Hedwig Sophia Küllmer (1844)

Born 19 Apr 1844 in Mühlhausen Thüringen, Mühlhausen, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland

Biography

Hedwig Sophia was born in 1844 in Mühlhausen (currently: District Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany). She is the daughter of Wilhelm Kullmer and Charlotte Oehme. ^[1]

When she gave birth to an illegitimate child named Albertina on 8 February 1868, her father Wilhelm is not only listed as factory supervisor (Werksführer), but also as "being in America",^[2] since he had immigrated to the US meanwhile.

Sources

1. ↑ courtesy of Mühlhausen Church District archivist Dr. Steffen Kublik
2. ↑ FamilySearch: "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPFF-RH6B : 27 October 2021), Wilh Hedwig Sophie Küllmer in entry for Albertine Küllmer, 1 Mar 1868; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Mühlhausen Thüringen, Mühlhausen, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland, Mühlhausen u. Thüringen, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.

• "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPFF-24TK : 27 October 2021), Hedwig Sophia Küllmer, 16 May 1844; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Mühlhausen Thüringen, Mühlhausen, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland, Mühlhausen u. Thüringen, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.