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- entry for NOYES, Robert, 8 August 2002
- entry for WEIKEL, Paul, 8 August 2002


ATWOOD, Kathy
eMail address: katwood@chartermi.net
(Roman Catholic)

I am searching for the family of Gertrude Elisabeth BUCH, born 7 Dec 1864 or 1865, christened 25 Dec 1864 or 1865 at Kassel, Simmerhausen, Germany. She was the daughter of Jost Heinrich BUCH and Margarethe Elisabeth SOMMER. She immigrated to Champaign, Champaign county, Illinois in March 1882. She met her husband-to-be, John C. EBERHARDT, born in 1854, on the same ship she came on. (I am also interested in information about John's parents). Gertrude traveled with friends named MYERS. John told her that he would send for her when he got settled. They married in 1885 at Boswell, Indiana. In 1896 they moved to Fowler, Benton county, Indiana. Gertrude died 11 August 1932 and John died 30 October 1897. They are buried in the Fowler Cemetery at Fowler, Indiana. Their children were: William J, of Blue Island, Illinois, married Tillie and they had two children; Delbert R. of Kentland, Indiana; George W., of Ojibwa, Wisconsin; Pearl Freda, of Fowler, Idiana, married Mr. MARION; Mildred of Monticello, married Dorrance DOBBINS, died in 1998 or 1999, had one child; and John C. EBERHARDT Jr. of Fowler, Indiana, died 1953 in the Veterans Hospital at Indianapolis, Indiana, married Mary ?. Gertrude was active in the Fowler Christian Church at Fowler, Indiana, and the American Legion Auxiliary, Eight and Forty and Rebecca and Pocahontas lodges.

I am also looking for information on the SCHMITT family of Obertiefenbach, Hessen, Germany. Philip and Anna-Katherine SCHMITT were probably born in the mid-1700's. They had a son named John who married Ann STAMM. John and Ann had a son named Jacob (1802-1870) who married Anna Katherine SCHACT. Jacob and Anna had eight sons: John (1832-1899); Jacob (1834-1884), married Ann Marie and had children William, Ann, John and Joseph); George (1836-1893), married Ann Marie WAGNER (1842-1902) and had children Jacob (1870-1941), George (1871-1940), Joseph (1874), Karl, Ferdinand (1878), married Katherine DIEFENBACH(1887), John, Katherine, and Valentine; Anton (1839-1912); Jacob (1842-1862); William Schmitt (1844), married Mary BOYERSMITH, had children Albert R. (born 1887 at Petrosky, Michigan, died 1954 at Grand Rapids, Michigan). Albert married Rose Ann STEINBACH (1887-1951); Philip (1847) and Aequidius (1850). The family was Catholic and lived on property that was formerly owned by the church and came to be called the "Schmitt House".


BAMBERGER, Phyllis
eMail address="mailto:mscoyote98@aol.com">mscoyote98@aol.com
(Lutheran)

I am researching Gustav BAMBERGER born 31 July 1857. In a family book it says that he was born in Hessen-Kassel and then it says Dilshousen Marburg. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1879. He died 10 June 1916 at Chicago, Illinois. He married Louise ZEIGER in Illinois 29 October 1882. Louise was born 5 October 1864 in Germany and came to the U.S. at the age of 4. The family's religion was Lutheran. Gustav and Louise had three children: William, August Fredrick (my grandfather, born 1887), and Henry, born 1890. I am trying to find Gustav's parent's names. His mother's name may have been SMITH or SCHIMT. I don't know if it is a possibility, but I found a Friedrich BAMBERGER, christened 16 August 1857, Lutheran, at Anghausen, Rhineland Prussia. This caught my eye because of the date and because my grandfather's middle name was Fredrick and he named one of his sons Frederick.


