Genealogy Is An Adventure

Tag: Bavaria

  • Cemeteries

    Just last week we visited another cemetery. We were supposed to go to Point Loma, however due to the federal government shut down it was closed. Instead we decided to stop by Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. It is a federal military cemetery in San Diego with some of the same views you can see from Point Loma.

    When I took the pictures I didn’t realize that the graves all faced the San Diego bay. It is a beautiful and peaceful place with lots of sunshine and probably a lot of fog at times.

    The cemetery is located on 75 acres and has more than 120,000 interments. It’s the final resting place for military personal since 1846. The gold rush didn’t start until 1849 and California became a state in 1850.

    In September I went to the famous Virginia City Cemetery in Nevada. It felt like I travelled back in time. The cemetery is located on a huge hill and grouped by professions and religions, goes on forever. Most of the people buried there, were born in other countries. I found many graves of Germans, British and Irish descent.

    The cemetery was established in the 1860’s and about 5000 people are buried here. If you walk the cemetery, bring water and sun screen. Good walking shoes are preferred. Best time to visit is October.

    In June we went to the Carmel Mission in California. I took one picture of the cemetery.

    How many people are buried here, is unknown. The cemetery was established in 1771.

    Last year in September we went to two cemeteries in Europe. The first one was in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland.

    Lauterbrunnen cemetery is nestled in the beautiful Swiss mountains with a view of the famous waterfalls.

    We also visited Berchtesgarden cemetery in Germany.

    This cemetery is nestled in the beautiful Bavarian Alps.

    Please note that every picture was taken by me.

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  • 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