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Charles Herman Weidner

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Zach Snyder — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • Ludwig Friedrich Weidner 
  • Mother:
  • Marie Anna Bahr   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Nov 1832 
  • Christening Location:
  • Neunkirchen, Dieburg, Hesse, Germany 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Harriet Melinda Holyoke
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Jul 1858 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ellen Melinda Weidner

  Harriett Frances Weidner

  Minnie Weidner

  Fred Weidner

  Charles Weidner

  David Crawford Weidner (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • aka Carl Hermann Weidner

• Sources for Charles Herman Weidner

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Ulster County, 1880, Olive, E.D. 141, p. 30, Image 30 of 53.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, New York County, 1850, New York Ward 17, Image 7 of 1047.
  • ³ Hesse, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse Darmstadt, Hess-Marburg, . . ., Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1661-1957, Baptism record for Carl Hermann Weidner.
  • ⁴ New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999, Will of mother Marie Anna Weidner, dated 29 MAY 1880, proved 23 JUL 1895.
  • ⁵ The Portland Transcript: An Independent Family Journal of Literature, News, Etc., Vol. 22, Portland: Elwell, Pickard and Co. (1858-9), 143, Marriage of Charles H Weidner and Harriet M Holyoke.
  • ⁶ U.S., Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874, Record for brother William Nicholaus Weidner.
  • ⁷ Holyoke, John Gibbs, Holyoke: A North American Family, 1637-1992, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1993), 59, gives name as Charles Herman Weidner.
  • ⁸ Widener, Howard H., The Wideners in America, Chili, New York: C. A. Nichols, Jr. [1904], 258.

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