Henry Kean and Henrietta Catharine Antra

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Husband Henry Kean ¹

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           Born:  - Gottingen, Prussia
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           Died: Abt 1809 - ? Erie, Erie Co, PA
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Henrietta Catharine Antra ¹

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            AKA: Catherine Ondrum 2
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   Other Spouse: Capt. John Gehr (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Conrad Kean ³

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            AKA: Conrad Keen 1
           Born: 15 Sep 1800 - Erie, Erie Co, PA 1
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           Died: Abt 1847
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         Spouse: Susannah Broadt (      -      ) 1

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2 M Frederick Kean ¹

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           Born:  - Erie, Erie Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Henry Kean

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He was a native of Gottingen, Prussia, and there learned the trade of a cabinet-maker. About the time he finished his apprenticeship he was engaged doing some work for a Mr. Antra, a man of wealth and distinction; became acquainted with Mr. Antra’s beautiful and accomplished daughter, who had a short time before graduated from the University of Gottingen. This acquaintance ripened into a deep and confiding love for each other. As soon as the father found out the state of affairs, he quickly banished the young man from his premises. The young folks met, however, and planned an elopement, which they soon carried out. Disguised as peasants, they secured passage on an English ship about to sail for America, and when three days out of port were married by the ship’s chaplain. They settled in Erie, Pennsylvania, where their two children were born. About the year 1809 Henry Kean died, leaving his wife and children in poverty and in a strange land. The widow subsequently married John Gehr, a Captain in the war of 1812-14 (she being at the time of this event but twenty-two and he forty-two years of age; they both lived to be over eighty years old.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 988.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 877.

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 987.