9 Sept 2018: Genealogy and the search for truth September 9, 2018

There’s always been this mystery as to why my great grandparents were separated. I mean, it had to have been something pretty bad for a woman to kick her husband out of the house back in the early 1900’s.  But for all my digging, I could never find anything that gave me a clue as to what the circumstances were in their marriage that such drastic measures were needed to be taken.

Then last week my cousin sent me a box containing an old purse (old enough that it might have belonged to my great-grandmother Amalia.) Inside the purse were a bunch of old newspaper clippings in German. Amalia, my great-grandmother, was born in Slovakia, but she married John Kranz who was born in Germany.  The article I found in the purse was probably from a German newspaper published in Brooklyn, NY circa 1915.

Here is what my translation produced.  Thank you Google Translate 🙂

Wife Beater

Huge blacksmith abused a feeble frail woman

Tolerated the children

An extremely sad girl from married life yesterday appeared before Judge Kelln in the Supreme Court, when Mrs. Amelia Kranz brought a lawsuit to break up her marital union with the blacksmith John Kranz of No. 355 Stagg Str. The man is a dog of over 200 pounds bodyweight, the complainant, who weighs about 90-100 pounds, looks sickly and weak. The contrast was particularly acute when the poor mistress said in a thin voice that this brutal giant had terrorized and maltreated her for years. For weeks her face and lips would have been swollen by the constant blows of his fist. Often he would issue death threats against them, and those mitigations and threats would only have had the effect of extracting from the woman a few hundred dollars that she had saved during her marriage.

For the sake of her four children, aged from three to fourteen, Mrs. Kranz went on, she would have endured that torment for years, but now she could undermine her health and she had reached the end of her strength. In his defense, Kranz also condemns his wife for cruelty, claiming among other things that she had not given him sufficient food which stood in the sharpest contrast to his blooming, well-groomed appearance. The judge stated that he could not admit, under the circumstances, that the woman should take the legal costs of her small savings, and awarded her $30 lawyer’s fees. As Alimentation payment, Kranz has the option between $40 per month or home rental payment and $6 (The last few words were cut off.)

This is John and Amalia Kranz. He looks like a large guy, but I’m not sure I’d call him a giant. I don’t suppose we’ll ever really know the truth, but this certainly sheds an interesting light on what their home life may have been like. When I sent this translation to my cousin I told her that genealogy is, in many ways, the search for truth, and often times that truth isn’t as pretty as we might like it to be. But I’d rather know the truth of my ancestors. I’d rather know that my great-grandmother had the courage to stand up for herself and her children. She was obviously a very brave woman.

-Jennifer

17 Dec 2016: Don’t believe everything you read … on a death certificate. December 17, 2016

As part of my research for my new genealogy “how to” book, I ordered copies of my great grandparents (John and Amalia Kranz) death certificates from the City of New York Department of Records.  What I received in the mail, quite frankly, shocked me.  Amalia’s wasn’t surprising but what was listed on John’s is nothing short of baffling.

Death Certificate of John Kranz

What is so disturbing is the names listed for his parents, Safaya Kranz and Elizabeth Schmidt.  These are not the names of John’s parents.  His parents were Francisci Xaverii Kranz and Elizabeth Hahn.  Yes, this is the correct death certificate for John.  It has his correct dates of birth and death, has his place of birth and profession correct.  It even has his correct address.

So who are this Safaya and wife?

I can only think that at the time of his death, no family was around to provide the correct information to the doctor about John’s parents. We know that John and his wife, Amalia, were estranged and didn’t have contact for long periods of time.  The back of the certificate says that his daughter (my grandmother) Elsie was the one who hired the undertaker to take his body.  His wife was still alive at this time so I have to assume that if she left that task to her daughter to handle, she was not on speaking terms with her husband when he died. I’m thinking the names of his parents on this certificate are nothing more than the result of the doctor wanting to fill in the blanks.

I really wish I was able to make out his cause of death. There is a family story that John died from the result of injuries he suffered while falling out of a cherry tree while picking cherries to make wine.  I heard he hit his head, but the certificate says that he was admitted to Kings County Hospital on June 28th 1920 and died there on September 13th.  That’s a long stay for a head injury.

Here’s John’s wife Amalia’s death certificate:

Death Certificate of Amalia Kranz

Nothing too surprising here.  Says she died of stomach cancer, sadly that seems to run on both sides of my family.

If anyone is able to decipher the cause of death on John’s certificate, I’d love to hear from you!

-Jennifer

15 Oct 2016: A postcard from the past October 15, 2016

A few weeks ago my cousin, Sharon, mailed me an old postcard she’d come across.  It’s from our great-uncle Frederick Kranz to our great grand father John Kranz.  The card  was sent from Cristobal, Panama on December 1, 1919.  Here it is:

The caption on the front of the card says “Looking Through arches showing guard gates Pedro Miguel, Panama Canal.”

The note on the back of the card says “Monday 12/1/19 Dear Father, Have arrived safe at Colon, Panama and am leaving for New York Thursday Dec 4. I will expect to see you about the 12th of December.”  It is addresses to Mr. John Kranz, 194 Elizabeth Street C/O Empire Wagon Works, New York, U.S.A.

I don’t know as much as I wish I did about what happened to my Kranz cousins.  Unfortunately I never had to the opportunity to sit down with my Grandmother when I had the interest to know the answers to these questions.  Sadly now that she’s gone, I’m left with holes in my understanding of what happened to my greater Kranz family relatives.  When it came to my grandmother’s brother Fred, I suspected he was the Fred Kranz I found on this ships manifest/crew listing I discovered on ancestry.com, but was never 100% certain until Sharon mailed me this postcard.

According to these papers, Frederick Kranz is listed an ordinary seaman, age 20, from America, height 5’9, weight 158, sailing on the General W.C. Gorgas arriving in the port of New York on October 13, 1919 from Cristobal, Canal Zone.  So these papers confirm that Fred was sailing on the General W.C. Gorgas at the same time as the postcard was sent.  It also confirmed that my great Grandfather did work at the Empire Wagon Works.  He was a blacksmith and made part for wagon wheels, or so my father always said.

Here’s a picture of the General W.C. Gorgas, the ship Fred was sailing back and from Panama to New York on back in 1919:

General W.C. Gorgas

Ironically enough, I too have been through the Panama Canal, four times no less!  I used to work on a small cruise ship and we sailed through the canal on our Costa Rica/Panama cruises.  I even remember sailing through the Pedro Miguel locks, one of the three locks you pass through while sailing the Panama Canal.  Here’s some pictures I took of the Canal when I sailed through back in the mid 1990’s:

The Panama Canal as seen from the deck of the Yorktown Clipper

I doubt what I saw a I sailed through the canal was much different from what Fred saw.  It’s pretty old school technology.  I wish I’d known of his adventures on the canal when I was there.  I do remember wondering if I was the first in my family to go that far south in the world.  Looks like I wasn’t.  Fred died back in 1984.  I never met him so I have no memories of this man who led such an interesting life. The lesson to be learned here is to ask those questions of your relatives now, before it’s too late to discover the interesting life stories of the generations that came before us.

-Jennifer

31 Jul 2011 – Kranz family of Arzheim, Germany July 31, 2011

I haven’t  posted in a while as I’ve been busy collecting and organizing records that I collected from Arzheim, Germany on my family.    I ordered microfilms through my local Orlando Family History Center of records I had found on www.familysearch.org.  I was amazed at the vast amount of information I was able to collect.

Here are some of the marriage records I found for Francisci Xavierii Kranz (also known as Haver Kranz) and his wife Elisabeth Hahn and their children.

