Need Help Finding German Records - Mosblech in NRW

Question

Hello to my old friends in the Germany Project (and anyone else reading this). I hope you all are well.

My husband and son are traveling from the USA to Germany in May/June for an auto race at Nurburgring. While making their travel arrangements, I noticed that my husband's [possible] ancestral home, near Wuppertal (Elberfeld and/or Lennep) in Nordrhein-Westfalen, is only 130km away from the race track. As they have one free day in the area, I'm making them drive out to the town[s] where their Mosblech line originated. Maybe they'll even be able to pick up some BMD documentation while they're there.

I'm fairly sure that the family was Catholic (many of the USA Mosblech's are). I plan to contact churches in the area for records but, before I do that, I was hoping that someone could try and help me find some other records for this branch of my family. I'd like to pin-point which churches to contact for info, as my husband/son will only be in the area for one day.  

The discovery of additional Mosblech ancestors might alleviate my pain over paying for a 12-day trip to Germany and Austria with the sole purpose of seeing auto races and auto museums. LOL! Anyway, any help would be hugely appreciated!

Best regards to all!

Answer 1

Hi, you are no nuisance, Traci, but very welcome - helping each other is the idea of WikiTree :-) Here is the translation:

Birth of Johann Friedrich Mosblech

Twin brother of the birth before [= 117 = Elisabeth Mosblech]

Nr. 118

In the year 1825 on June 17^th at 11:00 am appeared before me, Peter Carl Moll, mayor of Lennep, the cloath shearer Johann Friederich Mosblech, resident of Lennep, with the declaration that on Tuesday, 14^th of this month at 8:00 am a child of male gender was born to him by his wife Elisabeth Langenschei[d] to whom he has given the name Johann Friederich.

Witnesses to this act were Wilhelm Sander, 41 (44?) years old, sexton in Lennep, and Carl Meurer, 36 years old, a cloath shearer in Lennep.

After being read [this act] the witnesses signed, but the father declared to be ignorant of writing

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Comments

Thank you so much Heike!!

Answer 2

Hi Traci,

the Lennep birth, marriage and death certificates from 1810 to 1875 are digitized online at the Landesarchiv NRW - and in the 1825 birth register you will find under Nr. 118 (page 125) the birth of one Johann Friederich Mosblech:

https://www.archive.nrw.de/archivsuche?link=VERZEICHUNGSEINHEIT-Vz_868F5199-853C-4A67-A6D6-B1CEC95192BB 

(the link is only valid for the whole volume, so you will still have to go to page 125)

I hope this is the right one!

Kind regards from Heike :-)

P.S.: There are other Mosblechs as well in this volume, so presumably you will have a busy time looking through all the registers of Lennep

P.P.S: Lennep today is part of the city of Remscheid:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennep

Siegfried's link works fine - just click into the small "Mountain"-icon and you will get to the digitized birth register of 1825

Comments

The Link is broken.

Take this:

https://www.archive.nrw.de/archivsuche?link=VERZEICHUNGSEINHEIT-Vz_868F5199-853C-4A67-A6D6-B1CEC95192BB

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Hi Siegfried, thank you - do you understand why the first link is broken and this one works fine? It looks absolutely the same to me, and I would like to give functioning links instead of ones that lead into nothing. For any help thanks in advance and

Kind regards from Heike :-)

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Thank you so much Heike! This information is as valuable as gold to me!

I'm sorry to be a nuisance, but could you (or anyone) please translate page 125 (#118) for me? I can't read the old handwriting in German.

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Hello Heike,

at the end, your link line is longer.

I copied both links to the notepad. Your link has %C2%A0 more.

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Hello Heike,

you can just link the concrete image:

https://dfg-viewer.de/show?id=9&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.landesarchiv-nrw.de%2Fdigitalisate%2FAbt_Rheinland%2FPA_2104%2F~028%2F02820%2Fmets.xml&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=125

If the image is open, it shows the link in the address bar.

Or if you download it, you get a better link:

https://www.landesarchiv-nrw.de/data02/Abt_Rheinland/PA_2104/~028/02820/LAV_NRW_R_PA_2104_02820_0125.jpg

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Thank you so much! And have a nice weekend :-)

Heike

Answer 3

Hello Traci,

there are also birth, mariage and death registers for Elberfeld on the state archives:

https://www.archive.nrw.de/archivsuche?link=KLASSIFIKATION-Klas_028FDD96-7093-4E68-BC4D-85B491465896

Not all registers are already digitized.

Comments

Thank you so much Siegfried! I think that the family lived in Elberfeld before they went to the USA and I believe Frederich's son August/Gustav was probably born there. I will search these records soon. Again many, many thanks!!

Answer 4

Hello Traci,

Do you need only the birth entry of Johann Friederich Mosblech or also from his twin sister Elisabet Mosblech? 

Comments

No need to translate Elizabeth's but I do appreciate your looking at Friederich's!

Answer 5

Hello Traci,

the handwriting is awful … 

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No. 118

Geburt von Johann Friederich Mosblech [?]

Zwillingsbruder der vorhergehenden.

Im Jahr eintausend achthundert zwanzig fünf, am siebenzehnten Junij vormittags um Eilf Uhr, erschien vor mir Peter Carl Moll Bürgermeister der Sammtgemeine Lennep, der Tuchehenver[?] Johann Friederich Mosblech

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I will continue later. It takes a while …

Okay, as Heike already translated, I can stop it.

But I would like to underline the names:

• Boy: Johann Friederich Mosblech (with e)
• Sister: Elisabet Mosblech (without h)
• Father: Johann Friederich Mosblech
• Mother: Elisabet Langenscheid (without h)
• Witness: Wilhelm Sander (41)
• Witness: Carl Meurer (36)

Comments

Thank you Siegfried!! I agree the handwriting is hard to read ... and since I don't speak German, it makes it almost impossible to decipher. I appreciate your help on this.

Answer 6

Lennep is a neat place to visit. Wilhelm Conrad  Roentgen was born there in 1845. The travellers can visit his birth home. 

The main Lutheran church is worth a visit, too.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelische_Stadtkirche_(Lennep)

The Klosterschaenke is my recommendation if they want to have dinner in town. 

If they like a short hike in nature I recommend the walk from Schloss Burg to the bridge in Müngsten.

The more famous touristic attraction, however, is to visit the Cathedral in Cologne.

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Thanks for the tips, Sven! I looked at the menu at Klosterschaenke ... it looks wonderful. I'll be sure to send them there for a good meal as they will have had their fill of döner kebab and leberkäse by then. ;-D

I added the stops you suggested to their "to do" list in Lennep. They'll be there one day/night and then they're going to stop in Cologne for a few hours on their way back to Nürburgring, where they will drive on the race track. Then they're going to Stuttgart, Munich, Salzburg and Spielberg (AUS ... for another race). It's going to be a great trip for them as they're huge auto racing fans.