Bio: Schwarze Family in Germany

Transcriber: Stan

 Surnames: Schwarze, Blattgerste, Konig, Diekmann, Isabein, Freitag. Klemme, Arpke

 ----Source: Al Wessel From Professional Family Researcher

 Our line was traced in Germany by a professional (Mr. Blattgerste) who was hired by two elderly sisters who never emigrated to America. It stems from Cord Schwarze (b. 1672, d. 1728) who married Barbara Konig of Stift, Paderborn, in 1695. Their son, Hans Herman Schwarze (b. 1714) married Elizabeth Diekmann, of Ludenhausen, in 1741. One daughter was  born of this marriage: Anna Marie Iisabein (b. 1748) and she married Johann Henrich Freitag, of Luerdissen, in 1772, and Freitag assumed the name Schwarze.

It seems it was the custom at that time that a man adopted the maiden name of the wife to carry on the family name when he married into a family where there were no sons and there was property. It is evident (according to Blattgerste) that Schwarzes, between 1740 and 1780, acquired position and property (Grund und Boden) in Brosen. The property involved is known as No. 13, which is still in the hands of Schwarzes.  How large the property was originally is not known, but evidently it was large enough to enable them to keep one or two cows; they also butchered hogs in the winter for the "country houses and manors", in addition to following the building trade (maurer), which some of the men still follow. Mr. Blattgerste wrote that he personally knew the last three generations of Schwarzes "Mauermeister").

Anna Marie Isabein and John Henrich (Freitag) Schwarze (after several stillbirths) had a daughter: Florentine Henriette (born October 11, 1782) who on November 24th, 1800 married one Herman Heinrich Brand, of Harkemissen (b. October 24, 1773, d. October 22, 1853; (he also assumed the name of Schwarze) and they became the parents of:

Hans Herman-December 29, 1803
Anna Marie Charlotte-August 30, 1805
Katherine Sofia-November 16, 1806
Friedrich Christoff-December 31, 1808
Luise Charlotte-September 30, 1817
Johann Friedrich Konrad-February 17, 1820
Simon Friedrich Konrad-April 18, 1822
Kord Herman-April 23, 1824

Their oldest son, Hans Herman Schwarze, married Sofie Klemme. June 24, 1850, he also had a set of twin boys with a second wife, Anna Maria Hover. They were named Herman Heinrich and Johann Conrad. Herman Heinrich became my great grandfather and he emigrated to America in 1867 along with his twin and an older half brother and sister. They met up with a group of relatives and close friends who had left Lippe Detmold as a large group in 1847 and settled in Sheboygan, Wisconsin after first landing in Quebec, Canada. Most of that group were from Langenholzhaufen (exactly where your relatives came from).
 

One of the group members wrote a small booklet about their previous life in Germany and their voyage here. It is called: "The Lippe-Detmolder Settlement in Wisconsin," a historical account by Jerome C. Arpke, B. L. and was published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Germania Publishing Co., 1895.

(another child, Fredrick Detrick Conrad is listed along with this family in the church records but he is noted as: "illegitimate".  He was born Feb. 1, 1854 and died Apr. 23, 1857 at the age of 3 yrs.)