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Person · Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer
The record
- HHomethe fan · what changed · open questions
- MMigrationbirths and deaths on a map, by decade
- TTimeline609 entries · 5 eras
- PPeople290 cards, by generationGeorg Leonhard Kochendörfer
- LLines13 surname pages
The evidence
- DDocuments896 thumbnails, filterable
- SSourcesS1–S1207, with where each is cited
The findings
- How the wall came downProeger line
- The glass patentsProeger line
- How the Caffey half was closedCaffey line
- What the DNA saysits own page
- Four routesMigration
- The asymmetryLines
- Open questions20 questions
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proves, what the weight of evidence suggests, and what nobody has found yet. A fourth marks
what the family stated directly, where no document has been retrieved at all — it is kept
separate on purpose and is never quietly promoted to confirmed. A fifth, added on
13 September 2026, marks biological evidence: a DNA result is not a document, and it is not
testimony either. Two further labels mark where this page withholds information
rather than lacking it.
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ProbableStrongly supported but not nailed down: a user-contributed tree, a masked index field,
or a chain of consistent circumstances. Believable, not proven.
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person — the record may well exist somewhere unsearched.
Family testimonySupplied by the family and recorded on their word — no document has been retrieved for
it. Note the diamond rather than the dot: this is provenance, not proof, and it stands
apart from the three record tags above S24.
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not by itself establish a person or a link. Note the bar rather than a dot or a diamond:
no DNA result on this page is ever counted as confirmed, because no document
was read for it S46.
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- Children
- Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer
- Sources
- 6
Research status
Research status: CONFIRMED — named as father on the 1847 Langenburg baptismal register, S184.
Life in the order the records give it
Work—
Cooper, of Langenburg, Württemberg
S184Arrival2026
🆕
Three of Minnie's brothers went to America before her, added 26 September 2026:
Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at Langenburg, applied to emigrate in October 1858
Probable confirm or correct →;
Friedrich, born 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, and
Heinrich Hermann, born 14 May 1845, a bookbinder, sailed together on the
Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864
S611. Heinrich Hermann's baptism names Georg Leonhard and Eva Margaretha as his parents and sits on the same family-register folio as Minnie's
S612; Johann Carl's baptism, read from the register image, names the same parents: he was born 21 March 1839 and baptised at Langenburg on
27 March 1839 S729. His 1858 emigration application and Friedrich rest on index rows only. Minnie's own crossing has not been found
Family parents, marriages, children, siblings
Marriage1837
🆕 The 1837 Gerabronn marriage register calls him a
master cooper (Büttnermeister),
born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, the son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara. He married Eva Margaretha Renk there on
29 November 1837 S444. added 25 September 2026.
Marriage1837
🆕 The Wallhausen copy of his 1837 marriage, kept in his bride's parish, agrees with Gerabronn: born
1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, a cooper there, son of the late Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and
Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck; married Eva Margaretha Renk at Gerabronn on 29 November 1837
Confirmed S966S444. added 29 September 2026
In the record
Generation 6 — earliest known
- S184Langenburg (Württemberg) baptismal register, 1847, entry 30. Ancestry record 14762676. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Baptised "Sibÿlla Mina", born 3 November 1847 between 10 and 11 at night, baptised 21 November. Father Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, Bürger in Gerabronn, cooper (Küfer) in Langenburg; mother Eva Margaretha geb. Renk. 🔑 Minnie's parents on an original register. The next fetch is the Langenburg Familienregister (1834 volume), f. 279. The status of [S124] is not changed here.
- S444Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, marriages 1837, no. 5: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837. Ancestry record 914646708. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, master cooper (Büttnermeister), born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara, marries on 29 November 1837 Eva Margaretha, born at Wallhausen 25 January 1809, daughter of Georg Andreas Renk, innkeeper and master baker at Wallhausen, and the late … Margaretha geb. Zins. The register image, read in place of the index rows cited before. Ancestry's index gives her birth as 15 January and her mother as “Eva Margareta Renk”; the image reads 25 January and Zins. It appears to call the mother Eva Margaretha, where the 1813 register (S443) says Maria Margaretha; the 1813 entry, made by her own husband's parish three years after her death, is followed here. The groom's mother's surname is only partly legible.
- S611Kochendörfer brothers of Minnie Kochendoerfer — baptism, emigration and passenger indexes, 1839–1864. Ancestry 61023 records 14762261 and 14762439; Württemberg Emigration Index (Ancestry 3141) records 54880, 54870 and 54874; Hamburg Passenger Lists (Ancestry 1068) records 5480945 and 5480946, image K_1709_080468-0641, read 25 September 2026. Johann Carl, b. 21 March 1839 Langenburg, applied to emigrate to North America in October 1858. Friedrich, b. 25 December 1842, a shoemaker, 21, and Heinrich, a bookbinder, 19, both of Langenburg, sailed on the Humboldt from Hamburg to New York on 23 June 1864, entered as one party. Probable for Johann Carl and Friedrich: index rows only; the emigration index names no parents.
- S612Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Langenburg, baptisms 1845, no. 17: Heinrich Hermann Kochendörfer, 14 May 1845. Image 1528568-01034 (not indexed). Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Son of Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, cooper, and Eva Margaretha geb. Renk; family register Langenburg II fol. 279, the same folio as Minnie's 1847 entry.
- S729Langenburg, Württemberg, Lutheran baptisms, 1839, no. 10. Ancestry record 14762256. Image examined, read 26 September 2026. Confirmed Johann Carl, born 21 March 1839 at 9 in the evening, baptised 27 March 1839 at Langenburg; parents Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha, born Renk. Family register Langenburg 1834, fol. 279.
- S966Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Wallhausen (Kirchenbezirk Blaufelden), marriages vol. 11, 1837: Georg Leonhard Johann Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837. Ancestry record 14293886. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 24 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Leonhard Johann Kochendörfer, cooper (Küfer) in Gerabronn, born 1 March 1811 at Gerabronn, son of the late Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer, day labourer in Gerabronn, and Eva Barbara geb. Hartweck; and Eva Margaretha Renk, daughter of Georg Andreas Renk and the late Maria Margaretha geb. Zink. Banns at Gerabronn and Wallhausen; married at Gerabronn on 29 November 1837. This is the bride's home parish's copy of the marriage in S444. It agrees on the names and dates. It calls him Küfer where Gerabronn has Büttnermeister (both mean cooper), spells the bride's mother Zink for Zins, and leaves her father's trade unclear. Ancestry's index cuts the surname to "Dörfer" and misreads März as Mai. Collection: Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (db 61023, image 1528622-00151).