François Henri Vonflie

1786-1867 · Gundolsheim, Haut-Rhin, France

Born 1786, Gundolsheim, Haut-Rhin, France

Died 1867

Children include Henri

François Henri Vonflie was a day laborer at Gundolsheim, a village of the Haut-Rhin below the Vosges. The plaque over his grave at Castroville gives his birth as 9 April 1786. When his son Henry was born on 5 November 1816, he was twenty-eight by the birth record, which names the boy's mother as Marguerite Ballmer, his wife.

In the winter of 1848, at sixty-two, he left Gundolsheim with Marguerite, their son Henri and his family, and a daughter, Marie Anne, and her husband. The Gironde landed them at New Orleans on 7 February 1849, where the list gave him and his wife each as sixty-six. They went on to Henri Castro's colony at Castroville.

Marguerite died in April 1850. His son was killed by Indians in 1855, after his son's wife had died, and in 1860, by a compiled family record, the old man was living in Castroville with his three orphaned grandchildren. He died on 21 March 1867, in his eighty-first year, and was buried in the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery at Castroville.

Children

Henri Vonflie 1816-1855

Sources

État civil, Gundolsheim (Haut-Rhin), naissances 1816, act no. 18, Archives d'Alsace; image posted to Find a Grave memorial 37159843, 2022.

St. Louis Cemetery, Castroville, Medina County, Texas; Find a Grave memorial 37159489, photograph added 2011.

Passenger list of the ship Gironde, Havre to New Orleans, sworn 7 February 1849, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, NARA M259, roll 29; transcription by the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

Gundolsheim birth act no. 18, 5 November 1816; Gironde passenger list, 7 February 1849; Vonflie and Ballmer plaque, St. Louis Cemetery, Castroville; Find a Grave memorials 37159580 and 37159843

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