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Anne Marie Witte (1893 - 1967)

Anne Marie Witte and her three siblings (Katherina Luise Ilsabein, Anna, Heinrich) were born in Spradow, that now belongs to the town of Bünde. Her mother Marie Luise Wilhelmine Nettingsmeier (1858 - 1909) and most of the ancestors of her mother came from Westscheid and Grimminghausen ( Menninghüffen ), which belongs to the town of Löhne now. The Netgensmeier-branch of her pedigree leads back to the middle of the 16th century.
Her father Karl Heinrich Witte (1860 - 1919) was born in Randringhausen located close to Bünde.

Karl Heinrich Witte

Karl Heinrich Witte

Anne Marie Witte

Anne Marie Witte

Marie Luise Wilhelmine Nettingsmeier

Marie Luise Wilhelmine Nettingsmeier

Her grandparents were Anton Gottlieb Witte (born 1824 in Dünne; son of Johann Friedrich Witte and Anne Marie Niermann) and Anne Marie Elisabeth Schnitker (born 1825 in Muckum; daughter of Balthasar Heinrich Schnitker and Maria Catherina Elisabeth Pohlmann).
Her maternal grandparents were Heinrich Wilhelm Netgensmeier (born 1818 in Westscheid; son of Ernst Heinrich August Schwarze and Catherina Clare Marie Schröder) and Anne Cathrine Schäffer ( born 1825 in Grimminghausen; daughter of Johann Conrad Schäffer and Anna Charlotte Louise Kröger).

Caspar Heinrich August Witte, a close relative of Karl Heinrich Witte, emigrated to the USA in 1884.

Caspar Heinrich August Witte

Names that appear in the pedigree of Karl Heinrich Witte:

SCHNITKER (SCHNITGER), NIERMANN, POHLMANN, CLAUSING

Names that appear in the pedigree of Marie Luise Wilhelmine Nettingsmeier:

NETGENSMEIER, SCHÄFFER, KRÖGER, SCHWARZE, KNEFELKÄMPER, AHLBERT, KRAUSE, RUERUP, TRAMPE, TAKE, STRATEMEYER

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Georg Wilhelm Kröger ( 1887 - 1943)

He was the son of Kaspar Heinrich Kröger (1858 - 1919) and Anna Marie Wippermann (1857 - 1932). His siblings were Minna, Karl, Peter, Marie ans Anna. Georg Wilhelm was born in Hunnebrock (now: Bünde).

Kaspar Heinrich Kröger

Kaspar Heinrich Kröger

Anna Marie Wippermann

Anna Marie Wippermann

His grandparents were Cord Heinrich Kröger (born in 1811; son of Heinrich Wilhelm Kröger and Anne Marie Lefhalms) and Anne Catharina Hippe (born 1819; daughter of Jürgen Heinrich Carels and Anne Marie Hippe).
His maternal grandparents were Johann Friedrich Wippermann (born 1813; son of Adolf Heinrich Wippermann and Anna Ilsabein Bäcker) and Anne Margaretha Schlüter (born 1817 in Spenge; daughter of Johann Wilhelm Schlüter and A.M. Ilsabein Blomeier.

In 1939 Caspar Heinrich Kröger, an uncle of Kaspar Heinrich, left Prussia. He emigrated to the USA without permission.

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The picture shows Georg Wilhelm Kröger and his first wife Katherina Luise Ilsabein Witte with their daughter Martha.
Luise and Martha died at the beginning of 1919 because of tuberculosis. Luise was 31 years old, the age of her daughter was 5 years only.
Anne Marie the sister of Luise took care of them, while Georg Wilhelm served in the army during WW I.

During this time Anne Marie was engaged with Peter or Karl Kröger (probably: Peter), a brother of Georg Wilhelm.
Both fell in action in WW I.

Karl and Peter Kröger

Karl and Peter Kröger

In April 1919 Anne Marie Witte and her former brother-in-law married.

Georg Wilhelm Kröger
Anne Marie Witte

They had 9 children, the picture (~1942) shows them sitting behind their house with their youngest son.

Georg Wilhelm worked as a bricklayer. When his oldest child was 23 and the youngest was 3, he died in 1943, because he was suffering from heart trouble.

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