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Re: Any info on "Kortum".

johannalbny — 2011-06-30 12:18:54Z

Was there a MINNA KORTUM in your family? She would have been born in 1849 according to the Ancestry entry I found and then came to America on a ship called the THURINGIA.

I hope you get this message.
John (Johannes) Froebel-Parker

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

LJKirchhoff — 2011-04-30 16:19:27Z

Fred Kortum married Dora Kirchhoff, the oldest child of Detlef and Mary Hansen Kirchhoff on 18 Dec. 1901. Dora was born March 1884 in Davenport, IA. Her family moved to Shelby Co, Ia which includes Manning and later to Jackson, Co. Ia. She had 4 siblings- William Kirchhoff , Annie Kirchhoff, Edward Kirchhoff and Pauline Kirchhoff Gately. Dora died in 1973 in Kent, Mi.

Re: Kortum family

doloresharding79 — 2010-03-02 21:32:53Z

Hello: This is an old post so I don't know if you will receive it. My limited information about the Kortums is this: Rock Island, IL. Emma Kruse,b.1876,Germany,m.Geo Kortum,b.1896,d,1966.Geo. Kortum b.1869,d.1931. I have more info if interested. Their son, Grover H. Kortum was my biological father who denied his parenthood to me. I have more info if desire.
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Re: Any info on "Kortum".

hsslaven — 2009-12-19 07:04:55Z

Dear nskortum,

Due to my knowledge, I believe there is also Kathleen Mary Kortum who was married to Norman George Kortum (dec) still residing in Elmore! Three of the four Kortum children still live in the district.

Hilda

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

pkathome1 — 2008-12-08 22:02:35Z

hi nskortum , you can email me for information on kortums . norm kortum , i believe your grandfather , was my fathers cousin . regards peter kortum
pkfromoz@yahoo.com

Australian Kortums

nskortum — 2008-12-08 12:55:46Z

Hi, just looking for any info on the Australian Kortums

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

nskortum — 2008-12-08 12:48:43Z

Hello Gary, can you please give me any info you have on the Kortums that have lived in Elmore as My parents (Peter and Kaye Kortum) are the only Kortums' left there and it would be nice to find out the family tree

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

hicks130 — 2008-07-23 04:45:40Z

Hi Peter. We're second cousins - my grandfather was Wm Harold, in between Herb and Arnie. My mother was Vera Kortum, your dad will probably remember her. The doctor in Cooktown was the Qld state medical officer - there is much about him in the archives but he doesn't appear to be related. There were three Wendel brothers from Fehmarn however they are Harold's in-laws.
I have photos of Matthias, Rosina and family, his mother Christina (Kruse) and sister Anna. Also transcripts of Herb's letters home from the Boer War etc. If you contact me by email on garyrhix@gmail.com then I can send them to you.
regards Gary Hicks

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

pkathome1 — 2008-07-09 06:47:30Z

tx hicks130 , my grandfather was herbert kortum and arnold his brother lived in elmore so i say that is the one . i believe mathias came out with 2 brothers but not sure .. 1 was a doctor and i believe is buried in cooktown cemetery , the other i believe went to new guinea as a missionary ...im not sure how acurate that is ..regards peter kortum

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

hicks130 — 2008-07-09 02:25:35Z

Hi. If you are descended from Matthias Kortum who came from Fehmarn Island, Holstein to Victoria in 1859 then I can help you. This Matthias was a stonemason building the Melbourne-Sandhurst railway before taking up land at Elphinstone and then Elmore. He married Rosina Smith at Castlemaine in 1867. He died in 1921 and is buried at Elmore. If you have a Herbert or Arnold in your ancestry then it's probably the right one.

Re: Lillian Kortum

Joseph_Swallow — 2008-03-26 04:37:45Z

I have a Lillian Kortum born about 1909. She was the daughter of Carl Jacob Kortum and his wife Lizzie. Carl was the son of Georg Jacob Kortum and Johanna Maria Rasmus (Rehr).

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

JGSwallow — 2008-01-24 02:19:29Z

There was a Fred (Fritz Frederick Kortum) Kortum who came to the US in 1881 with his 7 brothers and sisters, settling in Manning, Iowa. He married a "Dora unknown". I thought they had moved to Michigan, though, not Montana. I think he had three children: Mary, Margaret, and Fred.

