Our Family History
The Genealogy of the Caauwe and Sommerfeld Families
Jan Sommerfeld
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
Generation: 4
1. Jan Sommerfeld (daughter of Alfred Sommerfeld and Grace I Brokaw). Family/Spouse: Joe Griel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
2. Alfred Sommerfeld was born on 18 May 1920 (son of Albert Gustave Sommerfeld and Erna A Krehnke); died on 14 Jan 2009 in Norfolk, Nebraska; was buried in Norfolk, Nebraska. Alfred married Grace I Brokaw on 12 Oct 1941 in Norfolk, Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. Grace I Brokaw Children:
Generation: 3
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Albert Gustave Sommerfeld was born on 29 Jun 1888 in Lindsay, Platte Co., NE (son of Gustav Herman Sommerfeld and J D Auguste Engelke); died on 11 Jan 1979 in Norfolk, NE. Albert married Erna A Krehnke on 22 Aug 1919 in Pierce, Ne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Erna A KrehnkeChildren:
- 2. Alfred Sommerfeld was born on 18 May 1920; died on 14 Jan 2009 in Norfolk, Nebraska; was buried in Norfolk, Nebraska.
Generation: 4
8. Gustav Herman Sommerfeld was born on 27 Apr 1853 in Pommern, Ger (son of Christian Sommerfeld and Charlotte Herman); died on 3 Aug 1919 in Newman Grove, NE; was buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Lindsay, Ne. Gustav married J D Auguste Engelke on 23 Nov 1880 in Madison Co, NE (At Ohio and Missouri Synod Church, later destroyed). J (daughter of Julius Engelke and Mathilda Auguste Zimmerman) was born on 25 Jan 1859 in Hanover, Ger; died on 16 Dec 1898 in Homestead farm near Newman Grove, Nebraska; was buried in Not buried beside her husband as she was Catholic. Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Lindsay, Ne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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J D Auguste Engelke was born on 25 Jan 1859 in Hanover, Ger (daughter of Julius Engelke and Mathilda Auguste Zimmerman); died on 16 Dec 1898 in Homestead farm near Newman Grove, Nebraska; was buried in Not buried beside her husband as she was Catholic. Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Lindsay, Ne. Children:
- Richard Augusta Christian Sommerfeld was born on 3 Aug 1883 in Lindsay, Platte Co., NE; died on 24 Jul 1971 in Norfolk, NE; was buried in Norfolk, Ne.
- Otto Theodore Sommerfeld was born on 25 Dec 1885 in West Virginia, United States; died on 1 Mar 1976 in Nebraska, United States.
- 4. Albert Gustave Sommerfeld was born on 29 Jun 1888 in Lindsay, Platte Co., NE; died on 11 Jan 1979 in Norfolk, NE.
- Emma Wilhelmine Ida Sommerfeld was born on 24 Aug 1890; died on 18 Sep 1968; was buried in Tabor Lutheran Cemetary.
- Adolph Sommerfeld was born on 15 Oct 1892 in Plainview, Ne; died on 12 Aug 1980 in Plainview, Ne.
- Ida Louise Sommerfeld was born on 10 Apr 1895; died on 27 Apr 1987 in York, NE.
- Anna Sommerfeld was born on 5 Oct 1898; died on 23 Mar 1995; was buried in Longmont, CO.