Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Mariah "Mary" Maria" Clemens[1, 2]

Female 1834 - 1912  (78 years)


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  • Name Mariah "Mary" Maria" Clemens 
    Born 28 Apr 1834  North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4, 5
    Gender Female 
    Name Maria Clemens 
    Name Mariah "Mary" Maria" Brightrall 
    Residence 1852  North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Residence 1861  North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Lutheran 
    Eby ID Number 00023-1894 
    Died 16 Oct 1912  [5
    Buried Prairieville Cemetery, Prairieville, Barry, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I17267  Generations
    Last Modified 12 May 2024 

    Father Henry Lederach Clemens,   b. 25 Nov 1802, , Chester Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jun 1876, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Nancy Bricker,   b. 21 Nov 1802, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Apr 1846, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years) 
    Family ID F3452  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Father Henry Lederach Clemens,   b. 25 Nov 1802, , Chester Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Jun 1876, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Dodge,   b. 8 Jun 1816, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 May 1872  (Age 55 years) 
    Married Aft 1846  [4
    Family ID F4519  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family George Brightrall,   b. 28 Aug 1828, Katzweiler, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Nov 1910  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 26 Dec 1852  Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8
    Children 
     1. William Clemens Brightrall,   b. 11 Jan 1856, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Feb 1935, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     2. Henry Clemens Brightrall,   b. 14 Jul 1856, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Jun 1935, Westminster Twp., Middlesex Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     3. Nancy Barbara Henrigle,   b. 1858, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Lydia Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Brightrall,   b. 27 Nov 1860, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Mar 1940, Prairieville, Barry, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     5. George Oscar Brightrall,   b. 18 Feb 1869, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Mar 1940  (Age 71 years)
    Last Modified 13 May 2024 
    Family ID F4523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Maria Clemens, "was born April 28th, 1834. She is married to George Hellrigel. They reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is engaged in some manufacturing establishment. No report in regard to family."


      Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

  • Sources 
    1. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 443.

    2. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 313.

    3. [S1778] Census - ON, Waterloo, North Dumfries - 1861, Div 9 Page 66.

    4. [S894] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1861, Sect. 11 Page 80.

    5. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20270569/mariah-brightrall.

    6. [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library.
      George Hellriagel, shoemaker of Dumfries married 26 Dec 1852 in Greenbush by banns to Mary Clemmens of Waterloo T. wit: Wilh. Schirhardt of Dumfries & Elias Clemmens of Dumfries

    7. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Frederick W. Bindemann, Minister of The United Lutheran and German Reformed Protestant Church, Greenbush, Waterloo Twp., 1 Jan. 1852 - 1 Jan. 1853 #226.

    8. [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose.
      CLEMENS, Maria married 26 Dec 1852 Waterloo. To Georg HELLERIEGEL, Dumfries. minister F.W. Bindemann newspaper date 6 Jan 1853 Pg: 1

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 28 Apr 1834 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1852 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 26 Dec 1852 - Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lutheran - 1861 - North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Prairieville Cemetery, Prairieville, Barry, Michigan, United States Link to Google Earth
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