BECKER, Peter
eMail address: unclepete@clarkston.com

I'm researching Conrad BECKER, shown in some family papers to have been born at Leeds, England on 15 May 1840. He was the son of Henry BECKER and Elizabeth HAUPT. Conrad married Elizabeth METZ at Muenster (near Hesse-Darmstadt) and emigrated to San Francisco, USA in 1862. The rest of Conrad's family seems to have been born in the Hesse-Darmstadt area. Conrad died 14 March 1919 at Berkeley, Alameda county, California. Elizabeth was born 8 January 1843 at Kleeburg, Usingen, Nassau, Germany. She died 29 September 1936 at San Francisco, California. The children of Conrad and Elizabeth BECKER were: Christopher, born in 1863 at San Francisco; John, born at San Francisco; Peter, born in Germany; Christina; Elsie; Conrad; Otto, born at San Francisco; and Elizabeth, born at San Francisco. The entire family moved back to Hesse in 1883 so that Christopher could enter the Army, where he served three years with the Hessian-Jaegers and is shown as Lutheran on his military papers. In the mid-1880's, the family moved back to San Francisco and they were naturalized as USA citizens in 1886.


BRANAGAN, Kay
eMail address: AfraKay@aol.com
(Lutheran)

I am researching George KESLER born about 1818, probably in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, and his wife, Elizabeth, born 1820 in Germany. In 1850, George and Elizabeth KESLER immigrated to London, England. Their children were: Elizabeth born 19 March 1854; Mary born in 1858; Katherine born 14 February 1864, and a son. George KESLER emigrated to Lewis county, New York about 1866 and his wife and daughters followed shortly. George was a bootmaker. He died at Croghan, New York 3 May 1888. Elizabeth KESLER died 3 November 1894 and Katherine KESLER died 4 November 1881. They are all buried in Sunnyside Cemetery at Croghan, New York. The family's religion was Lutheran. Konrad KESLER, brother to George) was born in 1816 and died at Lott, Germany in 1888. Konrad's wife died in 1900 in Germany. They had two sons and one daughter. Another brother, Justus KESLER, immigrated to Lewis, New York, where he married Julia ____. Their son, Frederick, died 9 Mar 1865 at age 10 years, 6 months, 23 days, and a son, Henry 6, died 8 September. Another brother, _____ KESLER, died at Norddeich, Germany 29 May 1897, and his wife died 22 May 1900. They had three daughters: Elizabeth, Ann, and Katherine, none of whom married. A sister of George's married a WISNER and emigrated to the U.S. Their childrens names are unknown. Heinrick KESLER, of Leipzig, Germany, was putting together a family history in 1902 that went back to 1700.


DAVISON, Gerald
eMail address: gerry@marlab.dk

I am researching my wife's family which goes back to Johann Ludwig PLITH / PLITT, born 1735 at Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He married 1) Ellen Marie FRANDSDATTER, born 1731 in Denmark; he married 2) Karen Olesdatter RYTTER, born 1754 in Denmark. Both marriages were in Lutheran churches at Kolding. Johann Ludwig died 23 Feb 1817 at Kolding, Denmark. Johann went to Denmark in 1762 to be a soldier with the first Danish Husar Regiment which was founded in 1762 and disbanded in 1767. The regiment had four companies, one of which resided at Kolding. The children of Johann Ludwig and Ellen Marie were (all born at Kolding): Johan Wilhelm Ludwig, born 1761; Marie Juliana, born 1768; and Christian Wilhelm Ludwig, born 1775. The children of Johann Ludwig and Karen were (all born at Kolding): twins, Johan Emanuel and Jeppe Ole, born 1785; and Ellen Kathrine, born 1788. His first wife died at Kolding in 1781 and his second wife died at Kolding in 1821.


DIETRICH, Robert
eMail address: betrad@dslextreme.com
(Protestant)

I am searching for information on my great-grandfather, Philip DIETRICH, who married Lysbeth HEILMAN. Their children were:
Frederica; Jake (may be Jacob); John; and my grandfather, Frederick, born 15 October 1859 at Gunterblum, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. Frederick emigrated to the United States in 1878. Frederica, Jake, and John also emigrated to the United States. All the children settled in upstate New York. All were Protestant. This is the only information I know about the family.


EURICH, Vicki
eMail address: eurichv@yahoo.com
(German Evangelical)

Valentine EURICH and his wife, Maria RUPPEL, are believed to have been born and married at Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. Valentine's obituary states that they married in 1849. Maria was the daughter of John and Gertrude RUPPEL. Valentine died in 1940 in Tarentum, Pennsylvania; Maria died in 1891, probably at Tarentum, Pennsylvania. Valentine and Maria, with their small daughter, Elizabeth, immigrated to New York from Germany, via London, on 12 August 1850 on the ship "Devonshire". The three EURICH family members reportedly spent some time at Benet (sp ?), Pennsylvania before relocating and settling permanently at Tarentum, Alleghany county, Pennsylvania. Further children born to Valentine and Maria were: John, born 28 August 1850; Conrad, born 6 February 1853; Mary, born 6 October 1854; Caroline and Henry, born 2 October 1856; Hite, born 25 October 1858; and Anna, born 13 September 1861. Valentine's obituary (from the Tarentum Telegraph) states that "In 1851 he was converted and joined the German Evangelical Church on East Ninth Avenue." Elizabeth's birth date has been passed down to me as 1845 which might mean Valentine wasn't her biological father. She was born in Germany and the next seven children were born in the U.S.


HAYWOOD, Carol
eMail address: chaywood@sonic.net
(Jewish ?, German Methodist)

I am researching Philip Konrad BUECHER, son of Konrad BUECHER born 26 May 1828 at Idstein, Rheingau-Taunus, Hessen, Germany. Philip immigrated in 1864 to Vanderburgh county, Indiana. He first married Dorothea MEURER or MUIR; he second married Elisabetha EGENOLF; and he third married Maria Elisabeth BRUCKER AUERT. Philip died in 1920 at Evansville, Vanderburgh county, Indiana. Philip's religion is in doubt, but it could be Jewish. In the United States, he and his third wife had children baptized in the German Methodist Church. Geographical confusion arises because Philip seems to have lived both at Idstein and also at Balduinstein, which is not far away but in another county and state (Rheinland-Pfalz). Philip and Maria Elisabeth (BRUCKER) AUERT had the following children: Philip Edward BUECHER, born 1876, died 1938; and Maria Lydia BUECHER, born 1872, died 1943. I want to learn the name of Philip's mother and her birthplace and his father's birthplace and religion. I also want to learn the names of the parents of his first two wives and their birthplaces.


HECKMAN, James
eMail address: ja-elheckman@voyager.net

I am researching Francis M. HECKMAN / HECKMANN, born 25 November 1843, possibly at Dieburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. His parents may have moved from Alsace Lorraine when Francis was two years old. His first name is also spelled Frances. Francis emigrated to Canada with his parents, Michael and Maria HECKMANN, circa 1844 or 1845. Francis married Catharine ECKENSWILLER / ACKERSVILLER on 21 October 1867. He is listed in the 1900 U.S. Federal census as living at Sebawaing, Huron county, Michigan. On 14 July 1909, Catharine died and she was buried in Silver Lawn Cemetery at Sebawaing, Michigan. On 4 January 1912 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Francis married Barbara ECKENSWILLER / ACKERSVILLER, the sister of his first wife, Catharine. She was born circa 1846 and died 4 December 1923. Francis died 20 August 1923 and is buried at Stratford, Ontario, Canada in the Avondale Cemetery with his second wife, Barbara. Francis' children were (uncertain about some of these dates): Joseph, born 18 February 1867 ?; John, born 30 May 1869, died 28 September 1930; Paulina (Collina ?), born 23 February 1870, died 1954; Jacob, born 5 July 1871 ?; Anthony, born 23 January 1873 ?; George, born 30 June 1867 ?; Rosa and twin (twin died at birth), born 23 February 1879; died 19 Dec 1946; Mary and twin (twin died at birth), born 26 April 1880, died 2 February 1949; Barbara, born 16 May 1884 ?; Elizabeth, born 25 Apr 1886, died 7 February 1961; Thersia, born 5 October 1888, died 22 February 1933; Henry, born 5 February 1890, died 1965; and Agnes, born 24 January 1893, died 18 December 1914.


