Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg b. 2 Oct 1794 "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 19 Oct 1866 La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas: Genealogy at Pitard.net

1794 - 1866 (72 years)

Name	Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Birth	2 Oct 1794	"Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Gender	Male
Emigration	Bremen, Germany
Immigration	Abt Mar 1850	Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas
Death	19 Oct 1866	La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas
Burial	Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas
Notes	Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, soldier of Waterloo and pioneer of Texas, was born at "Eckitten", near Memel in East Prussia, on October 2, 1794. 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 age and became a lieutenant in the cavalry at twenty-one. He fought with the Prussian Guards under Field Marshal Blücher in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig and later at Waterloo. He apparently got one horse shot out from under him at Waterloo, but found another to continue. In 1819 he inherited the "Eckitten" estate on the death of his widowed stepmother, and the same year he married Johanna Dorothea Frölich. They had four children before she died in 1826. In 1830 Rosenberg married Amanda Fallier, by whom he had five more children. They also adopted his niece, Libussa Frölich. In June 1849 Rosenberg's eldest son, Carl Wilhelm von Roseberg, a royal architect, was proscribed because of his outspoken democratic ideas and was barred from further employment with the government. He thus decided to emigrate to Texas. When Carl was unable to dissuade his son, he concluded that the entire family should emigrate together. He had a historical connection to Texas: his brother Ernst was one of the first Germans in Texas with the Long expedition of 1821 and was killed in Mexico in 1826. From Vol. 1 of The von Rosenberg Family of Texas (8): "Peter Carl [the immigrant], the grandson of Sigismund Gustav, also chose to live at "Eckitten", although "Garossen" was not sold and was occupied by Peter Carl's brother Gustav and his wife Ida. Gustave and Ida reared, at "Garossen", two orphaned sisters of Eleanore von Rosenberg-Froelich, the sisters of LIbussa Froelich who was brought to America when she as 10 years old." According to Alma Julie's notes on these children, "Ida von Ruckeshall-von Rosenberg [the third wife wife of Peter Carl's oldest brother Gustav Gotthard] was repeatedly referred to as the aunt and Guardian of the Froelich girls, who became orphans and went to old Garossen and then to Russia as Governesses and never returned. They were sisters of Libussa Froelich who came to Texas, adopted by Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, and she never saw her immediate family again!" Peter Carl resigned his commission as a reserve lieutenant in the Prussian Reserve Army, and in October 1849 the family sailed from Bremen aboard the "Franziska"; they landed in Galveston in early December and traveled by mail coach and wagon down the coast to the mouth of the Brazos River. There they boarded the "Washington" and sailed up the Brazos to San Felipe de Austin. Carl and Wilhelm traveled to Bastrop and La Grange seeking to purchase a farm. Carl purchased the manor and 800 acres of Nassau Farm, a plantation in Fayette County that had been owned by the Adelsverein. He was a Freidenker (freethinker), and in his letters back to friends in Europe, he often wrote of the freedom he and his family enjoyed in Texas and America. Carl and Amanda prospered on the farm and stayed there until all the children were grown. In 1861 they moved to a small home in Round Top, where Carl stayed after Amanda's death in 1864. Near the time of his death, he stayed with his daughter, Caroline Meerscheidt, in La Grange. He died of typhoid fever in La Grange on October 19, 1866. Descendants in the first few generations after Peter Carl live in various towns around Fayette Co. (which sits about half-way between Houston and Austin), including La Grange, Round Top, Fayetteville, Colorado City. Family also lived in Hallettsville, just south in Lavaca Co.; in Bellville, just east in Austin Co.; and in towns just to the southeast in Colorado Co. There are some genealogical materials for this family in the "Andrew Forest Muir papers" at the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX (see Box 27, folder 4: "Baker, Joe H. Genealogy materials and notes on related families on central and southeast Texas: Menke, Bettis, von Rosenberg, Baker, Affleck, and Hass (late 18th through 20th centuries)"). I'm not sure which branch of the family this would be. [9]
Person ID	I20
Last Modified	30 Nov 2023

Father	Otto Bohlschwing von Rosenberg, b. 1768, Dünaburg, East Prussia (Daugavpils, Latvia) d. 17 Dec 1817 (Age 49 years)
Mother	Marie Wilhelmine von Stempel, b. 6 Jul 1768 d. 1831 (Age 62 years)
Marriage	21 Oct 1791	"Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Divorce	1803
Family ID	F180	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Spouse / Partner 1 Johanna Dorothea Froelich, b. 12 Jun 1797, Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovestk, Kaliningrad, Russia ) d. 30 Apr 1826, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) (Age 28 years)

Marriage 2 Jun 1819 Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) [10]

Memel is now named Klaipeda.

