{"id":1588,"date":"2026-10-31T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1588"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T17:41:43","slug":"bange-family-line","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1588","title":{"rendered":"Bange family line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-topic-breadcrumb{font-size:.95rem;margin:0 0 22px}.family-topic-intro{max-width:68ch;line-height:1.7}.family-topic-menu{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(2,minmax(0,1fr));gap:14px;margin:26px 0}.family-topic-menu a{display:block;padding:18px;border:1px solid #c9cec8;border-radius:4px;background:#f5f2e9;text-decoration:none;color:#293d30;min-height:52px}.family-topic-menu strong{display:block;font-size:1.1rem}.family-topic-menu span{display:block;margin-top:6px;color:#4f574e;line-height:1.55;font-size:.95rem}.family-topic-related{border-top:1px solid #d8d2c5;margin-top:32px;padding-top:18px}.family-topic-related a{display:inline-block;margin:6px 22px 6px 0}.family-topic-breadcrumb a:focus-visible,.family-topic-menu a:focus-visible,.family-topic-related a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb){max-width:960px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb)>p{line-height:1.7}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) :is(h2,h3){scroll-margin-top:24px}.wp-block-post-content:has(.family-topic-breadcrumb) a{overflow-wrap:anywhere}@media(max-width:600px){.family-topic-menu{grid-template-columns:1fr}.family-topic-menu a{padding:16px}}<\/style>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">Home<\/a> \u203a <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">Bange family<\/a> \u203a Bange family line<\/nav>\n<p class=\"family-topic-intro\">Choose one family or research question. These are separate, short chapters; possible German and Swiss connections remain clearly qualified.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"family-topic-menu\" aria-label=\"Choose a topic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1589\"><strong>Joseph and Wilhelmina Bange<\/strong><span>Their parentage and Wilhelmina\u2019s Highland baptism and Reber family.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1590\"><strong>Henry Bange and Helena Angela Br\u00fcggen<\/strong><span>American marriage and death records, Helena\u2019s German family, and immigration questions.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1597\"><strong>Bokeloh and Riesenbeck research<\/strong><span>The proposed earlier Bange family, with the American link still conditional.<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bange-family-line\">The family line<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wedding portraits, plans for a first home on Le Fever Street, and two little daughters in a Salisbury census bring the Bange family into view. Joe Roling and Ida Bange\u2019s story opens a path to earlier Bange and Widmer generations in Illinois, Germany and Switzerland. Some overseas connections remain unresolved, and their questions are part of the story too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details family-topic-fold is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" id=\"widmer-walter-topics\"><summary>Widmer and Walter connections \u2014 choose a family<\/summary>\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-menu\" aria-label=\"Choose a topic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1592\"><strong>Jacob and Joseph Widmer in America<\/strong><span>Jacob\u2019s death record and the brother connection to Highland\u2019s florist.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1593\"><strong>A Swiss family to test<\/strong><span>The Rothenburg children and the remaining American identity questions.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1594\"><strong>Rosa Walter, Strobel and Widmer<\/strong><span>The 1871 marriage candidate, probate children and Juliana\u2019s later records.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1595\"><strong>Rosa\u2019s Walter and Buchm\u00fcller family<\/strong><span>The Philippsburg and \u00d6stringen records and Cecilia\u2019s American obituary bridge.<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1596\"><strong>Florence Widmer\u2019s family account<\/strong><span>Read the complete recollection with its original caution and source note.<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<nav class=\"family-topic-related\" aria-label=\"Related pages\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=11\">\u2190 Bange family<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1604\">Records and source notes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1605\">Bange maps<\/a><\/nav>\n\n\n<style>.family-topic-fold{border:1px solid #d8d2c5;border-radius:4px;padding:14px 18px;margin:18px 0}.family-topic-fold>summary{cursor:pointer;font-weight:600;line-height:1.5}.family-topic-fold>summary:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}.family-topic-fold>.family-topic-menu{margin-bottom:8px}.family-topic-fold{scroll-margin-top:24px}<\/style>\n<script>(function(){function revealTopicTarget(){var name;try{name=decodeURIComponent(window.location.hash.slice(1));}catch(e){return;}if(!name){return;}var target=document.getElementById(name);if(!target){return;}var node=target;while(node){if(node.tagName==='DETAILS'){node.open=true;}node=node.parentElement;}}revealTopicTarget();window.addEventListener('hashchange',revealTopicTarget);})();<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \u203a Bange family \u203a Bange family line Choose one family or research question. These are separate, short chapters; possible German and Swiss connections remain clearly qualified. Joseph and Wilhelmina BangeTheir parentage and Wilhelmina\u2019s Highland baptism and Reber family.Henry Bange and Helena Angela Br\u00fcggenAmerican marriage and death records, Helena\u2019s German family, and immigration questions.Bokeloh and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1588","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1588\/revisions\/1763"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}