Just how do the Heckenbachs of the USA fit with the Heckenbachs of Germany?

The HECKENBACH Family in Brohl, Germany

 

According to the Brohler Ortskronik, the town's chronicle, Johann Christian HECKENBACH was a well-to-do man who came from Niederlützing and moved to Brohl some time after 1738. He was probably born about 1710 and died before 1796 in Brohl. He was married to Christina.

Their children were Maria Christina HECKENBACH 31 July 1738 born in Niederlützing (listed first for clarity) and

Johann Anton HECKENBACH 8 Jun 1735 Niederlützing- 1783? m 1767 Anna Catherine NETZ. They had 5 children:

  1. Maria Elisabeth HECKENBACH 1768
  2. Margaretha HECKENBACH 1769
  3. Johann HECKENBACH 1772- 23 Jan 1830 m1 Barbara HALFEN or HALFENICH 1759- 10 Feb 1820, m2 1 Jun 1822 Elizabeth ZELL or ZILS
  1. Anna Margaretha HECKENBACH 15 Oct 1795-
  2. Anton Christian HECKENBACH 1799- Note 1
  3. Anna Margaretha HECKENBACH 1800-m 9 Oct 1830 Theodore HANN or NONN
  4. Maria Barbara HECKENBACH 28 Aug 1801 m 23 Sep 1827 Johann WALDORF
  5. Anna Catherina HECKENBACH ? - 17 Jul 1872 m 8 Feb 1835 Note 2 Anton MÜLLER
  6. Anton HECKENBACH (mother ZELL) 1826- 5 Dec 1830 (Age 4 yrs)
  7. Maria Catherina HECKENBACH 12 Feb 1829 m 14 Feb 1847 Friedrich BERMEL
  1. Peter 1775
  2. Christian 1777 or 1778- 25 Nov 1827 m 1803 Anna Margaret HORN 1777- 25 Nov 1827 (Age 50 yrs)
  1. Johann Christian HECKENBACH 9 Mar 1804
  2. Christian HECKENBACH 16 Jan 1806 Note 3
  3. Phillip HECKENBACH 19 Feb 1807
  4. Christian HECKENBACH 9 May 1810
  5. Anton HECKENBACH Mar 1814

 

Note1 Nothing further is known about this Anton HECKENBACH, or about #4 Peter 1775, but see the list at the end for some possibilities.

Note2 Anna Catherina´s marriage shows these parents but there is no record of her birth to them in Brohl. It's possible she was born to them elsewhere.

Note3 There is some evidence that the 1806-born Christian HECKENBACH’s parents were Johann HECKENBACH and Barbara HALFEN. Christian’s death record shows it that way, as did the Ahnentafel of Hélčne HECKENBACH. But the International Genealogical Index has them as above.  My own reading of the record agrees.  So if Hélčne (5b5c below) was right, then the1806 Christian HECKENBACH belongs under Johann HECKENBACH and Barbara HALFEN as their fourth or fifth child.

The records for the children of #5 above, Christian Heckenbach born 1777, are more complete. We continue to the next generation born in Brohl:

5a. Johann Christian HECKENBACH 9 Mar 1804 - 5 May 1885 m 24 Oct 1830 Katherina WINDHEUSER ? - 27 Aug 1870

  1. Johann Anton HECKENBACH 9 Aug 1831 - 9 Dec 1913 Chicago IL m 21 Jan 1865 Franciska Sophia FISCHER 27 Jan 1838 - 16 Oct 1878 Mayville WI Note4.
  2. Catherina HECKENBACH 13 Nov 1834 - 25 Feb 1839
  3. Maria Anna HECKENBACH 8 Sep 1838 - 18 Feb 1844
  4. Christian HECKENBACH 13 Sep 1841 - 30 Jan 1920 Chicago IL m 21 Jan 1866 Sophia SPICKER 20 Aug 1842 Willheiss, Kreis Crefeld - 2 May 1915 Chicago IL Note4
  5. Margaretha HECKENBACH 9 Feb 1845 - 17 Apr 1845
  6. Christina HECKENBACH 1 Oct 1846
  7. Margaretha HECKENBACH 25 Oct 1850 - 14 Oct 1874 m 27 Nov 1870 Johann Peter MÜLLER

Note4. Johann Anton and Christian were the brothers who immigrated to the US, leaving thousands of descendents. See the top page http://heckenbach.org/index.html for the continuation.

