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Guided journeys

Short paths through the story and the records behind it. Each stop opens a page; follow them in order or jump in anywhere.

Coming to America

The crossings of the Wesemann, Bauer, Hanlon, Squitiere and Reitter families, 1854 to 1911.

  1. The Bauers to Philadelphia, 1854 · open
  2. George Wesemann, 1860 · open
  3. Daniel Hanlon, 1882 · open
  4. The Squitieres, 1903 · open
  5. The Reitters, 1903 to 1911 · open

Four generations of millers

The mills of Linse, Thran and Kirchbrak, and the Wesemanns who held them.

  1. What it meant to hold a mill · open
  2. The middle mill, Im Krümpel · open
  3. Johann Heinrich Wesemann at Linse · open
  4. Georg Ludewig and the two mill wheels · open
  5. The Thran mill · open
  6. The fourth generation · open

From Thran to Philadelphia

Follow George Wesemann from the mill where he was born in 1838 to his grocery in Philadelphia.

  1. Born at the Thran mill, 1838 · open
  2. A family that lost its mills, 1832 to 1852 · open
  3. Leaving legally · open
  4. The crossing and the Civil War · open
  5. The grocery on Tulip Street · open

The women who married in

The wives whose families joined the Wesemanns, from Salzhemmendorf to Philadelphia.

  1. Christine Kampen and the brewers of Salzhemmendorf · open
  2. Justine Marie Küster and the millers of Delligsen · open
  3. Johanne Caroline Wilhelmine Brand of Linse · open
  4. Fredericka Bauer of Vaihingen · open
  5. Mary Matilda Knoll and her mother’s family · open
  6. Pearl Zoe Branchide · open