His older daughters were approaching adulthood when the family immigrated and, within seventeen months of their arrival, the three older girls married neighbors. bought 150 acres to farm at Willow Springs in the John Jones League. Coming with them was Sophie's sixty-four year old mother, Dorothea Markwarth Martens, born February 23, 1788. The left from Hamburg on the Copernicus and arrived in Galveston on November 18, 1852. Fayette County Family Histories Fayette County, Texas Family HistoriesĬarl Johann and Sophie Martens Albrecht Contributed by Rox Ann Albrecht JohnsonĬarl Johann and Johanne "Sophie" Martens Albrecht emigrated with their family of seven children from Wolgast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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