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Family and Genealogy: Luxembourg

New Trier is one of the oldest towns in Minnesota and is named after the city located along the Mosel River on the border with Luxembourg. See more on New Trier and Landsberger family

The New Trier area was settled beginning in the mid 1800s by European immigrants, predominantly from German and Luxembourg. Reasons cited by the new settlers for coming to the heartland of America included the following: 1) The promise of free homesteads or cheap fertile, farmland in order to provide better living conditions for their families, 2) To seek a more favorable form of democratic government, and 3) As a way for young men to evade compulsory military service.

Direct patrimony of my Moes genealogy from Familysearch.org:
 Dates of immigration 1856 1862 1881

  1. Lamberti Moes –b. 1782 married
    Helena Shaack/Choque Deceased ​
    1. Franz/Franciscus Moes 1758 (1765)–1818 Olm  m 11 (5)9 1788 • L28L-9GM​
      Catherine Freyman/Freiman 3 20 1768 Kehlen (Angelsberg)– d 7 21 1832 L28L-9TX
      her parents: Margareta Thimesch d 12 30 1801 & Jean Baptiste Freymann d 1 18 76
      Franz and Catherine had three children:
      1. Marguerita Moes 5 29 1791 Olm – d 7 29 1865 St. Donatus
        married 1824 Olm to Charles Hoffman b 1800 d 10 23 1859
        emigrated 1846  Ship Iowa via New Orleans and Saint Louis         Children: Charles/Karl Dominick b1821, Nicolaus b 1829, Dominic, Jane Ann/Johanna 1835
      2. Jean Moes Freyman b. 12 21 1793 Olm
      3. Dominicus Moes b. 3 20  1797 Olm – d. 9 16 1865 New Trier
        married 11/18/1826 emigrated 7 12 1852
        Elisabetha Eleringer/Elringer 11 3 1801 (11 6 1803) Angelsburg – 1877
        They had nine children: (1865 Census, Eureka, Dakota) nine children listed Dominic, John, Michael, Sonia, Dominic, Catherine, Mary, Peter, Lewis/Louisa, Catherine, Margaret
          1. John/Jean Moes 11 25 1827 Olm emigrated 1851 married 1854 Dubuque d 11 19 1903
            Margaret Irrthum 2 2 1835– 9 24 1914 New Trier
            They had seven children: Mary, Elizabeth, Emma, Margaret, Peter, Dominick, Dominic, Helen, and Annie
              1. Angeline/Anna Annie Moes1871 New Trier –1922
                Frank Xavier Landsberger 1864–1942
                They had nine children: Maria, Albert, Ernest, Benjamin, Leo (Gottfried), George, Claude, Edward, Adolph ​
                1. Claude (Claudius) Edward Landsberger 1905–1996
                  married Blanche Evelyn Dvorak/Devorak 1913–1994
                  1. Me! Joseph Frank Landsberger b. 1945
                     partner Steve Shimer b. 1952