The family name was variably spelled Kerbs, Kerps, Kerb, Kuerbs, and was largely settled upon by later descendants as Keerps.
Her maiden name was Dunsink / Dunzing / Donsing, according to church records, which included that her mother, Regina Charlotta Abicht Dun(etc), immigrated from "Rindelbruecken, Prussian Saxony, Germany" and died 10 Oct. 1868, at age 93 (born 2 May 1775). Regina's parents were Caspar and Eva Weingardt Abicht, according to Fearing pastor Daniel Hirsch's records.
Dorothea with husband and two daughters immigrated 12 July 1841 on "the America" from Bremen to Baltimore, MD, along with her parents. It lists them as being from Gunningstadt, which the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild noted might, instead, be Grunstadt/Grinstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the manifest, Dorothea's parents' name was spelled as "Duensing" and her husband's as "Herbst," all from the same town.
It's not yet clear whether the couples stayed together or separated and reunited. Daughter Dorothea Elisabeth and her husband and daughters were clearly living in Fearing Township by the late 1840s: Gottlieb filing his naturalization declaration and buying Fearing land in 1849 and showing, without her parents, in the 1850 census. Her widowed mother shows with Dorothea and Gottlieb in the 1860 census, and the local church report on her said Dorothea's father had died in 1852, but it did not report where he died. Frederick also is not reported in Washington County mortality/probate records, but his wife was (mistakenly reported by her maiden name, Abicht).
Dorothea and Gottlieb continue to show in the 1870 Fearing census, but then after Gottlieb died, Dorothea shows in the Warren Township census with her sons near the Indian Run area, where today's Marietta city and adjacent Warren Township meet. That is close to the Harmar Cemetery where she and her husband are buried, and to Brabham Cemetery where son Leonard's family is buried.
The 1880 Warren Township, Washington County, Ohio, census shows adjacent Keerps households:
In one, "Dora D. Kerps," 65, Prussia, with son George W., 24, born in Ohio to parents both from Prussia.
Next-door lived Dora's son Leonard W. Kerps, 35, farmer, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; with Anna W., 26, wife, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; Lena D., 7, daughter; John A., 5, son; Mary J. 2. The kids were all born in Ohio to parents born in Ohio.
Dorethea and Gottfried had 12 children: Amalie/Emilie/Maria/Mary (Stahl), Sarah Charlotta (Bock-Buck), Henrietta (Gerhold), Anthony, Carolina (Lower/Lauer), Leonard, Karl/Charles, Gottfried Jr., Elizabeth, Heinrich/Henry, George W. and Daniel.
One census reversed the birth order of immigrant children Amalie and Charlotta, but the manifest reported Amalie was 2 and a half while Charlotte was 1 and a half at immigration.
Her maiden name was Dunsink / Dunzing / Donsing, according to church records, which included that her mother, Regina Charlotta Abicht Dun(etc), immigrated from "Rindelbruecken, Prussian Saxony, Germany" and died 10 Oct. 1868, at age 93 (born 2 May 1775). Regina's parents were Caspar and Eva Weingardt Abicht, according to Fearing pastor Daniel Hirsch's records.
Dorothea with husband and two daughters immigrated 12 July 1841 on "the America" from Bremen to Baltimore, MD, along with her parents. It lists them as being from Gunningstadt, which the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild noted might, instead, be Grunstadt/Grinstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the manifest, Dorothea's parents' name was spelled as "Duensing" and her husband's as "Herbst," all from the same town.
It's not yet clear whether the couples stayed together or separated and reunited. Daughter Dorothea Elisabeth and her husband and daughters were clearly living in Fearing Township by the late 1840s: Gottlieb filing his naturalization declaration and buying Fearing land in 1849 and showing, without her parents, in the 1850 census. Her widowed mother shows with Dorothea and Gottlieb in the 1860 census, and the local church report on her said Dorothea's father had died in 1852, but it did not report where he died. Frederick also is not reported in Washington County mortality/probate records, but his wife was (mistakenly reported by her maiden name, Abicht).
Dorothea and Gottlieb continue to show in the 1870 Fearing census, but then after Gottlieb died, Dorothea shows in the Warren Township census with her sons near the Indian Run area, where today's Marietta city and adjacent Warren Township meet. That is close to the Harmar Cemetery where she and her husband are buried, and to Brabham Cemetery where son Leonard's family is buried.
The 1880 Warren Township, Washington County, Ohio, census shows adjacent Keerps households:
In one, "Dora D. Kerps," 65, Prussia, with son George W., 24, born in Ohio to parents both from Prussia.
Next-door lived Dora's son Leonard W. Kerps, 35, farmer, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; with Anna W., 26, wife, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; Lena D., 7, daughter; John A., 5, son; Mary J. 2. The kids were all born in Ohio to parents born in Ohio.
Dorethea and Gottfried had 12 children: Amalie/Emilie/Maria/Mary (Stahl), Sarah Charlotta (Bock-Buck), Henrietta (Gerhold), Anthony, Carolina (Lower/Lauer), Leonard, Karl/Charles, Gottfried Jr., Elizabeth, Heinrich/Henry, George W. and Daniel.
One census reversed the birth order of immigrant children Amalie and Charlotta, but the manifest reported Amalie was 2 and a half while Charlotte was 1 and a half at immigration.
