Wilhelm Ferdinand REIM
Onsite Research in Germany
Parish Office Records of Leisnig, Saxony, Germany
NOTES: Death Certificate No. 67, Leisnig, April 16, 1879, for Heinrick Herman Reim (1830-1879) notes Ferdinand Reim a shoemaker.
REFERENCE: Death Certificate No. 67, Leisnig, April 16, 1879, of Heinrich Herman Reim, states he died 15th April 1879, and Johanna Dorothea ne Fincke and Ferdinand Reim as his parents and both parents deceased and of Leising.
DEATH CERTIFICATE: Translation of copy from German "Death Certificate no. 67. Leisnig, April 16, 1879. Noted by the undersigned registrar, Mrs. Elizabeth Anna, ne Reim, residing at Riesa an der Elbe, No. 264 wishes to make known that her father, pawnbroker Heinrich Reim, 49 years old, 2 months and 1 day, of Protestant-Luthern religion, residing in Leisnig, Chemnitzer Street No. 755, and born in Leisnig, February 14, 1830, married to Johanna Christiana, ne Gunther of Leisnig, son of shoemaker, Ferdinand Reim and his wife Johanna Dorothea, ne Fincke of Leisnig, both parents deceased and of Leisnig; died on the 15th of April 1879 at 7:00 o'clock in the morning. Witnessed, read and duly executed by Elizabeth Anna Rudiger, ne Reim and the registrar (Eichenbrecher). This document is valid with the Department of Death Registery and the Court of Leisnig, 16th of October, 1885. F.W. Lohrmann, Registrar." Herman A. Reim (1892-1974) in letter to son Kenneth M. Reim (1926- ) dated 20 Oct 1967, with marked up pedigree chart revised 26 Dec 1967, noted that his grandfather, Heinrich Herman Reim was a shoemaker and pawnbroker (goldverlieher - gold loaner). REFERENCE: REIM, Herman A., 1954-1972; genealogical file, reports marriage date as 3 Aug 1856. This marriage date with note RIN 10, states the date to also be 3 Aug 1856.
He married Johanna Dorothea Fienkel 29 Jul 1821 at Leisnig, Saxony, Germany . Johanna Dorothea Fienkel was born at Leisnig, Saxony, Germany 2 Apr 1799 .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Reim
born 13 Aug 1822.
Wilhelm Oscar Reim
born 23 Oct 1823.
Ernst Ludewig Reim
born 15 Nov 1824.
Theodor Julius Reim
born 11 Dec 1826.
Adolph Robert Reim
born 31 Dec 1829.
Heinrich Herman Reim
born 6 Feb 1831.
Wilhelm Ferdinand Reim died 12 Feb 1854 at Leisnig, Saxony, Germany .
Johanna Dorothea Fienkel died 12 Sep 1878 at Leisnig, Saxony, Germany .