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Casper Friedrich Ambor
Caspar Friedrich Amborn was the youngest child of Johann Conrad Amborn (b. 12 March 1769, d. 2 January 1847 – View his birth record) and Marie Catharine Weyhrauch (b. 13 January 1774, d. 17 July 1833).
- Born 25 Sep 1816 in Niederschmalkalden, Sachsen-Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany
Parents of Casper Friedrich Amborn
- Johann Conrad Amborn
- Born 12 March 1769 in Niederschmalkalden, Sachsen-Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany, Sachsen-Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany
- Died 2 January 1847 in Niederschmalkalden, Sachsen-Meiningen, Thüringen, Germany
- Marie Catharine Weyhrauch
- Born 13 January 1774 in Germany
- Died 17 July 1883 in Germany
Siblings of Casper Friedrich Amborn
- Margarethe Elizabeth Amborn (b. 12 June 1795)
- Eva Elisabeth Amborn (b. 27 March 1798, d. 1822 in Germany)
- Clare Marie Amborn (b. 23 November 1799, d. 20 August 1800 in Niederschmalkalden, Germany)
- Johann Daniel Freidlieb Amborn (b. 10 June 1801, d. 26 October 1892 in Slades Corner, Wisconsin)
- Johan Conrad Amborn (b. 23 February 1804, d. 27 April 1804 in Niederschmalkalden, Germany)
- Johann Freidlieb Daniel Amborn (b. 6 March 1805, d. 15 October 1806 in Niederschmalkalden, Germany))
- Utila Elisabetha Amborn – “Ottilie” -(b. 23 March 1807, d. 9 AUgust 1809 in Niederschmalkalden, Germany))
- Anne Catherine Amborn (b. 25 July 1809)
- Mara Catharina Amborn (b. 10 February 1812, d. 25 February 1813 in Niederschmalkalden, Germany))
- Johann Anton Amborn (b. 22 November 1814, d. 18 May 1883 in Walworth, Wisconsin)
- Amborn (b. 22 November 1814, d 22 November 1814, 22 November 181 in Niederschmalkalden, Germany)
- Caspar Friedrich Amborn
Louise Theadore Hornung – Wife of Casper Friedrich Amborn
- Born 02 Jun 1816 in Roßdorf, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
- Her tombstone says she died on Dec. 25, 1899, Aged 83 Years, 6 Months, 23 days. That makes her date of birth June 2, 1816.
- The birth record of her Freidrith Gottreich (b. 19 March 1842), her 2nd child, states that she was from “Roßdorf”.
Parents of Louise Theadore Hornung
- Unknown – Additional Research Required
Siblings of Louise Theadore Hornung
- Unknown – Additional Research Required
Marriage of Casper Friedrich Amborn & Louise Theadore Hornung
- I have a date (23 February 1841) but no source for this information – Additional Research Required
Children of Casper Friedrich Amborn & Louise Theadore Hornung
- Antone Henry (b. 25 December 1840 in Germany, d. 8 March 1832 in Bloomfield, Walworth, Wisconsin)
- Friedrich Gottreich (b. 19 March 1842 in Germany, d. 8 October 1907 in La Crosse county, Wisconsin)
- Ottilte Georgine (b. abt 1844 in Germany, d. before 1874 in Wisconsin)
- Jacob (b. 2 April 1849 in Lyons, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States, d. 13 March in Farmington, La Crosse, Wisconsin)
- Amanda Livette (b. 28 March 1853 in Lyons, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States, 1951)
- David J (b. 1 January 1857 in Lyons, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States, d. 11 October 1885 in Farmington, La Crosse, Wisconsin)
According to the History of Walworth County, Wisconsin (1912), pages 954-55. By Albert Clayton Beckwith (1836-1915):
“The parents [Caspar and Louise Amborn] and their two sons [Antone Henry Amborn, b. 25 December 1840 and Gottreich Henry Amborn, b. 19 March 1842] and two daughters came to America in 1847, direct to Wisconsin, the voyage across the ocean requiring seven weeks.
“two daughters”?
The 1850 census, enumerated 3 years after they arrived in the United States, lists four children: 3 males and 1 female:
- Anthony – Male,10 years old, born in Germany in 1840
- Frederick – Male, 8 years old, born in Germany in 1842
- Attahener (as transcribed by Ancestry.com, probably mangled attempt to record “Ottilte”) – Female, 6 years old, born in Germany in 1844
- Jacob – Male, 1 Year old, born in the United States in 1849
The 1842 German birth record for Fredrick Gottreich states that he was the 2nd child and 2nd son. If there was another daughter, she would have to have been born between about 1843 and 1847. Given that there is only one female child enumerated in the 1850 US Census, if there was a second daughter she would presumably have died before then.
