On this day, February 2, 1887, Anna "Sophia" Jesse and John Burgwald were married in Sherman township in St. Joseph County, Michigan.
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| Michigan Marriage record 1887 |
Sophia was the daughter of George Jessie and Maria Klevsaat, the granddaughter of Friedrich Christoph "Ernst" Klevsaat and Christina Sophia Luise Brahst, the great-granddaughter of Johann Christian Kleesaat and Elizabeth Catherine Neuendorf, and the great-great granddaughter of Sebastien Heinrich Kleesaat and Anna Sophia Catherine Kleesaat. The last couple mentioned are also my great-great-great-great grandparents, making Sophia and me third cousins twice removed.
Where did the Kleesaats come from? Germany? The name sounds (and looks) Dutch.
ReplyDeleteThe Kleesaats/Klevesaats and in this case the Kleserts, came from Rosenow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. If they were any further east they would have been in Poland, which officially didn't exist at this time.
ReplyDeleteOur ancestor Christian Kleesaat/Cleasot/etc was born and baptized in Wendorff, Germany but raised in Gadebehn, in the parish of Rosenow. His father was born in Rosenow and his father's father too.
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