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Welcome to The Mënck. Family Page, which furnishes historical detail beyond the site index, exploring two generations of Mënck.s in the line of Johann H. Mënck. of Saxony, Germany.

5. Annie Mënck (Matthews) --Annie Mënck (1855 or 1860_1931) was the wife of Solomon Matthews and the mother of Anna M. Blann. She was of German descent on her father's side (Johann Mënck) and Dutch (Pallantine) on her mother's side (Anne Weatherwax, her grandmother). She had nine children and went blind during the middle of her life. Their children were: Norman, Olin, Helen & Seth (these two died young), Magdaline (Maggie), Maude, Berle, and Troy. Annie was skilled in knitting, weaving baskets and multi-colored rag-rugs. Her mother was Magdalene Craver. No siblings are recorded. Anna Blann lists her as Anna Dorothea Mënck.

6. Johann H. Mënck --The father of Annie Mënck, Johann married Catherine Craver, who died childless soon thereafter. He subsequently married her sister, Magdalene Craver (b. 1832), Annie's mother. Little further information is known on Johann or his German parents, except for Anna M. Blann's report that Johann came over from Germany in the early part of the nineteenth century, where he was a journeyman apprentice. A "John Mënck" appears in the 1850 Virginia census (but not 1840 or 1860), matching the time during which the Cravers were stationed in Virginia City. There is also a Henry Mëncke in Baltimore Co. MD in 1850 (Johann’s middle name?) LDS records the marriage of Johann H. Mënk and "Madeline" Craver as occurring on June 2, 1849 at the Concordia Lutheran Evangelical Church in Washington D.C. Finally, the 1880 Talbot Co., MD. census shows the couple in the Trappe/Easton area, listing Johann (John) Mënck as born in Saxony (Germany) in 1802. Attempts to trace Johann's ship passage to America (probably between 1820-45) or his birth in southern Germany have, so far, produced nothing definitive.