JANICKI, Nancy KURTZ
eMail address: Kurtznj@aol.com

I am looking for information on Adam and Martha KURZ. Martha's maiden name may have been OTTO. They immigrated, sailing for the U.S. aboard the ship "Gustav", with date of arrival 20 Aug 1856 and the final destination listed as Pennsylvania. Their last residence is listed as Hessen. Their children were Adam, Henrich, and Wilhelm. I have a citizenship paper from Harrisburg, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania for Adam KURTZ (no longer KURZ) dated 25 September 1871. I don't know if this is the father or the son. I have a list of KURTZ's: Otto born 1868; Edwin born 1870; Wilhelm born 1872 (my grandfather); John Oscar born 1874; Grivin or Irvin (my father's name was Girvin Loss KURTZ) born 1876; Martha born 1879. All are listed as being from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Andrew Roy KURTZ born 1884 was listed at LaMars, Iowa. These papers were given to me by an aunt after my father died. The only information on this family comes from these papers. I don't know how the family of brothers and sisters above, including my grandfather, were related to Adam. My grandfather, Wilhelm or William Harrison (W. H. KURTZ, 47 years old) is listed in the 1920 census with his wife, Lillian (Lilla A, 44 years old), Priest, sons Girvin (my father), Ralph, and William. I have no living relatives that I know of and have not been able to find out how Adam was related to my grandfather. Adam KURTZ was in the 1st Husaren Regiment 4th Escadron around 1820-1832. I have a paper in Old German which no one has been able to translate. It looks like a marriage announcement, while Adam was in the service, of his marriage to Martha Elizabeth OTTO 1820. I also have a document that might be his discharge paper. I think Adam was an officer in the Prussian army.


LAPP, Patrick
eMail address: patrick.lapp@laposte.net

I am looking for information on Jean Jodokus LAPP born 14 or 17 January 1762 at Frankfurt am hand, Hessen, Germany, died 12 May 1825 at Bergzabern, Germany. He married Philippine Francoise BUFFET 24 May 1810 at Bergzabern, Germany. One of their children was Francois LAPP, born 9 February 1817 at Bergzabern, Germany, died 8 April 1864 at Wissenbourg, France. There were 2 other daughters and 3 other sons. I am interested in information on his parents, siblings, and descendants.


NOYES, Robert
eMail address: myrobnoyes1@juno.com
(Roman Catholic ?)

I am researching Jacob ESSELBACH, born between 1839-1841 at Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He married Julia Karoline Dorothea WOLLENWEBER. Julia was born 26 Jan 1842 at Munchen, Bayern, Germany. She was the daughter of Karl Wilhelm WOLLENWEBER (born 25 May 1810) and Maria Anna WINKELMEYER / WINKELMAYER (born 10 March 1818). Julia's father worked as a court artist for Prince SCHOENBORN at Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden, Bayern, Germany. Jacob ESSELBACH's death date and place is unknown. Julia died 25 Nov 1921 at Billings, Montana. Their children were: Arthur William, born 3 June 1873 in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Rudolph Henry, born 1 Septemnber 1876; Bertha, born February 1877; and Sophia, born May 1883. Family legend has it that Jacob ESSELBACH was Roman Catholic. Julia WOLLENWEBER emigrated from Bremen, Germany on the ship "Weser" and arrived at New York on 11 April 1871 with two sisters, Sophie WOLLENWEBER and Friedrike WOLLENWEBER. There is a record in the book, Germans to America, Vol. 20 of a Jacob ESSELBACH who emigrated from Germany on the ship "Atlanta" and arrived at New York from LeHavre and London on 27 September 1868. I would like to find information about Jacob's parents and his siblings and definite birth dates.