Marriage Record for Francisci Xavierii Kranz  and his wife Elisabeth Hahn: April 11, 1872

Marriage Record for John Kranz (Son of Haver and Elisabeth) and Amalia Fabrizi from Manhattan, NY: January 23, 1898

Marriage record of Katharine Kranz (Daughter of Haver and Elisabeth) and Franz Karl Ludwig: February 14, 1900

Marriage record of Adam Kranz (Son of Haver and Elisabeth) and Mina Kieser: October 27, 1900

Marriage record of Walburga Kranz (Daughter of Haver and Elisabeth) and Caroluz Linz: December 30, 1902

Marriage record of Stephen Kranz (son of Haver and Elisabeth) and Magdalena Lederle: March 24, 1926

Marriage of Robert Kranz (Son of Haver & Elisabeth) and Francesca Lederle (Sister of Magdalena above): May 25, 1917

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Here are the marriage records I found for the children of Robert Kranz and Francesca Lederle in Arzheim, Germany:

Marriage Record for Otto Kranz (son of Robert and Francesca Lederle) and Josefina Diemer: July 17, 1950

Marriage Record for Elisabeth Kranz (daughter of Robert & Francesca Lederle) and Julius Josefus Reebholz:        Sepember 15, 1939

Marriage Record forWalburga Kranz (Daughter of Robert and Francesca Lederle) and Carl Heinz Mehnert: July 21, 1945

Marriage Record for Julianna Joanne Kranz (daughter of Robert and Francesca Lederle) and Kurt Becker: February 16, 1950

Marriage Record for Irmgard Kranz (daughter of Robert and Francesca Lederle) and Erick Josef Wayand: August 23, 1951

Marriage Record for Heinz Kranz (son of Robert and Francesca Lederle) and Cecelia M Rabold: August 30, 1952

Feb 9, 2011 – Hahn Family of Arzheim & Landau In Pfalz, Germany February 9, 2011

I spent last night on www.familysearch.org looking for records on the Hahn side of my family.  This includes the last names of Koeffler, Hahn, Kranz, Risberger, Durby, Schulz and the towns of Arzheim, Landau in Pfalz and Neuleiningen which are all in Bavaria / Bayern , Germany.

Here are some of the records I found.  Are you saying, Boy that’s a lot of confusing info!  Yes, I agree so here is that info in a report that puts it in a more organized fashion:Georgi Petri Koeffler Report

 

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Apollonia Kaeffler … Gender: Female … Birth Date: 31 Oct 1771 … Birthplace: Sankt Maria Landau (Pfalz), Rheinland, Germany … Father’s Name: Michael Kaeffler … Mother’s Name: Maria Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I05016-7 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 488337 … Reference Number: 326-2B

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Susanna Margaretha Kaeffler … Gender: Female … Birth Date: 31 Oct 1771 … Birthplace: Sankt Maria Landau (Pfalz), Rheinland, Germany … Father’s Name: Michael Kaeffler … Mother’s Name: Maria Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I05016-7 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 488337 … Reference Number: 326-2A

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Thomas Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Dec 1750, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 05 Dec 1750 … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Anna Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 118

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Thomas Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Dec 1750, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Anna Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 22 May 1763, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Christina Koeffler  … Gender: Female .. Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Aug 1749 … Baptism/Christening Place: Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina .. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Maria Christina Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Aug 1749, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 17 Aug 1749 … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina .. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 108

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Catharina Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 17 Dec 1758, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 16 Dec 1758 … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 165

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Catharina Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 17 Dec 1758, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Magdalena Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Jun 1756, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Catharina Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Jul 1752, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Maria Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Anna Rosina Keffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Jun 1760, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany… Father’s Name: Michaelis Keffler … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505 … Reference Number: p 176

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Anna Rosina Keffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Jun 1760, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Keffler … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 22 May 1763  … Baptism/Christening Place: Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 191

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Turbi  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Oct 1778, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany… Birth Date: 30 Oct 1778 … Birthplace: Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Alexandri Turbi  … Mother’s Name: Christinae Koeffler … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-3  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 488338  … Reference Number: 2:330D0X

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Turbi  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Oct 1778, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Alexandri Turbi  … Mother’s Name: Christinae Koeffler  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Catharina Dourby  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Jul 1777, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Death Date: 06 Sep 1777  … Father’s Name: Alexandri Dourby  … Mother’s Name: Christinae Koeffler  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Margaritha Dourby  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 21 May 1780 … Baptism/Christening Place: Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria… Death Date: 09 May 1837 … Father’s Name: Alexandri Dourby  … Mother’s Name: Mariae Christinae Koeffler … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Josephus Durby  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 14 Nov 1791, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Allexandri Durby  … Mother’s Name: Christinae Koeffler … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-9  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488339

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Thomas Dourby  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 15 Jul 1786, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany… Birth Date: 15 Jul 1786 … Birthplace: Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria  … Father’s Name: Allexandri Dourby  … Mother’s Name: Christinae Kaeffler  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-3  … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 488338  … Reference Number: 2:330WJR

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Thomas Dourby  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 15 Jul 1786, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Allexandri Dourby  … Mother’s Name: Christinae Kaeffler … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Anna Catharina Dourbi  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Jul 1784, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Alexandri Dourbi  … Mother’s Name: Annae Christinae Kefler … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Michael Keffler  … Gender: Male  … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Feb 1723, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Keffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy   … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 89

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Michael Keffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Feb 1723, Katholisch, Neuleinengen, Pfalz, Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Keffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929  … Groom’s Name: Joannes Michael Koeffler  … Bride’s Name: Maria Catharina Risberger … Marriage Date: 17 Sep 1748  … Marriage Place: Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany  …. Groom’s Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Koeffler … Bride’s Father’s Name: Valentini Risberger  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Catharina Rissberger  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Mar 1728, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Valentini Rissberger  …Mother’s Name: Maria Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 126

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Catharina Rissberger  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Mar 1728, Katholisch, Neuleinengen, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Valentini Rissberger  … Mother’s Name: Maria Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Joannes Casparus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Apr 1754, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 04 Apr 1754  … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 138

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Casparus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Apr 1754, Katholisch, Neuleinengen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Magdalena Koeffler  … Gender: Female  .. Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Jun 1756, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 30 Jun 1756 … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 400505  … Reference Number: p 151

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Magdalena Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Jun 1756, Katholisch, Neuleinengen, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97636-1  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400505

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Catharina Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 19 Oct 1781, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pflaz, Bavaria … Death Date: 27 Nov 1781 … Father’s Name: Joannis Caspari Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Mariae Magdalenae Reis … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Catharina Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 01 Feb 1788, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pflaz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Caspari Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Magdalenae Reis  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-9  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488339

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Bernardus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 07 Oct 1779, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 07 Oct 1779, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria  … Father’s Name: Joannis Caspari Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Magdalenae Reis … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-3  … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 488338  … Reference Number: 2:330FMC

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Bernardus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 07 Oct 1779, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pflaz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Joannis Caspari Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Magdalenae Reis  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Margaretha Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 20 Feb 1785, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pflaz, Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Caspari Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Magdalenae Reis  .. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Henericus Kaeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 23 Nov 1782, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany .. Birth Date: 22 Nov 1782, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Caspari Kaeffler  … Mother’s Name: Magdalenae Reiss … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-3  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 488338  … Reference Number: 2:330MXQ

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Henericus Kaeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 23 Nov 1782, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pflaz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Caspari Kaeffler  … Mother’s Name: Magdalenae Reiss … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929  … Groom’s Name: Henricum Koeffler  … Bride’s Name: Annam Mariam Siener … Marriage Date: 18 Jan 1815, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Groom’s Father’s Name: Caspari Koeffler  … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Mariae Magdalenae Reis  .. Bride’s Father’s Name: Francisci Josephi Siener  … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Stern  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M97238-4  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367652

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Jacobus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Dec 1781, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 12 Dec 1781, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria  … Father’s Name: Thomae Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Margarithae Drexler … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-3  … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 488338  … Reference Number: 2:330LCN

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Jacobus Koeffler  … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Dec 1781, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Margarithae Drexler  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-8  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488338

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Magdalena Koeffler  … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 27 Dec 1789, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Thomae Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Margarethae Drexler  .. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97239-9  … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 488339

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 …. Name: Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 29 May 1811, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 28 May 1811, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margaritae Durby … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 367649  … Reference Number: 2:32X0D6

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 29 May 1811, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margaritae Durby … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367649

