Friedrich Christian SOMMERLADE

Birth:
Abt 1809
of Magdeburg, Saxony, Prussia
Marriage:
20 Jan 1833
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Sources:
1998 Ancestral File (nil)
2000 Ordinance Index (nil)
Notes:
                   24 years old when he was married.

Christening records were destroyed in World War 2.   Information from
the Zentralstelle fur Genealogie in Leipzig, Germany, in possession of
Joyce Goodman.

When his name was found on the Hamburg passenger lists (listed as
Christian Sommerlade of Erfurt Prussia, Frau    3 persons 48-12 years
Erfurt, j      weaver    New York   July 15, 1854  Entry #93  Capt. P.N.
Paulsen    Ship Humboldt (or Humbolt)  he was accompanied by a female
named Christina Sommerlade.  This was apparently another wife, or a
sister.   She has not been found since this record.  Kunigunde would have
been 44 and is not listed, so we assume she died in Prussia.   She was
the mother of the two boys accompanying him.  Names as appeared:
148. Christian Sommerlade   46    Weaver   Prussia
149.   Christina Sommerlade   female    40   Prussia
150.  Johann Chr.  20      Prussia
151.  Georg     12            Prussia

Family said he was Danish and the name originally Sommerlade, pronounced Sommerlada, meaning summer barn or summer house.  Not known when the family moved to Germany.   We are not sure about all of this
Kunigunde Elizabetha MEISCH
Birth:
13 Nov 1809
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Chr:
20 Nov 1809
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Notes:
                   Name found in death records of her son, Johann Christoff Sommerlade, at
the office of the Clerk of the District Court, Lincoln Co., Ivanhoe, Minn.
Handwriting was hard to read, but appeared as Kumgiuede.   We were told
by a German friend that Kunigunde was sortof a fairy tale kind of name,
an old name.

The name was verified in the film from the Zentralstelle fur Genealogie
in Leipzig, received by Joyce Goodman in 1974 and in her records, as
Kunigunde Elisabetha Henkel, born as Meisch, a widow of 22 years of age
at the time of her marriage to Friedrich Christian Sommerlade.

Christening in Erfurt (Predigergemeinde), whatever that is
Children
Marriage
1
Johann Christoph SOMMERLADE
Birth:
6 Oct 1834
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Death:
20 Sep 1912
Lake Benton, Lincoln, Minnesota
Wilhelmena LAABS 
Marr:
15 Jan 1870
Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota 
Notes:
                       NAME Johann Christoph (John Christopher) /SOMMERLADE/
Called John Christopher or J.C. in the United States. Baptized 13 Oct.
1834 in the German Lutheran Church.   Confirmed 1 April 1849.  In 1854
he and his father settled in Madison, Wisconsin.   Entered the Civil War in
1862 in Co. K, Wisconsin Infantry.   Death record Lake Benton 20 Sept.
1912, Lake Benton Cemetary, age 77 years, one month and 14 days.  Died
of heart failure or old age.  A farmer.
   Record found on Hamburg Passenger Lists, July 15,1854, arriving New
York August 28,1854 on the Ship Humbolt, entry # 93 in company of his
father, Christian Sommerlade, 46, Christina Sommerlade, 40, and his
brother Georg, 12.              Married 9 Jan. 1870 in Rochester, Minn.
According to his obituary, one child died before 1880.  George
Sommerlade, grandson tells how J.C. as an old man loved to ride the train
to a nearby town in the morning, spend the day socializing and drinking
in a saloon and return in the evening.
Maria Hagedorn, married to his son, Christian Emil, came to cook at the
Sommerlade home as they were building their farm house.   J.C. took a
liking to her and wanted her to marry his older son John.   But Maria had
other ideas.   She did not love John.  Chris fell in love with Maria and
courted her, talking her into marrying him.   She wasn't even sure at
first she loved Chris, but her marriage to him made J.C. furious and he
made it difficult for the young couple for some time. Told by Maria, called Mary.

Sealing to his wife Wilhelmena Laabs was done in the Salt Lake Temple by Joe and Joyce Goodman and Joey and Laura Goodman 29 May 1998   His baptism and endowment were apparently done earlier in another temple,  Alberta, by his grandson, George.  No. 86063  Book 25  page 3551  temple records of Alberta, Canada.
2
Karl August Theodor SOMMERLADE
Birth:
22 Apr 1837
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Death:
 
Marr:
 
3
Carl Emanuel SOMMERLADE
Birth:
19 Jul 1838
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Death:
 
Marr:
 
4
Johann Georg SOMMERLADE
Birth:
12 Aug 1842
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Death:
1 Feb 1885
Lake Benton, Lincoln, Minnesota
 
Marr:
 
Notes:
                   Information on grave stone on the Sommerlade farm in Lake Benton,
Minn., in the grove of trees he planted.  This was part of homesteading.
A certain amount of property could be homesteaded for the planting of
trees.   A lovely spot.

Never married.   Died at 62 years 6 months, according to city records.
He was a farmer.  Grave marker said George M. Sommerlade.  He may have
been a favorite of his nephew, Chris, who named his only son George
William Sommerlade.
5
Caspar Wilhelm SOMMERLADE
Birth:
11 Aug 1848
Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia
Death:
 
Marr:
 
FCID:5715:519
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Friedrich Christian Sommerlade - Kunigunde Elizabetha Meisch

Friedrich Christian Sommerlade was born at of Magdeburg, Saxony, Prussia Abt 1809. His parents were Johann Christoph Sommerlade and Catharina Dorothea Prinz.

He married Kunigunde Elizabetha Meisch 20 Jan 1833 at Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia . Kunigunde Elizabetha Meisch was born at Erfurt, Thuringia, Prussia 13 Nov 1809 daughter of Johann Ernst Meisch and Anna Sabina Hertel .

They were the parents of 5 children:
Johann Christoph Sommerlade born 6 Oct 1834.
Karl August Theodor Sommerlade born 22 Apr 1837.
Carl Emanuel Sommerlade born 19 Jul 1838.
Johann Georg Sommerlade born 12 Aug 1842.
Caspar Wilhelm Sommerlade born 11 Aug 1848.