Person:Amalia Nönchen (1)

From her daughter Bertha's letters: She had 6 sisters and 2 brothers. Amalia was apperently quite a pretty little girl, with blue eyes and blonde curls. Growing up in the family estate in Glinde, they were often overrun by French soldiers of Napoleon. “Very thin light dresses” were in fashion and the girls made them under the instruction of a seamstress. They would sew upstairs while the soldiers were downstairs playing cards, chess and other games. Because Amalia looked like a child, she was sent down to the kitchen with the cold iron to get the hot iron. She had to go through the living room where the officers were and apparently caught their interest. She put the cold iron in the fireplace and waited a while. When all was quiet, she attempted to go back through the living room. As she was halfway through the room, a soldier sprang up, embraced her, and tried to kiss her. He failed: Amalia slapped his face with the hot iron and ran upstairs. Her father was quite unhappy, and shipped his daughters off the next day to Hamburg until all the soldiers were ordered away.

Her parents were both dead by 1836, and "oldest son" Edward was still living in the family home.

Nonchens listed as godparents of children in the family bible: Anna Margarete (m. Eggers), Eduard (father?), Christiane, Hermann

1. ↑ Setzer family bible in the possession of J.P. Morrow, Phoenix, AZ.
2. ↑ Letters from Bertha Setzer Williams to Hugo Monnig. 1913-1915.

   She died 7 years after husband of pneumonia, age 54.