Seventh Generation 
Seventh Generation 
66. Henry BONTEIN was born in 1793 and died on 25 Jun 1877 in Shiawassee County, Michigan, at age 84.
These notes were compiled by David Scott Yankle in his genealogical research of the Yankle family.
Notes on Henry (BANTHIEN?) BONTEIN
Henry's occupation is listed as farmer. His daugher was Henrietta BONTEIN, b. Oct. 1826, in Germany. Henry is listed on the 1870 census as living with Frederick and Henrietta YENKEL, age 74. Henry BONTEIN was one of the founding members of the German Evangelical church on Riley Road.
His cause of death is listed as "Old Age" in the death record. His death record notes the date he died, the stone on his grave notes, incorrectly, "Died in 1887". He is buried in West Haven Cemetery, Section 3, Row 11, adjacent to Frederick and Henrietta and their son, Frederick.
Henry married (name unknown).
The child from this marriage was:
33 i. Henrietta BONTEIN (born in Oct 1836 in Germany - died on 9 Dec 1887 in New Haven Township, Michigan)
68. Henry GOOD .
Henry married (name unknown).
The child from this marriage was:
74. Richard S. DERRICK was born about 1793 in West Indies.
Richard married Eunice [--?--] .
The child from this marriage was:
37 i. Eliza DERRICK (born about 1824 in Massachussets)
75. Eunice [--?--], daughter of Unknown and Deborah BEARDSLEY , was born in Massachussets.
Eunice married Richard S. DERRICK .
80. Israel Zachariah HOLLER, son of John 'Johannes' Holler 'HELLER' and Margaret Elizabeth (Nale) LOW , was born on 28 Jan 1811 in North Carolina, died on 8 Jul 1879 in Brown Township, Washington County, Indiana, at age 68, and was buried in Saltillo Cemetery, Indiana. Another name for Israel was Israel HOLLER.
Noted events in his life were:
• Birth: 9 Dec 1810. North Carolina
• Death: 8 Jul 1879. Saltillo, IN
• Burial: Saltillo, IN
Israel married Susan MILLER on 22 Aug 1833 in North Carolina.
The child from this marriage was:
81. Susan MILLER, daughter of Jacob MILLER and Elizabeth LISTON , was born on 12 Jun 1813, died on 2 Aug 1881 in Brown Township, Washington County, Indiana, at age 68, and was buried in Saltillo Cemetery, Indiana.
Susan married Israel Zachariah HOLLER on 22 Aug 1833 in North Carolina.
82. James Q. ROBERTS, son of John ROBERTS and Mary SHANNON , was born on 21 Jan 1804 and died on 31 Mar 1844, at age 40.
James married Mary MARSHALL on 15 Feb 1830 in Orange County, Indiana.
The child from this marriage was:
83. Mary MARSHALL was born on 23 Dec 1809 and died on 2 Nov 1839, at age 29.
Mary married James Q. ROBERTS on 15 Feb 1830 in Orange County, Indiana.
84. Luke JOHNSON .
Luke married Susan STINES .
The child from this marriage was:
85. Susan STINES .
Susan married Luke JOHNSON .
86. John FREED, son of Johannes FREED and Regina RIFE , was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia and died on 9 Sep 1858 in Orange County, Northeast Township, Indiana.
John married Catherine Elizabeth CUTSINGER on 30 Jun 1820 in Orange County, Indiana.
The child from this marriage was:
87. Catherine Elizabeth CUTSINGER, daughter of Martin CUTSINGER and Elizabeth SNIDER , was born on 18 Apr 1801 in Greene County, Tenessee and died on 4 Jul 1878 in Orange County, Northeast Township, Indiana, at age 77.
Catherine married John FREED on 30 Jun 1820 in Orange County, Indiana.
88. Nis RASMUSSEN, son of Rasmus JORGENSEN and Agatha NISSENS , was born on 27 May 1771 in West Bargum, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, died on 2 Mar 1818 in West Bargum, Schleswig Holstein, Germany, at age 46, and was buried in Buried as Nis Asmussen in West Bargum. Another name for Nis was Nis RASMUSSEN.
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On July 22, 1795 Nis Rasmussen changed his surname to Asmussen. It is recorded in the church directory just prior to the recording of the birth of Nis and Syster's first child Agatha who was named for Nis' mother. We are told this name change was because Asmussen was a more acceptable German name. His father had changed his name before he died from Rasmus to Asmus but that was when Nis Rasmussen was only a baby. He kept the Rasmussen name until his first child was born. Surnames were also becoming permanent. Nis was now a German, married to a German, living in Germany so he changed his name. Nis' mother had died just one month previous on June 21, 1795. His father had died 21 years earlier when he was just three years old.