Two more children had been born by time the 1860 census was enumerated:
- Anthony – Male,19 years old, born in 1841
- Johan – Male, 17 years old, born in 1843
- Irena – Female, 15 years old, born n 1845
- Jacob – Male, 11 Year old, born in 1849
- Betsey – Female, 7 Years old, born in 1853
- David – Male, 3 Years old, born in 1857
Anthony, Johan/Frederick and Irena/Attahener were no longer living with their parents at the time of the 1870 Census.
- Anthony was married to Martha Elonore Kimball and is enumerated as a head of household.
- Johan/Frederick was married to Sophia Lorietta Storandt and was also enumerated as a head of household.
- A marriage record for a Ottilte Georgine Amborn, daughter of Louise and Casper Frederick Amborn has been found. She married Johann Michael Katzenberger on 3 March 1862 in Hudson, Walworth, Wisconsin. Johann Michael Katzenberger married “Bertha” about 1875, so it can be assumed that Ottilte died prior to that time, although no record of her death has been located.
Based on the available information, it appears that there were only two daughters: Ottilte Georgine (born in Germany in 1844 or 1845, and Betsey born in Wisconsin in 1853.
Emigration to the United States
The Amborn family has been traced to Niederschmalkalden, Sachsen-Meiningen, in the modern-day state of Thüringen, Germany thanks to the efforts of members of the Cooper County, Missouri Historical Society. They have transcribed newspaper and passport information from the period and have created a database of Immigrants from Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany (among other areas). This database (viewable on the societies website) refers to several members of the Amborn family and identifies the month & year that they departed Germany for the United States.
Information about the exodus from the region has also been published (in German) by the Thuringian Archives (see Emigration from the duchy of Saxony-Meiningen 68).
The information listed came from one source or the other (sometimes both):
| Last Name | First Name | Month | Year | Living Place | Profession | Notice | Born | Cooper County | Thuringian Archives |
| Amborn | W. | Apr | 1846 | Unterkatz | Taylor | Yes | Yes | ||
| Amborn | Casper Fredrich | Mar | 1847 | Niederschmalkalden | 1816 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Amborn | [George] Heinrich | Mar | 1847 | Niederschmalkalden | Yes | Yes | |||
| Amborn | Daniel Friedlieb | Mar | 1848 | Niederschmalkalden | Yes | Yes | |||
| Amborn | Heinrich Adam | Mar | 1848 | Niederschmalkalden | Mechanic | 1801 | Yes | ||
| Amborn | Sebastian | Apr | 1852 | Niederschmalkalden | with wife and 2 children | 1799 | Yes | Yes | |
| Amborn | Eva Elisabeth | 1852 | Niederschmalkalden | 1798 | Yes | ||||
| Amborn | [Johann] Anton | Apr | 1853 | Niederschmalkalden | with wife and 2 children | 1814 | Yes | Yes | |
| Weyhrauch Amborn | Dorthea | 1853 | Niederschmalkalden | 1798 | Yes | ||||
| Amborn | Christine | Apr | 1853 | Niederschmalkalden | Yes | Yes | |||
| Amborn | Daniel | Apr | 1853 | Niederschmalkalden | Yes | Yes | |||
| Amborn | Dorthea | 1853 | Niederschmalkalden | 1798 | Yes | ||||
| Amborn | August | 1853 | Niederschmalkalden | Yes |
Niederschmalkalden, Meiningen, Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany is cataloged in the Meyers Gazetteer: View Information
Three of the men listed above were the sons of Johann Conrad Amborn (b. 1769, d. 1847) and Marie Catharine Weyhrauch (b. 1774, d. 1833). Marie gave birth to 12 children between 1795 and 1816, 6 of whom died in infancy.
- Caspar Friedrich [1847] (b. 24 September 1816) – He traveled with his wife, 2 sons and one daughter
- Johann Daniel Friedlieb [1848] (b. 1801) – He was unmarried at the time of his emigration
- Johann Anton [1853] (b. 22 November, 1814) – He traveled with his wife (Dorthea Weyhrauch), a son and a daughter
Two others were the sons of Heinrich Adam Amborn (brother of Johann Conrad Amborn) and Otila Zapf.