The family name was variably spelled Kerbs, Kerps, Kerb, Kuerbs, and was largely settled upon by later descendants as Keerps.
Her maiden name was Dunsink / Dunzing / Donsing, according to church records, which included that her mother, Regina Charlotta Abicht Dun(etc), immigrated from "Rindelbruecken, Prussian Saxony, Germany" and died 10 Oct. 1868, at age 93 (born 2 May 1775). Regina's parents were Caspar and Eva Weingardt Abicht, according to Fearing pastor Daniel Hirsch's records.
Dorothea with husband and two daughters immigrated 12 July 1841 on "the America" from Bremen to Baltimore, MD, along with her parents. It lists them as being from Gunningstadt, which the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild noted might, instead, be Grunstadt/Grinstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the manifest, Dorothea's parents' name was spelled as "Duensing" and her husband's as "Herbst," all from the same town.
It's not yet clear whether the couples stayed together or separated and reunited. Daughter Dorothea Elisabeth and her husband and daughters were clearly living in Fearing Township by the late 1840s: Gottlieb filing his naturalization declaration and buying Fearing land in 1849 and showing, without her parents, in the 1850 census. Her widowed mother shows with Dorothea and Gottlieb in the 1860 census, and the local church report on her said Dorothea's father had died in 1852, but it did not report where he died. Frederick also is not reported in Washington County mortality/probate records, but his wife was (mistakenly reported by her maiden name, Abicht).
Dorothea and Gottlieb continue to show in the 1870 Fearing census, but then after Gottlieb died, Dorothea shows in the Warren Township census with her sons near the Indian Run area, where today's Marietta city and adjacent Warren Township meet. That is close to the Harmar Cemetery where she and her husband are buried, and to Brabham Cemetery where son Leonard's family is buried.
The 1880 Warren Township, Washington County, Ohio, census shows adjacent Keerps households:
In one, "Dora D. Kerps," 65, Prussia, with son George W., 24, born in Ohio to parents both from Prussia.
Next-door lived Dora's son Leonard W. Kerps, 35, farmer, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; with Anna W., 26, wife, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; Lena D., 7, daughter; John A., 5, son; Mary J. 2. The kids were all born in Ohio to parents born in Ohio.
Dorethea and Gottfried had 12 children: Amalie/Emilie/Maria/Mary (Stahl), Sarah Charlotta (Bock-Buck), Henrietta (Gerhold), Anthony, Carolina (Lower/Lauer), Leonard, Karl/Charles, Gottfried Jr., Elizabeth, Heinrich/Henry, George W. and Daniel.
One census reversed the birth order of immigrant children Amalie and Charlotta, but the manifest reported Amalie was 2 and a half while Charlotte was 1 and a half at immigration.
Her maiden name was Dunsink / Dunzing / Donsing, according to church records, which included that her mother, Regina Charlotta Abicht Dun(etc), immigrated from "Rindelbruecken, Prussian Saxony, Germany" and died 10 Oct. 1868, at age 93 (born 2 May 1775). Regina's parents were Caspar and Eva Weingardt Abicht, according to Fearing pastor Daniel Hirsch's records.
Dorothea with husband and two daughters immigrated 12 July 1841 on "the America" from Bremen to Baltimore, MD, along with her parents. It lists them as being from Gunningstadt, which the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild noted might, instead, be Grunstadt/Grinstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
In the manifest, Dorothea's parents' name was spelled as "Duensing" and her husband's as "Herbst," all from the same town.
It's not yet clear whether the couples stayed together or separated and reunited. Daughter Dorothea Elisabeth and her husband and daughters were clearly living in Fearing Township by the late 1840s: Gottlieb filing his naturalization declaration and buying Fearing land in 1849 and showing, without her parents, in the 1850 census. Her widowed mother shows with Dorothea and Gottlieb in the 1860 census, and the local church report on her said Dorothea's father had died in 1852, but it did not report where he died. Frederick also is not reported in Washington County mortality/probate records, but his wife was (mistakenly reported by her maiden name, Abicht).
Dorothea and Gottlieb continue to show in the 1870 Fearing census, but then after Gottlieb died, Dorothea shows in the Warren Township census with her sons near the Indian Run area, where today's Marietta city and adjacent Warren Township meet. That is close to the Harmar Cemetery where she and her husband are buried, and to Brabham Cemetery where son Leonard's family is buried.
The 1880 Warren Township, Washington County, Ohio, census shows adjacent Keerps households:
In one, "Dora D. Kerps," 65, Prussia, with son George W., 24, born in Ohio to parents both from Prussia.
Next-door lived Dora's son Leonard W. Kerps, 35, farmer, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; with Anna W., 26, wife, born in Ohio to Prussian parents; Lena D., 7, daughter; John A., 5, son; Mary J. 2. The kids were all born in Ohio to parents born in Ohio.
Dorethea and Gottfried had 12 children: Amalie/Emilie/Maria/Mary (Stahl), Sarah Charlotta (Bock-Buck), Henrietta (Gerhold), Anthony, Carolina (Lower/Lauer), Leonard, Karl/Charles, Gottfried Jr., Elizabeth, Heinrich/Henry, George W. and Daniel.
One census reversed the birth order of immigrant children Amalie and Charlotta, but the manifest reported Amalie was 2 and a half while Charlotte was 1 and a half at immigration.
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