He married Maria Theresa Hoge on August 15, 1853 in Lingen at the Church of St. Bonifatius.

The groom was born on December 2, 1820 in Seeburg bei Göttingen.
The bride was born on July 18, 1833 in Bockroden, Kreis Ibbenbüren.

Johannes Andreas died on July 8, 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Maria Theresa died on December 26, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts.

They were the parents of the following children:¹

Joahann Henricus ²

was born on Jan. 14, 1855 in Lingen.
He married Anna K. Ulrich on June 14, 1881 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.

Maria Engelina Veronika

was born on May 1, 1857.
She married John A. Dieckert on February 23, 1879.
She died on June 12, 1948 in New York.

Maria Helena

was born in 1859.
She married Peter Strassel on May 26, 1896 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Johann Bernhard

was born on September 17, 1861.
He married Henrietta A. M. Fiekers on July 24, 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.
He died in Brooklyn, New York.

Conrad Gerhard Gottfried ³

was born on August 19, 1863.
He married Augusta Zimmer on April 27, 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.
He died on September 20, 1926.

Anna Dorothea

was born on Feb. 12, 1866.
She married (1) Gerhard Hermann Wessling ⁴ on June 17, 1888 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church and
                     (2) Bernard J. Hovestadt in 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.
She died on March 2, 1943.

Antonia Engelina

was born on September 1, 1869.
She married John Haller on October 20, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.

Johannes Wilhelm

was born on June 7, 1871.
He died on October 2, 1871.

Lorenz Mathias ⁵

was born on November 10, 1873.
He married (1) Mary Mahoney, who died on June 9, 1907, on May 13, 1898 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.
                   (2) Catherine (Lanahan) Gleason on November 28, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.
He died on November 23, 1932.

Gerhard Friedrich ⁶

was born on January 4, 1875.
He married Minnie (Marshall) Danforth on May 2, 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts at Holy Trinity Church.
He died on October 22, 1951.

Some of the above information was provided by Dorothy Meehan.

 1. All of the children were born in Lingen.

 2. His immigration voyage was from Bremen to New York aboard the "Deutschland", which arrived on October 28, 1872.

 3. According to some federal census returns he immigrated circa 1880.

 4. According to the civil records his name was John G. Wessling.

 5. According to the naturalization records he arrived in New York during "the middle" of October, 1881.

 6. According to the naturalization records he arrived in New York on May 1, 1884.