OLDFATHER, Diane
email address: dioldfather1@home.com

I am looking for the family of Friedrich JOST / YOST. He was born in 1799/1800 near Helsen, Hessen, Germany. He married Johanna Louise Christiane GOTTHEIS (1787-1839) of Helsen on 17 November 1822. Johanna was the daughter of John Heinrich Carl GOTTHEIS (1763-1808) and Maria Charlotte JAGER (1759-1839). Friedrich and Johanna were the parents of 10 children: August, born 21 September 1823, died 23 September 1823; Ludwicht Friedrich Wilhelm Christian, born 7 September 1824, died 1908 in Freeborn county, Minnesota, married Fredericke BLUME (1833-1880); Carl Christian, born 16 February 1826, died 16 July 1844; Maria Fredericka Katarina, born 29 January 1828, died 1916 in Freeborn county, Minnesota, married Wilhelm BUNSE (1831-1901); Kasper Wilhelm Franz, born 18 December 1829; Wilhelm Friedrich, born 28 October 1831, died 19 May 1833; Johanna Carolina Latvina, born 9 May 1833, died 1877 in Freeborn county, Minnesota; Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Christian, born 5 November 1834; Ludwicht Barnhardt, born 22 March 1836, died 1899 in Freeborn county, Minnesota; Johannes Christian, born 30 September 1837, died 1922 in Freeborn county, Minnesota. Friedrich JOST / YOST married again on 29 December 1839 to Fredericke STRACHE (1810-1887) of Koden. They were the parents of 8 children: Carl August, born 23 Oct 1840, died same day; Christian Friedrich Wilhelm, born 27 August 1842, died 1916 in Freeborn county, Minnesota; Louise Fredericke Tortorte, born 30 June 1844, died 1887 in Freeborn county, Minnesota; Theodore Carl Christian, born 25 August 1846, died 16 January 1847; Maria Frederina, born 29 November 1849; Christine Caroline, born 10 February 1849; Christina Johanna, born 19 February 1850, died 1940 in Freeborn county, Minnesota; and Maria Wilhelmina, born 5 March 1852, died 1946 in U.S. I have information on the families after they immigrated to the U.S., but very little about them in Germany. Friedrich's gr-grandfather is named as Jacob Michael JOST (1629-1717) and his wife as Anna Christina MICHARLIN (1640-1717). I do know the JOST / YOST family, the BUNSE family, and the BLUME family were all from around the same area in Germany. In addition to the towns (Helsen and Koden) mentioned, the towns of Helmighausen, Westheim, Koder Hammer, Pickershammer, Westheim Mill, Billinghaus Mill, and Smillinghausen are places where the childrens' sponsors came from.


PETRACK, Cindy DIETZEL
Petrnmsn@aol.com

I am looking for the family of Peter DIETZEL (DEITZEL) born 1821 and his wife, Mary SCHINSTER, born 1824. They married prior to 1847. They immgrated to the U.S. from Germany between 1850 and 1853 with their sons, Adam Henry born 1847, and Henry born 1850. Mary had two brothers who also immigrated to the U.S. Their names were Samuel SCHINSTER and Casper SCHINSTER. Casper was born 1813 and married Eve Elizabeth ______. Samuel lists his place of birth as Darmstadt, Germany. He married Barbara SCHILLING.


POLK, Donna
eMail address: dmay57@houston.quik.com

I am searching for the family of George Heinrich MAYER, born 4 September 1804 and Elisabetha Margaretha KLOCK, born 7 October 1806, both at the village of Zeilhard, Hessen, Germany. The records for the village were in the Georgenhausen District (now Reinhelm). Their children were: Elisabetha, born 1835; Jacob, born 1836; Heinrich, born 1839; Anton, born 1842, and Peter, born 1846. In Germans to America, another passenger, George Heinrich MAYER, age 78, was traveling with them. The family emigrated from Zeilhard in May 1850, arriving at the port of New York, 5 July 1850 aboard the ship "Leila." The family migrated to Dodge Co., Wisconsin where they lived until 1864. In 1864, the father, mother, and children Heinrich and Elisabetha, and youngest son, George Heinrich born 1852 in Wisconsin, moved to Winona county, Minnessota. By 1868, the family had settled on homesteads at Lake Crystal, Blue Earth county, Minnesota. Sons Jacob, Peter, and Anton remained in Wisconsin. Elisabetha married Frederick BAHMA; Jacob married Louisa HOFER, Heinrich married Margarite A. OEHLERS, Peter married Mary MORRELL, and George Heinrich (the youngest) married Louisa A. or Anna ? . Anton has not been found.


REBER, Alma
eMail address: aj@1244church.net

I am researching Frank (?) REICHWEIN who immigrated to the U.S. in 1870. His wife died in Germany prior to his immigration. They had four sons: Joseph, John, Anthony and Henry. These names may be Americanized today. Henry was born March 1861 at Dorndorf, Hesse-Nassau, Germany and lived at Rocktown (later renamed Lavelle, Pennsylvania) until he died in 1928. Frank went back to New York where Joseph and Anthony lived and died there. John REICHWEIN is the only other son that I have found information on.


