Heinrich Wippel 1846-?

Heinrich Wippel was my husband’s maternal second Great Grandfather. He was born 21 December 1846 in Maudach, Bavaria and he was baptized two days later in the St. Michael Catholic Church in the same town.

Heinrich’s parents were Markus Wippel and Maria Josepha Firmery. Heinrich had several siblings. Barbara 1837-1893, Elisabetha 1840-1868, Jakob 1844-1868, Anna Maria 1849-1849, Adam 1851-1851 and Johann Adam 1853-1875. None of the siblings were very old when they died. I have yet to find Heinrich’s death date.

Heinrich got married 31 August 1871 in Nußdorf to Elisabetha Hochdörfer.

In the old days it was customary to get married where the bride was from. The couple had several children. One of them was my husband’s Great Grandmother, Barbara Wippel.

Heinrich’s wife died 16 September 1905 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. On her death certificate is a death year of 1917 penciled in next to his name. My guess is that he died that year, however the death certificates for Ludwigshafen are online until the 1950’s on ancestry, but I can’t find Heinrich’s. He must have died somewhere other than Ludwigshafen. It was during WW1, may be Heinrich was visiting relatives. We might never know. Below is his wife’s death certificate. I circled the year 1917. I might manually look at the 1917 death certificates. May be I can find him in Ludwigshafen after all.

Heinrich was born in Maudach, got married in Nußdorf and probably died somewhere near Ludwigshafen.

Sources:

Ancestry , Archion, Google Maps