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Carl Heinrich Brehmer was born on 1
February 1808 in Gross Raddow, Kreis Regenwalde, Pommern, Prussia. His
parents were Johann Daniel Brehmer and Dorothea Sophie Roloff.
The records of the Gross Raddow Evangelical church prior to 1805 and between
1812 and 1823 were either destroyed during World War II or during the expulsion
of the German people that followed the war. Although Carl may have had
other siblings, only four were identified in the surviving records.
Carl married Hanna Charlotte Henriette
Schmidt on 10 January 1832 at the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church. She
was the daughter of Johann Friedrich Schmidt, the master cooper in Gross Raddow,
and Henriette Sophie Roloff. Hanna Charlotte Henriette (Schmidt) Brehmer died on 26 December 1866 in Gross
Raddow.
 Carl Heinrich Brehmer emigrated to the United States with two
daughters, Albertine Friederike Wilhelmine Brehmer and Johanna Emilie
Friederike Brehmer. He sailed from Bremen aboard the Bark
Geestemuende on 14 April 1868 . They arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on 9 June 1868 and
apparently went directly to Dodge County, Wisconsin. Carl was 60 years old
and living with
his daughter and son-in-law, Carl and Albertine (Brehmer) Pieper at the time of the 1870
census. He died in Clyman, Dodge County, Wisconsin on 2 February 1880.
His
funeral was held at Saint John Lutheran Church in Juneau, Dodge County,
Wisconsin, but his grave has not been found.
The six daughters born to the marriage of Carl Heinrich
Brehmer and Hanna Charlotte Henriette Schmidt are:
Augustine Christine Friederike Brehmer, born
12 September 1833, was baptized at the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church.
The sponsors at her baptism were: August Schmidt, sheepherder apprentice;
Augustina Grünewaldt, servant girl; and the wife of Gottlieb Ninnemann. She died on 3 October 1834 of diarrhea when she
one year old.
Charlotte Wilhelmine Friederike Brehmer was born on
6 January 1835 and was baptized at the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church.
Her sponsors were: Wilhelmine Schmidt, servant girl in Gross Raddow; Charlotta
Salzwedel, servant girl from Wederwill; and the wife of Tagelöhner, Gottlieb
Brehmer from Maldewin. She married Carl Friedrich Leopold Rohrschneider on 16 October 1857 at
the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church. Her funeral record indicated she died
of bleeding on 12 March 1865, which was probably from hemorrhaging during
or after childbirth. Three small children were left motherless.
Hulda Karoline Sophie Brehmer, born 8
February 1837, was baptized at the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church. Her
baptismal sponsors were: the wife of Friedrich Siewert of Gross Raddow; Sophia
Lüdtke, the inn keeper's daughter; and Friedrich Salzwedel, cow herder. She
married her sister's widower, Carl Friedrich Leopold Rohrschneider on 6
October 1865 at the same church. She was a step-mother to her sister's three
children plus the six that were born to her marriage. The family emigrated
to Wisconsin in about 1885 and lived in Oak Grove, Dodge County,Wisconsin. Hulda died on 25 February 1910 in Oak Grove.
Dorothea Luise Brehmer, born 26 December
1838, was baptized at the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church. Her baptismal
sponsors were:the wife of sheep herder apprentice, August Schmidt of Grünhoff;
Louise Ninnemann; and Carl Schünke, day worker in Klein Raddow. She died of diphtheria
on 13 November 1838; she was just under twenty years of age.
Johanna Emilie Friederike Brehmer, born 14
May 1841, was baptized at the Gross Raddow Evangelical Church. Her
baptismal sponsors were not identified. She
emigrated to the United States with her younger sister, Albertine, and her
father in 1868. She was married on 16 January 1871to August Krahn
at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin. She died
during childbirth on 4 August 1872 in Dodge County.
Albertine Friederike Wilhelmine Brehmer,
known as Tina, was born 7 December 1843 and was baptized at the Gross Raddow
Evangelical Church. Her baptismal sponsors were not identified in the
record. She emigrated to the united States with her father and her sister,
Johanna Emilie Friederike Brehmer, in 1868. She married Carl Friedrich August Pieper
at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin, on 16 March
1869. The couple farmed in the town of Clyman, Dodge County, Wisconsin
until 1900, when they moved to the town of Unity, Clark County,
Wisconsin. Albertine died on 15 April 1930 at Unity, Wisconsin.
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