Christine (Nass) Sommerfeld (1831 - 1872)

Born 29 Mar 1831 in Sellnowo, Graudenz, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany

Wife of Andreas Sommerfeld — married about 1850 in Graudenz, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany

Died 22 Feb 1872 at age 40 in Graudenz, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany

Biography

Christine Nass was born in 1831 in Sellnowo, Graudenz, West Prussia, Prussia, Germany. Today this village is called Zielnowo, in the Polish Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship. She was the daughter of Gottfried Nass and Eupherosene Labbs.

In around 1850 Christine Nass married Andreas Sommerfeld, born 6 August 1827 in Graudenz, Westpreußen, Preußen, Deutschland. The couple lived in the Graudenz district of West Prussia, Prussia, and had 6 sons and 5 daughters between 1851 and 1867. As was commonplace then, they lost several children to various diseases before they reached maturity.

Christine (Nass) Somerfeld passed away at just 42 years old on 22 February 1872 in Graudenz, Westpreußen, Preußen, Deutsches Reich.

Sources

• Details for Christine Nass on FamilySearch; cites 24 sources

• "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPVP-C7K7 : 24 March 2023), Nass, 22 Feb 1872; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Death, Graudenz, Westpreußen, Preußen, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.