Fortmann [a Kleine] Clemens (I) August Ludwig b. 18 Feb 1824 Kleinefortmann Farm, Sudlohne, Vecta (District), Oldenburg Duchy, Germany d. 14 Aug 1871 6710 Robie St. (now Damen Ave) Evanston, (now Chicago), Cook Co, IL

1824 - 1871

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Birth	18 Feb 1824	Kleinefortmann Farm, Sudlohne, Vecta (District), Oldenburg Duchy, Germany [2]
	Clemens Mother and Father were probably influenced in their name choice of "Clemens August" by munsterschen Lord Bishop Clemens August von Bavaria (1719-1761) whose name also appears at the door of the Cathederal of Munsterand. Lohne's Catholic Church was named after St Gertrud. .......The Fortman's are of the Cheruscian Tribe of the Teutoburg Forest around Lohne. From 9 CE to the middle ages they were known as "the Son of" or Daughter of". .......Names took on a different character as the village "Trades" developed in the Middle Ages and personal distinction became more important. .......The Fortmann name was coined originally in the 1200's and referred to the trade of water-ferry men. .......In the next centuries their children moved on to farming as peasants and remained in the forests and small pastures around Lohne raising oats, rye, pigs and steers. .......As traditional Catholics, they believed in the ritual practices of their Church. Clemens parents, Franz and Catharina, recorded the baptizism their 6 newborns at Lohne's Catholic Church, St Gertrud and their marriage was recorded there on 3 Nov 1807. .......Regrettably, the Register of Deaths of Lohne's Catholic Church has been lost over the decades. [1] Clemens is the youngest of 6 children. The youngest 3 shall migrate to America in 1839. Clemens August Ludwig's father is cited in the Lohne Catholic Church, St Gertrud, register as Franz Ludwig LANDWETER. (Other records indicate his name as LANDWEHR.....this is most probably what it was.) This name refers to the occupation of soldiering, was in common usage in Germany until after the 2nd WW. German Landwehr units were exstensively use by Napoleon between 1800 and 1810.
Christened	20 Feb 1824	St Gertrud Catholic Church, Lohne, Germany
Gender	Male
Baptism Witnesses	20 Feb 1824	St Gertrud's Katholic Kirch, Lohne, Gr.
	Witnesses: Herr Clemens August Willinborg, Frau Maria Catharina Schilmoller
Early Schooling	Sep 1831	SudLohne's 1 room School House
	Clemens is 7 years old entering his first year of school under Lerher [teacher] Josef [Gross] Fortmann, his 32 year old neighboring 1st Cousin {b. 1 Jul 1799]. Clemens shall continue here as a student until he is 14. He shall migrate to the US under the care of his older brother Heinrich in 1839 at age 15.
Lease Rights of 1st Born Son	7 Jan 1834	Kleinefortmann Farm Sudlohne
	Mother Katherina Maria died today and eldest Son, Johannes Heinrich, 19, inherits the Lease land-rights to the Farm. He being a blood Fortmann and his Mother, she being the eldest living Granddaughter [her Mother being deceased] having received those rights from her Grandfather, Hermann Heinrich upon his death 25 Feb 1807. Father, Franz Ludewig Landwehr is now subject to his Son, Heinrich.
Parents death date, ages	11 Jan 1839	Kleinefortmann Farm
	Clements father Franz Ludewig Landwehr, 67, dies almost exactly 5 years after his wife, Katherina Maria, age 47.
Immigration, year, age	May 1839	Kleinefortmann Farm
	Brother Johannes Heinrich, 24, with father's death Jan 11th, has decided he and I, Clemens, 15, and elder sister Anna Maria, 26, shall emmigrate to America.
Route of travel to America	Jun 1839	Probably Port of Bremman
	No record of the ship or dates of departure and Port of landing can be found but it is probable that they landed in NY and proceeded via the Erie Canal to Buffalo and sailed to Chicago. Their Cousin, a Grossfortmann, a priest, had preceeded them and thus they knew of the opportunities in Chicago.
Died	14 Aug 1871	6710 Robie St. (now Damen Ave) Evanston, (now Chicago), Cook Co, IL [3]
	Marrying at age 24 in St Joseph's Catholic Church in New Trier (now Wilmette)Il., Clemens initially resides with his wife on his brother, John Henry Joseph Fortmann's Farm on Robie St. .......Shockingly, 20 years later, now in his neighboring home, Clemens at 47, is accidently killed when the axel breaks on his wagon as he is shoveling Schwein-Scheibs into it. The wagon wheel crushes him under the load. .......He leaves an 8 1/2 month pregnant wife with 8 children. His brother Heinrich who lives next door will become the guiding Uncle.
Buried	16 Aug 1871	Fortmann Plot 4 Block 5 St Henry's Cemetery Chicago. IL [4]
	Clemens is the 1st of his family to be interred in the 9 plot burial site he purchased 10 years earlier in 1864. St. Henry's Cemetery is now adjacent to the magnificent German Gothic Catholic Church, built in 1925. In Clemens time it was a small one room single story wooden Church with Mass said in German on alternating Sundays.
Person ID	I4	Fortmann, ......(Vorde1510.......Vortmann).........Fortman
Last Modified	20 Mar 2011