ROBERTS, Kathy ROBARTS
grob44@gte.net
(Lutheran)

I am searching for the family of my great-grandfather, Frederick Luther, KLEIN born 11 July 1855 in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. He immigrated to America in 1872, settling at Baltimore, Maryland. He lived in the Baltimore area until 1878 when he moved to Indiana. He was in the apothecary and drug business in Indiana and Illinois from 1878 until 1900 when he went to Montana for mining. He returned to Vermillion Co., Illinois in 1903. He died 26 January 1922 at Hoopeston, Illinois. Frederick's father was Henry KLEIN, a chemist and mining engineer in Hesse-Darmstadt, who met an accidental death while inspecting a mine in 1864. His mother was Katherine SEEGER who also died in 1864. Frederick married Susan A. ROSENBERGER, daughter of George W. ROSENBERGER, on 13 April 1892. She was born in 1857 at Thorntown, Indiana and died 15 February 1951 at Hoopeston, Illinois. Their children were: Carrie (married REDMAN), Kathryn (married SWANSON), John, Thomas, and Karl F. (my grandfather). Frederick was a Republican. The family's religion was Lutheran. I have found quite a bit of this information in the History of Vermillion County, Illinois.


STANGO, Debra KUNKEL
eMail address: vetgirl@gte.net

I am researching Jacob KUNKEL, who died before 1791. He married Anna Christina _____ about 1760. Anna's surname may have been SIMON, from Haibach, Germany. They had the following children: Johann Adam KUNKEL, born about 2 September 1762, died 8 January 1841; Johann Conrad KUNKEL, born about 23 June 1765 at Seligenstadt, Hessen, Germany; Peter KUNKEL born about 1766, died 19 January 1833, married Margaretha BODESOHN 12 January 1784 in Seligenstadt. Margaretha was born about 1757 and died 24 June 1819 at Seligenstadt; and Johann Michael KUNKEL.



WEIKEL, Paul
eMail address: bubbasnoops1@cs.com
(Roman Catholic)

I am searching for immigration records and other supporting data for Mikel WIKEL, John WIKEL and Margaret HAXEN. Mikel WIKEL was born about 1796 at Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. John WIKEL was born about 1830 at Hessen-Darmstadt and may have emigrated with Mikel. A possible port of entry would be in Louisiana. John married Margaret HAXEN on 31 August 1848 in Bainbridge Township, Dubois county, Indiana. Margaret was born about 1830 in Bayern, (Bavaria) Germany. They lived at Bainbridge township Indiana until 1876. In 1878, they moved to Carmi, Illinois. They then moved to Owensboro, Kentucky. John and Margaret had a son named Mikel who changed the family name to WEIKEL (this information obtained from relative - since deceased - in July 1984. He also changed his first name to Michael then to Mike. Mikel (1796) was living in Dearborn county, Indiana in 1850 (listed as Michael WIKEL in the 1850 U.S. Federal census, wife unknown). The family was Roman Catholic. The family settled for quite awhile in Daviess Co., Kentucky where some relatives still reside today. The name was misspelled as WOIKEL in the 1900 census. The 1910 census spelling of WEIKEL is the one retained today. The sons of Mikel (1830) were Matthew, Robert S. and Leo.


WILHELM, John
eMail address: jwilhelm@ALBERICI.com
(Roman Catholic)

I am searching for my gg-grandmother, Anna GAUTER. We believe she immigrated to New York via Hamburg in 1868, registering under the first name of Wilhelmine. She was born in October 1846. About 1869, she married my great-great-grandfather, Joseph (Josef) WILHELM, born 16 March 1835. Anna listed her place of origin in the 1870 U.S. Federal census as Hess. (Hessen) Joseph listed his place of birth in various censuses as both Germany and Austria. Joseph died 19 September 1918 at Duluth, St. Louis countyo, Minnesota. They lived at Rochester, Monroe county, New York until 1872, when they moved to Wayne, Washington county, Wisconsin. They then moved to Cadott, Chippewa county, Wisconsin in 1884. Anna died 26 December 1910 in Duluth, St. Louis county, Minnesota and was buried back in Cadott. Their children were: Frank (Francis, Franz), Anna Catherine, William, John, Mary, Joseph, and Charles. All of the family were Roman Catholic.


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