All variations of this surname in Washington County come from the same original single household.
The family name was variably spelled as Kerbs, Kerps, Kerb, Kuerbs, and was largely settled upon by the youngest second-generation family as Keerps. Harmar cemetery records and the tombstone show first-generation immigrant Gottfried as Kerbs. He was also recorded as Godfrey.
The couple and oldest two daughters had immigrated in 1841 from Bremen, Germany, to Baltimore, MD, on "the America," along with his wife's parents. His mother-in-law lived with him in Fearing Township in 1860 but not 1850.
Oldest daughter Mary is variably listed in records as Amalie, Amalia, Emilia, Maria and Mary. A Mahala record might also be her. She shows in the ship's manifest as age 21/2, older than Charlotte at 11/2. (Charlotte's tombstone date, which would make her the elder, appears to err.)
According to the family's 1850 census in Fearing Township, Gottfried/Godfrey was a butcher, as was his son Anton (Andy).
Third daughter Henrietta was later called Harriet/Harriett and married Jacob Gerhard, who survived her. She died in 1907, but it is yet unclear where she is buried. They had 13 children. They might be recorded as Gerhardt, Gearhart or Gerhardt but the early German church records only used Gerhart.
Son Charles, their seventh child, evidently was married four times, to Lizzie Riley, Eliza J. Lammick (with whom he had several children), Fannie Wayne and Martha McGill (Stage) who had children from an earlier marriage. His first two children with Eliza were born in Noble County, Ohio.
Gottfried and Dorothea also had a daughter Elizabeth (born in 1852, who was referenced in her parents' sale of Fearing Township land and who possibly later married to Bodmer). Potentially, they also had a son William. One or the other was the parent of the Daniel Keerps who lived in the 1870 year of his birth with Gottfried and Dorothea.
Daniel's death record said his parents were William Keerps and Elizabeth Bodmer. Perhaps Keerps siblings married neighboring Bodmer siblings? Or, perhaps unmarried Lizzie Kerp, 18 in 1870, had infant Daniel and later married William Bodmer (a Mrs. Lizzie Kerps married a William Bodmer 12 July 1884. But another record had an Elizabeth Kerps marrying a Stewart.) It appears that Elizabeth predeceased her mother (1888) and sister Henrietta (1907), as their death records cited counts of children or siblings that matched omission of Elizabeth. In 1910, a widowed William Bodmer lived with his brothers in Harmar, near other Keerps homes.
The family name was variably spelled as Kerbs, Kerps, Kerb, Kuerbs, and was largely settled upon by the youngest second-generation family as Keerps. Harmar cemetery records and the tombstone show first-generation immigrant Gottfried as Kerbs. He was also recorded as Godfrey.
The couple and oldest two daughters had immigrated in 1841 from Bremen, Germany, to Baltimore, MD, on "the America," along with his wife's parents. His mother-in-law lived with him in Fearing Township in 1860 but not 1850.
Oldest daughter Mary is variably listed in records as Amalie, Amalia, Emilia, Maria and Mary. A Mahala record might also be her. She shows in the ship's manifest as age 21/2, older than Charlotte at 11/2. (Charlotte's tombstone date, which would make her the elder, appears to err.)
According to the family's 1850 census in Fearing Township, Gottfried/Godfrey was a butcher, as was his son Anton (Andy).
Third daughter Henrietta was later called Harriet/Harriett and married Jacob Gerhard, who survived her. She died in 1907, but it is yet unclear where she is buried. They had 13 children. They might be recorded as Gerhardt, Gearhart or Gerhardt but the early German church records only used Gerhart.
Son Charles, their seventh child, evidently was married four times, to Lizzie Riley, Eliza J. Lammick (with whom he had several children), Fannie Wayne and Martha McGill (Stage) who had children from an earlier marriage. His first two children with Eliza were born in Noble County, Ohio.
Gottfried and Dorothea also had a daughter Elizabeth (born in 1852, who was referenced in her parents' sale of Fearing Township land and who possibly later married to Bodmer). Potentially, they also had a son William. One or the other was the parent of the Daniel Keerps who lived in the 1870 year of his birth with Gottfried and Dorothea.
Daniel's death record said his parents were William Keerps and Elizabeth Bodmer. Perhaps Keerps siblings married neighboring Bodmer siblings? Or, perhaps unmarried Lizzie Kerp, 18 in 1870, had infant Daniel and later married William Bodmer (a Mrs. Lizzie Kerps married a William Bodmer 12 July 1884. But another record had an Elizabeth Kerps marrying a Stewart.) It appears that Elizabeth predeceased her mother (1888) and sister Henrietta (1907), as their death records cited counts of children or siblings that matched omission of Elizabeth. In 1910, a widowed William Bodmer lived with his brothers in Harmar, near other Keerps homes.