Father	Landwehr, a.k.a. KleineFortmann Franz Ludewig (Father of Clemens (1) & J. Heinrich), a.k.a. Henry 1st, b. 13 Apr 1771, Landwehr Farm, Sudlohne, Vecta (District), Oldenburg Duchy, Germany , d. 11 Jan 1839, Sudlohne, Vecta (District), Oldenburg Duchy, Germany
Relationship	birth
Mother	KleineFortmann Katharina Maria (wife of Frans Ludewig Landwehr, (Mother of Clemens & Henry 1st & Anna Maria), b. 20 Sep 1787, Kleinefortmann Farm, Sudlohne, Vecta (Diistrict) , Oldenburg Duchy, Germany , d. 7 Jan 1834, Kleinefortman Farm, Sudlohne, Vecta (District) Oldenburg Duchy, Germany
Relationship	birth
Married	3 Nov 1807	St Gertrud Catholic Church, Lohne, Vecta (District) Oldenburg Duchy, Germany
Family ID	F10	Group Sheet

Family Lauermann Maria Catherina, a.k.a. Mary (wife of Clemens), b. 6 Sep 1830, Bueschfeld, Kr. Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany , d. 21 Jul 1891, 4099 N Robie St, Grosse Pointe, now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL

Married 20 Nov 1848 St Joseph Catholic Church, New Trier, Illinois [6]

Witnesses: Joannem Wagner and Barteolomeus Hoffman [5]
The officiating Priest: Pastor Rev. Henirich Fortmann.
Wedding Guests:
Brother: Johannes Heinrich Joseph Fortmann and his wife, Catherina Lauermann, Sister of the Bride.
Father-In-Law: John Lauermann and his wife.
Sisters of the Bride: Barbara and Maria

Children

	1. Fortmann Katherine, a.k.a. Catharine, b. 25 Oct 1850, 4099 N Robie St, Ridgeville now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 23 May 1914, 6700 Robie St (Seeley Ave) Chicago, IL
	2. Fortmann Barbara, b. 14 Nov 1852, 4099 N Robie St, Ridgeville, now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 19 Mar 1943, 6710 Robie St (Seeley Ave) Chicago, IL
	3. Fortmann Anthony, b. 1857, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 24 Jan 1957
	4. Fortmann Nicholas, b. 5 Jan 1860, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 13 Nov 1945, 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL
	5. Fortmann Herman, b. 1862, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 12 Jun 1888, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 N Seeley Ave Chicago, IL
	6. Fortmann Clemens (II), b. 1864, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL
	7. Fortmann Anna (a.k.a. Annie) Maria, b. 17 Oct 1866, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 2 Jul 1962, Techney Senior Home
>	8. Fortmann Frederick, b. 30 Mar 1869, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 N Seeley Ave Chicago, IL , d. 2 Jan 1955, St Francis Hospital, Evanston, IL
	9. Fortmann Maria A. (a.k.a.Mary), b. 1 Sep 1871, 4099 N Robie St, Evanston now 6710 Seeley Ave, Chicago, Illinois , d. 12 Dec 1930, 6710 Robie St (Seeley Ave) Chicago, IL

