Family: Valentine Klapp / Maria Katharina Regenauer (F145)

m. 26 Jan 1822

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  • Male
    Valentine Klapp

    Birth  1 Jan 1799  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening      Baptized (LDS)     
    Death  29 Jun 1863  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial      Sealed P (LDS)     
    Marriage  26 Jan 1822  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed S (LDS)     
    Other Spouse  Anna Maria Krausse | F1113 
    Marriage  18 Dec 1850  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed S (LDS)     
    Father  Franz Klapp | F1111 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Katharina Barbara Guth | F1111 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Maria Katharina Regenauer

    Birth  8 Sep 1802  Waldsee, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening      Baptized (LDS)     
    Death  1 Jun 1847  , , , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial  1 Jun 1847  , , , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed P (LDS)     
    Father  Abraham Regenauer | F1112 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Maria Eva Ignatz | F1112 Group Sheet 

    Male
    Karl Klapp

    Birth  23 Nov 1822  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
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    Death      Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial      Sealed P (LDS)     

    Male
    + Jacob Klapp

    Birth  7 Nov 1824  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening  7 Nov 1824  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Baptized (LDS)     
    Death      Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial      Sealed P (LDS)     
    Spouse  Marian Strubel | F1531 
    Marriage      Sealed S (LDS)     

    Male
    Johannes Klapp

    Birth  13 Jul 1826  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
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    Death      Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial      Sealed P (LDS)     

    Female
    Anna Margaretha Klapp

    Birth  27 Jan 1829  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening      Baptized (LDS)     
    Death      Endowed (LDS)     
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    Male
    + Valentine Klapp

    Birth  10 Apr 1830  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening      Baptized (LDS)     
    Death  22 Aug 1918  Eloise, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial  26 Aug 1918  Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed P (LDS)     
    Spouse  Mary Christina Strubel | F1094 
    Marriage  1851  , , , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed S (LDS)     

    Male
    + Martin Klapp

    Birth  3 Feb 1834  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening  3 Feb 1834  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Baptized (LDS)     
    Death  19 Aug 1884  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial  22 Aug 1884  Mount Elliott Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed P (LDS)     
    Spouse  Felicitas Heyser | F142 
    Marriage      Sealed S (LDS)     
    Spouse  Rosa T. Schmitt | F143 
    Marriage  27 May 1879  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location Sealed S (LDS)     

    Male
    Georg Klapp

    Birth  13 Mar 1836  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening  14 Mar 1836  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Baptized (LDS)     
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    Male
    Georg Klapp

    Birth  31 Jan 1838  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening  1 Feb 1838  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location Baptized (LDS)     
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    Burial      Sealed P (LDS)     

    Male
    Sebastian Klapp

    Birth  14 Jul 1840  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
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    Death      Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial      Sealed P (LDS)     

    Male
    Michael Klapp

    Birth  1 May 1844  Schifferstadt, , Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location LDS Ordinances  Date  Place 
    Christening      Baptized (LDS)     
    Death  23 May 1847    Endowed (LDS)     
    Burial  23 May 1847    Sealed P (LDS)     

  • Notes  Fact 1:
    • Excerpt from an 'Ortssippenbuch' from Waldsee that lists all of the families that lived in that village back into the 1500's. There is a page in that book that talks about the Fate of an emigrant. It turns out that they are talking about Valentin Klapp & wife Maria Katharina Regenauer & family. Translated, here is what it says:

      Fate of an emigrant!

      As small example, is the fate of Valentin Klapp with his wife Mrs. Maria Katharina Regenauer from Waldsee: Valentin Klapp, born in Schifferstadt married in the year 1822, the daughter of the Waldseer citizen Abraham Regenauer and his wife Eva Maria, born Ignatius. As an outstanding field man, he possessed eight work fields beside a house, a barn, stables, as well as plants and orchard. Since the birth of their first child the wife was ailing, so that the married man, apart from its farm work, had to take over the majority of the housework. In the course of the years four more children were added. Twenty years went by, until in 1844 and the three following years were to be registered as a harvest failure. This brought the child-rich family into hard times, so that they decided to leave the homeland, the reason was to improve their life and a change of climate for the health of the wife. On 14 April of the year 1847 they left, first to Ludwigshafen, then by steam ship to Cologne and then to the port of embarkation "Antwerp". After, followed two weeks of voyage on the sea. The travel, began in a restrained area of the ship in the "between deck" of a freighter. The state of health of the woman worsened appreciably. The youngest son got sick and deceased on 23 May. The wife died then on 1 June 1847 on the ship. 12 hours after her death, she, in her cloths was weighted and buried at sea. The man said later that he will never forget these heart-tearing moments in his life.
      After 41 days passage, the family came with others into the sea port of New York. On 13 June they began to explore the inside of the country with other emigrants.
      They ended up in Detroit. From here they settled in the country near that city.
      The Detroit countryside was of a swampy nature, and few areas were inhabited. Former German immigrants met them, advised them against the purchase of this country, because of the swampy conditions.
      Valentin Klapp did not like his experiences in America. Homesickness had come over him and he decided to go back to Germany. Since, however, he had not saved enough money he remained until he had earned enough. He left his three sons in America, in order to make money for their return trip. On 2 August 1847 he left to Germany again on an American three-master ship.
      He shudders to thinks of this return trip, because except for him, there were only Englishmen and Irelanders on board. He was treated by them in an inhuman way and inconsiderately.
      Beside stormy weather, came also a predatory crew, who applied their rule by force and he was stolen from.
      He continued his life and his three sons never returned to Germany, their fate is unknown.