Person:Johann Wehmeyer (2)

Research Notes

• Düderode (Duederode in English) is presently located in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), near the historical city of Hanover.
• The Kingdom of Hanover (German: Königreich Hannover) was not established until October 1814. It succeeded the former Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (known informally as the Electorate of Hanover), an electorate of the Holy Roman Empire.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Hoover, David. Memoir of David Hoover: A pioneer of Indiana: A settler of 1806, for 14 years clerk of Wayne County, etc. (Richmond, Indiana: James Elder, 1857)
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   ... Rudolph Waymire, my grandfather on my mother’s side, emigrated from Hanover in Germany, after he had several children. He used to brag that he was a soldier under His Britannic Majesty, and that he was at the head of the battle of Dettingen in 1743. [2] He left one son and seven daughters by his first wife. Their descendants are also mostly to be found in this country. ...
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   [2] He also, it is said, served under Frederick the Great, of Prussia, in a certain company into which no man was admitted, who was not some seven feet in hight [sic].

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Family Recorded, in Tegel, Peggy Stone; Friedel H Wehmeier; Edward D Waymire; and Waymire Family Research Group. The quest for John Rudolph Waymire. (Illinois: National Society of Palatines to America, Illinois Chapter, 2005).

   Johann Ludolph Wehmeyer, alias John Rudolph Waymire, was born 15 July 1721 in Duederode, Germany. His parents were Andreas Valentin Wehmeyer and Anna Elizabeth Asmus. He married Dorothea Elisabeth Loock, daughter of Joachim Loock and Anna Maria Severin. They had eight or nine children. They emigrated in 1753 and settled in Pennsylvania. They moved to North Carolina in 1757. He married Molly in about 1775. They had seven children. He died in 1801 in Randolph County, North Carolina.