- Heinrich Adam [1848] (b. 1801) – He apparently traveled with his wife and 2 sons
- Sebastian [1852] (b. 1799) – He traveled with his wife and 2 daughters
Daniel Amborn (b. abt 1813) [1853] traveled with his wife (Dorthea), son August (age 7) and daughter Dorthea (age 4). Also listed on the ships register (the Lohan, arriving in New York on 24 June 1853) was ‘Anton Amborn‘, age 30.
The pedigree of the remaining emigrants is not (yet) known:
- W. Amborn [1846]
- George Heinrich Amborn [1847] (b. 1805) – He reportedly married Anna Elisabeth Schliecher (b. 1823) in Germany in 1845, and their first child was born Bloomfield, Wisconsin in 1848.
- Christine Amborn [1853] (Male, b. 1826)
Research of church birth records has also revealed several other Amborn families in Germany:
- Johan Heinrich Amborn and Anna Catherina Amborn had two daughters:
- Johan Dietrich Amborn and Eva Magalina Weirauchin (sp?) had a son and a daughter:
1847 – March: Caspar Friedrich Amborn and Gottreich Heinrich Amborn (b. 1805) leave Niederschmalkalden, Germany.
“The parents [Caspar and Louise Amborn] and their two sons [Antone Henry Amborn, b. 25 December 1840 and Gottreich Henry Amborn, b. 19 March 1842] and two daughters came to America in 1847, direct to Wisconsin, the voyage across the ocean requiring seven weeks. They landed in Kenosha and the next day started for Walworth county, two days later finding them in Lyons township, and here they at once bought forty acres of land [1 January 1851], and this was the family home until 1869, when the father and mother sold out and moved to Burr Oak, La Crosse county, and there the father and mother spent their last days.”
History of Walworth County, Wisconsin (1912), pages 954-55. By Albert Clayton Beckwith (1836-1915)
“Between 1840 and 1860, hundreds of thousands of immigrants came from Europe. Most came by way of the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes to the port of Milwaukee, or they traveled up the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers and then by the railroads, which crossed the area soon after Wisconsin statehood.” [May 29, 1848].
“The most numerous of the foreign-born immigrants were from Germany. They came from the Catholic provinces of southern Germany and from Protestant eastern Germany.”
Wisconsin Emigration and Immigration, FamilySearch Wiki (https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Wisconsin_Emigration_and_Immigration), accessed 19 December 2020
Cooper County, Missouri Historical Society information is only available as a PDF file. I used ChatGPT to extract a list emigrants who departed in 1847: See the PDF below.
Notable in this group is Casper Friedrich Amborn and Just David Kümpel.
Land Purchase?
I have found a record of a land purchase initiated on 7 June 1847 by Gottreich Heinrich Amborn and Casper Berthelmeh: SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 9 Township 1N Range 18E (40 acres). Source: “United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955″, , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:623B-MZGD : Sun Mar 10 05:15:38 UTC 2024), Entry for Gottreich Heinrich Amborn + Casper Berthelmar, 7 June 1847 – 15th entry.
However, the certificate (number 27471) issued 1 September 1848 for the same property identified the purchasers as “John Heinrich Amborn and Casper Berthelmeh”
I have information about a Gottreich Heinrich Amborn (1805 – 1875) who was the son of Sebastian Amborn (1782 – 1853). He was living in Bloomfield at the time of the 1850 census, but I believe that he did not arrive in the United States until June of 1848 (“Year: 1848; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 073; Line: 18; List Number: 545; Page Number: 4”). I have no other information on a “Casper Berthelmar”.
George Heinrich Amborn married Anna Elisabeth Schliecher (b. 24 December 1823) in Germany in 1845, and their first child was born in Bloomfield, Walworth, Wisconsin on 21 March 1848. She almost certainly accompanied him when he sailed over in 1847.
David Kimball (b. 1801) emigrated from Wernshausn Sachsen Meininson Saxony Germany with his wife Margaret E Young (b 1809) and family (5 daughters and 4 sons ranging in age from 2 to 19 years old) and settled in the same town in Wisconsin, also in 1847. It is possible that these families traveled together.
1847 – May: Casper Frederick Amborn arrives in New York.
