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Genealogy has always been a passion of mine for many years and fits in well with my love of history. I have always been fascinated as to where to the 'little guy' fits into the greater scheme of history and how various events affected them. My ancestral lines include individuals who came from Ireland, Germany, the Sudetenland area in the Czech Republic, Pomerania (now in Poland), Canada, and the Sor-Ødal and Vossevangen regions in Norway. |
Ireland
My Irish ancestors came from the Irish counties of Antrim and Donegal around 1847 or 1848 through Philadelphia or New York City and eventually settled in Wisconsin. John B. Davison emigrated from Billy Parish, north of Ballymena in County Antrim, Ireland in 1847 and came through New York city. He married Mary R. McMillan in Warren, PA in 1851 before moving to Pierce County, Wisconsin in 1854. According to family stories, two sons were born in Pennsylvania and one is buried in Philadelphia and the other was buried in Wisconsin. Mary R. McMillan came with her parents, Thomas and Eliza (Nichols) McMillan and several of her siblings in 1850 through Philadelphia. She married John B. Davison in Warren, PA in 1851 and it is there descendants and collateral families that I am researching. Edward Galegher: Edward Galegher is the son of Irish famine emigrants, John and Hanora (Sweeney) from County Donegal, Ireland. His parents came to New York City around 1848. He was orphaned and was sent west on the orphan trains to Wisconsin around 1859. He married Elizabeth Jane Davison, the daughter of John B. Davison and Mary McMillan in 1881. They settled near Thompson, Grand Forks County, Dakota Territory shortly after thier marriage to prove up the homestead claim that was filed by Edward in 1880.
(Now part of Bohemia in the Czech Republic) The names I am researching are Schreiner, Zierhut, Kopp, and Augustin in and around Chudiwa and Klatovy. I am particularly interested in the descendants of Wolfgang Schreiner and Theresia Augustin who married about 1850. Several of their children and a stepson of Wolfgang emigrated from this area to Iowa in the late 1860s. The people who emigrated are Wolfgang and Theresia, their children Wolfgang, Rose, Andreas(Andrew), and Francis. Wolfgang's half-brother George and his wife Anna Zierhut and her sister, Barbara, also emigrated at this time and settled in Adair County, Iowa. (Now part of Poland) I am particulary interested in the descendants of Christian Wilde of Pammin and Zagensdorf in Kreis Arnswalde, Stettin, Brandenburg of the old Prussian Kingdom. Four of his sons, Christian, Franz, Carl, and August and two daughters, Wilhelmina and Augusta, emigrated to the United States via Quebec, Canada in 1854, making their way initially to Marathon County, WI and eventually to Green Lake and Fond Du Lac counties in Wisconsin. I am interested in are Salzwedel and Nennemann from the area around Reetz and Klein Silber in the same county. I am particularly looking for descendants of Ernst Theodore Salzwedel and Ludwig Nenneman and his wife Wilhelmina or Minnie. The Nennemanns came to the US in the 1870s from Pommerania and settled in Green Lake County, Wisconsin about 1874. I am researching the descendants of Adam Beitz and his wife Margaretta Bing who lived in the town of Oberhöchstadt near Frankfurt. Their son, Peter, emigrated to the United States in the 1850s and settled in Illinois in either Sublette or Lee counties. He married Julia Burg and eventually moved to Adair County, Iowa in the mid 1870s. I am also researching the surname of Quetschenbach in the village of Gamburg. Particularly for Andreas Questschenbach and his wife Elisabetha and their son Johannes Melchoir Quetschenbach around 1740 before they eventually emigrated to Otterstadt, Pfalz. The Questschenbachs show up in Otterstadt around 1745. I am helping out a cousin who has Langs who came from the Oberfleckstadt in the 1870s. Henry Lang and his wife Elisabetha Schuering emigrated to Dubuque County, Iowa in the 1870s and moving to Minnesota in the 1880s. The family eventually emigrated to Humboldt, SK, Canada area in the early 1900s. My cousin is also researching the surname, Kohle, who emigrated to the Humboldt, SK, Canada area in the early 1900s for several years before moving to Tarnov, Nebraska for several years and back to Humboldt around 1915. My cousin is also researching the surname of Lutter and in particular the siblings of Wenceslaw Lutter who settled in South Dakota before going to Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Ketsch Ketsch is located across the Rhine river in the present-day German state of Baden-Wurttemburg. A number of residents of Otterstadt have been married in Ketsch during the 1700s and early 1800s and a number of residents from the village later settled in Otterstadt. I am particularly interested in the descendants of Thomas Junger and Catharina Haltner. I am descended from their daughter Maria Catherina Junger who married Philip Jacob Schotthöfer in 1795. They have one daughter, Catharina Barbara Schotthöfer who was born in Ketsch in 1798. I also interested in the Gock family who are also from this community. Particularly Cyriakus Gock and his wife Christina. Their son, Johannes Jacob Gock married Christina Schaefer in Otterstadt. I am descended from his grandson, Johannes Michael Gock born in 1754 to Jacob Gock and Maria Eva Medlinger (Mellinger). Ilvesheim I am working on the descendants of Johan George Berthold and his wife Sybilla born about 1705 either in the village of Ilveshiem or in one of the nearby villages of Seckenheim or Mannheim. I am particularly interested in the descendants of the sons of Johan George Berthold: Ignasz, Heinrich, and Peter Elias Berthold. Heinrich married twice Catharina Ergontz and Catharina Schmidt. George's sons, Ignasz and Peter Elias emigrated to Otterstadt in the 1750s. Heinrich's Daughter married Johannes Schmidt from Otterstadt and their daughter Catharina Margaretta Schmidt married Johan Micheal Gock. Two of Heinrich's sons, Johan Adam and Jacob Freidrich also emigrated to Otterstadt in the 1780s and 1790s. Johan Adam married Maria Franziska Munz in Otterstadt and Jacob Freidrich married Anna Barbara Jann in Otterstadt. Seckenheim I am particularly interested in learning more about Lorenz Hirsch and Dorothea Hertzberger who married in Seckenheim in the early 1700s. Their son, Jacob Hirsch, married Margaretta Regenauer in Waldsee in the 1750s. Schwetzingen The ancestral journey includes a stop in the village of Schwetzingen with primary interest in the surname of Schuppert. Catharina Schuppert married Peter Anton Lemmerich in Otterstadt. Duttweiler/Bobingen/Altdorf/Geinsheim It appears that my lines have created a great mystery for me to sort out and that the surnames that I am researching seem to appear in parish records in all three towns. The surnames of Syring, Adam, and Weis are my primary focus. It appears that many of the familly members are baptized in both the Catholic churches and the Evangelical Reform Churches. Harthausen The earliest records for Harthausen in my journey go back to the 1660s and I have been working on the descendants of Johan Peter Flori (Flory) and his wife Maria Catherina Duerr. I am most interested in his son Johannes and grandson, Laurent Flory. Laurent eventually emigrated to Otterstadt and married Anna Maria Bauer and Catharina Blum. Laurent's parents,Johannes Flory and Anna Elisabetha Schaefer, were married in Otterstadt, 6 September 1729 and their children were baptized in Harthausen. Laurent Flory and his half sister, Elisabetha, eventually moved to Otterstadt. Schifferstadt I am particularly interested in the background of Maria Felicitates Kramer married Valentin Erbach in Otterstadt in 1831. Her parents are Johannas Kramer and Maria Eva Weber. He is descended from Johannes Kramer and Eva Rinkwein who married about 1695. Other names of interest that appear in Schifferstadt among the Kramers are Rommel (Roemmel or Remmel), Eckrich, Weber, Neef (Neff), Schantzer, LaForce, Leckinger,and Michaux, among others. Deidesheim Diedesfeld has proven to be another little side trip on the great journey to seek out the past. The Weitlaufs are originally from this small village. Margaretta Weitlauf, the daughter of Johann Marsilius Weitlauf and his seond wife, Maria Catharina Kaub, married Matthias Regenauer in Waldsee. Margaretta was born 21 October 1757 in Diedesheim. Venningen I am mosted interested in seeking more information on the family of Johannes George Pflug and Anna Maria Wiedemann (Witteman) who married about 1780 in an unknown location. I am particularly interested in their daughter, Anna Maria Clara Pflug who married Johannes Adam, son of Johannes Adam and Maria Catharina Syring in Venningen in 1810. Waldsee Tremmel, Regenauer, Hirsch Otterstadt Otterstadt is the core town in my research with emphasis on the following surnames: Ackerman, Adam, Allmaras, Schotthoefer, Lemmerich, Flory, Erbach, Fahrenbach, Gock, Schmidt, Schreckenberger, Fischer, Settelmeyer, Regenauer, and Berthold. Heiligenstein, Berghausen, Hanhofen, and Dudenhofen This have proven to be an interesting side journey on the trip through time in search of Allmaras. In helping out a cousin, I am exploring and searching for information on Sebastian Allmaras and his wife Catharina Knoll, who married in Heiligenstein. With particular interest on Sebastian's son, Caspar, who married Anna Maria Straub, daughter of Caspar Straub, in Berghausen. Sebastian was born in Hanhofen in 1711 to Ludwig Allmaras and his wife Anna Maria. According to the church records, in Heiligenstein it stated that Sebastian originated from the village of Hanhofen. Ferdinand Allmaras, grandson of Valentin Adolf Allmaras, married Catharina Schotthöfer in Otterstadt in 1854.
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