Anna Maria Bordewick

Born in Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany

Married, 19 Oct 1875, Adams County, IL

Anna Maria Thole Bordewick insisted that each of her female children have the middle name of "Catherine". Her baptismal record reads:

Klein Hesepe, Mädchen (girl), Thole, Susanna Maria Carolina, den dreizehnten Februar Abends acht Uhr (13.02, 20:00), parents: Köthner Johann Heinrich Thole zu Klein Hesepe und dessen Ehefrau Maria Gesina geborene Grafe, babtized: den 14. Februar 1855, godparents: 1. Beerbten Ehefrau Carulina Lammers zu Hesepe, 2. Unverheirateter Anton Grafe zu Lage, Kirchspiel Haselünne

She came over at age 15 (according to the 1910 U.S census in 1870) as a bonded servant for Blossing (Blessing)? She came through the Port of New York straight to Quincy. Her sponsor was Starman, a cousin. The sponsor starmann is probably Bernhard Heinrich Starmann, his father married a Anna Gesina Maria Tecla Weers, sister of Thimothea Tecla Schulte Weers who was Maria's grandmother.

She went to work as a housegirl. It is believed that Maria stayed with her Uncle John Bernard Grawe m Maria Wallenkamp b abt 1830, who had immigrated previously. Wealthy Germans often sent for relatives in Germany to do house work, marry local German boys and eventually integrate into U.S. society.

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