KAEMPFFE
| My Kaempffe line
has been living in the town of Markneukirchen, Sachsen, Germany for at
least the last 250 years. Many of the Kaempffes were involved in
the manufacture of musical instruments, particularly stringed
instruments such as violins.
My great great grandfather, August Kaempffe, was born in Markneukirchen circa 1847. In 1881 August, his 2nd wife Mathilda, and his children Martha, Max, Rosalie and Fritz boarded the ship Amsterdam in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and sailed for the United States. The ship docked in New York City on May 9, 1881, which was the 9th birthday of my great grandmother, Martha. Martha (full name Bertha Martha Kaempffe) grew to adulthood in New York, and on June 8, 1898, Martha married Wilhelm Bley. |
| Descendants of Israel KAEMPFFE 1 Israel KAEMPFFE b: July 06, 1746 in Markneukirchen, Germany d: September 06, 1810 .. +Christiana Sophia THOSS ....... 2 August Traugott KAEMPFFE b: September 01, 1780 in Leibnitz, Germany d: November 01, 1839 ............ +Julie Sophia BLANKMEISTER d: December 12, 1866 m: August 07, 1808 in Leibnitz, Germany ................. 3 Albin August KAEMPFFE b: March 28, 1810 ................. 3 Juliane Rosalie KAEMPFFE b: February 11, 1812 ................. 3 Julius Robert KAEMPFFE b: September 19, 1813 ................. 3 Franz Bernhard KAEMPFFE b: July 08, 1815 ................. 3 Otolie Franziska KAEMPFFE b: July 28, 1817 ................. 3 Ernst August KAEMPFFE b: December 12, 1819 in Germany d: November 09, 1850 ...................... +Antonie "Annie" Cacilie Amalie BAUER b: June 25, 1819 in Leibnitz, Germany m: Nov 11, 1841 in Germany ........................... 4 Julie Amalie KAEMPFFE b: March 25, 1844 ........................... 4 Rose Antonie KAEMPFFE b: August 07, 1845 ........................... 4 Bernhardt August KAEMPFFE b: Nov 20, 1846 in Markneukirchen, d: Dec 2, 1889 in Harrison, NJ ................................ +August Mathilde DURRSCHMIDT b: March 29, 1845 in Markneukirchen, Saxony, Germany d: February 04, 1929 in Brooklyn, NY, buried in Lutheran Cemetery, NYC ..................................... 5 Frederick August KAEMPFFE b: November 08, 1880 in Paris? d: February 14, 1951 in Ramsey, NJ .......................................... +Louise Ada SCHWEITZER b: February 12, 1883 in NYC d: July 22, 1947 in East Rutherford, NJ ..................................... 5 Mathilde Mary KAEMPFFE b: August 16, 1888 d: June 30, 1973 in New York City .......................................... +Harold B. Elgar ........................... *2nd Wife of Bernhardt August KAEMPFFE: ................................ +Agnes Rosalie DURRSCHMIDT b: December 21, 1847 in Markneukirchen, Saxony, Germany d: March 02, 1876 in Paris? m: August 28, 1871 in Germany ..................................... 5 Bertha Martha KAEMPFFE b: May 09, 1872 in Markneukirchen, d. April 06, 1947 in NYC .......................................... +Wilhelm Paul Alfred Bley b: July 23, 1872 in Berlin, Germany d: June 16, 1911 in NYC, NY m: June 05, 1898 in New York, NY ..................................... 5 Maximillian KAEMPFFE b: February 22, 1874 d: 1951 .......................................... +Bertha Wilhemina MULLER b: 1877 d: 1954 ..................................... 5 Agnes Rosalie KAEMPFFE b: February 25, 1876 d: May 23, 1919 in NYC? .......................................... +George FRICK ........................... 4 Wilhelm Albert KAEMPFFE b: April 03, 1848 ........................... 4 Ernst KAEMPFFE b: March 21, 1851 ................. 3 Louis Herman KAEMPFFE b: May 10, 1820 ................. 3 Louis Eduard KAEMPFFE b: December 12, 1821 ................. 3 Clara Mathilde KAEMPFFE b: November 21, 1826 ................. 3 Marie Therese KAEMPFFE b: September 01, 1827 ....... 2 Emanuel Lebrecht KAEMPFFE b: February 14, 1783 ....... 2 Daniel Friedrich KAEMPFFE b: May 07, 1785 ............ +Maria Eliseabeth DEBOS m: January 1897 in Frankfort, Germany ....... 2 Wilhelm Israel KAEMPFFE b: March 21, 1788 ....... 2 Christiana Carolina KAEMPFFE b: September 14, 1791 ....... 2 David Friedrich KAEMPFFE b: October 12, 1794 |