Katharina Weiss gew. Hofmann EHRENFREUND - 2 different persons

Started by FO PR on Saturday, January 15, 2022
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1/15/2022 at 5:26 AM

I think this file merges two different persons:
- Katharina Ehrenfreund, born 1822, married to Leopold Hofmann, died in 1901, still with the name Hofmann (therefore not remarried). With children Adolf and Adelheid Hofmann.
- Katharina Ehrenfreund, born 1827, married to Leopold Grossmann and Leopold Weiss, with parents Aron and Rebeka (from the Weiss marriage record).

see https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.anyDate.from=1...

1/16/2022 at 2:56 AM

Thanks for these documents, I had some of them but not all!
Now the first two don't mention the age of Katharina.
Her marriage with Grossmann in 1862 indicates that her previous name was Hoffman, not exactly Hofmann (of course it could have been misspellt).
Her marriage with Weiss in 1867 says that she was 40, so she was born in 1826-7, and she was from Neurausnitz.

Now here is the death record of Katharina Hofmann, born Ehrenfreund:
https://e1.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZmxdFZoRI43s8hn2VaWbbHQrw...
It says she was born in 1822, and she was from Iglau. She did not remarry after Hofmann.

So there clearly are two Katharina Ehrenfreund, one who married Leopold Hofmann, and one who married some Hoffman, and subsequently Grossmann and Weiss.

For the two to be the same person, there would have to be mistakes on her age on one record, on the Hofmann name on another record, on her birthplace on one record, and an omission of her two subsequent husbands on her death record. This sounds very unlikely.
What do you think?

1/16/2022 at 4:25 AM

By the way, I didn't have the death record of Leopold Hofmann. It gives new information on his birth date and place.
Now, apart from the plausible age, are we sure that this is the same who married Katharina?
I found at least another Leopold Hoffmann (but with 2 f and 2 n!) who died in 1875:
https://fr.findagrave.com/memorial/160649459/leopold-hoffmann

And did you manage to decipher his profession?

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