FREDRICH GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr


Fredrich or Fredrichs is a German surname. It does not appear to be very common, unless it is a variant spelling of Fredrick, Friedrich, etc.

Thanks to my cousin, Don Sweaney, who moved to Springfield, Missouri (where I live) in 1998, I have recently (1999) found some new leads on my Wegner and Miller and Fredrich families. He ordered some microfilms of church and civil records for Karnitz and Hoff in Pomerania which contain valuable information on my Miller/Mueller family.

My earliest known FREDRICH ancestor is David Erdmann FREDRICH. (Was he also related to an Erdmann family? Or why is Erdmann listed as his middle name?)

As another point of reference, one of my GOHR relatives was Laura (GOHR) ERDMANN. She was the sister of my great-grandfather, Alexander Emil GOHR. She was married to Emil Erdmann, Sr. This family lived at Whittemore and Algona, Iowa, near the Gohr family. No doubt Emil Erdmann was born in Germany as was Laura (GOHR) ERDMANN. It would be interesting to find a connection someday.

Interestingly enough, Don Sweaney has recently discovered that I am doubly descended from David Erdmann FREDRICH as my great-great-grandparents, Minnie MILLER and Ferdinand WEGNER were first cousins. Maria Gaulke and David FREDRICH are their mutual grandparents. What a small world we live in!

Here is my FREDRICH lineage as far as it has been proven:

  1. David Erdmann FREDRICH; md. Maria GAULKE
  2. Juliana Maria FREDRICH, b. Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania; md. 9 December 1826 Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania to Gottfried MILLER, b. Gross Horst, Pomerania (parents of Minnie MILLER)

    Dorothea Sophia FREDRICH, b. 15 December 1809 Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerana; md. 4 Oct. 1834 Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania to Christlieb WEGNER, b. Nitznow, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerana, d. Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania (parents of FERDINAND WEGNER)
  3. Wilhelmine Friedrieke Charlotta "Minnie" MILLER/MUELLER, b. 20 January 1827 Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania, d. ca. 1900 Armstrong, Emmet Co., IA; md. ca. 1862 Karnitz, Pomerania, Germany to FERDINAND Gottlieb Carl WEGNER, b. 12 Dec. 1836 Hoff, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania, d. 16 Jan. 1893 Whittemore, Kossuth Co., IA (1st Cousins)
  4. Auguste EMILIE Ernstine WEGNER, b. 7 Nov. 1863 Helle, Kreis Greifenberg, Pommern, d. 9 Sept. 1942 Idaho Falls, Jefferson Co., ID (buried at Annis, Idaho); md. 10 Oct. 1884 Lotts Creek, Kossuth Co., IA to Alexander Emil "Alex" GOHR, b. 20 May 1850 Bremin, Germany (now Brzemiona, Bydgoszcz Province, Poland), d. 28 Feb. 1918 Menan, Jefferson Co., ID (buried at Annis, Idaho)
  5. Alexander Fredrick EMIL GOHR, b. 31 Jan. 1887 Kossuth Co., IA, d. 18 June 1968 Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO; md. 25 Nov. 1917 at Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO to Frieda Helma QUIRAM, b. 24 May 1890 Elysian, Le Sueur Co., MN, d. 18 July 1987 Monte Vista, Rio Grande Co., CO *These are my grandparents.





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Last updated June 1, 2004.


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