read that oftentimes sponsers were also related.
Katherine Dorothea HOLZ had a son out of wedlock. His father was said to be Andreas PIQUE, a soldier who deserted from Napoleon’s army while they were in Germany. Whether he was French, Italian or Spanish we do not yet know.
Heinrich Holz b 1814 Sembzin
Sponsers at christening: Miss Henriette ENGEL of Roebel
Miss Henriette DEIBEL of Berlin
Miss Luise BEHM of Sembzin
Marriage 1837 to
Sophie Friderike Marie ROEHRDANZ [Regedanz/ Redanz/LaDotz] b 1813 Kambs near Roebel
Mother Ilsabe Maria SCHULT
Father Johann Christian Roehrdanz of Kambs, day-laborer at Erlenkamp