This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Koeninger, Foerster, Flint, Kuckuck, Rogge, Griese, Scholz, Sands, Viereck Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/4728 Message Board Post: Am looking for a German Lutheran church that would have been in existence in 1854 in Baltimore, Maryland. My G-Grandmother's older brother and first-born, John Koeninger, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but shortly afterward, he and his parents moved to Wisconsin. John's mother, Maria Sabina Foerster, immigrated to the U.S. in 1854, so she was either pregnant on the trip over or perhaps she married shortly after arriving. No one in our family knows for sure. Little is known of either Leonard Koeninger's background/antecedents or Maria's, but it is suspected Leonard arrived with family (brother, etc.).

Hi, Here is an old posting I made about German research in Baltimore. It can be found (along with all the other posts) in the Archives at www.rootsweb.com. I don't know much else about Germans in Baltimore. Good luck! Also, you can go to www.rootsweb.com<http://www.rootsweb.com/> (the link might look "doubled," so just use 1/2 of it!), click on Mailling List Index, find Maryland, find Baltimore, and scroll down past the subscribing info and you can search or browse the archives back through many years and see all the posts relating to Germans in Baltimore (or any other topic) --there is a lot of info there! Mona Everett Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 21:13:33 -0500 From: "mona everett" <cowpost@msn.com> To: MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com I came across a thesis titled Congregation and Community in Baltimore 1840- 1860, by Michael Stephen Franch. It had a lot of interesting info about early churches (all denominations, races, cultures, and languages) and other aspects of religion and life in Baltimore. One page was a table listing German Language Congregations, which I will copy here: (The headings are Name, Denomination, Founded) Zion, Lutheran, 1750 First, Reformed (1), 1757 Otterbein, United Brethern (2), 1771 St. Johannes (3), Catholic, 1800 Baltimore Hebrew, Jewish, 1829 Second (St. Paul's), Lutheran, 1834 Fell's Point Hebrew Friendship, Jewish, 1838 Trinity, Lutheran, 1839 Luther Chapel, Canton, Lutheran, 1840 Emmanuel, Evangelical Association, 1841 Har Sinai, Jewish, 1842 St. Johannes, Reformed, 1845 German Mission, Methodist Episcopal, 1846 St. Johns, Lutheran, 1847 West German Mission, Methodist Episcopal, 1848 Second, Evangelical Association, 1848 Good Samaritan (4), Lutheran, 1850 St. Stephen's, Lutheran, 1850 St. Michael's, Catholic, 1851 Howard Street (4), Jewish, 1852 First United, Evangelical Association, 1852 St. Matthew's, Lutheran, 1852 Oheb Shalom, Jewish, 1853 New Jerusalem, Swedenborgian, 1854 Beth Israel (4), Jewish, 1856 St. Paul's, Reformed, 1856 Holy Innocents, Catholic, 1858 His footnotes: (1) An English language congregation after 1827 (2) Founded as a German Reformed congregation (3) Building demolished in 1842, replaced by a new structure, and rededicated in 1845 as St. Alphonsus (4) A short-lived congregation. One fascinating feature of this thesis is the maps he included, which show the location of the churches and the area the congregation was principally drawn from, as well as maps that show the relocation of many of the churches as the city expanded. This thesis is on microfilm, so it might be possible to borrow it through inter-library loan from the Wisconsin State Historical Society Library, although they are closed for a month, so I am not sure how that affects their ILL policy. If nothing else, the bibliography is a gem for folks researching their ancestor's religion in Baltimore. Hope this helps. Mona ----- Original Message ----- From: adb@quarles.com<mailto:adb@quarles.com> To: MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:MD-BaltimoreCity-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:38 AM Subject: [MD-BaltimoreCity] German Lutherans in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1854-1855 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Koeninger, Foerster, Flint, Kuckuck, Rogge, Griese, Scholz, Sands, Viereck Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/4728<http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/4728> Message Board Post: Am looking for a German Lutheran church that would have been in existence in 1854 in Baltimore, Maryland. My G-Grandmother's older brother and first-born, John Koeninger, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but shortly afterward, he and his parents moved to Wisconsin. John's mother, Maria Sabina Foerster, immigrated to the U.S. in 1854, so she was either pregnant on the trip over or perhaps she married shortly after arriving. No one in our family knows for sure. Little is known of either Leonard Koeninger's background/antecedents or Maria's, but it is suspected Leonard arrived with family (brother, etc.). ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx>