I wanted to do a post that showed how linked the Hohenlohe community in Britain was and how these connections were not hampered by geography. I noticed in a few previous posts the Roger family was mentioned. Two brothers, Karl Friedrich Ernst Roger and Friedrich C. Roger, were identified. I am not sure of the connection, but I have a Frederike Roger (abt. 1859) in my tree. She married John Leonard Kantenwein, my great great uncle, in Barrow, Cumbria in 1879. Her father isn’t listed on the marriage certificate for some reason!
John Leonard Kantenwein was brother to my great grandmother Margaret Funk (nee Kantenwein) and was a cousin of Kantenweins of Boston, who appeared recently in a post and we discovered that they donated a window to the church in Morsbach. One of his cousins, Eva Katharina Frederika Rosina Kantenwein (of Morsbach, 1858) married Friedrich Frank (1857), who had a shop at 19 Westgate Peterborough.
The mother of the Boston Kantenweins was Susanna Elisabetha Hohenrein. She was the brother of George Hohenrein (of Morsbach, 1832), who was also briefly mentioned in an earlier post. George came to England when he was 16 and was apprenticed to G. H. Friedrich in Mytongate, Hull. At 18 he opened his own shop at 7 Waterworks Street.
He married Katharina Christina Meyer (of Kunzelsau, 1837), who had a brother, Friedrich Meyer (1830), who set up shop in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Friedrich married Susanna Rosina Schoeppler (of Kunzelsau, 1824), whose brother, Louis, also owned a shop in Peterborough, at 9 Westgate.
The third Meyer sibling was Caroline (1835). She married Georg Heinrich Sperer (of Kunzelsau, 1824). The Sperers too had shops in Peterborough. Their daughter was Louisa Rose Sperer (1855), who married George Hagg (of Eberbach, 1855). He set up shop in Chesterfield, whilst his brother, John (1863), had a shop in Rotherham. I heard that the George Haag was going to America when he was caught in a fierce storm. After making port in England he decided that he would never go to sea again, so settled here instead. He came over with Willie Stinfig (not sure of the spelling), who changed his name to Simpson and listed Queen Victoria amongst his customers.
George Haag’s son albert married Laura Funk, who was the niece of my great grandmother Margaret Funk. The brother-in-law of Margaret Funk was Leonard Henry Hub (1863), who settled in Manchester. His son Fred married Mary Magdalena Davidson (whose mother came from Wuerttemberg). The Davidsons were friends with William Kuestner (also settled in Manchester), who was also mentioned in an earlier post, as an apprentice at the above mentioned George Hohenrein’s shop in Hull. I believe that Leonard Henry Hub was also apprenticed there.
The granddaughter of Leonard Henry Hub married Eric Alfred Samet/Sumner (1908), whose maternal aunt, Barbara Koppenhofer (1869), married Karl Kantenwein/Smith (of Wolfsolden, 1869). Karl was a distant cousin of Margaret Kantenwein, who set up shop in the Durham area, and thus probably knew Leonard Bartelmeh, who has been mentioned in a previous post and had a shop in Gateshead (I have ordered his marriage certificate). Leonard was friends with George and Margaret Funk, along with a Mr Heink and a Mr Hertrich, possibly John Hertrich (of Belsenberg, 1859) who had a shop in Westoe, which as coincidence would have it was also where another branch of Hubs had a shop. John Hertrich even apprenticed a Karl Hub in 1891.
I am aware that this is a long and confusing post, but it does show, how seemingly unrelated families were all linked together regardless of geography and how connected the Hohenlohe community was. If anyone has an interest in any of the families that I have mentioned then I can supply more detailed information on request.
