The Johann Gottlob Mäckel Family
(or Maeckel/Moeckel)
Johann Gottlob Mäckel and Christiane Friederike Uhlig
emigrated from Lengefeld, Saxony, Germany somewhere 1852 and 1855
with two children, Marie Helene Maeckel and Ernst Edward Maeckel.
Gottlob was born Carl Gottlob Mäckel, married Friederike (from
Lauterbach) in 1845, and later took his fathers first name of Johann.
Friederike died soon after arrive in Texas and Gottlob remarried to
Johanna Christiane Martin and had seven more children between 1857
and ending in 1871. During his second marriage his family lived near
Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas and as of the 1860 Agricultural
Census owned 81 acres.
This link will take you to a
series a web pages generated from my genealogical database. It
contains much more than just the Maeckel side of my family and
eventually I'm going to be getting around to creating pages like
these for other ancestors that emigrated to the United States. The
Slaby family history also has a series
of pages. A random collection of documents that were scanned in are
here.
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Lengefeld, Saxony, Germany, Europe
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Lengefeld is a small town of 3,200 whose large square
market place that forms the core of the town today was built
around 1500. The area was called Lengefeld as early as 1369
and is mainly known for its limestone mining operations in
the mountains that separate Germany from the Czech Republic.
The town is located near the city of Chemnitz (Karl Marx
City when it was part of East Germany) in the state of
Saxony. The following link will take you to a Wikipedia
page with Lengefeld
and Gerd
Moeckel from Chemnitz sent me some pictures
of Lengefeld.
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Frelsburg, Colorado County, Texas, USA, North America
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Frelsburg was founded in 1837 by Captain William Frels
who immigrated to Texas in 1834. He came from Germany on the
ship "Congress" and participated in the storming of the
Alamo in 1835. Captain Frels donated land for a town site,
school, Protestant Church, parsonage and cemetery. The
community is located north of the town of Columbus in
Colorado County, Texas. Columbus is the county seat and sits
on the Colorado River between San Antonio and Houston. The
following link will take you to a Wikipedia page with
Frelsburg.
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Johann David Mäckel and Amelia Drähger
Descedants
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Johann David Mäckel may be closely related to Johann
Gottlob Maeckel. They both settled down from Germany in the
Frelsburg area and both went to Trinity Lutheran Church.
Many of baptismal records have David or Gottlob being a
Godparent of the other's children. Note that David's
children all use the Moeckel spelling while Gottlob's went
with Maeckel.
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Carl C. Maeckel Descedants
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Carl C. Maeckel traveled from Germany on the ship "Lucie"
that arrived in Galveston, Texas on November 7, 1854. Carl
settled down in Round Top which is one county over and north
west of Frelsburg. It is not known how or if he is related
to Gottlob or David.
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Last
updated October 21, 1999
