From: Kathy Rosenwinkel
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:29:50 EDT
Subject: 49er - Henry ROSENWINKEL
Looking for Heinrich or Henry ROSENWINKEL, wife Charlotte. Heinrich came to U.S.
from Germany through New Orleans in 1848. He later brought over his fiancee
Charlotte and they were married in New Orleans in 1853. Later that year,
Heinrich, Charlotte, and Heinrich's brother Dietrich sailed to California via
Cape Horn. They lived in a primitive, rough mining camp. Charlotte may have been
the only woman in the camp. She gave birth to their first child, Henry, but the
baby died two days later. Heinrich apparently mined enough gold to take back to
Philadelphia in 1855 and have it minted. It was enough for the young couple and
the brother to purchase farms in northern Illinois, where they then lived until
their deaths. I do not know which mining camp in California Heinrich worked in,
nor even the county. If anyone has run across this name in their own searches, I
would appreciate hearing about it. Thank you!
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