Boerensen family about 1870
Date: 09/08/2007
Catharina and Johann Boerensen, with their children Maria Christina (Mary) Boerensen and August Asmus Boerensen. Thanks to Lawrence Hughes for the photo. He thinks it was taken shortly before their departure from Germany in May 1870.
Boerensen anniversary
Date: 11/18/2007
Picture copied and sent to me by Lawrence Hughes. He writes: "Our great grandparents [Johann and (Maria) Catharina Boerensen] at their Silver Wedding Anniversary. I think it's your grandmother [Margaretha] seated in the center with my grandmother [Maria] standing behind her. I don't know who the man is and the other two must be daughters. Can you identify them?" So far I can't. I think the photo must be a later anniversary than their Silver (25th) in 1892, since everyone looks too much old for that. Their birth years were Johann 1836, Catharina 1843, August 1868, Maria (Mary) 1869, Apollonia (Leona) 1871, Catherine (Katy) 1875, Dorothea (Dora) 1877, Margaretha (Gretchen) 1881.
Johann Boerensen
Date: 09/08/2007
My great-grandfather Johann Christian Martin Boerensen. His gravestone reads Johann Boerensen, Aug. 29, 1836 - Sept 2, 1917. He usually went by the name John. Thanks to Lawrence Hughes for the photo.
Catharina Boerensen
Date: 09/08/2007
My great-grandmother. Born Maria Catharina Lorenzen-Schmidt, married to Johann Boerensen. Her gravestone reads Catharina Boerensen, Apr. 28 1843 - Dec. 21, 1914. Thanks to my second cousin Lawrence Hughes for the photo.
Johann and Catharina Boerensen
Date: 09/08/2007
Johann and Catharina Boerensen. Thanks to Lawrence Hughes for the photo.
Aunt Dora and husband
Date: 11/18/2007
Photo copied and sent to me by Lawrence Hughes. He writes: "Dora, sister of our grandmothers, and her husband John [Wangemann]. Taken at their home near Medford, Wisconsin."
Otto Dexheimer, Friedrich Mann, John Wangemann, 9 Jul 1930
Date: 09/22/2008
Otto, Fred, and John were married to three of the Boerensen sisters: Catherine (Katy), Margaretha (Gretchen), and Dorothea (Dora).
Maria (Boerensen) Schmidt
Date: 11/18/2007
Scanned by Lawrence Hughes; I don't have the original. Maria (or Mary) was Lawrence's grandmother and my great aunt. She died one month before I was born.
