Born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, and currently a resident of Virginia, Bob Dierker is hard at work on this Dierker family tree. Many Dierkers in America are related, even though the connections have not been made. Especially those who are, or were Roman Catholic. A few recently uncovered facts about our roots:JOHANN CASPAR HEINRICH DIERKER AND HELENA STEMMERICH were born in Germany. They married July 17,1853 in St. Gertrud’s church, They had six children, all born in Essen, but raised in the Akron and Cleveland area.
Maria Claire, christened Wilhelmina Elisabeth, (3/27/1858-?)
Helen, christened Christina Helena, (6/23/1860-11/25/1920)
Johanna, Bernardina Johanna Henrietta,(9/24/1862- 2/26/1934
Joseph John, christened Johann Joseph, (5/10/1864-4/25/1953
Elizabeth Gertrud Johanna (11/6/1865 - ?)
Theodore Bernard Dierker (4/2/1867-9/11/1925)
Johann was born in Glane, Sentrup, near Bad Iburg, just south of Osnabrueck, on December 16,1821, the child of Conrad David Dierker (1783-1841) and Katharina Maria Mindrup (1786-1846). He died January 17, 1881, and is buried in Essen. Conrad David was the son of Anna Maria Dierker (1753-1807) and her second husband, Heinrich Grodhues Dierker (1741-1825). As was customary at the time, Heinrich Grodhues took the Dierker name from his wife, the property owner, Anna Maria Dierker. Anna Maria had eleven children altogether (her first husband, Johann Hanrath, also took the Dierker name), and so Anna is responsible for many, many Dierker descendants who now comprise the extended Dierker Family Tree. Anna was the daughter of Jodokus (Jobst) Dierker (1718-1761) and Maria Elisabeth Brinker (d1777). Jodukus Jobst was the son of Herman Dierker (1664-1752) and Margareth Katherine Brokeland (1664 -1719). Herman was the son of Johann Dierker (1624-1686) and Maria Wandmaker (d 1672).
Descendants of Johann have continuously occupied the Dierker farm in Sentrup, at least since 1624. A publication in Glane reports a Dierker presence in the area as early as 1338, and the farm itself was believed to be the site of a Saxon village perhaps as early as the 800’s.
Helena Stemmerich is believed to have been born in Essen in 1822, the child of Johann Stemmerich and Elisabeth Feldhiese or Feldhegen. She died sometime between 1892 and 1895 and is buried in a cemetery at E.71st Street and Woodland Ave. in Cleveland, Ohio. Efforts to find records of her death or burial have been futile to date.
A copy of the complete Dierker family tree is available on the Internet at the Family Tree Maker and Ancestry.com web sites.
This branch of the Dierker tree has been positively connected to Dierker family trees of other descendants of Anna Maria Dierker, (1753-1807), as a result of the research efforts of Robert Dierker (this branch); Brenda Dierker Walker (Missouri); Stefan Dierker (Troisdorf, Germany); and Erika Dierker Giftge (Germany, but not a member of this Dierker tree). A combined tree, as well as photographs of the Dierker farm in Sentrup, is available on the Internet.
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