Histories

Northern Germany Catholic Bishops, Princes & Fortmann's 783-1700
Chronilogical display of Oldenburg & Munster Catholic Bishops, Princes & Fortmann's from 783 to 1700

Albums Oldenberg Gr: Princes; Prince Bishops, Bishops (2)
This is a chart of Princes, Prince Bishops, Bishops & Fortmann's from 783 to 1700's

Last Modified 7 Feb 2008

Family ID F2 Group Sheet

Photos		Lohne, Germany The Banner of Lohne, Germany
		Sudlohne Crest
		Crest: The Kleine FORTMANN VORTMANN Family Origin: 1200's, Sudlohne, Oldenburg Duchy, Germany located abt 65 miles South of the Baltic Sea, between the Weser and the Ems River in the marshy lowlands 80 miles East of Holland. ........Note the raft carrying the hay-wagon across the shallow marshland. The name comes from the German word "furt" meaning "a man who lives by poling rafts across shallow water". ........The earliest peoples of the area were of the "Cheruscian Tribe"....lived as animal herders (pigs and cattle) in the forests and grew oats and rye on raised dry land. ........They were known for their independence.
		1889..... Maria Katherina Lauermann Fortmann, ......age:60 ......wife of Clemens August Ludwig Fortmann ..... b. Buschfeld, Germany ..... daughter of John Lauermann, owner of Lauermann's General Store, 1848, New Trier, Illinois .......Mother of Frederick Fortman (husband of Louisa Schmidt) and 8 other children
		1885 Johannes Heinrich (Henry 1st) Fortmann (1815-1889) resident Farmer on Robie St, Rogers Park, IL Brother of Clemens August Ludwig (1824-1871)and Anna Maria (New Trier, 1813-1846) Born on KleineFortmann Farm in Sudlohne, German. Migrated early 1840's.
		1885 Heinrich, Henry I's Wife, Katherine Lauermann Fortmann Sister of Maria Catherina,wife of Heinrich's brother Clemens
		1921, June....Frederick Fortmann, (age 52) Louisa Smith Fortman (age 50) and standing, Fred, (age 26) Edmund, (age 20) Lawrence, (age 25) seated Albert Joseph (age 16) on south lawn of 6836 N. Ridge, Chicago
		Should you have any doubts of Frederick's Cheruscian lineage, note the common facial characteristics..........there can be no doubt of the Fortmann Cheruscian Tribal lineage. Your Fortmann ancestory goes back over 2000 years to the time of Jesus Christ and Julius Ceasar. ............Should you have further doubt the early 1500-1600 records of Lohne and Vecta record "2 peasant families named 'Fortmann" in the area.
		1866 Weimeschkirch Undertakers.....served the German Community of Rogers Park from abt 1865. The Fortmann, Schmidt/Smith families were served by Weimeschkirch for the 100 years of its existence.
		Clemens Undertaker
		1861 "Flower Map" Evanston......previously: "Ridgeville".......prior: "the Ridge" in 1842. Map shows Smith (Schmitt/Schmidt) and Fortmann Farms on "the Ridge".......a dusty Indian trail in 1842.
		The hand dug medieval stream seperating the Gross & Kleine Fortmann farms.
		Forest adjacent Fortmann Farms
		Water Fountain at corner of Fortmann Farm
		Lindenstrauss Street Lohne
		Market Stree Lohne 1900
		Wheat field in Lohne
		Countryside view of St Gertrud's in Lohne Germany from perspective of Sudlohne.
		Medieval German House, 1200 to 1500
		People's Town Hall in Sudlolhne, 1800's
		Sudlohne Mill House
		Ancient [1200 - 1500] Sudlohne farm House
		St Anna's Klaus, 1200's adjacent Fortmann Farms
		St Anna's Klaus adjacent to Fortmann Farms......miraculous spring waters for healing the eyes from the 1200's.
		Snow covered Shrine in the woods of Sudlohn near the Fortmann Farms