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Rudolffus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Apr 1812, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany .. Birth Date: 20 Apr 1812, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari  … Father’s Name: Rudolffi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margaretae Durby … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 367649 … Reference Number: 2:32X1TK

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Rudolffus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Apr 1812, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolffi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margaretae Durby … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367649

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Petrus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Feb 1814, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 17 Feb 1814, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margarethae Turpie  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 367649 … Reference Number: 2:32X4WB

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Petrus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Feb 1814, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margarethae Turpie  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367649

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Michael Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 09 Feb 1820, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany  … Birth Date: 08 Feb 1820, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margarethae Turbie  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 367649 … Reference Number: 2:32XHVN

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Michael Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 09 Feb 1820, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Margarethae Turbie  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367649

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Margaretha Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Oct 1830, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Johannis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Catharinae Noether … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Ludovica Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 28 Oct 1838, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Joannis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Catharinae Noether … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Jacobus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Dec 1831, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 11 Dec 1831, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany… Father’s Name: Johannis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Catharinae Nether … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32Z9B6

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Jacobus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Dec 1831, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Johannis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Catharinae Nether … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 16 Aug 1836, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 15 Aug 1836, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany .. Father’s Name: Joannis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Catharinae Nether  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32ZN2B

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 16 Aug 1836, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Joannis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Catharinae Nether  .. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Philippus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Mar 1838, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 10 Mar 1838, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32ZR2Q

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Philippus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Mar 1838, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Hypolitus Hahn … Gender: Male  … Baptism/Christening Date: 29 Apr 1841, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 27 Apr 1841, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32ZZ1D

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Hypolitus Hahn … Gender: Male  … Baptism/Christening Date: 29 Apr 1841, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Catharina Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 14 May 1839, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 10 Feb 1847, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Nov 1852, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Elisabetha Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 30 Sep 1845, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria .. Death Date: 26 Mar 1846  … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 …Name: Elisabetha Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 01 Sep 1850, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Barbara Hahn … Gender: Female  … Baptism/Christening Date: 08 Aug 1844,  Roemisch-Katholische, Arzheim, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K99727-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400444

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Jacobus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 23 May 1842 , Roemisch-Katholische, Arzheim, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J99727-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 400444

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Amalia Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Mar 1849, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Rudolphi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Susannae Muller …. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Catharina Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 17 Aug 1843, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franziscus Josephus Joannes Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 20 Sep 1857, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 … Groom’s Name: Franziscum Josephum Joannem Hahn  … Bride’s Name: Annam Mariam Gerach  … Marriage Date: 02 Oct 1880, Katholisch, Queichheim, Pfalz, Bavaria … Groom’s Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Bride’s Father’s Name: Andreae Gerach … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Catharinae Mueller  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M97242-3 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 400440

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male .. Baptism/Christening Date: 01 Nov 1850, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Thomas Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 25 Apr 1845, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria .. Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Susanna Hahn … Gender: Female  .. Baptism/Christening Date: 10 Mar 1859, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 … Groom’s Name: Philipp Uebel … Groom’s Birth Date: 03 Feb 1851 … Groom’s Birthplace: Nussdorf … Bride’s Name: Susanna Hahn … Bride’s Birth Date: 28 Feb 1859 … Bride’s Birthplace: Landau  … Marriage Date: 03 Jul 1886, Nußdorf (Ba. Landau), Bayern, Germany … Groom’s Father’s Name: Friedrich Uebel … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Katharina Stübinger  … Bride’s Father’s Name: Michael Hahn … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Elisabetha Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M97755-4 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 193088 … Reference Number: 12

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Ludovica Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Jun 1860, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  …. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Ludovica Hahn … Gender: Female  … Baptism/Christening Date: 24 Sep 1848, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Eva Catharina Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 07 Jul 1856, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 … Groom’s Name: Carolum Augustum Gleizes … Bride’s Name: Evam Catharinam Hahn … Marriage Date: 26 Nov 1881, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Groom’s Father’s Name: Julii Augusti Gleizes … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Amaliae Carolinae Hausrath  … Bride’s Father’s Name: Michaelis Hahn … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M97238-5 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367653

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 .. Name: Joannes Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 28 Aug 1835, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 27 Aug 1835, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film Number: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32ZKQC

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Rudolphus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 28 Aug 1835, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Petrus Hahn … Gender: Male  … Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Nov 1841, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 01 Nov 1841, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Death Date: 16 Jan 1843  … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film Number: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32ZZTJ

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Petrus Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Nov 1841, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Death Date: 16 Jan 1843  … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Franciscus Petrus Hahn … Gender: Male  .. Baptism/Christening Date: 05 Nov 1841, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Death Date: 16 Jan 1843  … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Rosina Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 27 Nov 1843, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Henrica Hahn … Gender: Female  … Baptism/Christening Date: 15 May 1837, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Death Date: 30 Mar 1838  … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amatiae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Nov 1839, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367650

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Jacobus Hahn … Gender: Male  … Baptism/Christening Date: 12 Jan 1848, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: J97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Elisabetha Hahn … Gender: Female  … Baptism/Christening Date: 08 Mar 1846, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

 Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Eleonora Augusta Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 12 Jun 1850, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Thomae Hahn … Mother’s Name: Amaliae Heng  … Indexing Project (Batch) Number: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film Number: 367651

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Elisabetha Augusta Gleizes … Gender: Female … Birth Date: 28 Aug 1883 … Baptism/Christening Date: 09 Sep 1883, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Karoli Augusti Gleizes … Mother’s Name: Evae Katharinae Hahn … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C04635-3 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367651

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Karolus Augustus Gleizes … Gender: Male … Birth Date: 27 May 1885… Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Jun 1885, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Karoli Augusti Gleizes … Mother’s Name: Evae Catharinae Hahn … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367651

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Rudolph Michael Hahn … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 07 Jan 1881, Queichheim, Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 23 Dec 1880, Queichheim, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Franzisci Josephi Johanni Hahn … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Gerach … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97242-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400439 … Reference #: 2:SD3639

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Anna Maria Hahn … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 09 Jan 1883, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria… Death Date: 26 Sep 1960 … Father’s Name: Francisci Joseph Hahn … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Gerach … Indexing Project (Batch) #: K97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367651

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Carolus Hahn … Gender: Male … Birth Date: 12 Oct 1885… Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Oct 1885, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Franzisci Josephi Hahn … Mother’s Name: Annae Gerach … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-3 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367651

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Anna Maria Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 16 Oct 1816, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Heinrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367649

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 … Groom’s Name: Georg Michael Bankhardt … Groom’s Birthday: 20 Jul 1813, Speyer Germany … Age: 30 … Bride’s Name: Anna Maria Koeffler … Bride’s Birthday: 14 Oct 1816, Landau … Bride’s Age: 27 … Marriage Date: 09 Jun 1844 … Marriage Place: Speyer, Bayern, Germany … Groom’s Father’s Name: Johann Georg Bankhardt … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Eleonora Wingerter …

Bride’s Father’s Name: Johann Heinrich Koeffler … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Anna Maria Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: M96336-4 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 192410 … Reference #: #44

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929… Groom’s Name: Georgium Michaelem Bankhardt … Bride’s Name: Annam Mariam Koeffler … Marriage Date: 23 Mar 1844, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Groom’s Father’s Name: Georgii Bankhardt … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Eleonorae Wingerter … Bride’s Father’s Name: Henrici Koeffler … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: M97238-5 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367653

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Georg Michael  … Gender: Male … Birth Date: 20 Jul 1813 … Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Jul 1813, Sankt Georgium Evangelisch, Speyer, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Georg Bankhart … Mother’s Name: Eleonora Wingerter … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C04987-4 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 193153 … Reference #: P54 … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C96331-9 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 193153 … Reference #: y 1813 rn 54… Indexing Project (Batch) #: C96331-9 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 193153

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Henricus Koeffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Sep 1815, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 17 Sep 1815, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari … Father’s Name: Henrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367649 … Reference #: 2:32X7VK … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367649

