FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS

The following records were taken from a Bible that belonged to Sophie (Meier) Hoppe and passed down through the Sophie (Hoppe) Sellenrick family. This Bible, along with numerous other family possessions, was saved from a fire that destroyed the Sellenrick family home. Opposite each original record is shown the English translation.

 

Family-Register


Births



Friedrich Hoppe born

on 28 October 1860



Louise Hoppe born

on 1 June 1863


August Hoppe born

on 7 January 1868


Heinrich Hoppe born

on 19 April 1871


Sophie Hoppe born

on 7 February 1875
 
 
 
Deaths
Father
  Friedrich Hoppe died 6 January 1888
              10:35 a.m.
              
              


Mother
  Sophie Hoppe died on 1 October 1911
              4:30 a.m.
 
 
  Marriages


Friedrich and Agnes         14 September 1881


Louise and Hermann          16 March 1886
 
 
 


My father died on 22 November 1839



My brother Heinrich died on 4 November 1857



My brother Friedrich died on 24 April 1858


My mother died December 1865


My sister Lola died March 1863


My brother August to America

on 1 September 1858


My sister Louise died 15 May 1883



The trip from Germany to


America on 1 August 1869 from Bremer-


haven on 21 arrived in New York


on 1 September we came to Beatrice


on 7 September we have the homestead

on 12 October we are

there 1869

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