5b. Christian HECKENBACH 16 Jan 1806 - 19 Feb 1893 m1 1 May 1842 Margaretha SAAL or SAHL 1817- 27 Sep 1843 m2 Eva LEITZ and m3 20 Feb 1849 Margaretha NAUNHEIM 14 Feb 1815 - ?

  1. Hubert HECKENBACH (mother: SAAL) 22 May 1843
  2. Eva HECKENBACH (mother LEITZ) 1846 -18 Apr 1931 m 18 Apr 1874 Peter HECKENBACH 1840 - 8 May 1918. (Peter and Eva were cousins, and he is shown below as 5d3.)
  1. Christian HECKENBACH 6 Jul 1875 - 3 Mar 1877
  2. Peter HECKENBACH 10 Aug 1876 - 20 Dec 1878
  3. Eva HECKENBACH 1 Nov 1877 - 5 Apr 1878
  4. Anna HECKENBACH 27 Jan 1879 - 24 Sep 1879
  5. Guilelma HECKENBACH 12 Oct 1880 - 19 Sep 188
  6. Josef HECKENBACH 6 Nov 1881 - 1962 never marrie
  7. Anton HECKENBACH 17 Aug 1883 - 10 Aug 1909 m Catherine GAPPE.3 sons, Stephan, Karl (died WWII) and Josef
  8. Karl HECKENBACH 17 Dec 1885 - (WWI)
  9. Margarete HECKENBACH 15 Feb 1889 - 1969 never married
  1. Veronica HECKENBACH (mother NAUNHEIM) 1849 - 2 Apr 1871
  2. Johann HECKENBACH 23 Jun 1852 - (drowned in the Rhine)
  3. Anton HECKENBACH 15 Nov 1860 - 7 Jun 1935 m Anna Maria WEICHERT
  1. Wilhelm HECKENBACH 21 Apr 1896 - 5 Mar 1916 (WWI)
  2. Dr Anton HECKENBACH 15 Jan 1898 - 15 Feb 1979 m Luci. One daughter Gudrun HECKENBACH
  3. Hélčne HECKENBACH 21 Mar 1902 - 17 Nov 1980 never married
  4. Maria Josephina HECKENBACH 7 Oct 1905 - 5 Apr 1971 never married

5c. Phillip HECKENBACH 19 Feb 1807 - 7 Mar 1870 m Catherine DIETZ

  1. Elisabeth HECKENBACH 9 May 1839
  2. Catharina HECKENBACH 11 Nov 1841 - Feb 16, 1924 m 21 Jul 1874 (St Louis MO) George LÖLOFF, Children Annie (died 1919), Gustave, George, Otto, and Josephine GEMBLER
  3. Margaretha HECKENBACH 14 Jul 1844
  4. Anna Josephina HECKENBACH 29 Jan 1847 m 2 Jun 1874 William Dufs (St Louis MO)
  5. Amalia HECKENBACH 28 Sep 1852 - 30 Oct 1873 (St Louis MO)
  6. Anna Maria HECKENBACH 11 Oct 1855

Note 5. Three of these six sisters Catherina, Anna Josephina, and Amalia immigrated to the St Louis area.