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929 … Groom’s Name: Henricum Koeffler  … Bride’s Name: Mariam Catharinam Ziegler … Marriage Date: 11 May 1841, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Groom’s Father’s Name: Henrici Koeffler … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Bride’s Father’s Name: Michaelis Ziegler … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Mariae Catharinae Houde … Indexing Project (Batch) #: M97238-5 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367653

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Michael Koeffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 03 Apr 1820, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 03 Apr 1820, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari … Father’s Name: Heinrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367649 … Reference #: 2:32XJ7J … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367649

Germany Marriages, 1558-1929… Groom’s Name: Michaelem Koeffler … Bride’s Name: Barbaram Hartmann … Marriage Date: 14 Jul 1844, Sankt Maria Katholisch,Landau In Pfalz Stadt,Pfalz,Bavaria … Groom’s Father’s Name: Henrici Koeffler … Groom’s Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Bride’s Father’s Name: Georgii Valentini Hartmann  … Bride’s Mother’s Name: Elisabethae Kraemer … Indexing Project (Batch) #: M97238-5 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367653

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Sebastianus Koeffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 23 Aug 1821, St. Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 22 Aug 1821, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavari … Father’s Name: Heinrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C03658-0 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367649 … Reference #: 2:32XM23… Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367649

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Joannes Koeffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 04 Oct 1822, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 03 Oct 1822, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Heinrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C03658-2 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 367650 … Reference Number: 2:32XPKX… Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367650

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 …. Name: Jacobea Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 01 Jul 1818, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Henrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367649

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Maria Magdalena Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 01 Jul 1818, Sankt Maria Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Henrici Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Annae Mariae Siener … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97238-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 367649

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 … Name: Maria Margaretha Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 22 Feb 1734, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Koeffler  … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505  … Reference #: p 169

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Maria Margaretha Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 22 Feb 1734, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Koeffler …. Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Balthasar Keffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Oct 1720, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Keffler … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505 … Reference #: p 74

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Balthasar Keffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Oct 1720, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Georgi Petri Keffler … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Anna Catharina Koeffler … Gender: Female … Birth Date: 15 Mar 1747 … Baptism/Christening Date: 16 Mar 1747, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Balthasari Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Anna Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505 … Reference #: p 92

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Anna Catharina Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 16 Mar 1747, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Balthasari Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Anna Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Michael Koeffler … Gender: Male … Birth Date: 12 Apr 1751 … Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Apr 1751, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Balthasari Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Maria Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505 … Reference #: p 121

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Michael Koeffler … Gender: Male .. Baptism/Christening Date: 13 Apr 1751, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Balthasari Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Maria Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Dominicus Koeffler … Gender: Male … Birth Date: 07 Aug 1753 … Baptism/Christening Date: 07 Aug 1753, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Balthasari Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505 … Reference #: p 134

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Dominicus Koeffler … Gender: Male … Baptism/Christening Date: 07 Aug 1753, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria.. Father’s Name: Balthasari Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Eva Koeffler … Gender: Female … Birth Date: 02 Dec 1760 … Baptism/Christening Date: 02 Dec 1760, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Balthasaris Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505 … Reference #: p 179

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Eva Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 02 Dec 1760, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Balthasaris Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Barbara Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Dec 1761, Neuleiningen, Bayern, Germany … Father’s Name: Balthasar Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505 … Reference #: p 185

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Barbara Koeffler … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 06 Dec 1761, Katholisch, Neuleiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Balthasar Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Christina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97636-1 … System Origin: Germany-ODM  … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958… Name: Catharina Koeffler … Gender: Female  … Birth Date: 1753 … Death Date: 24 Mar 1753  … Age: 0 Birth Date: 1753 … Marital Status: Single … Father’s Name: Michaelis Koeffler … Mother’s Name: Catharina … Indexing Project (Batch) #: B39252-3 … System Origin: Germany-EASy … Source Film #: 400505

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Maria Margaretha Drexler … Gender: Female .. Baptism/Christening Date: 15 Jun 1745, Katholisch, Goecklingen, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Joannes Jacobus Drexler … Mother’s Name: Anna Maria Heinrich … Indexing Project (Batch) #: K98512-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 400483

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Maria Magdalena Reis … Gender: Female.. Baptism/Christening Date: 10 Mar 1756, Sankt Maria, Landau (Pfalz), Bayern, Germany … Birth Date: 09 Mar 1756, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz Stadt, Pfalz, Bavaria … Father’s Name: Joannis Reis … Mother’s Name: Ursulae Glosserin … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C03658-4 … System Origin: Germany-EASy  … Source Film #: 488341 … Reference #: 2:331SWC

Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898… Name: Maria Magdalena Reis … Gender: Female … Baptism/Christening Date: 10 Mar 1756, Katholisch, Landau In Pfalz, Pfalz, Bavaria… Father’s Name: Joannis Reis … Mother’s Name: Ursulae Glosserin … Indexing Project (Batch) #: C97240-2 … System Origin: Germany-ODM … Source Film #: 488341

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Jan 15, 2010 – The Kranz Family January 15, 2011

If you’d asked me this time last year if I ever thought I’d make any further progress on researching my father’s side of the family, I’d have said it was a lost cause.   Conflicting information and lack of immigration records and names that were difficult to research had discouraged me greatly.  Then last summer my cousin sent me a box of old family papers that pertained to my paternal grandmother’s side of the family, the Kranz family.   With that I was able to make some really good progress over the pond.  They came from Arzheim, Bavaria, Germany.  I knew my Great Grandfathers brothers names and parents names.  I found information on familysearch.org on his mother’s family (the Hahn’s) and to be honest I was pretty content with that as I had thought I’d never get anything on them anyway.

Then right around Thanksgiving last year, I got it into my head that Arzheim was in German wine country.  Wouldn’t it be nice to get a bottle of wine from grapes from Arzheim for Christmas dinner.  I went to my big local wine store and asked if they had any wine from the one little vineyard tha I had found on-line that had wine that was grapes grown exclusively in Arzheim.  The answer was no, they didn’t.  They looked up the winery and it looked like they didn’t sell their wine in America.  So I went home and emailed the vineyard directly and asked if they sold in America because I wanted to get a few bottles because that was where my family was from.  A few weeks went by with no response.  Then I get an email from them saying, no, they are a small vineyard and they dont’ sell outside of Germany, but what was the name of my family that lived in Arzheim?  So I emailed them back with some info on my Kranz family.  So a few more weeks go by and I get a response.  They said that they knew some Kranz’s and they owned a vineyard in the next village over and they were forwarding my email to them.  A few minutes later I get an email from them saying “we always wondered what happened to Johann” (my great-grandfather!)  Turns out the vineyard is owned by Robert Kranz who is the grandson of Robert Kranz who was brothers with my great grandfather John/Johann.  Basically he is second cousins with my father.   Robert emailed me some great info on the Kranz family that stayed in Germany and also gave me info on a line of Kranz’s here in America, the descendants of Stephen Kranz, another brother who had come to America after my great grandfather.  I did a little googling and found an email address and emailed my cousin Jack in Reno, NV and have no connected with him as well.  Jack had connected with Robert a few years back while visiting Arzheim.  He ran into on of the Kranz cousins while there and was now in touch with them.  Hard to believe after all these years we’re finally starting to find each other!

So my message today is never give up hope!  You never know how looking for a bottle of wine will lead you to the discovery of long-lost family.

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Jan. 3, 2010 – Xavier, Robert, John & Franz Xavier Kranz January 3, 2011

 In continuation of yesterday’s post… It was actually ancestry.com where I found the German Military Records.   I did another search yesterday and came up with another record of Franz Xavier Kranz.   Here it is.  it was listed on ancestry as: Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 Record for Franz Xaver Kranz:

While looking through the records under a search on Ancestry.com for only the last name of Kranz in Arzheim, Germany, I came across the military records of Xavier’s brother and another uncle of mine, Robert Kranz.  Robert was born on January 17, 1891 in Arzheim.   Here are his records:

Bavaria Germany WWI Personnel Rosters 1914-1918 Record for Robert Kranz:  2 different records found under same collection

While continuing to pour over the results from my search on Ancestry, I came across the following.  It was listed as Commercial handels and trade directory of the German Reich 1930-1931 4th volume.  Under the listing for the town of Arzheim it lists:

Gasthöfe     Hahn    R.