All variations of this surname in Washington County come from the same original single household.
The family name was variably spelled as Kerbs, Kerps, Kerb, Kuerbs, and was largely settled upon by the youngest second-generation family as Keerps. Harmar cemetery records and the tombstone show first-generation immigrant Gottfried as Kerbs. He was also recorded as Godfrey.
The couple and oldest two daughters had immigrated in 1841 from Bremen, Germany, to Baltimore, MD, on "the America," along with his wife's parents. His mother-in-law lived with him in Fearing Township in 1860 but not 1850.
Oldest daughter Mary is variably listed in records as Amalie, Amalia, Emilia, Maria and Mary. A Mahala record might also be her. She shows in the ship's manifest as age 21/2, older than Charlotte at 11/2. (Charlotte's tombstone date, which would make her the elder, appears to err.)
According to the family's 1850 census in Fearing Township, Gottfried/Godfrey was a butcher, as was his son Anton (Andy).
Third daughter Henrietta was later called Harriet/Harriett and married Jacob Gerhard, who survived her. She died in 1907, but it is yet unclear where she is buried. They had 13 children. They might be recorded as Gerhardt, Gearhart or Gerhardt but the early German church records only used Gerhart.
Son Charles, their seventh child, evidently was married four times, to Lizzie Riley, Eliza J. Lammick (with whom he had several children), Fannie Wayne and Martha McGill (Stage) who had children from an earlier marriage. His first two children with Eliza were born in Noble County, Ohio.
Gottfried and Dorothea also had a daughter Elizabeth (born in 1852, who was referenced in her parents' sale of Fearing Township land and who possibly later married to Bodmer). Potentially, they also had a son William. One or the other was the parent of the Daniel Keerps who lived in the 1870 year of his birth with Gottfried and Dorothea.
Daniel's death record said his parents were William Keerps and Elizabeth Bodmer. Perhaps Keerps siblings married neighboring Bodmer siblings? Or, perhaps unmarried Lizzie Kerp, 18 in 1870, had infant Daniel and later married William Bodmer (a Mrs. Lizzie Kerps married a William Bodmer 12 July 1884. But another record had an Elizabeth Kerps marrying a Stewart.) It appears that Elizabeth predeceased her mother (1888) and sister Henrietta (1907), as their death records cited counts of children or siblings that matched omission of Elizabeth. In 1910, a widowed William Bodmer lived with his brothers in Harmar, near other Keerps homes.
The family name was variably spelled as Kerbs, Kerps, Kerb, Kuerbs, and was largely settled upon by the youngest second-generation family as Keerps. Harmar cemetery records and the tombstone show first-generation immigrant Gottfried as Kerbs. He was also recorded as Godfrey.
The couple and oldest two daughters had immigrated in 1841 from Bremen, Germany, to Baltimore, MD, on "the America," along with his wife's parents. His mother-in-law lived with him in Fearing Township in 1860 but not 1850.
Oldest daughter Mary is variably listed in records as Amalie, Amalia, Emilia, Maria and Mary. A Mahala record might also be her. She shows in the ship's manifest as age 21/2, older than Charlotte at 11/2. (Charlotte's tombstone date, which would make her the elder, appears to err.)
According to the family's 1850 census in Fearing Township, Gottfried/Godfrey was a butcher, as was his son Anton (Andy).
Third daughter Henrietta was later called Harriet/Harriett and married Jacob Gerhard, who survived her. She died in 1907, but it is yet unclear where she is buried. They had 13 children. They might be recorded as Gerhardt, Gearhart or Gerhardt but the early German church records only used Gerhart.
Son Charles, their seventh child, evidently was married four times, to Lizzie Riley, Eliza J. Lammick (with whom he had several children), Fannie Wayne and Martha McGill (Stage) who had children from an earlier marriage. His first two children with Eliza were born in Noble County, Ohio.
Gottfried and Dorothea also had a daughter Elizabeth (born in 1852, who was referenced in her parents' sale of Fearing Township land and who possibly later married to Bodmer). Potentially, they also had a son William. One or the other was the parent of the Daniel Keerps who lived in the 1870 year of his birth with Gottfried and Dorothea.
Daniel's death record said his parents were William Keerps and Elizabeth Bodmer. Perhaps Keerps siblings married neighboring Bodmer siblings? Or, perhaps unmarried Lizzie Kerp, 18 in 1870, had infant Daniel and later married William Bodmer (a Mrs. Lizzie Kerps married a William Bodmer 12 July 1884. But another record had an Elizabeth Kerps marrying a Stewart.) It appears that Elizabeth predeceased her mother (1888) and sister Henrietta (1907), as their death records cited counts of children or siblings that matched omission of Elizabeth. In 1910, a widowed William Bodmer lived with his brothers in Harmar, near other Keerps homes.
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