Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth

Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth, resident of Frankershausen, was a "fuhrman" , a wagon driver. When he was 44 years old his first wife died leaving him with 5 children. Three years later he remarried and had 3 additional children. He died when his youngest child was age 13. Forty-five years later his youngest son would immigrate, late in life, to America.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	Christened 21 Feb 1745	Frankershausen, Ger
Marriage			To 1st) Eliesabeth Bottner
Marriage	17 Apr 1791		To 2nd) Anna Eliesabeth Schindewolf
Death	20 Jan 1811, age 66 yr	Frankershausen, Ger.
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

  Generation 6          Generation 7                     Generation 8
                                                     +-- Claus Kuhnemuth
                                                     |     (????-????)
                     +-- Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth --+
                     |   (~1745-1811)                |        
 Jacob Kuhnemuth ----+                               +--(Dorothea Becker)
  (1796-1872)        |                                        
                     +-- Anna Eliesabeth Schindewolf
                         (1752-1811)
                                                          
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Children

(children with Eliesabeth Bottner)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Johann Frantz Kuhnemuth	M	15 Feb 1781
Ann Martha Kuhnemuth	F	2 Nov 1782			Died in Orferode Ger. 5 Feb 1861
Anna Eliesabeth Kuhnemuth	F	9 May 1785
Katharina Kuhnemuth	F	30 June 1787
Johannn Claus Kuhnemuth	M	9 Aug 1789			died in Frankershausen 6 July 1838

(children with Anna Eliesabeth Schindewolf - Direct Line)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Dorothea Kuhnemuth	F	12 Feb 1792
Jacob Kuhnemuth	M	20 Oct 1796	Frankershausen, Ger		Direct Line
Anna Eliesabeth Kuhnemuth	F	6 Oct 1798			died 1859

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Frankershausen, Ger	????-1811

Photo Gallery

View of Frankershausen from churchyard, 1989

Church at Frankershausen

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Research by Erick Schafer, professional genealogist, of the Evangelisches Pfarrant, Frankershausen, Entry #806732, Protestant church records, and records of the marriage license bureau, Frankershausen. This research was commissioned by Judy King in 1991. Jacob Kuhnemuth, handelsmann (tradesman) and fuhrmann (transporter, or wagon driver), born 20 Oct 1796 in Frankershausen; died 24 June 1872 in USA, Ono, PA. He married on 30 Sept 1824 to Dorothea Eliesabeth Schindewolf, born 28 Nov 1804 in Frankershausen Brummerhof. The parents of Jacob Kuhnemuth were Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth and Anna Eliesabeth Schindewolf. Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth, birth date not listed, baptized 21 Feb. 1745. He died at age 66 yrs, on 20 Jan 1811 at Frankershausen. Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth married first on 20 Feb 1780 to Eliesabeth Bottner from Orpherode (now Orferode). She was born in 1757, died 26 Feb 1790 at age 32 yrs. Children of first marriage were 1) Johann Frantz b. 15 Feb 1781; 2) Anna Martha b. 2 Nov 1782; 3) Anna Eliesabeth b. 9 May 1785; 4) Katharina b. 30 June 1787; 5) Johann Claus b. 9 Aug 1789, d. 6 July 1838 Frankershausen. Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth married second on 17 April 1791 to Anna Eliesabeth Schindewolf. She was born in Frankershausen, baptized 4 July 1752, and died at Frankershausen on 17 Dec 1811 at the age of 59 yrs, 7 mos., 1 week, & 6 days. Children of this 2nd marriage were 1) Dorothea Kuhnemuth b. 12 Feb 1792, d. 4 Mar 1852 Frankershausen; 2) Jacob Kuhnemuth b. 20 Oct 1796, d. 24 June 1872 in USA Ono, PA; 3) Anna Eliesabeth b. 6 Oct 1798, d. 15 Mar 1859 Frankershausen.
2	Personal correspondence Judy Kenemuth King, 1992-ongoing; contracted Erich Schaefer to research church records in Frankershausen, Germany.
3	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams, g-g-g-granddaughter of Anna Catherine Kennemuth.

Source notes

• Frankershausen, Germany is today in County Eschwege, Hesse. It lies SE of Kassel about 15 miles

Conjecture

• Research of Trudy Schenk, A. G., Salt Lake City, UT, commissioned by Judy King. Film #806732 birth record in Evangelical Church and civil office of Frankershausen, Kanton Abterode: On 19 Aug 1809, the driver Johann Kunemuth from Frankershausen age 37 yrs. (calc. b. 1772) reported the birth of a male child born on 18 Aug, to be named Johann Claus, born by his wife Anna Elisabetha. Witnesses: Jacob Kuhnemuth and Johann Claus Kuhnemuth.
  (This could be an additional child of Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth and wife Anna Elisabetha Schindewolf. If so, witness Jacob Kuhnemuth may be an uncle of the child - & a brother of the father, Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth. Witness Johann Claus Kuhnemuth could be the father (Claus Kuhnemuth) of Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth, or his grandfather).
  The link is problematic in that Johannes Frantz Kuhnemuth already has one son named Claus,born in 1789 by his first wife. If this 2nd Claus is his, it puts a gap of 11 yrs between the 1809 birth and that of the previous child (b. 1798).