Children

	1. Carl Hermann von Rosenberg, b. 15 Apr 1820, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 23 Apr 1827, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) (Age 7 years)
+	2. Carl Wilhelm von Rosenberg, Sr., b. 14 Oct 1821, "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 4 Dec 1901, Austin, Travis Co., Texas (Age 80 years)
+	3. Johanna Carolina von Rosenberg, b. 22 May 1824, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 1856, "Nassau", Fayette Co., Texas (Age 31 years)
+	4. Johannes Carl von Rosenberg, b. 21 Mar 1826, "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 9 Nov 1906, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas (Age 80 years)

Family ID F11 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 30 Nov 2023

Spouse / Partner 2 Amanda Louise Henriette Fallier, b. 6 Sep 1806, "Carolinenhof", East Prussia d. 22 Apr 1864, Round Top, Fayette Co., Texas (Age 57 years)

Marriage 14 Feb 1830 Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia ) [11, 12]

In the "Evangelische Kirche," according to the marriage certificate

Children

+	1. Carl Eugen von Rosenberg, b. 13 Dec 1830, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 15 Oct 1913, Round Top, Fayette Co., Texas (Age 82 years)
+	2. Amanda Karoline von Rosenberg, b. 15 Jun 1832, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 29 Aug 1911, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas (Age 79 years)
	3. Carl Alexander "Axel" von Rosenberg, b. 27 Oct 1833, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 2 Oct 1864, Liberty Co., Texas (Age 30 years)
+	4. Carl August Walter von Rosenberg, b. 31 Aug 1839, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 15 Sep 1903, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas (Age 64 years)
	5. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Rosenberg, b. 11 Oct 1844, Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania ) d. 1844
+	6. Charlotte Wilhelmine Libussa (Froelich) Von Rosenberg, b. 9 Nov 1839, Ragnit, East Prussia (now Neman, Kaliningrad, Russia ) d. 26 Jun 1918, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Texas (Age 78 years)

Family ID F175 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 30 Nov 2023

Event Map

	Birth - 2 Oct 1794 - "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
	Emigration - - Bremen, Germany
	Marriage - 2 Jun 1819 - Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
	Marriage - 14 Feb 1830 - Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia )
	Immigration - Abt Mar 1850 - Galveston, Galveston Co., Texas
	Death - 19 Oct 1866 - La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas
	Burial - - Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas

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Documents

A von Rosenberg Divorce!
This document, by Alma Julie von Rosenberg, describes the children of Otto von Rosenberg (1766-1817) whom she was surprised to find, on reading the Froelich Book, had been divorced twice.

Headstones

Peter Carl von Rosenberg (d. 1866)

Sources

[S244] von Rosenberg family historians, The von Rosenberg Family: Descendants of Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg.
[S25] Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas On-line, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rosenberg-peter-carl-johann-von.
[S35] The Von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Boern: Toepperwein, 1949).
[S110] The Von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Austin: Nortex, 2001).
[S115] Ancestral Voices: The Letters of the Von Rosenberg and Meerscheidt Families (1844-1897), (Privately Printed).
[S109] The Von Rosenberg Family Record, (Waco).
[S116] Johanna Dorothea Froelich, Emigration of the von Rosenbergs to Texas, 1849, (Privately Printed), esp. 71-95, including some letters.
[S1155] Kurland Ritterschafts Archiv, von Rosenberg Geschlechts Register, tab. 6.
[S25] Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas On-line.
[S610] Reinhold Froelich, The Froelich Family (East Prussia), 25.
[S610] Reinhold Froelich, The Froelich Family (East Prussia), 72.
[S1144] Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971.

Birth	15 Apr 1820	Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Died	23 Apr 1827	Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania )

Father	Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, b. 2 Oct 1794, "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Mother	Johanna Dorothea Froelich, b. 12 Jun 1797, Tilsit, East Prussia (now Sovestk, Kaliningrad, Russia )
Married	2 Jun 1819	Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania )

Birth	27 Oct 1833	Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Died	2 Oct 1864	Liberty Co., Texas

Father	Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, b. 2 Oct 1794, "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Mother	Amanda Louise Henriette Fallier, b. 6 Sep 1806, "Carolinenhof", East Prussia
Married	14 Feb 1830	Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia )

Birth	11 Oct 1844	Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Died	1844

Father	Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg, b. 2 Oct 1794, "Eckitten", near Memel, East Prussia (Memel is now Klaipėda, Lithuania )
Mother	Amanda Louise Henriette Fallier, b. 6 Sep 1806, "Carolinenhof", East Prussia
Married	14 Feb 1830	Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia )

Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg[1]

Otto Bohlschwing von Rosenberg

Marie Wilhelmine von Stempel

Johanna Dorothea Froelich

Carl Hermann von Rosenberg

Carl Wilhelm von Rosenberg, Sr.

Johanna Carolina von Rosenberg

Johannes Carl von Rosenberg

Amanda Louise Henriette Fallier

Carl Eugen von Rosenberg

Amanda Karoline von Rosenberg

Carl Alexander "Axel" von Rosenberg

Carl August Walter von Rosenberg

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm von Rosenberg

Charlotte Wilhelmine Libussa (Froelich) Von Rosenberg

Peter Carl Johann von Rosenberg^[1]