Kansas Family Group Sheet for RENSING, John or Johann Family

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Submitted by: Diana RENSING HANCOCK
Email address: Rensing512@aol.com


Husband: John or Johann RENSING
Birthdate: 23 Jul 1836
Birthplace: Slagharen, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Holland
Death date: 21 Sep 1920
Place of death: Chanute, Neosho Co., KS
Father: RENSING, Johann
Mother: KRUEGER, KRIGER, KRUGER, Helena Adelheid or Adelheid

Marriage date: circa 1833/34
Marriage place: Unknown

Wife: HEIDEMANN, Mary Adelheid
Birthdate: 20 Feb 1838
Birthplace: Germany, (Probably)
Death date: 03 Nov 1874
Place of death: Damianville, Clinton Co., IL
Father: HEIDEMANN, Gerhard (?)
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: RENSING, Maria Aleida
Sex: F
Birthdate: 24 Jul 1833
Birthplace: Slagharen, Ambt. Hardenberg, Overijssel, Holland
Death date: 25 Feb 1844
Place of death: Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
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Spouse's name: None

Child No. 2: RENSING, John/Johann Herman
Sex: M
Birthdate: 23 Jul 1836
Birthplace: Slagharen, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Holland
Death date: 21 Sep 1920
Place of death: Chanute, Neosho Co., KS
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Child No. 3: RENSING, Anna Aleida or Catherine Ann
Sex: F
Birthdate: 2 Nov 1838
Birthplace: Slagharen Hardenberg, Holland
Death date: 17 Mar 1886
Place of death: Beaver Prairie Clinton Co., IL
Marriage date: 17 Feb 1857
Marriage place: St. Boniface, Germantown, Clinton Co., IL
Spouse's name: APKEN OR APKE, John Albert

Child No. 4: RENSING, Henry Herman or Gerhard Henry
Sex: M
Birthdate: 29 Dec 1841
Birthplace: Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
Death date: 23 Mar 1925
Place of death: Wheatfield Twp, Clinton Co., IL
Marriage date: 8 Nov 1864
Marriage place: Holy Childhood, Mascoutah, St. Clair Co., IL
Spouse's name: HEITZMANN, Christina

Child No. 5: RENSING, Mary Ann
Sex:
Birthdate: 16 Aug 1844
Birthplace: Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
Death date: 10 Sep 1844
Place of death: Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
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Child No. 6: RENSING, Mary Adelaide or Adline
Sex: F
Birthdate: 16 Aug 1844
Birthplace: Germantown or Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
Death date: 27 Apr 1845
Place of death: Germantown or Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
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Child No. 7: RENSING, Mary Helen
Sex: F
Birthdate: 9 Aug 1846
Birthplace: Germantown or Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
Death date: abt. 9 Aug 1846
Place of death: Germantown or Damiansville, Clinton Co., IL
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Child No. 8: RENSING, Anna Catherine
Sex: F
Birthdate: 5 Jul 1849
Birthplace:
Death date: 7 Oct 1858
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Documentation: Slagharen 150 Jaar (years) book, by Ricus Hertsenberg.
Printed for 150 year. anniv. Pg. 7 130 people lived in Slagharen in 1840.
In the list is our Joan Hend. Rensink [sic] Rensing, Geert Rensink [sic]
Rensing.  Also named is Kortne {sic] Korte, Berend Hendrik Wellen, &
Geert Hendrik Wellen. Pg. 22 men working digging peat - Rensink [sic]
Rensing named again. pg. 24 In 1830 blijken zich in Slagharen 150
personen te bevinden.  Onder anderen waren er bijgekomen: G. H. Rensink
uit Meppen.  Allen met vrouw en kinderen.  Mean all with wife and
children.
Ship Record:
Rensing ship to America: Sailed  November 10, 1839, on the "Louise
Friederike" from Breman to New Orleans.
We give you a short history of the ship "Louise Friederike."
The "Louise Friederike" was a brig., i.e. a sailing ship with 2 full
rigged masts.  She was made of Oak wood.  the constructor was the master
of shipbuilding Taake Janssen of Bremen.  The employer and ship owner was
the merchant house Arens & Bahr in Bremen.  The launching of the ship was
December 5, 1838.  The "Bielfrief" (document of birth of a ship) is dated
March 7, 1839.
The measures of the ship are:
Length in the keel 88 feet or 25,46m.
Largest width 25 feet 6 inches or 7, 38m.
Depth inside 13 feet 2 inches or 3,81m.
The tonnage (capacity of holding was 85 "Commerzlast" =255 tons.
The first captain was Jurgen Jessen Scholborg of Bremen.
The first journey stated on April 4, 1839 with 93 passengers at
Bremerhaven and took 44 days to New Orleans.  The second journey started
on November 10, 1839 with 90 passengers at Bremerhaven for New Orleans.
The "Louise Friederike" sailed until 1858 under the Bremen flag.  In 1851
she was sold to the firm D. G. Roghe in Bremen.  In 1858 she was sold to
Hamburg and in 1863 she was sold England and renamed "Wilson".
Enclose is a copy of the "Bielfrief" of March 7, 1839