Marriage of maternal Great Grandparents Franz and Wilhelmine Hindel

This is a scan of the marriage of maternal great grandparents Franciscus "Franz" Hindel and Wilhelmine Kilian.  This was a second marriage for great grandfather Franz. He was 39 years older than Wilhelmine. Their grand daughter Brigette stated that Wilhelmine had been employed to nurse Franz's ill first wife, Katharina. Katharina died 1 Sep 1903. Franz and Wilhelmine married exactly six months after her death.

Maternal Great Grandparents

Franciscus "Franz" Hindel

30 Aug 1844 - 27 Jan 1928

Wilhelmine Kilian 

22 Jan 1883 - 03 May 1948

married: 01 Mar 1904

Herrnsheim, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Birth of great grandmother Wilhelmine Kilian Hindel Seitel

Ancestry.com; Germany Select Births and Baptisms 1558-1898 Worms, 1883

The Herrnsheim, Rheinhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany birth record of Great grandmother Wilhelmine Kilian. 1883, the  sixth birth, on the 22nd of January, the daughter of Catholic factory worker Johannes Kilian and Margaretha Kilian, maiden name Heinrich, also Catholic. They reside in Herrnsheim. The birth was reported by her father Johannes Kilian who signed this document.

Great Grandmother

Wilhelmine Kilian Hindel Seitel

Wilhelmine's first husband (our ancestor) was quite a bit older than she leaving Wilhelmine a fairly young widow at his passing. She then married Josef Seitel (shown above). He was a widower with ten children, most of them grown. That would seem to be a bit of baggage for her to take on but it would appear and it was reported that their marriage was a happy one and Wilhelmine was quite fond of her stepchildren and they of her.

Great Grandmother Hindel

This first photo was in the possession of my sister in law and she knew it was her maternal grandmother as a young girl pictured with her mother. She knew her grandmother's name as Therese Hindel because although she had never met her, she had been named for her. The great grandmother? Her first and maiden name was unknown.

Aunt Margret gave me the second photo identifying it as "Franz's mother and Otto's and Liesel's Oma". In spite of the years between this was obviously the same woman. Question #1 Who is Franz? "Otto's mothers brother." Question #2 And her name? "Oma Hindel, that's all I know."

I  researched the name Hindel in what I guessed would be the appropriate time frame of her birth with no luck, mainly because there were many many Hindel women born in that area of Germany in that time frame.Then I received a surprise email. It was from a woman in Germany who had seen a wedding photo I had posted online and recognized her parents as the bridal couple. She also recognized the name Feick and questioned who I was. Long story short,  I had been contacted by my mother in laws cousin, the daughter of Franz. She was able to tell me that great grandma Hindel's name was Wilhelmine Kilian. An added bonus was that she told me that her father Franz had been named for his father. Wilhelmine Kilian Hindel's husband was Franz Hindel. Cousin Brigitte had given me the info to now trace not only her birth but follow that line up many many generations through online Worms, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany civil records.

great grandmother

Wilhelmine Kilian Hindel

b: 22 January 1883 Herrnsheim, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany

m: 01 March 1904 Herrnsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

d: 03 May 1948 Herrnsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany