Louisa Dorothea (Koch) Kolze (1807 - 1881)

Born 17 Jun 1807 in Niedernstöcken, Amt-Neustadt am Rübenberg, Hannover

Wife of Heinrich Friedrich Kolze — married 23 Nov 1827 in Gilten, Amt Neustadt am Rubenberge, Hannover

Descendants

Died 16 Jan 1881 at age 73 in Leyden, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Louisa Dorothea Koch was born on 17 Jun 1807 in Niedernstöcken, Amt-Neustadt am Rübenberg, Hannover and baptized four days later on 21 Jun 1807. She was the daughter of Johann Heinrich Koch and Sophia Eleonore Pauling. ^[1]

On 23 November 1827 she married Heinrich Friedrich Kolze in Gilten, Amt Neustadt am Rübenberge, Hannover. ^[2] He was a small farmer, born in the village of Nienhagen and was the son of a small farmer. They raised seven children together, first in Nienhagen, then in Leyden Township, Illinois:

1. Catherine Marie Magdalene "Mary" Kolze (1828-1912), married Elijia Peacock (1818-1889)
2. Katherine Dorothea Kolze (1831-1909), married Dietrich Plesse (1810-1893)
3. Anne Marie Dorothee "Annie" Kolze (1833-1921), married Lawrence Lorenzo Bowalski (c1829-??)
4. Heinrich Friederich Kolze (1836-1894), married Caroline Banger (1843-1917)
5. Henry Diederich Kolze (1839-1910), married Mary Bierman (1845-1869), Sophie Frank (1847-1926)
6. Louise Sophie Kolze (1842-??), married Gustav Ehrhorn (1835-1915)
7. Marie Catherine "Dora" Kolze (1845-c1859)

In 1860 and 1870 she was living on a farm in Leyden Township, Cook, Illinois with her husband and children. ^{[3] [4]}

In 1880 she was a widow living in Leyden, Cook, Illinois with her son Henry D Kolze and his family. ^[5]

She died on 16 Jan 1881 in Leyden, Cook, Illinois ^[6] and was buried at St John's Cemetery in Bensenville, DuPage, Illinois. ^[7]

Research Notes

• Some sources give her date of birth as 15 Jun, but her birth/baptism record says 17 Jun, as does her confirmation record (1821 in Niederstocken, the same parish where she was baptized).
• Gilten, Amt Neustadt am Rubenberge, Hannover is now Gilten, Heidekreis, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Sources

1. ↑ www.archion.de -> Hannover: Landeskirchliches Archiv Hannover > Kirchenkreis Neustadt > Niedernstöcken > KB 1801-1852, Bild 50 Page 85, #18, image 50, year 1807 [copy attached to this profile]
2. ↑ www.archion.de -> Landeskirchliches Archiv Hannover > Kirchenkreis Walsrode > Gilten > KB 1794-1852, Image 13, Page 22, entry # 4, Year 1827 [Copy attached to this profile]
3. ↑ Ancestry.com 1860 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Year: 1860; Census Place: Leyden, Cook, Illinois; Roll: M653_169; Page: 210; Image: 211; Family History Library Film: 803169
4. ↑ Ancestry.com 1870 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009; Year: 1870; Census Place: Leyden, Cook, Illinois; Roll: M593_213; Page: 351B; Image: 31; Family History Library Film: 545712
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXJ4-68W : 12 November 2020), Dorothea Kolze in household of H. Kolze, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 213, sheet 112D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,201.
6. ↑ "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2MQ-KVTJ : 8 March 2018), Dora Kolze, 16 Jan 1881; citing Leyden, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference 1401, record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,239,961.
7. ↑ St. John's United Cemetery and Funeral List (Addison Township) Publication: Name: DuPage County (IL) Genealogical Society; Date: 1992;

See also:

• ALBUM OF GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS WITH PORTRAITS Publication: Name: LA SALLE BOOK COMPANY; Location: CHICAGO; Date: 1900; NOTETHIRTEENTH EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED. PRINTED BY THE CALUMET COMPANY 166-170 SOUTH CLINTON STREET CHICAGO. dates of birth and death, family His wife, Louisa Koch, born June 15, 1807, in the village of Stocken, Hanover, and died January 22, 1881, was the daughter of an innkeeper. She had one sister, Katharina Dorothea, who married Diedrick Hurfer and remained in German}', where she died while still a young woman.