Johann Georg Lowenberger (1854 - 1924)

Born 7 Feb 1854 in Landestreu, Galicia, Austria

Ancestors

Husband of Eleonora (Koch) Lowenberger — married about 1878 in Landestreu, Kalush District, Galicia, Austria [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1924 at about age 69 in Langenburg, Saskatchewan

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Biography

George Lowenberger migrated from Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to Canada.

George was born on Feb 7, 1854 in Landestreu, Galicia, Austria. His parents were Konrad Lowenberger and Maria Zorn. ^[1]

The Lowenbergers left their Lutheran Austrian farming community of Landestreu and boarded the S.S. Uranus departing Hamburg on May 15, 1891. Georg travelled to Canada with his wife, children and his stepmother, Beata Drumer, who was also his wife Eleanora's mother. They arrived in Canada in 1892 and homesteaded in the Echo area of East Assiniboia (southern Saskatchewan).

Georg and Eleanora had a large family and their farm prospered. Sadly Eleanora passed away in 1898 and Georg then remarried. He and second wife Margaretha Katharina Trapp also had a large family.

Georg passed away in 1924 near Langenburg, Saskatchewan and is buried in Hoffenthal Cemetery.

Sources

1. ↑ Die deutschstämmige Bevölkerung im ehem. Österreichisch-Ungarischen Kronland Galizien (Südostpolen und Südwestukraine) / The German Minority in the Former Austro-Hungarian Crownland of Galicia (Southeast Poland and Southwest Ukraine) 1750-1940; Ortsfamilienbuch/Family Book - Landestreu (Kalusz) 1783-1895. Nach Unterlagen der Genealogischen Forschungsstelle der Galiziendeutschen / Based on documents of the Galician-German Genealogical Research Center. Bearbeiter/Editor: Manfred Daum, D-29525 Uelzen.

• Birth: GGD OFB Familybook by Manfred Daum [1]

• Village Plat Maps: www.galiziengermandescendants.org [2]

• Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934. Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Bestand: 373-7 I, VIII (Auswanderungsamt I). Mikrofilmrollen K 1701 - K 2008, S 17363 - S 17383, 13116 - 13183. Ancestry.com [3]

• Census of 1901: Library and Archives Canada. Item: Georg Lowenberger. Record [4] and Record image [5]

• Census of 1906: Library and Archives Canada. Item: Geroge Loewenberger. Record [6] and Record image [7]

• Census of 1911: Source Citation. Year: 1911; Census Place: 20, Saltcoats, Saskatchewan; Page: 19; Family No: 178. Source Information. Ancestry.com. 1911 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1911. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, 2007. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/census/1911/Pages/about-census.aspx. Series RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels T-20326 to T-20460.

• Memorial: Find A Grave, database and images : accessed 27 February 2020, memorial page for George Lowenberger (1854–1924, Find A Grave Memorial no. 122352827, citing Hoffenthal Cemetery, Langenburg, Melville Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada ; Maintained by Prov 3:24 (contributor 48238796) .

• Parent-child relationship confirmed by an AncestryDNA test match between Morgan Campbell and her first cousin twice removed JB. Their most-recent common ancestors are Johann Georg (George) Lowenberger and Eleonora Koch, the 2nd great grandparents of Morgan Campbell and the grandparents of her 1st cousin twice removed. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st cousin 2x removed, based on sharing 182 cM across 9 segments.