Notes for John Peter Capesius (Peter): Found in the Manders book while in St. Donatus the summer of 2002 informat ion about John Capesius' (1797) emigration with family to Iowa. They trav eled on The Sea Lion. They left from Antwerp, Belgium in 1850 and arriv ed in New Orleans on June 10, 1850. They then probably took a boat up t he Mississippi to Iowa. John Capesius and his wife, Anna, were 53 years o ld at that time. The children that went with them are: Peter, 28, Ann a, 22, John, 25, Franz (John Peter), 18, Nicolas, 13, and Johanna, 13. Do minique Forret, Anna's future husband was on the boat also. It appears th at Petrus , 32, did not go with them.
More About John Peter Capesius (Peter) and Anna Margaretha Bechen: Marriage: February 22, 1819, Sandweiler, Luxembourg. Marriage license: Have copy of actual marriage license; this was collected at the Sandweiler Community Administration.
Marriage Notes for John Peter Capesius (Peter) and Anna Margaretha Bechen: This information was collected at the Sandweiler Community Administration Was helped by Northum Patrick
Children of John Peter Capesius (Peter) and Anna Margaretha Bechen are:
+Anna Marie Capesius, b. August 03, 1822, Sandweilder, Luxembourg, copy of birth certificate, d. June 24, 1889, Bellevue, Iowa.
+John Peter Capesius, b. December 10, 1824, Sandweiler, Luxembourg, d. October 25, 1880, Spruce Creek, Iowa; have copy of will.
Anna Catherine Capesius, b. March 15, 1828, Actual copy from Sandweiler, d. September 08, 1850, St. Donatus, Iowa.
+John* Peter (Frank) Capesius, b. May 18, 1831, Born in Sandweiler, Luxembourg; his birth certificate says Johann Peter. His name on the ship's list was Franz and he seemed to be called Frank after that, d. September 01, 1894, Spruce Creek, Iowa.
+Nicolas Capesius, b. August 07, 1834, Sandweilder, Luxembourg, d. 1901, Algona, Iowa.
John Peter Capesius (Peter) (b. 1794, d. 1877)
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