		1865 St Gertrud Catholic Church Lohne, Germany ..............Church built in 1818. ............................................................................In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat, Lohne again returned to Oldenburg from France's jurisdiction.
		St Gertrud's Cemetery the burial ground of 625 years of Fortmann's Vortmann's
		Old Catholic Church & its Cemetery, Steenfelde, Germany The Fortmann's attended a Catholic Church in Oldenburg, Germany similar to this Church 50Km west of Oldenburg.
		Crown of Otto I, the Illustrious, Duke of Saxony crowned 880, Son of Liudolf [crowned 852] 1st German King after Charlemagne, King of the Franks [D.28 Jan 814]
		1834 "Thaler", a German Silver Coin. Used for 400 years, this coin is a one "Thaler" coin and = to 30 Silver "Groschen" ( Sgr. means silbergroschen or silver penny). In 1834 one day's farm labor was paid 1 1/2 Silvergr. A farm laborer earned 450 Silvergr. or 15 Thaler a year. A simple farm hand would earn 9 Thaler a year. A boy 5 Thaler a year. A servant 3 Thaler a year. Johann Peter would have carried a pouch or tin box of these as he left Germany. Johann's Passport shows "15 Sgr" or 1/2 a "Thaler" for the "tax stamp". And, "20 Sgr" for "passage permission". Thus, his 35 Sgr fees represented about 24 work days or 4 weeks of work.
		A ridge-line view overlooking the Teutoburg Forest in Germany
		Roman Legionaire, September, 9 CE This is the infantry soldier of PUBLIUS QUINTILIUS VARUS, Commander of the ROMAN LEGIONS XVII, XVIII, and XIX.
		The Teutoburg Forest Map.......the year: 9 CE Where the Legions of Roman Commander P. Q. Varus met their end and he committed suicide.
		Map of Northwestern Germany for the year 9 CE............all that you see and read here was found in and after 1987. This is a map of the German lowlands in 9 CE and shows the forested hills around today's KALKRIESE Hill............... The Roman Commander, Governor General and, of the nobility class of Rome, PUBLIUS QUINTILIUS VARAS is about to have the XVII, XVIII, and XIX ROMAN LEGIONS destroyed by the CHERUSCIAN leader ARMINIUS, Son of Sigimer...............it is 9 SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR 9 and thousands shall die in the next 4 days............ The Legions, numbering between 15,000 and 20,000 Legioniers are spread out in file 15 miles long and the German Cheruscians, numbering 9-12,000 are about to spring a lethal trap as the 3 Legions find themselves trapped in the Narrows between the Teutoburg Ancient Forest and a great bog in these watery low lands......... The carnage will be massive as three Legions fight, retreat and die over the next 4 days. Most shall perish as they retreat to the Roman Garrison Fort at Xanten some 35 miles west south west of the ambush. The Cheruscians shall torture, crucify, burn and bury alive the Roman Officers they catch. Vara's partially burned headless body shall be found 8 years later by Roman General Germanicus. Surviving soldiers, not possessing booty, shall escape into the forests. Your earlist Fortmann ancestors were Cheruscians, later known as Saxons, and they lived as hunter gatherers in these ancient-forests 22 miles SE of this great ancient battle. They most assurredly knew of the battle and most probably participated............. Martin Luther in the 1500's renamed Arminius, "Hermann" and as you read of Clemens and Heinrich Fortmann note that they both named sons "Hermann."...........Their Germanic pride in being of the German Cheruscian Tribe resonate in their independency as they seperate from family and head for America in the mid 1840's.
		Model of Barricade built by Chartusians to stop the Roman..........the skeletons found in front clearly indicate the Romans couldn't penetrate the wall and get to the Germans.
