Petes in Furstenburg Mecklenburg Help

Susan_Bauer · 13. Juli 2003 um 11:50

Good morning everyone,

I am trying to locate the village, county and state of my ancestors from the Mecklenburg. It is recorded in our personal family tree that my grandmother born 1865 and came from Furstenburg, Mecklenburg. Her father born in 1814 is listed as Germany, but his sister is shown as being born in Mceklenburg. I found one site on the internet that Furstenburg was a state, but so is Mecklenburg. What is or was Furstenburg - a village, city or state and what is its relationship to Mecklenburg?

I am researching the following family.
1. CARL CHRISTIAN1 PETERS was born Unknown in Germany, and died Unknown in Germany. He married CHRISTINA RAHN Unknown. She was born June 17, 1784 in Germany, and died November 27, 1870 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Children of CARL PETERS and CHRISTINA RAHN are:

2. i. FREDERICK2 PETERS, b. August 29, 1814, Germany; d. June 02, 1889.

3. ii. CAROLINA PETERS, b. May 20, 1824; d. April 02, 1905.

4. iii. CAROLINA DOROTHY WILHELMINA PETERS, b. August 13, 1826, Mecklenburg, Germany; d. September 26, 1893.

5. iv. SOPHIA PETERS, b. September 24, 1830, Germany; d. October 11, 1906, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

6. v. CARL PETERS, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

7. vi. LOUIS PETERS, b. Unknown, Germany; d. Unknown.

8. vii. HENRY PETERS, b. Unknown; d. April 01, 1906, Mecklenburg, Germany.

viii. ALBERTINA PETERS, b. Unknown; d. Unknown; m. UNKNOWN KLIBZ, Unknown; b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

ix. WILHELM PETERS, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

9. x. AMADEUS PETERS, b. Unknown; d. Unknown.

2. FREDERICK2 PETERS (CARL CHRISTIAN1) was born August 29, 1814 in Germany, and died June 02, 1889. He married (2) EMILIE WEGERT (date unknown). She was born September 19, 1833, and died October 09, 1865. He married (1) SOPHIA SCHROEDER May 03, 1868 in Lubz, Germany. She was born March 11, 1839, and died September 07, 1893 in Furstenburg, Germany.

Children of FREDERICK PETERS and EMILIE WEGERT are:

ii. FRANZ ALEXANDER HERMAN3 PETERS, b. March 06, 1853, Furstenburg, Germany; d. April 1876.

More About FRANZ ALEXANDER HERMAN PETERS:

Cause of Death: Pneumonia and infection caused by broken leg

iii. MARTIN CARL FREDERICK PETERS, b. June 14, 1854, Furstenburg, Germany; d. 1943; m. (1) LOUISE FREDERICKA CAROLINA GEBIL, January 1879, Penzlin, Germany; b. May 14, 1853, Liepin, Germany; d. March 07, 1890; m. (2) BARBARA SCHMIDT, September 1905; b. December 14, 1860; d. January 06, 1913, Wisconsin.

More About MARTIN CARL FREDERICK PETERS:

Cemetery: Union Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

More About LOUISE FREDERICKA CAROLINA GEBIL:

Cause of Death: Consumption

Occupation: June 30, 1890, Add'l Death Date

More About BARBARA SCHMIDT:

Cause of Death: Chronic heart condition

iv. CAROLINA JOHANNA AUGUSTA PETERS, b. August 08, 1855; d. Unknown; m. ADOLPH VOIGT, July 10, 1877; b. August 24, 1854; d. December 22, 1934.

More About ADOLPH VOIGT:

Cause of Death: Stroke

Occupation: Tailor

v. HERMAN CONRAD CARL HEINRICK PETERS, b. January 10, 1860; d. February 07, 1860.

vi. EMMY AUGUSTA WILHELMINA JOHANNA PETERS, b. March 11, 1865, Furstenburg Mecklenburg, Germany1; d. March 17, 1914, Milwaukee, Wisconsin1; m. OTTO ALBERT VOIGT, August 28, 1891, Milwaukee, Wisconsin2; b. October 04, 1850, Kolberg, Korlin; d. December 19, 1912, Milwaukee, Wisconsin3.

My grandmother is Emmy Peters. Emmy and her brother Martin Carl and three of his children came to the United States in 1891.

Any info is greatly appreciated and locating a relative is even better!

Susan (Voigt) Bauer

Susan Bauer
1528 Park View Lane
Port Washington, WI 53074
262-284-2460

Karl_Becker1 · 13. Juli 2003 um 14:58

Hello, Susan:

Germany, as ONE country, did NOT (!!!!!) exist until January 18, 1871,
when the Prussian chancellor OTTO VON BISMARCK and the Prussian king
WILHELM I combined all the individual duchies, princedoms, kingdoms,
Hanseatic cities, et cetera, in Central Europe under ONE government,
and that was the emergence of the German empire, GERMANY for short. The
Prussian king WILHELM I became the German emperor (Kaiser) WILHELM I,
and BISMARCK became the German chancellor. MECKLENBURG consisted of two
grand duchies, MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN and MECKLENBURG-STRELITZ.
(There are at least 3 towns named FUERSTENBERG in Germany. One is a town
on the river ODER in BRANDENBURG, one is a town in LOWER SAXONY on the
river WESER. and one (yours?, 7000 inhabitants) is on the small river
HAVEL in MECKLENBURG.)
There is NO town called FUERSTENBURG listed in my German Auto-Atlas
(scale 1:200,000).

Tschuess!
Karl-Heinz

Warren_Bartels · 13. Juli 2003 um 18:25

Your family is probably from the town of Fuerstenberg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The church records for the parish in that town are available at any FHC. The film numbers are as follows. #069,732 covers B, M & D 1646-1732 and then 1769-1829 #069,733 covers the B, M & D 1733-1807 #069,734 covers B, C, M & D from 1830 to 1876. You should be able to locate it on any good sized, present day map of Germany. You will find it about halfway between Neubrandenburg and Berlin on Hwy 96. Susan Bauer <susanb@wi.rr.com> wrote:Good morning everyone,