Sunday, June 30, 2019

Happy Birthday, Sophia Frederika Margarette Baecker!

Sophia Frederika Margarette Baecker

Sophia Baecker was born in Lengrich Prussia, on 30 June 1830 to Maria Elizabeth (Fennewald)  and
Johann Heinrich Baecker. She had two sisters and two brothers. On Christmas day, when she was 25 years-old, she married Bernhard Henrich Frederich Windmuller.
They had seven children. [We know that at least two of their daughters immigrated to America. Their oldest, Wilhelmina, married Henry Lewis Warnken, whose family was from Hannover Germany. When Wilhelmina died, their daughter Sophia, married Henry.]
From what we know, Sophia Baeker died in Prussia before 1888.

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Monday, June 24, 2019

Happy birthday, John Tichnor!

Happy birthday, John Tichnor!

John was one of my 6x great grandfathers.
He was born 320 years ago today between Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts in a little coastal settlement called Scituate. Scituate was a village incorporated by immigrants from Kent, England in 1636. John's grandpa, Sergeant (King Phillip's War) William Tichnor, migrated from Kent and served as a town constable there. Here is a great site to learn more about Scituate. Click here: http://scituatehistoricalsociety.org/
John Tichnor the son of William Tichnor was born June 24 day --1699 
Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988; 
Scituate Births, Marriages, and Death, p. 74