		The Kalkriese Narrows ambush point of the Roman Legions XVII, XVIII, and XIX. This is a reconstruction of the choke point Arminius created between Kalkriese Hill and the Great Bog that clotted the Roman Legions as thousands died upon thousands.
		1999 year-old human bones found in the Teutoburg Forest, Germany. Bones of Legioniers and the Cheruscian Warriors killed in 9 CE in the battle of Teutoburg Forest, Germany..........five pits were found containing the (often cut) bones of adult males. The skeletons seem to have been exposed for a few years before they were finally buried. This fits with the record of the Roman Legion Commander, Germanicus, stationed in the area of Munster, who returned to the battle scene in the summer of 15 CE, 6 years after the battle and buried the bones of the fallen.
		The Cenotaph (a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is elsewhere) of a Roman Officer and his two freedman killed in Sept of the year 9 CE in the Teutoburg Forest, Germany.......... the Translation from Latin:.........To MARCUS CAELIUS, Son of Titus, First Centurion of the XVIII Legion.........Born in the Lemonian District of Bologna, Italy........52 1/2 years old............He fell in the Varian War (in the 4 day battle in the Teutoburg Forest)........His bones may be interred here......... PUBLIUS CAELIUS, (brother of Marcus,) Son of Titus, erected (this monument.) ............born in June 43 BC this Centurion would have known Julius Caesar. Officers of the Legions in this battle were either killed in battle or, if captured alive, crucified after being tortured and burned or buried alive. The 3 historians of the time writing of this event record no Officers surviving and while none of the 3 writers was at the battle, the descriptions of one writer clearly indicate he had talked with surviving soldiers. This is the most impressive archeological find of this War. It was also a pivotal battle in Europe's history since if the Roman army had conquered northern Germany and moved across the Rhine you would probably not be speaking English today but a form of Roman Latin.
		Roman Coin showing Governor General Varus
		A Roman coin with the likeness of ROMAN EMPEROR AUGUSTUS, the year 5 CE
		A Roman Coin with the likeness of PUBLIUS QUINTILIUS VARUS Commander and Governer General of Rome's LEGIONS XVII, XVIII, XIV After 4 days of battle and retreat and seeing the loss of his legions, VARUS and his officers commit suicide by standing over and falling on their swords. ............. His opponent Arminius's soldiers find the body and decapitate it, taking the head to their leader Arminius who promptly sends it to King Maroboduus, leader of the Marcomanni, who he hopes will join him against the Romans. Maroboduus refuses however and sends VARUS's head to Rome to EMPEROR AUGUSTUS who buries the head in the mausoleum of his own family.
		A Coin honoring Roman Prince Germanicus It shows Prince Germanicus recovering one of the destroyed Roman Legion's Eagle Standard from the Teutoburg Forest battle site.......ultimately Roman soldiers recovered all three Legion Standards.............. These standards had the same significance as our raising the American Flag over Iwo Jimo Island in the Second World War or soldiers of the Civil War protecting a units colors (flag). They represented the soul of a Legion and in battle were therefore protected at all costs.
		Lead Battle Stones used in the Teutoburg Forest These are lead sling-stones hurled with great sling-shot force against an opponent. Very lethal.

