Cunigunda Kolb

   
Name Cunigunda Kolb10,7, GG Grandmother
Birth 27 Sep 1821, Hornungsreuth G Neudrossenfeld, Bavaria7
Christen Neudrossenfeld, Bavaria248
Death 21 Apr 1864, Lindau G Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria12 Age: 42
Death Memo House #27. Died of Pulmonary consumption age 42 y, 6 m, 24 d.
Burial Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria
Residence 13 Feb 1850, Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria68 Age: 28
Reside Memo Living at House #10, Trebgast, Germany
Residence aft 31 Aug 1857, Lindau G Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria
Reside Memo Family moved to House # 17
Religion Evangelisch (Lutheran)
Cause of death Died of Pulmonary consumption
Father Georg Simon Kolb (1782-1852)
Mother Anna Margaretha Weigel (1782-1847)
Notes
Married at age 25. Note that both her father and her husband, Rudolf, were of the same trade, both maurergeselle, (bricklayer journeyman).1

About the name Cunigunda or Kunigunde, It seems that Kunigunde was an old German saint, the wife of Holy Roman Emperor, Heinrich II, the last king of the royal house of Saxony (he's a saint too). She lived around the year 1000. Another reference (Weis) says, following Charlemagne, Bernard, King of Italy, was married to Cunigunde. Date on her is year 835. Derived from the Germanic element kuoni "brave" combined with gund "war". I have also been told by Germans that the name is much older than that, pre-Christian, like Brunhilde, Sieglinde, the Wagner German-opera sorts of names. I have no reason to doubt this, but none of it explains why the name enjoyed something of a vogue among late 17th and early 18th century Germans. But it did.
Spouses
1 Johann Rudolf Lauterbach 13, GG Grandfather
Birth 9 Apr 1819, Trebgast, Bavaria13
Death 24 Sep 1859, Lindau G Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria11 Age: 40
Death Memo House #17
Burial Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria
Residence 13 Feb 1850, Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria68 Age: 30
Reside Memo Living at House #10, Trebgast, Bavaria
Residence aft 31 Aug 1857, Lindau G Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria68, Thomas's birth.
Reside Memo Family moved to House # 17
Occupation Maurergeselle (Bricklayer journeyman) und Gutsbesitzer (Landowner)10
Religion Evangelisch (Lutheran)68
Cause of death Died of Pulmonary consumption
Father Georg Friedrich Lauterbach (1781-1855)
Mother Anna Margaretha Sahr (1785-1861)
Notes
Died of Pulmonary consumption1 age 40 years, 5 months, 14 days.11
When married at age 28 listed himself as Maurergeselle (Bricklayer journeyman) und Gutsbesitzer (Landowner).10

There was tradition amoung the Kansas descendents that this family had eight children, only four living to maturity.1 There are mentions of eight children in an early Kansas history book and the obituaries of George and John George.63 69 However, there seems to be no actual record in Bavaria that an eighth child was born. An eighth child is not found in the registry books in Trebgast or Neudrossenfeld churches.259 I think that this tradition started with a mistake in the Kansas History book, and was repeated in the obituaries. Therefore, I have decided to no longer include an eight child in my work. (PLH, April 2006)
Marriage 9 Feb 1848, Trebgast, Oberfranken, Bavaria10,68
Children George (Kolb) (1844-1909)
  Friedrich (1846-1881)
  Johann (Died as Infant) (1849-1849)
  John George (1850-1936)
  Andreas (Died as Infant) (1852-1853)
  Albert (or Albrecht) (1854-1916)
  Thomas (Died as Infant) (1857-1858)

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