born on 16th January 1845 at Hollen, Westphalia, house No. 22
 
died on 19th July 1917 at Isselhorst, Westphalia, house No. 61
 
 
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Heitmann was a son of Friedrich Christian Heitmann, from Hollen 22, and of Christine Elisabeth Reckmann from Steinhagen.
 
He was married to

from Isselhorst 61 and had 6 Kinder with her; the fifth of whom was

. Wilhelm Heitmann had a nail-smithy, a little manufactory where special nails were produced. A high demand for them came from the industrial Ruhr region.
 
The last

in 1917, few months before his death, survived the decades and can be read and looked at.

For his whole lifetime Wilhelm Heitmann never entered a boat. He said: &dbquo;water has no timbers“. He owned a "high-bike" and, together with a friend and neighbour,  invented a

(patented, picture see

).

Friedrich

Wilhelm Heitmann