Documents

Recreation of possible early Fortmann families Gross? or Kleine?

Headstones		1870 Fortmann Burial Plot in St Henry's Cemetery, 9 plots, purchased abt. 1866 by Clemens August Ludwig Fortmann This is a map of the Fortman graves sites showing intense detail on each individual Status:
		1875 b. Smith Monument Plate Frederick Fortman, 2 Jan 1955.........Louise Smith Fortman, d. 1 Nov 1956 Status:
		1863 Summer First wooden St Henry's German Catholic Kirche, North Side of Devon Ave at "the Ridge". Funded by German settler's Fortmann, Schmitt, Britte, Weimishkirch, and many more.

Histories		1837 "Early Settlers" of 8 miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan....1837 to 1845....."the Ridge"....."Indian Boundary Trail" According to John Muno, and recorded by Albert Joseph Fortman about 1980........ "Peter Muno came with Peter Phillips father in 1842. Took 5 days (more like 65) to cross the ocean. At that time (meaning 1840's?) Philip Rogers owned from Kedzie to Lake and south of Touhy to Pratt." (actual title search shows Peter Schmidt Sr bought 42.65 acres from John Smith and his Wife on May 9, 1842....an area from Morse to Pratt....Ridge to Western). "Phillips owned 60 acres north of Touhy from Western to Ridge." "Father (Muno) bought 40 acres south of Touhy from Western to Kedzie." "Zender founded (Tavern probably) 1845" "1st settlers on Indian Boundary Trail (oldest in Chicago)" This is Rogers Ave now. "Peter Phillip - President Rogers Park Bank" this is probably the Phillips Bank of Rogers Park. "His mother was a Petery" "(Luxemburg)"
		1852 Henry Fortman, b. 1802, Germany...farmer (1850 Census, New Trier)....Rev?....Pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church 1847 - 1852, said Mass in the Schmidt House on "the Ridge" from: The Life and Writings of the Right Reverend John McMullen, D.D.: First Bishop of Davenport, Iowa p. 60.......McHenry (Township, Illinois), March 20, 1852. "I had the pleasure pf spending a few Days among friends in this vicinity....Not more than three or four miles from McHenry town there are two settlements of German Catholics, one on each side of the Fox River." "On the the west side of the river a very handsome and sufficiently capacious frame church 75 by 32, was commenced in 1850, and plastered and completed this year." "It was solemnly blessed by the Bishop of Chicago, and dedicated in honor of St John the Baptist, on the second Sunday of November last (1851) when the sacrament of Confirmation was also administered to sixty-three children and adults." "THE CONGREGATION HAS HITHERTO BEEN ATTENDED BY THE REV. HENRY FORTMANN, OF NEW TRIER, COOK COUNTY." "Rev. T.B. Regal was afterward appointed to take charge it it, but was sent to Joliet, where the German Catholics desired to have a priest of their language, and where they have since begun to lay the foundation of a church for their own use."
		1833-60 the Roman Catholic Church in Northeastern, Illinois, 1833-60, her Priests and their Baptisms, Marriages, and Funerals. Prior to 1833 French Priests from Montreal traveled down the Great Lakes to Chicago and thence to the Mississippee River, as far south as St. Joe, Missouri providing services to the Catholics scattered in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnisota and Missouri, none of which then existed. With the loss of Montreal under French General Montcalm to British General Wolfe at the battle of the Plains of Abraham on June 24th, 1759 the French Missionary Priests began a slow retreat back to Canada taking their records with them. In the year 1833, May 5th specifically the first Catholic Priest, Rev. John Mary Iraenaeus St. Cyr, a young Frenchman and priest of only one month, arrived in Chicago as the first Catholic Pastor. His congregation being those few Catholics in Chicago's 300 total population, he immediately began recording the Baptisms, marriages, and deaths of his Irish, English, French and German Parishoners. Those records exist to this day and give a clear picture of the early settlers of Chicago. His first Baptism, on May 22, 1833 was that of George Beaubien; parents: Mark Beaubien and Monique Nadierne; sponsors: Mark Beaubien and Marianne Arriage. In May of 1836 Chicago saw its second Catholic Priest, Father Bernard Schaeffer, arrive. Fr. Schaeffer had previously ministered in Strassburg, Alsace, a European University City under the jurisdiction of France and also Germany, depending on the power of the day. Strassburg is West of the Rhine and north, northwest of Switzerland. At that time German Citizens of the area would identify themselves as Prussian.
		1839 The Fortmann migration decision in Sudlohne, Germany Heinrich, Anna Maria, and Clemens decide to go to America on that cold winter day in Sudlohne.
		Escaping the Great Chicago Fire Oct 1871......The City Cemetery in today's Grant Park. Stone Mauselium of Ira Couch 1806-1857 still resides behind the Chicago Historical Society.
		This is a Timeline, 1600 - 1856 of Lerher [teachers] in Sudlohne, Germany This Chronology of Fortmann and Polking Lerhers shows you which of your Fortmann, Polking, and neighbor children were educated by each Lerher during their teaching years in the one-room school-house of Sudlohne.

Notes

Clemens buys a strip of land along Ridge Trail, in Ridgeville, Illinois with his brother Heinrich on 17 April 1851 via Warranty Deed from John Wender (Johann Zender in Germany's records)........the transaction is recorded 3 years later on 24 April 1854.

John H. J. Fortmann (Johannes Heinrich Joseph Fortmann), Clemens older brother, buys a large tract of land along Robie St (just west of Ridge Trail)in Ridgeville, Illinois in his name only on 1 Sep 1849 from John Wagner and wife. This deed is recorded 17 years later on 29 Jun 1866.

