Re: finding other ennen's
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Re: finding other ennen's
10/11/00
Here's what I know about about my branch of the Ennen family tree:
Wilke Ennen was from Oldenburg, Germany (not too far from Hanover)This is my Great-great grandfather.He had a son, Gerhardt Ennen, born in Oldenburg in 1844.I have the name of the parish he was baptised in, but I have to dig it up somewhere.Gerhardt immigrated to Cincinnatti in 1864.He might have been a grocer.He married Elizabeth Mueller (my great-grandmother).They had a fairly large family- about half died when they were still kids.Gerdardt's grave and those of his children and Elizabeth Mueller are in St. Bernard, Ohio (a suburb of Cinncinnatti).Elizabeth died in childbirth around 1890 or so.Gerhardt re-married Theckla Thieken after Elizabeth died, but they had no children.One of Elizabeth's kids was Herman Ennen, my grandfather, born about 1878.Herman left home at 14 (common in those days) and worked for 25 years at Wiedeman Brewery in Cinncinnatti in Sales.I have a chart somewhere that I can dig up that shows the names of Herman's brothers and sisters.I remember the name Louis (moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan.)I believe that Louis's son became a priest and was the head librarian at Notre Dame University for many years.Anyway, Herman married Josephine Schuh from Newport, Kentucky, and had 9 children.In 1920, Herman moved to Minneapolis for health reasons and started a grocery store.One of his sons, Richard, continued in this line of business, and for many years owned Ennen's Supermarket.Interestingly, when I was on vacation near Bellevue, Washington, I visited a store called, "Ennen's Supermarket".My dad, Joseph, was born in Minneapolis in 1921.My dad knows the names of some of his cousins, and he knows the names of his uncles and aunts.I can probably dig up some more information on this.
There's a bunch of Ennen's from North Dakota.Not related to us, that we know.
I found a website that had a family tree that was created by a professor form Germany.He traced his family back to the 16th century.Among the names that popped up was "Ennen".From what I could gather, prior to 1800 when Napoleon conquered that part of Germany, a person would have the last name "Ennen" if their father had the first name "Enno".(Kind of like the naming scheme they still have in Iceland, where the son of Carl Olson will be named John Carlson.)The French forced the residents of Northwestern Germany to keep permanent surnames so that they could tax them and draft their sons for war more easily.
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