1847 – July 6: Casper Frederick Amborn files his declaration of intent to become a United States citizen in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
1848 – March: Daniel Friedlieb Amborn and Heinrich Adam Amborn depart Niederschmalkalden, Germany
1848 – June 12: Henry [Heinrich] Adam Amborn (b. 1800), Daniel Friedlieb Amborn (b. 1810) and Christine Amborn (Male, b. 1826) arrive in New York on the Belinda
Year: 1848; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 073; Line: 18; List Number: 545; Page Number: 4
1848 – July 12: Henry [Heinrich] Adam Amborn (b. 1800) files his declaration of intent to become a United States citizen in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
1848 – September 1: Johan [Gottreich] Heinrich Amborn (b. 7 Nov 1805) and Casper Berthelmeh purchase the SouthWest quarter of the SouthWest quarter of Section 9, Township 1 North of Range 18 East in the district of lands subject to sale at Milwaukee, Wisconsin containing Forty Acres.
View a contemporary Google Map of this location.
1851 – January 1: Casper Frederick Amborn purchases the South East quarter of the South East Quarter of Section 26 in Township two of Range Eighteen in the District of Lands subject to sale at Milwaukee Wisconsin containing 40 acres.
View a contemporary Google Map of this location.
1852 – April: Sebastian Amborn (b. 1802) departs Niederschmalkalden, Germany with his wife and 2 children.
1852 – May 28: Sebastian Amborn (b. 1802) arrives in New York from Bremon, Germany on the Childe Harold with wife Elizabeth and daughters Marie and Elise.
Year: 1852; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 113; Line: 56; List Number: 615
1852 – June: Sebastian Amborn (b. 1782) arrives in New York. He would have been about 70 years old at the time.
1853 – April: Christin Amborn and Daniel Amborn depart Niederschmalkalden, Germany.
1853 – April: Johann Anton Amborn departs Niederschmalkalden, Germany with his wife and 2 children.
1853 – Johann Anton Amborn (b. 1820) arrives New York. [The 1900 census record for August Amborn states that his wife Dorothea Weyrauth, son August and daughter Fredricka arrived in the United States in 1852.]
1900 United States Census, August Amborn Household. n.p: Bloomfield Township, Walworth County, Wisconsin. Supervisors District 5, Enumeration District 83, Sheet 11, Lines 70 – 72
1853 – November 7: Sebastian Amborn (b. 1782) files his declaration of intent to become a United States citizen in Walworth County, Wisconsin. He was 71 years old at the time. Sebastian is a common name in the Amborn family: I have not yet been able to identify exactly who this Sebastian is or where (or even if) he is part of my family.
1855 – May 1: Sebastian Amborn (b. 1802) purchases the North West quarter of the South East Quarter of Section 9 in Township one North of Range Eighteen East in the District of Lands subject to sale at Milwaukee Wisconsin containing 40 acres.
View the center of this plot on Google Maps.
1872 – Casper Frederick Amborn served as a Supervisor for the Town of Lyons
History of Walworth County, Chicago Western Historical Society, Published 1882, Page 809
1873 – Chicago, Illinois: Everts, Baskin and Stewart published “Combination atlas map of Walworth County Wisconsin” that included maps identifying land ownership for each township.
The map for Bloomfield Township (Town number 1 North in Range number 18 East) identified several Amborns and the land they owned:
- S 1/2 SW 1/4, Section 2 – A. [Anton] Amborn (80 Acres)
- SE 1/4 SE 1/4 Section 3 – A. [Anton] Amborn (40 Acres, adjacent to the land described above)
- W 1/2 SE 1/4 Section 12 – A. [Anton] Amborn (80 Acres)
- NE 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 13 – A. [Anton] Amborn (40 Acres, adjacent to the land described above)
- NW 1/4 SE 1/4 Section 3 – D. [Daniel] Amborn
The map for Lyons Township (Town number 2 North in Range number 18 East) also identified several Amborns and the land they owned:
- SE 1/4 SE 1/4 Section 26 – C.F. Amborn (40 Acres)
- E 1/2 SW 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 35 – C.F. Amborn (20 Acres)
- NE 1/4 NW 1/4 Section 36 – C.F. Amborn (40 Acres)
This same publication listed “Amburn, C.F. [Casper F Amborn], Lyons Township, Section 35, Date of Settlement: 1846, native of Germany, Occupation: Farmer” on the Patrons Business Directory of Walworth County page (page 67)
1879 – November 25: George [Gottreich] Henry Amborn (born 7 Nov 1805) receives land grant for the North East quarter of the South West quarter of Section 7 in Township 18 of range 6 West in the district of lands subject to sale at La Crosse Wisconsin containing 40 acres.