Nis and Syster were not married until June 16, 1795. Their first child, Agatha was born a little over one month later. Why they waited so long we don't know. We do know that Syster Franzen's mother died in childbirth when she was only four years old and that her father died in 1788 when she was 16 making her an orphan. Nis and Syster had eight children, six of which grew up, one died at one month, one at five years. They were Agatha, Johann, Asmus, Carsten, Christina and Jurgen. The two that died were named Jurgen. They lived in Monkebull in a home that was in the Asmussen family for three generations of children. At least three were born there, Carsten on Nov 28, 1801, his son Jens Nicolas on May 2. 1851, and his son Carsten Ludewig born March 25, 1881.
Noted events in his life were:
• NAME CHANGE: 22 Jul 1795. Nis changed his surname from Rasmussen to Asmussen at the time his 1st child was born.
• Occupation: Farmer on Nissen's land. Died when he was only 46 years old
• Role: Raised by his mother, father died when he was barely three years old.
Nis married Syster FRANZEN on 16 Jun 1795 in West Bargum, Germany.
The child from this marriage was:
89. Syster FRANZEN, daughter of Johann Christopher FRANZENS and Christina Margaretha PETERSEN , was born on 8 Apr 1771 in West Bargum, Germany and died on 19 Dec 1844 in West Bargum, Germany, at age 73.
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It is interesting to note that Syster Franzen's mother died in child birth on Nov 9, 1775 when Syster was only 4 years old. There were other children. Then, her grandmother, her father's mother Magdelena Pauls Franzen died on Christmas day barely one month later. Her father Johann and other family members raised Syster and her brothers and sisters. Her father died Jan 6, 1788 when she was 16 years old making her an orphan. We do not know where she lived or who with after that. She and Nis were not married until June 16, 1795. She was 24 years old at the time as was her husband.
Noted events in her life were:
• Birth: 8 Apr 1771. West Bargum, Schleswig Holstein, Germany
• Death: 19 Dec 1844. West Bargum, Schleswig Holstein, Germany
• Role: Her mother and grandmother died in 1775 when she was four years old.
• Parents: Her father died when she was 16 making her an orphan.
Syster married Nis RASMUSSEN on 16 Jun 1795 in West Bargum, Germany.
90. Jens JURGENSEN, son of Thomas JURGENSEN and Lehnke CONRADS , was born on 19 Jun 1792 in Bordelum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and died on 13 Nov 1863 in Loheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, at age 71.
Jens married Margaretha Dorothea JANSEN on 28 Jul 1816 in Langenhorn, Schleswig Holstein, Germany.
The child from this marriage was:
91. Margaretha Dorothea JANSEN, daughter of Johann Detlef JANSEN and Maria MARTENSEN , was born on 12 Feb 1793 in Loheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and died on 8 May 1858 in Loheide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, at age 65.
Margaretha married Jens JURGENSEN on 28 Jul 1816 in Langenhorn, Schleswig Holstein, Germany.
92. Jacob JACOBSEN was born about 1800 in Denmark and died about 1835 near Luneburg or Hannover, Germany, about age 35.
Noted events in his life were:
• Danish Army: Between 1818 and 1825. Dragoon regiment in Aarhus, Dk. This was a horse soldier with fancy dress and helmet, sword.
• Emigration: 1825. emigrated with wife, child to Germany
• Occupation: Between 1826 and 1835. Beekeeper, sold honey made from excellent heather where they lived, also sold turf blocks from heather stocks, used to burn for heating and cooking.
Jacob married Karen Jorgensdaughter aka Catharina JURGENSEN on an unknown date in Unknown.
The child from this marriage was:
93. Karen Jorgensdaughter aka Catharina JURGENSEN was born between 1805 and 1807 near Arhus, Denmark, but not in Arhus church records and died about 1880 in Drelsdorf or Bohnstedt, Schleswig, Germany. We do not know exact date. Her name was Catharina Andresen., about age 75.
