Person:Marie Tobrocke (1)

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Name[1][2][4] Marie Margarette Tobrocke
Gender Female
Birth? 26 Jul 1796 Venne, Westfalen, Preußen, GermanyKirchspeil (probably)
Marriage 8 Jun 1813 Venneto Johann Fredrick Wilhelm Venneman
Immigration[1] 1837 Age 42
Residence[1] 1837 Niewedde #28
Census? 1850 Washington Township, Jackson County, IndianaGives her name as: Mary Fineman
Residence? From 1850 to 1870 Washington Township, Jackson County, Indiana
Census? 1860 Washington Township, Jackson County, IndianaGives her name as: Mary Fennemann
First Communion? 20 Apr 1862 Easter Sunday - was not her first
Census? 1870 Washington Township, Jackson County, IndianaAge 83 (discrepancy)
Death? 1876 Grassy Fork, Jackson, Indiana, United States
Burial[3][5][6] 1876 Dudleytown, Jackson, Indiana, United StatesDudleytown Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery

MARIE MARGARETTE'S place of birth was probably really Kirchspeil, Venne, in the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrueck. Her tombstone picture says she was from Venne (see below).

Of her 8 children, only one was male. He married a STEINKAMP.

MARIE MARGARETTE was the aunt of J. F. William Tobrocke, of Waymansville, Indiana.

--White Creek 22:45, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thoerner, Udo. Venne in America. (Osnabrueck, Germany: Arbeitskreis Familienforschung Osnabrueck e. V.)
    2008.

    Udo gives her birth as: 1790

  2. German Immigrants in American Church Records
    Volume I: Indiana Protestants.
  3. Washington Township Cemeteries, Jackson County, Indiana.
  4. Oguerita McKinney, in RootsWeb.com.
  5. This tombstone image was used on Udo Thoerner's website (www.venne-families.de)
  6. MARIE MARGARETTE TOBROCKE