Aalke Jansen Gerdes Wiemers
Johann & Aalke Wiemers Heritage Site
Wiemers Family Branch:
Matriarch of our Wiemers Family in America
BIOGRAPHY STATISTICS:
  
Name Born Died Ref#
Aalke Jansen Gerdes Wiemers
 1839 Nov 2 1923 Apr 17 0002
Birth Place:
 Hanover, Germany 
Father:
 Johann Heinrich Gerdes  1809 Nov 14 1889 May 26  
Mother:
 Fenne Dirks Telken Gerdes   1857 Apr 1  
Step Mother:
 Almte Janssen (Johnson) Rademacher   1832  
Siblings:
 (step sister) Almente Gerdes      
(brother) Dirk (Durk) Gerdes      
  (brother) Gerhardt (Gerd) Gerdes      
  (brother) Jurgen Gerdes      
  (brother) Harberth Gerdes      
  (brother) Dietrich Gerdes      
Spouse:
 Johann Heinrich (John Henry) Wiemers 1825 Mar 22 1906 Jun 18   0001
Marriage Date:
 1865 Jun 15      
Children:
(boy) Christoph John Wiemers
 1857 Jul 15 1878 Sep 18  1000
  (boy) John Christopher Wiemers 1859 Feb 24 1895 Jul 29  2000
  (boy) Bernhardt Christian Wiemers 1861 Feb 18 1932 Oct 14  3000
  (girl) Fannie Christina Wiemers 1863 Feb 8 1913 Oct 6  4000
  (boy) William Dietrich Wiemers 1865 Sep 20 1951 Apr 20  5000
  (boy) Dietrich William Wiemers 1867 Oct 24 1953 Apr 13  6000
  (girl) Anna Meta Wiemers 1870 Jun 27 1960 Apr 23  7000
  (boy) George Henry Wiemers 1873 Mar 29 1960 Jan 27  8000
  (boy) Theodore John Wiemers 1875 Aug 4 1963 Jan 3  9000
  (girl) Alina Johanna Wiemers 1877 Dec 19 1907 Feb 17  10000
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Aalke Wiemers

Aalke Wiemers is the matriarch of our Wiemers family in America.

Aalke came to America in 1855 with her parents. Two brothers, Harberth Gerdes (five years old at the time), and Dietrich Gerdes (infant) died enroute to America. Aalke's mother, Fenne Telken Gerdes, died at age 43 only two years after arriving in America. Aalke's father, Johann Heinrich Gerdes, lived with Johann and Aalke for a year or more before death in 1889.

On June 15, 1856, Aalke married Johann Heinrich (John Henry) Wiemers at Quihi, Texas. Aalke was 16 years of age at the time.

Aalke is described as being low of stature, strong, with black hair. She was of a sweet disposition, almost never angry or cross. She wore black quite often, especially to church. She was an ideal life companion to Johann Wiemers and shared with her husband the trials and hardships of the pioneers of Texas. Hard working and God-fearing people, Johann and Aalke conquered the wilderness with a heroic faith in God

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 This page last updated:
 September 17, 2011