Pennekamp

Includes Friedrich Pennekamp and Louise Podeyn. Recent discoveries have shed light on the family whose heritage reaches across the Atlantic Ocean. What should have been very obvious and easy to find unravels in probate court, joining several generations and family lines.

Pennekamp Family ( page updated 5 Oct 2011, consider unsourced unless otherwise indicated)

Casper Friedrich Pennekamp – b. Barmen, Germany, d. Barmen, Germany, m.
Maria Elisabeth Kramer – b. Germany
Children:
  1. Casper Friedrich Pennekamp – b. 18 Jan 1829, Barmen, Germany, d. Barmen, Germany
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Casper Friedrich Pennekamp – b. 18 Jan 1829, Barmen, Germany, d. Barmen, Germany, m.
Caroline Schmitz – b. 13 Apr 1836, d. Barmen Germany
Children:
  1. Friedrich Pennekamp – b.15 Jul 1858, Barmen, Germany, d. 24 Apr 1914, Breman, Kansas
  2. Heinrich Pennekamp
  3. Caroline Pennekamp
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    Friedrich Pennekamp – b.15 Jul 1858, Barmen, Germany, d. 24 Apr 1914, Breman, Kansas, m. 25 Oct 1883, St Louis, MO to
    Louise Podeyn – b. 20 Nov 1865, St Louis, Missouri, d. 19 Jul 1918, Harvel, Illinois
    Children:
    1. Paul Pennekamp – b. 24 Aug 1884, Topeka, KS, d. 13 Aug 1952
    2. Martin Pennekamp – b. 1 Jan 1886, Topeka, KS, d. 1 Jul 1886, New Wells, MO
    3. Walter Pennekamp – b. 30 Apr 1887, Topeka, KS, d. 13 Sep 1942, Tulsa OK
    4. Renata Pennekamp – b. 26 Sep 1888, Topeka, KS, d. 11 Jun, 1953, Marysville, Kansas
    5. Helmuth Theodore Pennekamp – b. 3 Jan 1890, Junction City, KS, d. 22 May 1935, Meinert, MO
    6. Arnold Pennekamp – 29 Jun 1891, Alma, KS, d. 18 Apr 1969, Princeton, NJ
    7. Selma Pennekamp – 10 Feb 1893, Alma, KS, d. 3 Oct 1973, Breman, KS
    8. Hulda Mathilda Pennekamp – b. 7 Jan 1895, Alma, KS, d. 2 Dec 1980, St Louis, MO
    9. Hilda Amalia Pennekamp – b. 7 Jan 1895, Alma, KS, 11 Apr, 1949, Collinsville, IL
    10. Valeria Louise Pennekamp – b. 2 Sep 1896, Alma, Kansas, d. 27 Jul 1941, Wichita, KS
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    Helmut Theodore Pennekamp & Sophia Mathilda Rass

    Helmut Theodore Pennekamp – b. 3 Jan 1890, Junction City, KS, d. 22 May 1935, Meinert, MO, m. 21 October 1914, Kanasa City, Wyandotte, Kansas to:
    Sophia Margaret Mathilda Rass - b.28 Nov 1889, d. 29 Nov 1970, Rockledge, Brevard, Florida. buried at Leavenworth, Leavenworth, Kansas.
    Children:
    1. Theodore Helmut Pennekamp
    2. Margaret Louise Pennekamp
    3. Pauline Elisabeth Pennekamp
    4. Elenore Esther Pennekamp
    5. Eugene Frederick Pennekamp
    6. Caroline Helen Pennekamp
    7. Herbert Richard Pennekamp
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    Podeyn Family

    Christian Podeyn – b. Germany, d. Germany, m. to
    Maria Meier – b. Germany, d. Germany
    Children:
    1. Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Podeyn – b. 3 Oct 1833, Benzin, Lubz, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, d. 7 Mar 1873, St Louis, MO
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    Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Podeyn – b. 3 Oct 1833, Benzin, Lubz, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, d. 7 Mar 1873, St Louis, MO, m. 20 Apr 1856 to
    Louisa Krietmeyer (Engel Caroline Christine Dorothea Louisa Krietmeyer) – b. abt 1836, Germany, d.
    Children:
    1. Henry Podeyn – b. 1860, Missouri
    2. Louisa Podeyn – b. 20 Nov 1865, St Louis, MO, d. 19 Jul 1918, Harvel, Illinois
    3. Amalia Podeyn – b. abt 1869, Missouri
    4. Mathilde Podeyn – b. abt. 1871
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    Immigration information: 
    Wilhelm Podeyn – 13 Jun 1853 (age 20) on the ship “Johann Schmidt” from Hamburg, Germany to New Orleans, Louisiana. Naturalization/Citizenship took place in St Louis, MO on 1 Nov 1858
    Louisa Krietmeyer – 5 Nov 1853 (age 17) on the ship “Ambassador” from Bremerhaven, Germany to New Orleans, Louisianna