View the center of this plot on Google Maps.
1882 – May: John Henry Amborn (b. 13 August 1856), son of Henry Adam Amborn, arrives in New York.
1884 – August 28: John Henry Amborn (b. 1856), son of Henry Adam Amborn, files his declaration of intent to become a United States citizen in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
1886 – March 27: Daniel F Amborn becomes a US citizen in Walworth County, Wisconsin. One of his witnesses is Casper F Amborn, who is by then already a US citizen.
1900 – Antone Henry Amborn’s US Census entry indicates that he entered the United States in 1847
1900 – Gottreich Henry Amborn’s US Census entry indicates that he entered the United States in 1847
1912 – September 17: John Henry Amborn (b. 13 August 1856), son of Henry Adam Amborn, becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States.
1920 – Antone Henry Amborn’s US Census entry indicates that he entered the United States in 1847.
Other German Records I have obtained and had translated
- Rosina Margretha Amborn (b. 1795)
- Dorthea Elizabeth Amborn (b. 1798)
- Otilia Amborn (b. 1798)
- Sebastian Amborn (b. 1799)
- Heinrich Adam Amborn (b. 1801)
- Johann Conrad Amborn (b. 1804) – Son of Johan Dietrich Amborn (b. 1778)
- Johan Anton Weyrauch (b. 1814)
- Barbara Elisabethe Weyrauch (d. 1833)
- Friedrich Gottrieich Amborn (b. 1842)
- Freidrich Richard Weyrauch (b. 1842)
- Jacob Eduard Weyrauch (b. 1842)
Research Questions
- Locate the marriage record for Casper Friedrich Amborn and Louise Theadore Hoerining.
- I have a date (23 February 1841) but no source.
- They reportedly had four children born in Germany between 1840 and 1845 (but I have no sources for any of their births).
- I do have sources that indicate that they departed Niederschmalkalden, Germany in March 1847.
- So it is likely they were married in Germany sometime between 1840 and 1847.
- Locate the birth record for Louise Theadore Hoerining (Female, reportedly born 2 August 1816 in Rossdorf, Germany).
- Who were her parents?
- Note: Rossdorf is located South of Frankfort, about 200 kM/124 Miles from Niederschmalkalden. It would be unusual (although not impossible) for two people living so far apart to meet and get married in 1841. So the birth date and/or location may not be correct.
- Locate the birth record for Ottilte Georgine Amborn (Female, reportedly born about 1840 in Germany).
- When and where did Ottilte Georgine Amborn die (presumably somewhere in the United States, probably Wisconsin)?
- Locate the birth record for Antone Henry Amborn (Male, reportedly born 25 December 1840 in Germany).
- Locate the birth record for Freidrith Gottreich “Heinrich” Amborn (Male, reportedly born 19 March 1842 in Germany)
- Locate the birth record for Irene Amborn (Female, reportedly born about 1845 in Germany).
- Is there any record of the journey of the Amborn family from Germany to Wisconsin? 13 March 2020: Ancestry.com does not list any ship arriving in New York in May 1847. They show the Albany arriving 1 April, and the Yssel arriving 27 April (1 passenger!), then no other arrivals until the Roscol arrived 1 September. It is hard for me to believe that no passenger ships arrived between May and August: this must just be a gap in Ancestry.com’s records.
- Who was Sebastian Amborn (b. 1782) and where is he buried?
- Was the W Amborn who departed Niederschmalkalden in 1846 part of the same family? Where did he emigrate to?
References
- Amborn Family – Descendants of Casper Amborn: a collection of genealogy material assembled by William C. Zarnstorff. Printed July 17, 2005.
- Amborn Family – Descendants of John Henry Amborn (b. 7 Nov 1805, d. 12 Jul 1875) and Anna Elizabeth Schliefer (b. 24 Dec 1923, d. 16 Jan 1898) by Vera (Amborn) Knoll
- The Kirchenbuch, 1858-1929: Evangelisch Lutherische St. Johannis Gemeinde (Slades Corner, Wisconsin) Contains history, members, baptisms, communicants 1867-1924, confirmations 1867-1929, meeting reports 1867-1899, marriages, deaths 1863-1929, collections 1869-1897, and misc. newspaper clippings. This is on FamilySearch Film 1404984 Items 1-2. This may document some events related to the Amborn family. A copy was ordered on 13 June 2017: it was be sent to the Dallas Public Library.