Schlossereien     Kranz, Robert

A Gasthöfe translates as Hotel.  R. Hahn was probably a relation of Robert Kranz’s mother, Elizabeth Hahn.   A Schlosserein translates as a Locksmiths Shop.  Which makes sense as that was Robert’s father’s profession.

Here is another similar listing I found for the Kranz family in the Ancestry .com collection: R Mosse  Deutsches Reichs-Adressbuch für Industrie, Gewerbe und Handel, 1902-1903, 1. Band  (Record for German realm Reich for industry trade and trade 1902-1903 1 volume)  This one lists under Arzheim:

Schlosser:  Kranz    X.

Schlosser translates on babelfish as “Fitter” but I’m guessing that is incorrect. as it’s awfully close to Schlossereien which was Locksmith’s Shop.  X. Kranz would be Xavier Kranz, father of Robert, Xavier and my great Grandfather, John Kranz.  We know Xavier was a Locksmith from his son Franz Xavier’s Military Paperwork from yesterday’s post.   It would see that being a Blacksmith of sorts was the family business.  We know Xavier Kranz, the father was one who worked on making locks.  From the military records here we know that both his sons Robert and Franz Xavier were also locksmiths and from my family papers we know that John was a blacksmith who worked on making Wagon Wheel parts in America.

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Jan 1, 2011 – Franz Haver (Xavier) Kranz January 1, 2011

A while ago I came across the record below.  I think it found it on familysearch.org   It was listed as “Bavaria, Germany, WWI Personnel Rosters, 1914-1918 Record for Franz Xaver Kranz”.   I got excited as I thought he must be an uncle of mine, brother of John Kranz my immigrant ancestor from Arzheim Germany as the fellow here, Franz had the same names for his parents.  John or Johannes was born in Arzheim on December 10, 1872.  When I was up at the Family History Expo in Atlanta this past fall I had the opportunity to show the document to a great gal who worked for the Family History Library in the German section and she gave me the translation in the second picture.  So yes, this is my uncle Franz (or Haver/Xavier).  I knew I had an uncle Xavier as he was listed in the handwritten family history written by John pictured below.

So what does all this tell me?  Well it tells me that Franz/Xavier served in the Germany Military for quite some time and probably served in World War I by the dates.  It says he was single so I don’t know if he ever married or had children or if he even lived through World War I.   I can only hope so.  What it also tells me is that he propbably didn’t immegrate to America as he brothers John and Stefan did so I need to keep looking in German records for more info on him.

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August 28, 2010 – John Kranz & Amalia Frabrici Kranz Papers August 28, 2010

So did you ever hear of the 1917 military census?  Well I never had.  That is until I came across the following.  A sort of registration card of my great grandmothers (Amalia Frabritzi Kranz) showing she’d participated in it.   Very odd.  I’ve never seen this census on Ancestry.com.

Here’s a neat item I found.  My great grandfathers Alien registration Card.  Has his fingerprints and everything.  John Kranz, 255 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

August 25, 2010 August 25, 2010

Here’s the rest of my cemetery book.

Rhode Island to Tenn and then Vermont to Wisconsin.

Cemetery Book – Rhode Island to Tennessee

Cemetery Book – Vermont to Wisconsin

I thought I’d share this cool chart I found a while back that shows how cousins are related to one another.

I recently got a box of old family papers.  Inside the box were a few really old negatives.  I scanned them and have a mystery.  An unknown house.  It’s somehow related to the Kranz Family of Arzheim, Germany and Brooklyn, NY.  Here are the pictures of the house.  Does it look familiar?  If so, let me know.

Here are a few of the other items from the Kranz Family Papers.   These papers are related to John Kranz (1872 – 1920) my Great Grandfather.  He was married to Amalia Fabrici (Frabritzi).

June 4, 2010 June 4, 2010

Today is one of those days that it’s great to be a genealogist.  So I was reading my Family Tree Magazine and saw some stuff on a website I’d never visited called pilot.familysearch.org    I’m usually on ancestry.com but thought I’d check it out and see if they had anything new.  And low and behold they did.  My great grandparents are John Kranz (Dec 10, 1872/1873 – After 1920) and Amalia Fabrici (Apr 1876 – around 1928/1929).  On this website I found a record of their marriage that listed the bride and groom’s parents by name.  So married on January 23, 1898 in Manhattan, New York was John Kranz and Amalie Fabrici.  John is the son of Haver Kranz and Elizabeth Hahn.  Amalie is the daughter of Samuel Fabrisi and Sarah Klein.   Wow, I LOVE fillin’ in those blanks on my family tree!

So Haver, that’s a strange name.  I did a little research on line and don’t see this as a usual German man’s name.  So  I did a little more poking around on this same website.  I found a Elisabetham Hahn married to a Franciscum Xaverium Kranz on April 11, 1872 in Bavaria.  Is this our Elisabeth and Haver.  Well Haver could actually be Xavier so maybe.   Great Granpa John was born in 1872/1873 so the timing is good.     So continuing on I found a Joannes Kranz Born Dec 10, 1872 to Elisabethae Hahn and Francisci Xaverii Kranz.   Starting to look good.  To this same Elisabethae and Francisci was born a Catharina Kranz on May 5, 1874.  Both kids born in Bavaria.  Katholische, Arzheim, Pfalz, Bavaria to be exact.

I didn’t have as much luck with Amalie’s folks.  So if you know anything about Samuel Fabrici and Sarah Klein, please pass it on.

Passing over to Mom’s side of the family, I have a 3rd Great Grandfather named Michael Erbig.  I’ve also seen Erbig as Webig, Arbech and on this website as Arbeck.  I found Michael Arbeck on the 1880 census in Jersey City, NJ.  This is my Michael as his wife is Julia (Julia Arnold to be exact).  This may not sound that exciting but this is the first census that I’ve found Michael on.    It lists his occupation as Works in a Paper Mill.  This is what is listed as his occupation on the Jersey City directory, the only source I’ve ever found Michael in.  So, yes, this is cool news.

So onto the Geoghan family.   My Great Greadfather is Thomas H. Geoghan (about 1863 – May 11, 1947).  I’ve never been able to find out who his parents were and I’m still not sure.  But I did find a Thomas Henry McGeoghan born June 15, 1867 in Belfast, Ireland, son of William John Mcgeoghan and Margaret Boyd.  Henry is a common name in the Geoghan family for a few generations.  The problem with Thomas is that we know he was born in Ireland and immigrated when he was very young so he had to have come over with family.  He flies under the radar till the 1920 census.  So is this my Thomas H. Geoghan?  who knows but its a place to start.

April 25, 2010 Memoir of Dorothy P. Wells Van Sickle April 25, 2010

Been a busy weekend.  Guess I missed posting for a couple of days but I’m back.   I visited with one of my cousins who gave me some new information.  She said that her dad told her that my Great Grandfather, John Kranz had two brothers named Stefan (Stephan) and Frederick.  So the Kranz name here in America may not have died out after all.  More investigation is needed to find these Kranz brothers.  I did a preliminary search on ancestry.com but seems like it won’t be an easy task.  She also told me that her brother has a son so there is another male Geoghan child to help carry on the name.  Yeah!  Happy news.

So today I thought I would share the memoir that my great-aunt Dorothy Pauline Wells Van Sickle wrote.  I remember Aunt Dot.  She lived in Rockaway, NJ and we used to go visit her pretty often.  We lived in Wading River, NY out on Long Island.   Dorothy passed away February 4, 1976, when I was about 5 and a half years old.   She was the last of her siblings to pass away. 

 Dorothy Pauline Wells Van Sickle
My Great Aunt, Sister of my Grandfather Elliott Wells, Daughter of William Rogers Wells & Pauline Stillman.  Here are two of my favorite pictures of Dorothy.

