Marhenke/Kalenberg

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Hi Ursula,

Thank you for the answer. Let me tell you what I am up to. The Henry
Marhenke that moved to in Kansas is a branch of Marhenke's that I was
never able to connect to my Branch. I have collected information on many
Marhenkes hoping one day to connect them. So right now I am working on
this Henry Marhenke line.

What information I have has been handed down to me from Henrys
descendants so how accurate it is I do not know. They are the ones who
give me his arrival date. I am wondering if maybe you might have found
the correct date? The census you site is this family. Today I had
someone send me the Illinois Marriage entry and his name was recorded F.
Henry Marhenke and her name has a different spelling (Kohlenberg) so the
family were not too accurate with their info.

I have sent an E-mail off to a church that might be the marriage site and
I await their answer that might yield some additional info. Thanks for
your help----Bob

Hello Bob,
From where did you get Henry's immigration year?
I have a Heinr. Marhenke, age 26, est. birth year 1840, last
residence
Hannover, arriving in New York from Bremen on the ship BREMEN on 9
October
1866.

I found Henry (34), Dora (22), Alvina (3) and Charlie (1) on the
1875 State
Census in Miami County, Kansas, Wea Township, P.O. Louisburg.

He then appears on the 1880 census in the same place (which you
have).

Next I found him on the 1900 census in Bachelor, Greenwood, Kansas
under
the name of Henry WERHANKE (transcription error); then possibly a
relative
typed in a correction to the name of MERHANKE which is also
incorrect.
Nonetheless, this is the correct family, except for some
discrepancies in
Dorothea's name and age, and year of marriage. Also, and this is a
bummer,
the census taker did not enter the year of immigration for any of
the
immigrants, he just left that column blank.

I found the family again on the 1905 State census under the name of
Henry
MARHANKE, living in Eureka (City), Greenwood County, Kansas.

Ursula

Bob Marhenke wrote:

> The info that I have is:
> HENRY MARHENKE born Sep 8 1840 HANNOVER GERMANY immigrated to
BUNKER
> HILL ILLINOIS 1857. Married Dorthea Kalenberg Nov 13 1870 at
WORDEN,
> MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. DORTHEA was born 1853. in ILLINOIS,
HENRY
> AND DORTHEA MARHENKE later moved to KANSAS.
>
> I can find this family in the Kansas 1880 census but I can not
find
> either of them in earlier Illinois census. Would some kind soul
be
> researching this area in Illinois? Does anyone have any hints as
to what
> churches might have been in the area? What I would like to find
is some
> record that directs me to where in Hannover Henry Marhenke came
from.
>
> I have a lot of Marhenke information that might link up but Henry
is a
> pretty common Marhenke name in the Hannover region
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Hello Bob,
From what I can tell there were originally only 2 Marhenke families who
immigrated to the US from Hannover. One family settled in Ft. Wayne, IN the
other, which is your Henry, settled in Illinois and later migrated with his
family to Kansas.
You can find the family trees of most of the children of Henry Marhenke and
Dorothea Kahlenberg online, at Ancestry.com.
Henry and Dorothea had 8 children. One son Charlie, born in 1874 died in
infancy. He was replaced by another son named Charles, who was born in 1880.
I wish you all the success in searching the old German church records in
the various churches but don't expect too much since most of the people who
have access to the records can't read the German script and may therefore
not even bother looking. Then there is also the possibility that Henry came
indeed from Hannover the City and not Hannover the State.

I believe you may have better success in trying to obtain Henry's death
certificate and/or obituary.
Henry Marhenke b. Sep 1840 - d. 9 May 1907, in Eureka, KS
Dorothea Marhenke nee Kahlenberg b. 1853 in Worden, IL d. 8 March 1909.

Henry Marhenke (64), wife Dorothy (53), daughter Lula (14) and son Herman
(11) appeared last on the 1905 census in Eureka, Greenwood Co., KS.

This explains why I couldn't find them on the 1910 census in Eureka, KS.
Their son, Otto Marhenke b. May 1878 took over the farm and following the
death of Henry and Dorothy, their youngest son, Herman moved in with his
brother Otto and family.

I was able to locate Dorothea, age 17 (alias Dora) and her family on the
1870 census in Township 6, Range 7, Madison, Illinois under the surname
KUELNBURG.
The census was taken in August 1870, Dorothea would be married by November
of that year.

On the 1880 census, Dorothea's father C. (Christian?) is no longer living;
Her mother Fredericke KOHLENBERG and 3 of her children, William (20), Lina
(18) and Rika (10) now live in Omphghent, Madison Co., Illinois.
Dorothea's parents came from Brunswick (Braunschweig) Germany.

Ursula

Bob Marhenke wrote: