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Louis F. Kirsch, born in Hannover in 1862
Fritz Eckebrecht, born in 1848 in Schwarzburg
Louise Gerbing, born in 1836 in Vieselbach
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Gran Sasso D’Italia, overlook near Farindola
Links:
For research in Farindola, Elio Fragassi’s website has been invaluable: External Link.
For Penne and Farindola research, Gelsumino.it has been a goldmine! The link to it’s resources is here: Link.
Pescara and Chieti records are all available on Antenati.
My Abruzzese tree: Ancestry
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On today’s date in 1861, my third great grandparents Karolina Fehlig and Wilhelm Kirsch were married in Gartenkirche, Hannover, Germany. They were the parents of my immigrant ancestor Louis F. Kirsch and the grandparents of my great grandmother Helen Kirsch. You can visit Wikimedia Commons to see many pictures of the church where their marriage took place. Louis was baptized there.
Wilhelm Kirsch was born in 1836 in Sankt Andreasberg, Goslar, Niedersachsen, Germany to Johann Karl Ludwig Kirsch, a master tailor, and Johann Ernestine Louisa Kutscher, a silver miner’s daughter. Johann Karl Ludwig’s father was a pochsteiger=supervisor at a stamp mill. A stamp mill processed heavy metals from mining.
At the time of the wedding in 1861, Wilhelm Kirsch was already a master tailor.
Karoline Fehlig was born in 1834 in Grohnde, Hameln, Niedersachsen, Germany to Friedrich Fehlig and Karolina Mahlstedt. I know nothing about either of her parents except that perhaps Friedrich’s parents may have been named Joseph and Franziska.
My immigrant second great grandfather Louis F. Kirsch was born 11 months after their marriage.
I don’t know if my third great grandparents died in Germany or America. Could they have died in Switzerland where Louis F. Kirsch met his wife, immigrant Anna Heinzen?
They did have a child in 1877 in Hannover named Frieda Minna, so they were in Germany at least until that time.
I still have many gaps in the years of research on Louis F. Kirsch in America. What was it in 1909 that caused him to answer that he was out of work for 35 weeks that year on the 1910 census. Why did I never pay attention to the fact he had been suffering from symptoms of liver disease for two years prior to his death? Does that mean anything?
Sources:
Elbe-Weser Triangle, Germany, Marriages, Baptisms, and Deaths – (actual images of these records via Ancestry.com.)
1910 Federal Census
Cook County Illinois Death Records
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On today’s date in 1843, my immigrant third great grandparents Quirinus Eckebrecht and Marie Louise Koppel were married in the Lutheran church in Clingen, Thüringen, Germany.
Marie Louise Koppel was born in 1817 in Koerner, Thüringen to mill owner Johann Christoph Koppel and his second wife Anna Dorothea Maria Grabe.
Quirinus Eckebrecht was born in 1816 in Grossmehlra, Schwarzburg, Thüringen to Johann Heinrich Eckebrecht and Anna Elisabetha Dorre.*
Marie Louise and Quirinus had 6 children, all born in Germany:
Carl Johann (Charles)
Auguste
Wilhelm Freidrich (Fritz) – my ancestor
Wilhelm Carl (William)
Heinrich Ferdinand (Henry)
Eduard (Edward)
*See Peter Heckert’s website (Of note is that in 1847, Clingen had its last chief justice before the office moved to a different town and he was a Dorre.)
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At the time of their marriage, combined, they had both been in the United States less than 5 years.
Louisa Gerbing was born in 1836 in Vieselbach, Sachsen-Weimar (current-day Thuringia, Germany), and not in 1835 as it says on her marriage record, to Martha Nicolai and Johann Friedrich Gerbing. Her father was a mason.
According to the other data transcribed on the marriage record, Johann Schuttler was born in 1829 in Wachenheim, Hessen-Darmstadt (current-day Rheinpfalz, Germany.) Sadly, I do not know the names of Johann’s parents, for he and his mother-in-law Martha Nicolai are the only immigrant ancestors whose parents I have been unable to locate. Maybe someday, and hopefully soon, records for Wachenheim, Alzey-Worms, Rheinpfalz will be available online for oversea researchers.
Johann and Louisa had the following children:
Christine Catharina (Katy) Schuttler (my ancestress), 1854-1915 m. immigrant Frederick “Fritz” Eckebrecht.
Karl Wilhelm (Charles) Schuttler, 1856-1896 m. Delia Bolton
Elisabetha (Louise) Maria Schuttler, 1858-1922 m. Edward Fuller
Loretta Schuttler, 1863-1864
In September 1864, my third great grandmother Louisa passed in the cholera epidemic in Chicago that also took her 1 year old daughter Loretta.
In early 1865, Johann re-married another German immigrant in St. Paul’s First Lutheran Church named Caroline Lehman. She was already expecting a child who was born in early April 1865, named W. Frank Schuttler. Johann had another daughter with his second wife. She was also named Caroline (Lena).The same birthdate and birthplace was transcribed on that marriage record for Johann.
Johann passed away in Chicago as a retired wagon-maker from Peter Schuttler Wagon Company in 1906. Johann and Louisa are both buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Their children have many descendants living world-wide today.
Sources:
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 Federal Censuses
Chicago City Directories
FamilySearch.org (Records of St. Paul’s First Lutheran Church of Chicago)
Schuttler Family File, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
Chicago Voter Registration records
Uncle John
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