Things I Remember
By Dorothy Pauline Wells Van Sickle

Russell and Lydia Wells, parents of Jonathan, Thomas R., Randall and Silas, Jonathan and Thomas were mill owners of the Ashaway Woolen Mills, Bethel Mills, and Clark Falls Mills.
Wells property along the Ashawaug River and the land east of the river was donated to the Town for the Oak Grove Cemetery.  Therein lie the graves of Russell and Lydia.  The custodian of the cemetery has the Original Map (Clare Crandall) also, the grave of Jonathan and Martha Ann Rogers, his wife, who came from Quaker Hill, Conn. to work in the mill. 

They had 4 children:  Sylvia, Everett, Melissa, Mattie, Willie.   Jonathan was a kind considerate courageous man from my father’s point of view and judging from the strict way my father brought us up, yet tender and loving and full of care especially to the ill or competent.  Jonathan died in 1864, during the Civil War. 

Willie was 9 years old.  He told us how his father once gave him a cigar to smoke and let him try and it made him deathly sick.  He did not try again till he was a man.  The death of his father was the reason Martha could not carry on the business and sold the Ashaway mill to the Brigges.  The Clarks Falls mill was sold; the Bethel mill was kept till I was a little girl.  This, my father ran when he was of age.  Everett died at the age of 19.  The two girls Melissa and Mattie died young of Tuberculosis, also my grandfather and grandmother.  They lived in the old Red House (Greenman).  In 1855 my father (was) born there.   My grandfather had built this lovely Italian style home of 22 rooms with halls and pantries included and a cupola and a piazza that went all the way around.  It is a copy of a home in Groton.  The third floor had a mansard roof.  It sat on 4 acres, had a workshop under which was the woodshed of a wagon house and a corn crib within the 4 acres which were enclosed by a stone wall on the north, east and south and up to the driveway a big wooden gate.  There was a 2 ft. granite block to keep out huge rats from the (barn) and barnyard.  A 2 ft stone wall to which was attached a flat topped fence, 2 gates for the circle driveway that led to huge granite steps to the side porch both for the front door and back door with its own granite steps and walk the piazza at the kitchen door.  I remember the water closet (as my father always called it) between the workshop and the wagon house.  It was a 3 seater with a small seat at the right and a Sears, Roebuck catalog for reading for the youngsters, a tin roof the same as the piazza on top of which was a big house, the replica of the big house with doors for 4 families.  A five foot arch trellised to the W.C. over which ran a grape vine and hid the entrance.  Between the W.C. and the wagon house were lilacs and other garden perennials.  In the circle, were two Normandy spruces (carefully we’d climb to the top to be equal to the top of the house).  Here we had a hammock between the spruces.  We had an Arborvita at the back door and one wall and wagon gate, a Maple and wisteria around the back door on the side, and the tree at the corner the fence was a spruce also.  There were three elms in the front by the fence.  On either side of the front granite slab walk was a horse chestnut tree at the left from the front door and a sweet fringe tree. (The like of which I never saw except in the N.Y. Botanical Gardens).  Pear orchards at the side of the house, and apple orchard in back, –Baldwin, Red Astricans, Pound Sweetings, Russet, Johathans, Snow in the Spring, bowers of flowers and fragrance from the blossoms, asparagus in the spring, strawberries in June are some of the things I remember.

Jonathan was a Colonel in the Dorr Rebellion to get a vote for all rather then just the landlords.  He had a lot of tenement houses on Knight Street and up the Bethel Mill.  He was called Colonel Wells ever after.  He had the First National Bank in Ashaway and was head of it.  (He must have had too many irons in the fire; ran himself to death).  That left Martha with the mills to dispose of, except the Bethel Mill, 48 acres besides the 4 on which the house and buildings were built, the old Red House, cow barns, fields for corn, potatoes, pumpkins, hay in the south field, and wood lots, east to the top of the hill where the old Indian burial ground was (so they said, might have been early settlers).  The original tract granted by the King extended from Kingston to the Wellstown Bridge on the Ashawaug River. 

Back in the 17th century, Wells’ lived on either side of the river.  Uncle Randall and Uncle Silas both lived on the west side.  Jonathan and Silas’ son, Wallace, on the east side.  Bethel Mill was on the southwest, a row of tenements for the mill workers, west of the river.  I do not know how it got divided.  Ashaway is a nice little town with a Seventh Day Baptist Church a block from our house.  Martha was a Quaker, but helped support the church in every way and we all grew up in that church atmosphere, a rich inheritance.  Friday night, Prayer meeting. Sabbath School, Church services, (Junior) Christian Endeavor, Senior Christian Endeavor; 5 services.  At sundown we didn’t play or have a good time for the Sabbath began Friday at Sundown and ended Saturday at sundown.  We were never allowed to play games till after sundown.  We could take walks, or papa would take us for a ride in the surrey or in the sleigh.  My grandmother had a brougham in which she sat back with a head sized parasol (which we children loved to play Victoria with, an angle to make it turn to suit her fancy, fascinated us till we broke it after her death).  She had a special horse, Old Dan, that she hitched to a buggy.  I remember going with her on the stage coach (like the west) driven by “big old black Bill Johnson” who had size 14 shoes; he was so big I remember because I got my fingers pinched in a door.  We went to Westerly and got the train to New London to go up to Quaker Hill to visit her twin Uncle Williams, at her old house.
I remember going down stairs to visit with Grand Ma, to sew pieces of rags an inch wide together to make a ball for rag carpet.  We also played Parcheesi, checkers and backgammon.  Then I remember eating with her; apple sauce in thumbnail glass dishes and scurrying up the dark stairs of the front hall.  I remember sitting on the little step in the kitchen that led up into our back stair and the happy face of Uncle Williams coming in her back door.  Skip and I used to peer in her windows:  she scolded us for that saying it was not nice, come inside instead. (We had gone around the whole porch doing just that at every window, thinking it was smart).  I remember going to church with my grandmother, sitting in the front seat and her partaking of the wine from one big cup that every one put to his lips a day before the individual glasses that I drank from after I was baptized and joined the church).  My grandmother had pneumonia and Papa was with her day and night- a good son.  Papa shed tears at the funeral; they ran down his cheeks (the only time I saw my father cry, except at my mother’s funeral).  Martha was 77 when she passed away.  Papa used to take us to the woods and gather wild flowers and grasses, perennials that made lovely old fashioned bouquets which we put in the boys cart in latter days and went to put them on the graves.  In season, Papa carried flowers up to the cemetery every week, after Grandma died.
The house was light blue, with a piazza all the way around, a red tinned roof, a mansard shingled third floor, 10 dormers and the cupola a flight of stairs around against the cupola, where we could sit and look over hill and town, two chimneys at right and left and below on the second floor over the dinning room and kitchen and pantry was another chimney.  We kids loved to go up and even climb down on to the tin roof below by the mansard shingled dormer in back.  Father forbad us saying we would dent the tin roof and railing around the sides and back and we walked that.  In back a drop of 18 ft never phased us but must have scared our mother speechless.  The boys, Bill and Skip taught me to look ahead, not down on all the fence walks, house or yard.  Granite steps led down to the back yard and garden and to the entrance of the basement (besides from the kitchen door down inside).  The basement had a wooden floor, cupboards for preserves, a shelf along a raised section on which were 5 or 6 barrels for apple vinegar, more shelves with empty glass jars for preserves, a 6 foot wooden bath tub that was used by my grandfather, my Papa told me, and work bench and a sink. Beyond on the stone ledge was the furnace and closed off was a dirt floor where we kept potatoes, carrots, parsnips, barrels of apples, too, in the dark vegetable cellar.
To get to the house we had a stone flag walk or a flagstone walk to the two door entrance, using the right, the hall at the left, the music room with its two baby grands, (Mothers and grandmothers).  Grandmother’s was removed for we used to sing to the Knabe, Mama playing.  Papa singing baritone, grand roue, and the children joining in).  The music room had a marble fireplace and a black iron grill and protector, and a long black horse hair sofa and chairs with carved rosewood backs, a tip-top table and screen of three sections (paintings of Aunt Eleanor’s Hollyhocks, Thistles and Wild Flowers).  We practiced there, Orpha more than the rest.  She had the gift of music in her voice and fingers.

