The parents of Martha Maragretha Cordes were Heinrich Cordes and Margaretha Meie
The parents of Martha Maragretha Cordes were Heinrich Cordes and Margaretha Meier.
Marriage Documents
Heinrich Cordes To Margareta Meier State of Missouri, County of Perry. I certify, that on the 23rd day of February 1971, I joined in marriage Heinrich Cordes and Margreta Meier. FW Bergt Minister. Recorded Apr 12th 1871. Attest John Eibel Recorder.
Date: February 16. 1871. Groom: Heinrich Cordes, Farmer, Salem. Bride: Margaretha Meier
Notes
The State of Missouri marriage record has their marriage date as being 23 Feb 1871 while the Salem Lutheran Church (of which Rev. Bergt was pastor) marriage record has the date of their marriage as being one week earlier, 16 Feb 1871. Note also that the date that the marriage was recorded in Perry County (Perryville) on Apr 12th 1871 nearly two months after it occurred. Family records have used the February 16 date as the wedding anniversary.
- Source: Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
- Source: Marriage Records. Salem Lutheran Church, Farrar, Missouri. Copied September, 2003.
Heinrich Cordes
When Heinrich Cordes was born on May 1, 1849, in Scheeßel, Lower Saxony, Germany, his father, Johann, was 38 and his mother, Margaretha, was 40. He married Margaretha Meier on February 16, 1871, in Farrar, Missouri. They had five children during their marriage. He died on March 28, 1899, in Farrar, Missouri, at the age of 49, and was buried there.
BIRTH 1 MAY 1849 • Scheeßel, Rotenburg, Germany
A genealogy researcher in Germany searched the Scheeßel Church records for Heinrich Cordes and found the following record that corresponds to the known birth date of Henry Cordes. This has been confirmed in later chapters by the birth records for Heinrich’s siblings having the same birth parents.
Birth/Baptism Record
Heinrich Cordes was born on May 1, 1849, in Scheeßel, Lower Saxony, Germany, to Margaretha Lüdemann, age 40, and Johann Christoph Ludwig Cordes, age 38.
Translation[2]
The Ancestry.com Elbe-Weser Triangle, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1574-1945 database, provides the following transcribed birth record:
| Name | Hinrich Cordes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | männlich | ||||||||
| Event Type | Taufe | ||||||||
| Birth Date | 1 Mai 1849 | ||||||||
| Baptism Date | 13 Mai 1849 | ||||||||
| Baptism Place | Scheeßel, Hannover, Preußen | ||||||||
| Father | Johann Ludwig Cordes | ||||||||
| Mother | Margaretha Ludemann | ||||||||
| Legitimacy | Ehelich | ||||||||
| Parish as it Appears | Scheeßel | ||||||||
| Page number | 32;33;463 | ||||||||
| Custodian | Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv, Standesort Stade | ||||||||
| Film Number | 1189541 | ||||||||
| City or District | Scheeßel u Schiffdorf | ||||||||
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DEATH 28 MAR 1899 • Farrar, Perry, Missouri, USA
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