Heinrich Bergander, Helene Lebede, and their children

Heinrich Bergander and Helene (Lebede) Bergander were my great-great-great-great-grandparents. Their daughter Johanna (Bergander) Stache was my great-great-great-grandmother, her son Carl Stacke was my great-great-grandfather, his daughter Lydia (Stacke) Revie was my great-grandmother, and her biological daughter Mary (Gotsche) Thielen was my grandmother.

Heinrich Bergander
born 1807
died ????

Helene Lebede

born 1811

died ????

Heinrich Bergander, the son of Daniel Bergander, married Helene Lebede, daughter of Gottlieb Lebede, on January 8, 1837 in Krotoschin, Prussia modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland). They had three children together. Helene probably died in or before 1845, because on May 18 of that year Heinrich remarried to Johanna Wengler, also in Krotoschin. Johanna was born in 1819. Heinrich and Johanna also had three children. The area where they lived, Silesia, was a part of the Kingdom of Prussia until 1871, the German Empire from 1871 to the end of World War II, and has been a part of Poland since then.

The three children of Heinrich and Helene (Lebede) Bergander:

1. Johanna Karoline (Bergander) Stache (1837-????)
2. Johann Gottlieb Bergander (1840-????)
3. Friedrich Wilhelm Bergander (1843-????)

The three children of Heinrich and Johanna (Wengler) Bergander:

1. Gustav Gottlieb Bergander (1841-1882)
2. Friedrich Wilhelm Bergander (1846-1848)
3. Mathilde Josephine (Bergander) Zeugner Mann (1848-1884)

1. Johanna Karoline (Bergander) Stache

born December 20, 1837 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Johanna was baptized on Christmas Day, 1837, at the Lutheran church in Krotoschin. She married the recently-widowed Friedrich Stache on May 12, 1867, at the Lutheran church in Gontkowitz, Prussia (modern-day Gądkowice, Gmina Milicz, Milicz County, Dolnośląskie Voivodeship, Poland). Johanna and Friedrich had two children, Carl and Auguste, and Johanna was stepmother to Friedrich's other children.

2. Johann Gottlieb Bergander

born October 24, 1840 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Johann was baptized on November 1, 1840, at the Lutheran church in Krotoschin. Johann married Rosalia "Rosa" Simolke in 1860 in Goschütz, Prussia (modern-day Goszcz, Twardogóra, Oleśnica, Dolnośląskie, Poland), and they had four children, Anna, Frank, Joseph, and August. Rosa died on December 31, 1928 in Marathon, Marathon County, Wisconsin, and is buried at Saint Mary's Cemetery there.

3. Friedrich Wilhelm Bergander

born December 28, 1843 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died ????

Friedrich was baptized on January 1, 1844, at the Lutheran church in Krotoschin. He probably died before the birth of the half-brother who shared his name in 1846.

1. Gustav Gottlieb Bergander

born 1841 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died May 28, 1882 in Danzig, German Empire (modern-day Gdańsk, Pomorskie Voivodeship, Poland)

Although records from Gustav's later life place his birth in 1841, he may have actually been born after his parents' marriage in 1845. Gustav, a ropemaker, married Johanna Knuth on April 17, 1865, at Saint Barbara's Lutheran Church in Danzig. Gustav and Johanna had six children: Adolf, Martha, Melitta, Hedwig, Helene, and Arthur. During this marriage, Gustav was most commonly known by his middle name, Gottlieb. Johanna died on August 14, 1876, in Danzig. Gustav married again on October 22, 1876, at Saint Mary's Lutheran Church in Danzig, to Justine Wilhelmine Unruh, who went by her middle name. Gustav and Wilhelmine had three children: Auguste, Rudolf, and Gustav. Gustav died in 1882 and was buried at Saint Barbara's Cemetery along with three of his children. His wife Wilhelmine and several of Gustav's children moved to Spandau, a district of Berlin, Germany. Wilhelmine died there on June 18, 1909.

2. Friedrich Wilhelm Bergander

born May 12, 1846 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died September 11, 1848 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

Friedrich, who shared his name with his older half-brother, was baptized on May 21, 1846, at the Lutheran church in Krotoschin.

3. Mathilde Josephine (Bergander) Zeugner Mann

born March 3, 1848 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

died 1884 in Krotoschin, Prussia (modern-day Krotoszyn, Gmina Krotoszyn, Krotoszyn County, Wielkopolskie Voivodeship, Poland)

Mathilde was baptized on March 12, 1848, at the Lutheran Church in Krotoschin. Her first husband's last name was Zeugner, and he died at some point before her second marriage. Mathilde's second husband was Friedrich Oswald Mann, who she married in 1882 in Krotoschin.