You are right. I got this data from my grandfather's cousin and did not look at closely. Her first child was suppose to have been born 1819-1820. She still would have been very young. I went back to the contract with the agent in Mannhein for their passage (it is very large and four pages- I have a copy of it) and it says she was 55 in 1849. So that would mean that he was born 1794. Her husband was born in 1788. So that date sound more valid. I have seen her tombstone in WI. It was also buried in the grass. I am going back this summer and maybe I can find. Her husband's tombstone and her brother's on the internet. Thank you for the "wake-up" I would have been searching a long time for. Her brother is suppose to Charles Ludwig Hummel. His birth date is on his tombstone. Again thank you. Barbara On Apr 13, 2005, at 5:45 AM, Wendelin Irslinger wrote: > Barbara, > >> I believe my great great great grandmother Catharina Hummel was from >> Offenberg. She was born 18 Nov 1803. >> Catharina married Michael Schrenier in Offenberg about 1815 (their >> first child was born in 1819/20 in Diersham) > > I believe something is wrong with your Hummel data. It's impossible > that she > married in 1815 when she's born in 1803. I would even expect that she > was of > full age when she got her 1st child. > Maybe it's a mix of at least 2 different Catharina Hummel. > > Where have you found your information? > > Hummel is not a seldom name in that area. There was even a noble > family with > that name. > > (And I remember the swindler Karl Ignaz Hummel who said he's Oskar > Daubmann > the last German prisoner of world war I whose father was born in > Hofweier) > > - Wendelin > > > > ==== DEU-BAD-ORTENAU Mailing List ==== > < http://www.heavens-above.com/countries.asp > can be searched for > neighboring towns if you fear that one of your ancestors moved to or > from your searched town. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >