The Winter Family
1st Generation:-Jost Winter 1736-
Born 13th April 1736, Stade, Niedersachsen, Germany Jost Winter was a bailiff. About 1759 he married GESCHE DETHERS 1744-1799 in Stade, Niedersachsen and the couple had two children that we know of, Johann Jost who was born in 1760 and JOHANNE CONRAD who was born much later in 1779. It is highly possible that there were more children born between 1760 and 1779 but as yet we don´t have data. The interesting point between these two brothers is that they married two sisters, Ilse Margarete and Anna Margarethe, both daughters of Dierk Brauer and Gesche Katarina Kroos. Dierk Brauer was a miller and had married Gesche in 1762.
Born 13th April 1736, Stade, Niedersachsen, Germany Jost Winter was a bailiff. About 1759 he married GESCHE DETHERS 1744-1799 in Stade, Niedersachsen and the couple had two children that we know of, Johann Jost who was born in 1760 and JOHANNE CONRAD who was born much later in 1779. It is highly possible that there were more children born between 1760 and 1779 but as yet we don´t have data. The interesting point between these two brothers is that they married two sisters, Ilse Margarete and Anna Margarethe, both daughters of Dierk Brauer and Gesche Katarina Kroos. Dierk Brauer was a miller and had married Gesche in 1762.
Johann Jost Winter married Ilse Margarete on 2 Sep 1805 in Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany. Ilse was born on 31 Oct 1765 in Schlangendiek 38, Oerel, Land Niedernachsen, Germany and died on 25 Dec 1854 in Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany at age 89. Unfortunately we have no further information for Johann Jost and Ilse.
Johann Conrad Winter, 4th great grandfather, was the younger son of the bailif Jost Winter 1736-.,and his wife Gesche Dethers 1744-1799. Johann married Anna Margaretha Brauer on October 8, 1809 in Stade, Lower Saxony.
Anna was born on 30 Dec 1786 in Schlangendiek, Land Niedernachsen, Germany. Johann Conrad was a master carpenter and between 1809 and 1825 they had five children that we know of, 2 boys and three girls. Of the two boys, Conrad and Ernst we have no information as yet, apparently Conrad emigrated to the United States of America. The three girls all married. |
Children:
1.2.1. Johanna Catharine Winter 1814–1894
1.2.2. Conrad Winter 1815– 1.2.3. Margaret (Gretchen) Winter 1818–1897 1.2.4. Anna Rebecka Dorothee Winter 1824–1900 1.2.5. Ernst Winter. |
Sometime before 1862 the family moves from Stade to Bremen because on the 3rd November 1862 Johann Conrad dies in Bremen. By this time two of his daughters, Johanna Catharine and Anna Rebecka are also living in Bremen and living at Nordstrasse no. 84, where Johann Conrad´s widow, Anna Margaretha, dies on the 11th June 1878 at age 91.
1.2.1. Johanna Catharine Winter 1814-1894
The eldest daughter of Johann Conrad Winter and Anna Margaretha Brauer, Johanna Catharine, 3rd great grandmother, was born on September 18, 1814 in Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany. She died on 2 Dec 1894 in Nordstrasse 84, Bremen, Germany at age 80, and was buried on 5 Dec 1894 in Bremen, Germany. On the 20th October 1839 she married Heinrich Glade 1810-1896, a merchant from Bremen.
Gretchen Winter was the second eldest daughter of Johann Conrad Winter and Anna Margaretha Brauer and was born about 1818 in Stade, Germany. About 1850 she married George G. Köpke 1826 -1901 who was an orchardist, agriculturist and floriculturist in Hanover. Gretchen died on 18 Jun 1897 in Hanover, Germany about age 79. Gretchen and George G. Kopke had one child that we know of: Hermann Christian Georg Ernst Kopke 1854-1926.