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We are not sure of the history of Karen Jorgensdaughter. Grossmutter told us of her grandmother that Karen Jorgensdatter or Jorgensdaughter was the "little rich girl from Denmark" in our family, who was thrown out of her home by her parents with only some expensive shawls, and told never to come back home. She was only a teenager at the time and had become pregnant by a dragoon (horse soldier). We had thought it was a German soldier, but I am told by a researcher that he must have been a Danish soldier, proven by his name? She moved to Arhus, a large seaport city where she lived on Badstuegade St, which is a downtown street a few blocks from the harbor area. See the map. It is a street now of small cityhouses, cafees and sidewalk restaurants. Arhus was and is the 2nd largest city in Denmark. The baby was born illegitimate on June 21, 1824 and named Jacob Jacobsen. The father was the dragoon Jacob Jacobsen. A dragoon is a fancy horse soldier with a fancy uniform and helmet, and he carries a sword with a scabbard and a rifle. Witnesses to the christening or baptism on Jan 16, 1825 (we have copy of church records enclosed) were friends of the couple, Ane Jensdaughter, Ane Pedersdaughter, a P. Nielsen, the butcher Hansen, and a quartermaster Moller and a corporal Lith. The last two were probably service friends of Jacobsen. We have found no information to indicate where she came from. She apparently was not born in the Arhus Domsogn church where the baby was baptized, nor was their a record found of their marriage. She could have been from a nearby town. Or, we know now that she later became Catharina Jurgensen in Drelsdorf, Germany. Maybe her name was actually Catharina Jorgensdaughter (Jorgensdatter) in Denmark and she changed it to Karen to start her new life. Jacob finished his tour in the Army in 1826 and they moved to Germany. They probably went by ship, much easier to travel then by water, to Kiel or Lubeck in Germany. They migrated south to somewhere in the country on the moorland near Luneburg. Jacob is said to have raised bees and sold excellent honey, from the very fragrant rose colored and purple flowers from the heather. He also sold the dried heather stocks which were cut into bricks and dried. It was called turf and it was used to burn for cooking and to provide heat in the Winter. Supposedly people from miles around brought their hives to him for the excellent honey they could get from the rose heather on the moorland. Jacob and Karen had another child, a girl. Jacob Jacobsen died at a young age, maybe in the mid 1830s. Sometime she changed her name in Germany to Catharina Jurgensen, when we do not know. Jurgensen is the German spelling for Jorgensdaughter. The mother Karen, or Catharina) with two young children remarried, we know now to a Diedrich Andresen, probably while she still lived near Luneberg. Or, she could have gone north toward home in Denmark, made it to Drelsdorf on her own and then remarried.. Anyway, they had two additional children. They lived in the town of Drelsdorf or maybe in a smaller town just south of Drelsdorf called Bohmstedt. We are told her other children and her 2nd husband all died before she did. Her son Jacob learned the tailoring trade. He worked his trade from a shop and also in the people's homes. He married Anna Maria Hansen on Feb 26, 1852. He died Feb 16, 1879. Catharina (Karen, the danish girl), who never went home, outlived both husbands and all four of her children. Possibly she lived to attend the wedding of her oldest granddaughter who was married March 7, 1880. We have not located when or where she died. Now that we know to look for the name of Catharina Andresen or Diedrich Andresen and to look in Bohmstedt maybe we will learn more.
Noted events in her life were:
• Excommunicated: Between 1823 and 1824. by family when she became pregnant by a soldier
• Residence: 1824. lived in an apt. on Badstuegade St, Aarhus,Dk
• Residence: 1826. near Luneburg with Jacob Jacobsen, then moved to Drelsdorf later.
• Residence: Between 1840 and 1880. near Drelsdorf, Germany
• Baptism: 24 Jun 1824. her illegitimate baby Jacob was 1st baptized at home
• Children: had two children with Jacob Jacobsen and two children with 2nd husband. She outlived all of them.
• Remarried: Abt 1840. Diedrich Andresen and had two more children
• Remarried: Abt 1840. Jacob Jacobsen died about 1835 leaving her with 2 small children. She remarried and sometime moved north to Drelsdorf. There is a name mentioned of Diedrich Andresen, and they may have lived in Bohnstedt near Drelsdorf. They apparently had two children.
• NAME CHANGE: She seems to have changed her name to Catharina Jurgensen in Germany.
Karen married Jacob JACOBSEN on an unknown date in Unknown.
94. Jacob Erich HANSEN, son of Hans Erich BARTELSEN and Herllich HANSEN , was born in May 1797 in Goldelund, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and died on 3 Aug 1828 in Goldelund, Germany, at age 31.
Jacob married Anna PETERSEN on 7 Sep 1823 in Drelsdorf, Germany.
The child from this marriage was:
95. Anna PETERSEN, daughter of Peter PETERSEN and Anna Margaretha JACOBSEN , was born in Drelsdorf, Schleswig Holstein, Germany and died in Jun 1828 in Goldelund, Germany, while children were very young.
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We do not have a date but we are told that Anna Hansen's parents both died while she was very young, leaving her and a sister alone or to live with relatives.
Anna married Jacob Erich HANSEN on 7 Sep 1823 in Drelsdorf, Germany.