 1794 - 1866 (72 years)
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| Name |
Peter Carl Johann VON ROSENBERG |
| Born |
2 Oct 1794 |
Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
19 Oct 1866 |
La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA |
| Buried |
Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA |
| Person ID |
I3855 |
von Rosenberg Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
24 Jun 2022 |
| Father |
Otto Bohlschwing VON ROSENBERG, b. 1766, Raddeilen, Memel, Prussia , d. 17 Dec 1817, Sarasen, Vilna, Russia (Age 51 years) |
| Mother |
Maria Wilhelmine VON STEMPEL, b. 6 Jul 1768, Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 3 Oct 1831, Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia (Age 63 years) |
| Married |
21 Oct 1791 |
Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia |
| Divorced |
1803 |
| Family ID |
F2724 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Johanna Dorothea FROELICH, b. 12 Jun 1797, Tilsit, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 30 Apr 1826, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia (Age 28 years) |
| Married |
2 Jun 1819 |
Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia |
| Children |
| | 1. Carl Hermann VON ROSENBERG, b. 15 Apr 1820, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 23 Apr 1827, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia (Age 7 years) |
| + | 2. Carl Wilhelm VON ROSENBERG, b. 14 Oct 1821, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 4 Dec 1901, Austin, Travis, Texas, USA (Age 80 years) |
| + | 3. Johanna Carolina VON ROSENBERG, b. 22 May 1824, Memel, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 1856, Nassau, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 31 years) |
| + | 4. Johannes Carl VON ROSENBERG, b. 21 Mar 1826, Eckitten, Memel, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 9 Nov 1906, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 80 years) |
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| Photos |
 | Peter Carl von Rosenberg and family
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| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2014 |
| Family ID |
F2723 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Amanda Henriette Louise FALLIER, b. 6 Sep 1806, Königsberg, Ostpreußen, Prussia , d. 22 Apr 1864, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 57 years) |
| Married |
11 Feb 1830 |
Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia |
| Children |
| + | 1. Carl Eugen VON ROSENBERG, b. 13 Dec 1830, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia , d. 15 Oct 1913, Round Top, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 82 years) |
| + | 2. Amanda Karoline VON ROSENBERG, b. 15 Jun 1832, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia , d. 29 Aug 1911, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 79 years) |
| | 3. Carl Alexander VON ROSENBERG, b. 27 Oct 1833, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia , d. 2 Oct 1864, Liberty, Liberty, Texas, USA (Age 30 years) |
| + | 4. Carl August Walter VON ROSENBERG, b. 31 Aug 1839, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia , d. 15 Sep 1903, La Grange, Fayette, Texas, USA (Age 64 years) |
| | 5. Carl Freidrich Wilhelm VON ROSENBERG, b. 11 Oct 1844, Memel, Memel, Preußen, Prussia |
| + | 6. Charlotte Wilhelmine Libussa FROELICH, b. 9 Nov 1839, Ragnit, Ragnit, Preußen, Prussia , d. 26 Jun 1918, Hallettsville, Lavaca, Texas, USA (Age 78 years) |
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| Last Modified |
3 Mar 2014 |
| Family ID |
F2718 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg was the third son of Otto von Rosenberg and his second wife, Maria Wilhelmine von Stempel-von Rosenberg, of Raddeilen and Eckitten Estates. He was nine years old when his parents were divorced and we know nothing of his early life and education. He enlisted in the Prussian Army at an early ago and at twenty-one he became a lieutenant in the cavalry. He was a member of the Uhlans and on the old scroll he is called a Jager, which was a title given to certain German cavalry regiments.
He later told his grandson Arthur von Rosenberg that in the Battle of Leipzig his horse's mouth was shot away, but he quickly mounted another horse whose rider had been killed.
He fought with the Prussian guards under Bluecher with Wellington. When Napoleon faced the English on Belgian soil at Waterloo, with the remnant of the once-defeated Prussians and the fresh Prussian forces under Bluecher, the tide of the battle turned on June 18, 1815. The histories tell us this Prussian Guard knew how to die but not how to surrender.
The Uhlans fought with lances. They were chiefly employed for reconnoitering, skirmishing, and outpost duty. Originally they were light cavalry. Peter Carl was a Lieutenant in this company at Waterloo, we learn from the old scroll and from letters.
In 1819 he inherited Eckitten Estate after the death of his widowed stepmother, and the same year he married Johanna Dorothea Froelich. They had four children before she died at the age of twenty-nine, six weeks after the birth of Johannes.
Peter Carl was a "Frei Denker" and in the disturbing days of 1848 was severely criticized for his political views. The consequent humiliation of the family was the direct cause of the immigration to Texas.
- The family of Carl von Rosenberg departed from Bremen, Germany on 1 Oct 1849 and arrived at Galveston, Texas on 2 Dec 1849. They travelled on the ship Franziska.
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