Re: Any info on "Kortum".

pkathome1 — 2007-07-13 02:01:28Z

hi . i believe i am decendant from mathias kortum or his immediate family who came to australia from rensburg in germany . i look forward to contact from interested family members to help find the ''roots''

Children of George Jacob Kortum and Johanna Rasmus (Rehr)

@@portiahaynes@hotmail.com — 2006-05-22 12:17:05Z

In 1988 my father received this information from a woman in Germany, who researched the Lutheran Church records in Landkirchen and in the Burg (town) on the Island of Fehmarn, for him.

George Jacob Kortum, Schiffer in Lemkenhaffen
B. Lemkenhaffen March 4, 1846

Married

In Landkirchen Dec 12, 1867 To:

Johanna Maria Rasmus (Rehr) (I have more about this)
B. Landkirchen February 2, 1845

They came to the United States in 1881.

Their children are in Church Records as follows:

1. Emma Amalie Agnes
B. Landkirchen January 1, 1868
D. Landkirchen March 1, 1869

2. Jacob Friedrich
B. Landkirchen April 1, 1870

3. Ernestine
B. Landkirchen May 9, 1871

4. Carl Jacob Peter
B. Landkirchen October 6, 1872

5. Meta Margaretha
B. Landkirchen November 25, 1874

6. Johanna Amalie Caroline (My Great Grandmother)
B. Burgstaaken May 9, 1876
D. February, 1965 Kalispell, Montana

7. Agnes Dorothea Catharina
B. Burgstaaken June 15, 1877

8. Catharina Doris
B. Burgstaaken September 3, 1878

9. Fritz
B. Burgstaaken August 27, 1880

I have more information on some of these people, but mostly on my great grandmother, and her descendants.

I do not know anything about the following children that Joseph Swallow found listed in the 1900 Federal Census for Iowa:

Rosa Kortum
B. October 1885

Mary Kortum
B. November 1887

It is my personal belief that the 19 year old Fred shown on the census is Fritz. (Possibly his name was Jacob Frederich also?)

Just a thought, but I believe the church records more or less bear this out.

Mary Kortum

@@portiahaynes@hotmail.com — 2006-05-22 12:17:05Z

Well, after I posted the previous message, I decided I would check in my Great Grandma Johanna Kortum (Hass) Kortum's Autograph Book and see if there was an autograph from a Mary Kotum, and there was.

This is what and when she wrote.

Dear Sister,
Remember me when this you see
For long on earth I may not be
For if the grave be first my bed
Remember me when I am dead.

From your sister Mary Kortum

April 3, 1898

I am going to check with my Dad and see if he remembers a Mary Kortum.

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Re: Obit : Margaret Kortum

2005-10-27 18:19:37Z

Hi Deb,

I just wanted to thank you for putting that obit on the web. BIG HELP! THANKS!

Faith

Obit : Margaret Kortum

2005-03-21 23:32:40Z

THE ST. LOUIS DISPATCH

Pub.Oct. 7, 1912
Page 16
St. Louis, Missouri

Death Notice :

MARGARET ( BUCK ) KORTUM, beloved wife of Herman F. Kortum and dear mother of Robert, Arthur, Edward and Herman C. Kortum, Mrs. Doris Schaub and Mrs. Emma Tritchler, and mother-in-law and grandmother, after a lingering illness at the age of 58 years and 4 months.

Funeral service Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1912 at 2 p.m. from family residence, 4447 Kosssuth Avenue. Relatives and friends invited to attend.

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Re: Children of George Jacob Kortum and Johanna Rasmus (Rehr)

JGSwallow — 2004-06-22 05:03:13Z

Portia,

I have actual photos of the parish records in Landkirchen for George Jacob Kortum.

Re: Lillian Kortum

JGSwallow — 2004-06-22 05:00:05Z

I have a Lillian Kortum in our line, born about 1909, daughter of Carl Jacob Peter Kortum and his wife Lizzie. Carl was a part of the Landkirchen Kortums.

Re: Lillian Kortum

2003-07-13 15:46:22Z

my grandmothers name was lillian she pssed away back in the late seventies as far as i know she liveed in fremont nebraska allher life.

Re: Children of George Jacob Kortum and Johanna Rasmus (Rehr)

JGSwallow — 2003-06-07 05:39:54Z

Portia,

Greetings. Hope things are well.

In the message dated 5/15/03 you wrote:
Johanna Maria Rasmus (Rehr) (I have more about this)
B. Landkirchen February 2, 1845

I would be interested!