5d. Christian HECKENBACH 9 May 1810 - 6 Feb 1888 m1 21 Jan 1836 Christine LEDOSQUET m2 Margareta WIERSCHING

  1. Elisabeth HECKENBACH 6 Dec 1836
  2. Clara HECKENBACH 3 Sep 1838
  3. Peter HECKENBACH 27 Jan 1840 - 8 May 1918 m 10 Oct 1874 Eva HECKENBACH (Eva, his cousin, appears as 5b2 above and their descendents are shown there too.)
  4. Conrad HECKENBACH 24 Oct 1841
  5. Gertrud HECKENBACH 4 Jul 1843.Gertrud had a baby Christian HECKENBACH born 4 Feb 1865 (no father listed)
  6. Catherine HECKENBACH 22 Dec 1844
  7. Michael HECKENBACH 1 Oct 1846 - 19 Nov 1902 m 9 Sep 1873 Anna MARX ? - 19 Jan 1936
  1. Anna HECKENBACH 21 Mar 1874 - 15 Oct 1917 m 18 Sep 1897 Johann JAGER
  2. Josef HECKENBACH 2 Sep 1875 - 5 Feb 1878
  3. Josepha HECKENBACH 12 Apr 1884 - 1936 m 30 Sep 1905 Peter Windanus ORTMANNS
  4. Josef HECKENBACH 25 Oct 1884 - 1936 m 13 Jun 19?? Sophia ZERVAS (21 Dec 1884 - 1 Mar 1962) 2 Sons Herbert Johannes HECKENBACH 31 Mar 1912 and Otmar HECKENBACH, and one daughter Elizabeth HECKENBACH
  5. Johann HECKENBACH 1 Aug 1887 - 26 Oct 1938 Köln m Remagen 15 Oct 1910 Agatha SCHARF (10 May 1889 - 26 Jan 1951). One son Peter Werner HECKENBACH 21 Apr 1911. Note 6
  1. Margaret HECKENBACH 13 Mar 1848
  2. Agatha HECKENBACH 27 Oct 1850 - 2 Apr 1878 m 27 Nov 1875 Johann Michael BRUST
  3. Anna Maria HECKENBACH 1 May 1853

Note 6. Peter Werner Heckenbach is the painter, some of whose works are shown on my other page (http://heckenbach.org/paintings.html).

There is a family from Brohl that I have not yet been able to connect to the rest, although there are a couple of places where it might fit:

Michael HECKENBACH 1823 - 14 Mar 1912 Theresa MICHAELS or MICHELS ? - 25 Nov 1901

  1. Anna Josephina HECKENBACH 1859 - 1904 never married
  2. Peter HECKENBACH 2 Jun 1861
  3. Regina HECKENBACH 31 Dec 1863 m 1890 Johann Vincent SCHMITZ
  4. Jacob HECKENBACH 9 Oct 1867
  5. Maria Anna HECKENBACH 6 Oct 1869 m 26 Jul 1898 Johann ARENZ

 

Here are more names and birthdates. These came from the civil records in Brohl. For some reason, for about 10 years they were listed without parents' names. I am tempted to ignore them for their lack of detail, but there were some legitimate names among them. These, too, could be placed in the scheme by assuming a few things. Maybe in time these "missing links" can be reconciled to the rest of the list.

Johann HECKENBACH 13 Feb 1823

Engelbert HECKENBACH 17 Feb 1823

Lorenz HECKENBACH 16 Oct 1824

Elisabeth HECKENBACH 17 Jun 1825

Anton HECKENBACH 23 Apr 1826

Peter HECKENBACH 29 Aug 1827

Maria Katherina HECKENBACH 19 Oct 1827

Anna HECKENBACH 26 Jul 1829

Margaretha HECKENBACH 3 Nov 1830

Peter HECKENBACH 12 Dec 1830

Maria Anna HECKENBACH 16 Dec 1832

And finally, Margaret HECKENBACH+ (no father) had two children Margaret HECKENBACH born 19 Apr 1851 and Johann HECKENBACH born 2 Dec 1853.

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Page created May 27, 2002 by Jim Heckenbach.  Updated Sep 20, 2007.

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