my ancestors: Johannes V Wissner and Elisabetha Gaul

Johannes V Wissner
Dec 23, 1847 - Sept 4,1909
parents:
father: Johannes II Wissner
mother: Margarethe Wißner nee Wißner

ring

Jan 19, 1879

Elisabetha Gaul
Oct 7, 1854 - Jan 12,1922
parents:
father: unknown
mother: Katharina Gaul

known children:
son: Konrad Wißner (March 23, 1879 -1 March 3, 1950)
daughter: Catherine (May 14, 1881- Aug 20, 1882, born in Paris)
daughter: Elisabeth (Lisa, born on March 2, 1883 in Paris)
daughter: Lina (Jan 2, 1885 - April 14,1900)
son: Heinrich (Feb 14,1888- June 27,1888)
son: Johann (Oct 3, 1889 - July 19, 1910)
son: Karl Wißner (April 13,1892- April 10,1961)
son: Johannes Wißner (Feb 14, 1895 - Sept 23, 1915)

Johannes V Wißner grew up in Londorf (a small village near Giessen) and worked as a day laborer on a farm. Elisabetha was born in Lohra (near the town of Marburg). Her mother was not married and so we don't know who her father was and she had also already died by the time Elisabetha got married. When Johannes and Elisabetha got to know each other Elisabetha was working in Lollar. The two got married on January 19, 1879 with Elisabetha already pregnant with their eldest son Konrad. Elisabetha loved her husband dearly.

Shortly after they decided to move to Paris and try their luck there. Two of their daughters, Catherine and Elisabeth were born in Paris. For sure it must have been a great adventure. Paris, the ville d'amour, with the Seine and those impressive churches and high buildings. But unimaginably they lived there before the Eiffel tour was built...

Sometime in 1884 they returned to Londorf, maybe because Paris was in an economic downturn. In Londorf they bought the house that later their son Karl and their granddaughter Marie would also live in (and my mother would grow up in it). The house had belonged to a baker who immigrated to America who left some of his cooking books and utensils there. This seemed to have inspired their eldest son Konrad to become a baker. He married the daughter Antonie of the baker where he had apprenticed and finally took over the bakery.

Johannes worked again in various jobs, on the field or as coachman.

In 1905 their daughter Elisabeth married Peter Kräuter and moved to Lollar. They had two children.

On September 4,1909 Johannes died. In 1910 their son Johann died.

But on Feb 4,1911 Konrad got married with Antonie Horn in Giessen.

World War I broke out and Elisabetha's sons had to fight. Unfortunately her son Johannes was killed in France in 1915.

But she also saw her son (and my greatgrandfather) Karl get married with Wilhelmine and still lived to see his first two children and she also watched the four children of Konrad grow.

She died on January 12, 1922.

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