Remember, Henry Ist (John H.J.) married Catherina Lauermann 29 Aug 1846. Catherina's dowery rights are not protected in this transaction but she does not seem to mind or the title would have had both their names.

John H. J. is married at St Joseph's Catholic Church on 29 Jan 1846 and his first child, Son John Henry, is baptised 20 Nov 1850 by Rev. Heinrich Fortmann.

Clemens marries at St Joseph's on 20 Nov 1848. His first child and daughter Catherine is born abt 18 Oct 1850 and is baptised 21 Oct 1850.

These men are marrying Lauermann Sisters and it appears that John H. J.'s land purchase is from his brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Barbara Lauermann.

The brother's are married by Rev. Joseph Henry Fortmann of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in New Trier, Illinois in the presence of John Lauermann the girls father who owns Lauermann General Store on Ridge Road in New Trier. [7]
1870 US Census, Evanston, Cook, Illinois, page: 134; Dwelling 406, Familt 445, Clement Fortman household.
1850 US Census: Clemens is indexed as: Clemen A. Ludwick. Born in Germany a bt. 1824.
1869 US Census: No record of Clemens, or Heinrich.

Name:

The Catholic Church records of Lohne begin 10 Feb. 1683 under "Pastor Suttholt". Records before this date have disappeared.
......The manuscripts of Pastore Bernhard Topp (1710-1756) and Heinrich Bernhard Topp (1756-1808) leave much to be desired. The greatest problem being the lack of distinction between families of the same name.
......The Catholic Church Office of Vechta records many families of the same name.... as is also the case in Lohne. The earliest records record 2 peasant families of Fortmann's, as well as the: Bruning's, Krimpenfort's, Kreymborg's, Kalvelage's, Zerhausen's, Bokern's. These are old families without further distinguishing names.
......The Lohne Parish encompassed many villages with distances up to 30 miles to the Catholic Church at Lohne. Going to Church for a marriage or baptism or funeral was a significant event.

Sources

[S15] Lohne, Germany Catholic Church Marriage Register, Pastore Heinrich Bernhard Topp (1756-1808); Pastore ?? (1808-1848), (Lohne Catholische Kirche) (Reliability: 3), 3 Nov 1807.
[S14] Lohne, Germany Catholic Church Baptismal Register, Pastore Heinrich Bernhard Topp (1756-1808); Pastore ?? (1808-1847), (Lohne Catholische Kirche), FHL Microfilm 909923 (Reliability: 3), 18 Feb 1824.
[S6] Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, Communion, Confirmations, Pastor, St Henry's Catholic Church, (St Henry's Church) (Reliability: 3), 18 Aug 1871.
[S7] St Peter's Cemetery Records, St Peter's Cemetery, (St Peter's Cemetery) (Reliability: 3), 1871.
[S19] Catholic Church St Joseph (Wilmette, Illinois), Baptisms Marriages and Deaths 1845-1915 , Pastors: Rev. Mr. Plather, 1845-1846, Rev. Heinrich Fortmann, 1847-1852, Rev. Nicholas Stauber, 1852 - ? , (St Joeseph's Catholic Church, New Trier then, now Willmette, Illinois ,1845 to Present), item 12 (Reliability: 3), 20 Nov 1948.
[S19] Catholic Church St Joseph (Wilmette, Illinois), Baptisms Marriages and Deaths 1845-1915 , Pastors: Rev. Mr. Plather, 1845-1846, Rev. Heinrich Fortmann, 1847-1852, Rev. Nicholas Stauber, 1852 - ? , (St Joeseph's Catholic Church, New Trier then, now Willmette, Illinois ,1845 to Present), item: 12 (Reliability: 3), 20 Nov 1848.
[S19] Catholic Church St Joseph (Wilmette, Illinois), Baptisms Marriages and Deaths 1845-1915 , Pastors: Rev. Mr. Plather, 1845-1846, Rev. Heinrich Fortmann, 1847-1852, Rev. Nicholas Stauber, 1852 - ? , (St Joeseph's Catholic Church, New Trier then, now Willmette, Illinois ,1845 to Present), items: 11-13 (Reliability: 3), 1845-1862.