Bernard WEIDERT

1794 - 1855  (61 years)

• Birth	13 Mar 1794	Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG   [1]
  Birth	12 May 1793	Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG   [1, 2]
  Census	6 Aug 1850	Jones Township, Elk, PA   [3]
  	1850 census at Jones Township, Elk, PA shows: Bernard Weidert (indexed as Wedart) 56, farmer, b. GERMANY; Mary, 52, b. GERMANY; children b. GERMANY: Peter 18, laborer; John 15, laborer; Lucy, 14; Lena, 12; Mary, 10; William, 8; Lany, 4. Also enumerated is , John Myers, 34, teamster, b. GERMANY; Mary, 27, b. GERMANY; children b. PA: Peter, 2, Barbara 1.
  		1850 Census Bernard & Maria (Bodevin) Weidert
  Immigratn	30 May 1847  [1, 4, 5]
  	When Bernard was born Luxembourg had been incorporated into France as the Department of Forests. In 1813 he was conscripted into the French Army. After Napoleon's defeat he was discharged in the spring of 1814 by the Allies. He and wife Marie decided to emigrate to the US with their 12 children in 1847. They sailed from Le Havre, France on the S.S. Monterey, landing in New York in August of 1847. With anti-Catholic sentiment on the East Coast they moved inland and settled in Elk County, PA with other emigrants, primarily from Germany. He worked as a tanner in Smithport, PA where thousands of buffalo hides were processed from the Great Plains for decades until the herds were destroyed finally in the 1880's. He died at age 61 of unknown causes.
  Immigratn	2 Aug 1847
  	Bernard and Marie arrived at the Port of New York on August 2, 1847 having set sail from Le Havre, France. The passenger list includes: Bernard, 52 and Marie, 49 and their 11 children: Mary, 24; Barbara, 23; Catherine, 21; Michael, 19; Peter, 17; John, 14; Elizabeth, 11; Magdelaine, 9; Marie, 6; William, 3; Madelaine, 1.
  Note	The locality of Tuntange (French suffix for village is -ange, while German is -ingen) is also recorded Tuntingen and Tintingen. Their oldest daughter was married to a Johann Metz on February 11, 1846. They preceded the rest of the family over to the US. Bill does not know if they were scouting things out, but probably so. The family left Luxembourg in 1847. They travelled to the French port of Le Harve and boarded the S.S. Monterey. They arrived in New York City on August 1, 1847. Bill writes: Bernard was a carpenter by trade, which is revealing. Aside from Luxembourg being a poor country at the time, the family land over the generations had been divided up into smaller and smaller plots. Assuming that Bernard was not the first born male, he may have had no land, which would have put him a notch down on the economic ladder. Makes you wonder how he managed to feed that crowd. He and his wife probably moved to provide opportunity for their children. I see that Bernard only lived a few years after arriving here. He obviously had some money, though, or they could not have made the trip. Amazing that no one died on the journey. I do not recall the name of the church in Tuntange. It is a very small village with no commercial area. All farming from what I could see on a 2 hour visit. Patton's 3rd Army steamrollered through there on the way north to stop the last German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge. I visited the American cemetery in Hamm where Patton is buried. He is where he would want to be - at the head of his troops. The Weidert family is mentioned in the note for George Markert 2nd, in connection with the location of the school in Rasselas, PA. The settlers built Holy Cross Catholic Church in Rasselas, but this project was undertaken shortly after the death of Bernard Weidert in 1855. Dennis Brown 1/21/02
  Death	21 Aug 1855	Rasselas, Elk, PA   [1, 4]
  Burial	Holy Cross Cemetery, Rasselas, Elk, PA   [1, 5]
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  Father	Theodore WEIDERT,   b. Abt 1750   d. 16 May 1797, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Anna Maria BROSIUS,   b. 1755, Garnich, Capellen, LUXEMBOURG d. 21 May 1840, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F2707	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maria BODEVIN,   b. 1 Nov 1798, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 12 Oct 1884, Rasselas, Elk, PA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	19 Feb 1821  [1]
  Children	1. Mary WEIDERT,   b. 11 Jun 1823, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 15 Jun 1903, Elk Co., PA (Age 80 years)   2. Barbara WEIDERT,   b. 30 Nov 1824, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 11 Jun 1860, Jones Township, Elk, PA (Age 35 years)   3. Catherine WEIDERT,   b. 26 Jul 1826, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 14 Dec 1911, Jones Township, Elk, PA (Age 85 years)   4. Michael WEIDERT,   b. 8 Jul 1828, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 15 Aug 1897 (Age 69 years)   5. Peter WEIDERT,   b. 5 Aug 1830, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 7 Aug 1862, Rasselas, Elk, PA (Age 32 years)   6. Barbe WEIDERT,   b. 4 Sep 1832, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 11 Mar 1837, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG (Age 4 years)   7. John Peter WEIDERT,   b. 16 May 1833, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 28 Sep 1900, Rasselas, Elk, PA (Age 67 years)   8. Elizabeth WEIDERT,   b. 8 May 1836, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 12 Oct 1912 (Age 76 years)   9. Magdelaine WEIDERT,   b. 25 Jun 1838, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 22 Jan 1922, Elk Co., PA (Age 83 years)   10. Marie WEIDERT,   b. 26 Jan 1841, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 22 Mar 1916 (Age 75 years)   11. William Bernard WEIDERT,   b. 20 Sep 1843, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 4 Feb 1917, Rasselas, Elk, PA (Age 73 years)   12. Madelaine WEIDERT,   b. 5 May 1846, Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG d. 2 Jan 1917 (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F2716	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 12 May 1793 - Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG Birth - 13 Mar 1794 - Tuntange, Mersch, LUXEMBOURG Census - 6 Aug 1850 - Jones Township, Elk, PA Death - 21 Aug 1855 - Rasselas, Elk, PA Burial - - Holy Cross Cemetery, Rasselas, Elk, PA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Brown gedcom, 289. [S639] Elk Co., PA GenWeb, Cemetery records, 639. [S1850] 1850 United States Federal Census, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D. C., 1850), 1850. [S292] McKean, Elk and Forest, PA, (J. H. Beers & Co., Chicago), 292. [S500] Find A Grave, 500.