Joseph

My Family - Looking for connections

JGSwallow — 2003-06-07 05:23:15Z

Any info on "Kortum".

2002-12-08 01:19:11Z

My grandfather, George Kortum, was born in Iowa (I think) right around the turn of the century or right before it. His parents came over from Germany after his mother was dis-owned by her aristocratic family for marrying my great-grandfather. They had one child on the ship which died. I believe there were between 7 and 10 children in all. The youngest, Fred Kortum, died two months ago in Pleasant Hills, CA. My other grandfather's siblings lived in Anaconda, Montana for some time. I'm looking for any information on the family. Thanks!

Re: Kortum family

jackiekg — 2002-11-04 22:30:20Z

Woodrow Kortum was my uncle by marriage to his first wife Margie Thompson. He died a couple of years ago in Southern Calif. He and Margie divorced about 1957 and they both later remarried. They had six children together, and I believe he and his second wife had at least one child. What is your connection to him?

Re: Kortuem

royaldescent1 — 2002-05-10 14:11:04Z

To Mike Kortum:

I was wondering if the uncle of your father, Peter Helmut Kortum (umlaut over the u) that moved to the US in the 1800's was my great grandfather, Bernard Henrich Kortum. Bernard had two sons, the youngest was my grandfather, Friedrich Johan Kortum, born in New York in 1888. Please contact me if we are related. I am trying to connect to the Kortum family.

Jacob Kortum

2001-10-04 00:07:42Z

Re: Kortum family

2001-09-05 03:09:22Z

Woodrow Kortum of Manning Iowa is my uncle. His brother, Joseph Clifford, was my grandfather. I, too, am trying to find information on the family. All I know about Woodrow Wilson Kortum is that he was born in 1912 in Manning, Iowa. We have a lot of relatives in Manning which I cannot place. My great grandmother (woodrow's mother), died in Wyoming and was buried in Manning.

Joseph Kortum

Re: Kortum family

JGSwallow — 2001-06-30 03:39:14Z

Woodrow Wilson Kortum, born in Manning, Iowa, was the second youngest of my grandfather's family. My grandfather, Joseph Clifford Kortum, was the eldest. All the kids were born in Manning Iowa. My great grandmother, Daisy Mae Nickum-Kortum, (Woodrow's mother) died in Billings, Wyoming and her body was shipped back to Manning for burial.

Woodrow's father was Jacob Fredridk Kortum, born in 1886. Not sure when he died. But I know that a Jacob Kortum, b. 4/4/1846, d. 7/8/1919 is also buried in Manning Iowa.

Joseph Kortum Swallow

Kortum family

2001-01-29 10:31:54Z

I am looking for a Woodrow Kortum supposedly born in Manning,Carrol, Iowa in 1912 and supposedly still alive in California

Lillian Kortum

2000-05-16 04:03:55Z

Does anyone know of a Lillian Kortum, born Feb.14, 1909? Her name comes up in my family genealogy search.
Thanks,
Madelyn

email

2000-03-15 00:20:00Z

My email is mikekortuem@hotmail.com

Kortuem

2000-03-15 00:05:46Z

My father was born Peter Helmut... Kortum (u umlut)
in Rostock, Germany. He spoke of an uncle who moved to US
in 1800's. Contact me to learn more.

Kortum Family

2000-01-07 09:44:38Z

Trying to send message to Chris Kortum who e-mailed me--but I can't find his e-mail address. So, Chris, please e-mail me--at racerbarb@aol.com

Kortum Family

2000-01-07 00:26:49Z

ATTENTION BARBARA HITCH

Good Day Barbara ,
Saw your message on the internet. Allthough we do not appear related my family does originate in Germany and moved to the Netherlands during 1850 -1870.
Should you be interested please drop me a line direct to my e-mail address.
Regards,
Chris Kortum

Query

1999-07-30 08:30:54Z

Searching for relatives of John Kortum, born 1889 in IL, died 1960 in CO. Also, his brother, Charles, born 1895 in IL, and died in 1962. Sister was Minnie Stewart, born 1891 in IL, died in CO. Sister Emma Meyer, born 1893 in IL, died 1985 in SD.
Will share data.

Kortum

1999-07-30 08:27:49Z

Am searching for relatives of John Kortum, born in IL 1889, died 1960 in CO. He had a brother, Charles, born in IL 1895, died 1962. Sister-Minnie Stewart born 1891, IL, died in CO. Emma Meyer, born 1895 in IL, and died 1985 in SD.