Valentine Kämmerer
b. circa September 1830
- Father: Valentin Kämmerer b. circa July 1798, d. 17 November 1841
- Mother: Anna Maria Manz b. 20 August 1801, d. 25 September 1836
- Valentine Kämmerer was born circa September 1830.
- He was baptized/christened on 10 September 1830 in Undenheim, Rheinhessen. Sponsor was Valentin Schömbs.
- Valentine was left an orphan at age eleven at his father's death, his mother having died shortly after his sixth birthday. Following his father's death, he left Undenheim and went to Biebelnheim to live with the family of Jacob Dexheimer.
- Johann Jacob Dexheimer and Anna Margaretha Hofmann, accompanied by Valentine Kämmerer, Philippina Dexheimer, Margaretha Dexheimer, Georg Kaffenberger, Philippine Kaffenberger and Maria Kaffenberger, departed circa 30 September 1854 from the Port of Le Havre aboard the ship Westmoreland, a voyage of 27 days.
- Johann Jacob Dexheimer and Anna Margaretha Hofmann arrived in the Port of New York on 26 October 1854, accompanied by Valentine Kämmerer, Philippina Dexheimer, Margaretha Dexheimer, Georg Kaffenberger, Philippine Kaffenberger and Maria Kaffenberger.
- Valentine Kämmerer died in New York City, New York, . According to family lore, he died in New York City in 1852, which is in conflict with his apparent emigration in 1854 with the parents of his brother's wife, although no records of his residence in the US have yet been found.
- Photographs of present-day Undenheim.
- Last Edited: 17 Jul 2013