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Born in Verden, Hanover, Germany, on Jan. 7, 1854, Ernst, as he was known, attended the common schools until he was fifteen and then worked as a farmer until he was 18. In 1870 he left Germany for Honolulu, probably encouraged by his cousins, J.C. Glade, Anna Dorothea Ehlers nee Glade and Beta Isenberg nee Glade. Here in Hawaii Ernst became a prominent factor in the development and advancement of engineering on the Islands.
His first work in the islands, immediately after his arrival in 1870, was as field overseer at the Lihue Plantation, Kauai, the owner of which was Heinrich Hackfeld, a relative of B.H. Ehlers who was married to Ernst´s cousin Anna Dorothea Ehlers nee Glade and where Paul Isenberg, who was married to Beta Isenberg nee Glade, had been working since 1862. Here on the Lihue Plantation Ernst was charge of the milling and was assistant engineer. In 1872 he was an apprentice machinist at the Honolulu Iron Works. He later traveled to Massachusetts to study mechanical engineering and upon finishing his three-year course returned to Germany for further studies in mechanics and steam engineering.
On Christmas Day, 1879, Ernst returned to Honolulu and was a journeyman at the Honolulu Iron Works until May 1880, when he was appointed chief engineer of Lihue Plantation and the Hanamaulu Mills, Kauai. He was employed there for six years, and in 1886 signed a contract with the cane planters of Kekaha, Kauai, to furnish water for irrigation by pumping from springs and wells. Following this, his association with Ewa plantation initiated the use of pumping plants for the irrigation of cane fields. He also supervised the installation of pumping plants at the mill site and became superintendent engineer of the sugar factory as well as a consulting engineer with the Honolulu Iron Works, Ltd., and was in charge of many large projects for that company.
His first work in the islands, immediately after his arrival in 1870, was as field overseer at the Lihue Plantation, Kauai, the owner of which was Heinrich Hackfeld, a relative of B.H. Ehlers who was married to Ernst´s cousin Anna Dorothea Ehlers nee Glade and where Paul Isenberg, who was married to Beta Isenberg nee Glade, had been working since 1862. Here on the Lihue Plantation Ernst was charge of the milling and was assistant engineer. In 1872 he was an apprentice machinist at the Honolulu Iron Works. He later traveled to Massachusetts to study mechanical engineering and upon finishing his three-year course returned to Germany for further studies in mechanics and steam engineering.
On Christmas Day, 1879, Ernst returned to Honolulu and was a journeyman at the Honolulu Iron Works until May 1880, when he was appointed chief engineer of Lihue Plantation and the Hanamaulu Mills, Kauai. He was employed there for six years, and in 1886 signed a contract with the cane planters of Kekaha, Kauai, to furnish water for irrigation by pumping from springs and wells. Following this, his association with Ewa plantation initiated the use of pumping plants for the irrigation of cane fields. He also supervised the installation of pumping plants at the mill site and became superintendent engineer of the sugar factory as well as a consulting engineer with the Honolulu Iron Works, Ltd., and was in charge of many large projects for that company.
Ernst Kopke´s fourth daughter, Bertha was born on the 4th of february 1890 in Hawaii. On the 9th August 1916 she married Daniel Paul Rice Isenberg.
Anna Rebecka was the youngest daughter of Johann Conrad Winter and Anna Margarete Brauer. She was born on 18 Sep 1824 in Stade, Germany, but about 1850 married Dierdrich Gaeschke in Bremen. Apart from his birth we know nothing about Dierdrich, but assume that he died before his wife.. Ana Rebecka died on 8 July 1900 at her home at no. 68 Humboldtstrasse, Bremen at age 75. She is buried in the family grave at Friedhof Bremen-Buntentor
Her only daughter Joanna Gaeschke lived at the house on Humboldstrasse from 1904 until 1938 and was a teacher. There is no word of her after 1938 and she is not buried with the family.
Her only daughter Joanna Gaeschke lived at the house on Humboldstrasse from 1904 until 1938 and was a teacher. There is no word of her after 1938 and she is not buried with the family.