On either side of the fireplace was a picture of Jonathan and Martha.  On the north wall hung Mother’s Cala Lilly, later The Milkmaid painting.  The three windows were shaded by dark green shades and lace curtains.  The carpet was a pale green with pink roses in the center and around the border.  Between the window hung the mirror (that I have in the step down room).  My grandmother was laid out in that room.  When Florence and Elliot had it they made it into a Tea Room – -The Singing Kettle.

At the right of the hall was the sitting room, a mahogany square table in center, crystal lamps over head, rocking chairs at each window and between there were a marble top table, over which hung a square mirror hand painted wood and a diamond shaped mirror with pink roses.  Bank of mother’s chair, a radiator over which hung Mother’s painting of the H. O. Walkers Sheepwashing in Brittany.  Father’s desk beside the sewing room (this room had been my grandmother’s bedroom, where she died, when I was 7.)  A yellow plush reclining sofa under the mantle piece on which in the center was a clock with an iron horse on top and at either end a Dresden shepherd and shepherdess.  Over the mantle was mother’s painting of a robin’s nest with 3 eggs on an apple blossom branch.
The third door led into the dining room with six doors, two were cupboards, one by the radiator, a book cupboard, the one beyond the two windows under which was a couch, a two way cupboard for the dishes by which we could set the table.  The North room was a store room.  This was the bathroom for Jonathan and still contained a wash basin with a tank for water which ran into a commode, a forerunner of today’s toilet.  The kitchen was big.  A wood box at left, stove cupboards, shelf for lamps which had to be cleaned and filled daily, window , kitchen sink, door the pantry (as big as some present day kitchens).  Up stairs was a pump to save going after water.  The well was just outside the kitchen door.  This ran dry sometimes and we would have to cart water from the old Red house.  We lived up over Grandmother from the time Forest was born.  Everett and Sylvia were born there.  Father was Agent for the mill and for a time they lived in Plainfield, NJ.  Then when Orpha was born, they lived at High Bridge, NY (where Yankee Stadium now is).  Sylvia remembered that Mother was pushing the baby carriage with Everett and she hanging onto the sides with their Great Dane beside them, when an elephant from the Manhattan side broke loose from the circus and came charging toward the bridge.  They fled back across.  Bill was born here.  When the family came back to Ashaway they lived in the Liza Taylor house up stairs.  Grandmother must have taken pity on them for Forest was born in the upstairs apartment, so was I (Dorothy), Nat and Elliot.  After Jonathan moved into the new blue plastered house the old Red house was a boarding school for 2 years, then the Academy was built (now the parish house for the town).  The Academy lasted 12 years (Alan Palmeter was the principal – Father’s life long friend).  Then the town took it over for a Public School.  At the time of the Academy, Grandmother and Willie Rogers, Grandmother’s twin brother’s son, same age as Father. Grandmother’s twin named Williams Rogers (after his mother’s family related to Roger Williams).  Father’s full name was Williams after Uncle Williams, her twin.  John Holdredge, Rachel’s son lived there and went to school.  Rachel was Martha’s sister, I think.
Grandmother had a cottage in the Ashaway Beach at Quonacantaug and in Florida.  She sent Aunt Sylvia to a finishing school (Miss Garrots School for Girls in Boston).  At 18, Sylvia had a big church wedding to Elliot Salisbury, a dentist and who died of TB shortly after the marriage.  Sylvia lived to the age of 33, died in the fall, shortly after my father and mother were married, August 4, 1880.

 
My father was sent to New York DeRuyter Academy at the age of 14.  He had grown to his full height 6 ft and was very slim.  He was encouraged to run for exercise.  Grandmother was afraid of TB.  He ran each day, first to the gate and back then down the lane to the bars of the cow lane, then to the brook then to the top of the hill or woodland.  He strengthened his lungs.  I imagine he kept it up till he was thru school.  Then he was sent to Alfred University, a Sabbaterian College.  He was a good student.  He said he had geometrical problem, he worked and worked on, went to sleep, woke up with the whole thing solved correctly, got up and wrote it down.  He knew Pauline at Alfred but did not date her.  She was engaged to Charles White, who later went to Florida and committed suicide.
Mother went to places with her sister Amelia (who for 16 years was head of the Art Department at Alfred), Chicago, Washington, New York, Boston to study the masters and to copy their works as a technique.

Pauline and William

My mother did not meet my father at the World’s Fair – the centennial 1876 at Phila.  She went there with Aunt Amelia Stillman.  She was 22 then.  Father went to the Centennial with a group of young men about his age (22) by boat from Westerly R.I.  They had hired a boat to go by the Sound then thru the Raritan River and Canals to Philadelphia – a memorable jolly occasion.  Then when Aunt Amelia took Mother to Boston to copy great artists, they stopped on their way back to Ashaway:  William proposed and they were married in August 4, 1880.  Mother got her wedding clothes at New York, a lovely grey heavy silk with cream satin embroidered trimming and a long train.  She was a beauty always, tall, carried herself so like a queen, a real lady.

Mother’s family lived in a lovely old home in Alfred, New York.  It had a big kitchen with an exit onto a lovely garden above the brook a sloping hill in back on top of which was a sugar bush.  I think her father, Phineas Stillman must have owned the whole section ¼ mile above, for Uncle Albert Stillman lived up there and next to his place was an apple orchard.  Greenings were sent to us from it.  Mother owned that lot and Bill inherited it.  The only property he claimed and sold after mother’s death.  My mother’s father was Phineas, who married Orpha Crandall, her one sister married a Post of Post Toasties fame and Amanda Crandall who married a Prescott, Episcopal minister in Newport, R.I. when he died later married William C. Burdick, an old sweetheart who wife died.

The children of Phineas and Orpha were Amelia (talented artist), she taught art at Alfred for 16 years.

Albert who ran a farm, married Celestia, had two sons, Luin and Clarke.

Eleanor, who went to Kentucky and the age of 16 to teach, met a young Captain in the Northern Army, who escorted her with other to get North to Chicago, even hiding in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky which was then during the Civil War used as an underground railroad.  Aunt was so offish with this Captain Allan Ellsworth who boarded in the same house with her that the lady of the house told her if she was not more polite to the man she could board somewhere else.  Uncle Ellsworth was a prisoner of war at Andersonville for two years.  This ruined his health yet Aunt Ella said he was such a wonderful man, never complaining.  They had been married during, had a military wedding with swords crossed under which the bride and groom walked from or to the alter in the Seventh Day Baptist church in Alfred.  He was a Colonel at the end of the war and she always called him Colonel Ellsworth.  I know more of her because she helped my family. 

Bill lived with her 1906-1912.  For two years she, Bill and Forest together, for Forest went to Alfred from 1910-1914, she wanted all the children to get a college education and was glad to help the two boys who in turn worked to help her.  She had me come my first year at Alfred, as Forest was there.  We washed and cleaned, did dishes, etc. to help us.  Then my junior year, she had me again as her health was better.  Sylvia came to help her as did Ella and Clark.  Sylvia had to quit as she had a breakdown.  I was living at the Senior House that year, got engaged and Aunt Ella gave a birthday party for me and showed she was better.  When she was sick in the Hornell Hospital, Mother insisted that I should go up and see her instead of coming home for Christmas.  She was 34 when she died.

The third daughter was Mary, who was a musician and taught music pupils.  Some over in Wellsville.  She married a widower Mr. Brown, a conductor on the Erie Railroad, had two children Mable, a teacher in New York City who often came to visit R.I.  She married and had a son Ezra Merrill who now lives near Boston.  And a son William Brown a tailor who inherited the old house and was a favorite of students.  They took him to NYC on a happy holiday.  He was so kind to so many there.

 Williams was a very courteous gentleman, a servant of the community. He worked at a business mens club held ever the post office. He took a painting mother’s “California Sunset” as part of the decoration. He was a man folks could lean on. When any man was sick, folks came to have him stay nights with men like old Elder Stillman, Art Bailey, whom both Pastor Clayton Burdick and Father attended and when Art was so weak Father Went outdoors and came back in and said to Pastor Burdick

“Put on your over­coat and we will open the windows wide and give him a good breath of air”  They did and Art began to breath naturally again. When old black Bill Johnson, who was lamp lighter for the town street lights, when kerosene used in the light, he spilled the kerosene which caught his clothes on tire and burned him critically, Papa felt so bad. Then when Lloyd Crandall was sick with Pneumonia, his wife Mary said if only they could have gotten Mr. Wells, she was sure Lloyd would have lived. Papa would have made a wonderful Doctor. He nursed all the members of our family when we were sick, except when we kids had measles, whooping cough, and mumps. All four of us younger ones were put in my mother’s room whore she looked after us. Mother was sick, she would not let Father out of her sight for long. Sylvia had the same qualities as Papa in looking after sick people and became a practical nurse for years.

 Papa was a commissioner of roads and had a set—to with Mr. Frank Hill who wanted to run the town of Hopkinton and father withdrew from politics and at the time he withdrew from the church, he was so mad at Mr. Hill who ran the church.  Father could not stand seeing him get up and pray and be so sanctimonious.  Papa taught us all to be good, honest, trustworthy, clean minded boys and girls.  He was very stern and very strict.  We had to mind quickly, cheerfully, say yes sir and no sir, yes mam and no mam thank you, please, excuse me, from the dining table.  Chi1dren should be seen and not heard at the meals. He said. He always served my mother first. When we had company the boys put on coats. When father was working in New York, we kissed him goodbye and hello. He always said in me “Be a good girl” to all of us. Mind your mother. Everybody respected him. To see him and mother walkup the street people remarked “What a handsome couple”.  They walked arm in arm so tall and straight.  Beautiful people indeed, inside and out.

 I was so blesses to be a product of such good people and to have five brothers and 2 sisters who were full of living kindness and high principals.  Father spanked us seldom but when we needed it.  If we fought, Forest or I or Nat and I, Father made us kiss and make up.  I’d feel like biting them sometimes but I obeyed Papa. I remember only three spankings, one was sliding down the mahogany bannister, one climbing up the drawers to the top of the bureau and scribbling on the marble top, one swinging on his office gate. I can see that it was not the banister, the top of the bureau or the gate, but the danger involved his worry.  He always prefaced a spanking with “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you”.  The first spanking for Skip was after he took Elliot up the street at the age of two, and we were all hunting for the baby frantically when Skip came back from the walk.  Father got his razor strap and whipped him with all of the rest of us, Mother, Nat, even Elliott and me crying, but Skip never made a sound, Papa said if any one of us over got whipped at School he would get another whipping when he got home. Bill got a thrashing once but no one ever let Papa know,. we were afraid of Papa but he was the most gentle, considerate, loving man who did all he could to take care of his family, he was affectionate and kind. People who worked for him at the Mill had such high Praise for him, losing out for himself in his generosity to others.  A wonderful man.

 Corrine and Pauline were twins, the youngest of the family and naturally the big girls did many things for them. The daguerreotypes of then at two in cute dresses low necked and long, then later at eleven like little women, long and very full made them look adorable.  Jeanne Wells Winder has these pictures. Jeanne also had the pictures of Pauline in her wedding gown. Mother was married at 25. Corrine went to Emerson School of Elocution at Boston. At 38 she married John Rudiger, a Civil Engineer who had been in South America for some years and had worked on the Holland Tunnel, and lived in Floral Park where my mother also owned property. As mother needed extra cash, Uncle Jack sold some acreage for her, the need to put electric lights (which Nat with the help of Ray Chester, an electrician) did from cellar to attic.

 Mother had a happy childhood and traveled to Chicago, Boston, New York and Washington, Philadelphia. Aunt Corrinne went around giving elocution programs until she was 33 and when she married. Mother said all the sisters were gifted but she, I think she did all things well. She gave to her family and to Father the best of her life. Her Ideals were so high and she entered activities at home at school, at church. She attended school programs when no other parents did, she was proud of everything her children did and when Allan lived with his grandparents, She went to school to attend some special that the teacher put on, or if Allan were to do a special thing.  She worked with a cultural group, when Sylvia was little, for Sylvia said she would sit on the top stair and listen to the music that was being played or sung.  Then we had our own musical evening with Mother at the piano, Papa singing baritone and all of us singing along such songs as Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.  Papa would sing way down low, Listen to the mocking bird, Jerusalem, The lost Chord, Down where the cotton blossom grow.  So many old songs. 

 We would all play bid wist. When Papa came home from New York, we could smell his cigar as we came in the door from prayer meeting. Saturday night Papa would always play games with us like Blind Mans Bluff, some go, come Hide and Seek and then cards with the grown ups.  Mama was Sabbath School Superintendent, President of the Ladies Sewing Circle, who helped make money for the Seventh Day Church.  Mother saw to it that we all went to the Sabbath School Church Junior Christian Endeavor Senior Christian Endeavor and Friday night Prayer Meeting and on time.  Mother would go ahead with the children for Papa would be after.  Some Sabbath afternoons Papa would take us for a ride in the surrey or sleigh.  Some time when Church came first and Sabbath School second, papa would get the meal.  He made a ground hash and a tasty soup, which had a delicious flavor.  Always he served Mama first then we the children.

 Papa was an old fashioned gent1eman always; considerate of Mama. He and Mama would walk up the street arm in arm.  People said they were such a handsome couple.  We had to say yes sir and no sir and yes mam and no mam to older people.  We could not talk at the dining table.  Children were to be seen and not heard.  Excuse me before we could leave the table.  We often had company and if the company was a minister, we had gravy.  I often think how my mother had to plan, cook and organize a meal.  Home made cakes, pies, bread, puddings, vegetables, meats, baked beans, Friday nights and Brown Bread, Oyster stew Sabbath morning chickens or roasts.  We all were brought up to help with the dishes, cleaning, cooking, care of lamps care of rooms, but Mother was the organizer and did so quietly we fell in place.  Our favorite meal was Rhode Island Johnnycakes and dried beef gravy with new potatoes.

We were so blessed to have such wonderful parents, good, kind and loving.

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April 22, 2010 – Relatives I’m Searching For April 22, 2010

Today is about relatives I’m looking for.

Let’s start with the Kranz family.   My Great Grandfather is John Fitz (Johann) Kranz.  He was born December 10, 1873 in German.  He married Amalia Fabrici.  They had my Grand Uncle Wilhelm Frederich Kranz.  H was born July 10, 18999 in Manhattan, NY and died in December 1984 in Flushing, Queens, NY.  I have information that Wilhelm had a daughter named Marion Kranz.  I don’t know who his wife was, just the name of a daughter named Marion.    So If you know Marion Kranz or are a relative of hers, please contact me as we’d love to find out what happened to Wilhelm’s family.  You can contact me by hitting the leave a comment link at the bottom of this post.

My Great Grandfather, John Fitz (Johann) Kranz had another son names John A. Kranz Jr.   John Jr. was born April 29, 1902 in Manhattan, NY.  He married Lilian Roth about 1922 in New York City.  They had a daughter named Jacqueline Kranz who was born about 1928 in New York City.  Are you related to Jacqueline Kranz?  If so, please contact me.  John Jr. Died November 2, 1990 in Baltimore, MD.  I have information that Lillian Roth Kranz died in Sunnyside, NY.

Here are the Geoghan I’m looking for.  My Great Grandfather Thomas H. Geoghan had a son Thomas F. Geoghan.  Thomas F was born April 4, 1887 in Unionville, CT.  He married a woman named Josephine sometime before 1916.  They had a daughter named Mary Geoghan about 1916.   I’m looking for Mary Geoghan or a relative of hers.  If you’re related to Mary, please contact me by clicking on the Leave a Comment link below.

I’m hoping that some of their relatives will google their names and find this page.   So if you’re a relative of mine, I’ve got a lot of info for you and boy, would I like to meet you!

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