Individual Notes

Note for: John Bousfield, ABT Aug 1742 - 7 Sep 1789 Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 Aug 1742
     Place:   , Winkburn, Nottinghamshire, England

Burial:
     Date:   ABT Sep 1789
     Place:   , , Nottinghamshire, England

Individual Notes

Note for: Francis Garcia, ABT 1890 - Index

Individual Note:
T132

CENSUS: 1920 CA neg

Mother is shown on Pauline's Social Security SS-5 application.

Individual Notes

Note for: Rorik Algotsson, ABT 1265 - 1289/1302 Index

Individual Note:
SOURCE: "Nachkommen Gorms Des Alten", by S. Otto Brenner, 1964, Page 269, top of page.

Individual Notes

Note for: Gregoire Schweitzer, 14 Aug 1845 - 14 Apr 1846 Index

Christening:
     Date:   ABT Sep 1845
     Place:   Biwer, Biwer, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg

Burial:
     Date:   ABT Apr 1846
     Place:   Biwer, Biwer, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg

Individual Note:
     SOURCE: "In A Large Circle of Relatives: A Genealogical Guide to the Early Community of Rollingstone, Minnesota", by Mary E. Nilles, 1989, pages 137 and 251. FHL Call no. 977.612/R1 D2n.

Individual Notes

Note for: Barbara (Barbe) Schweitzer, 9 Feb 1848 - 20 Apr 1939 Index

Christening:
     Date:   ABT Feb 1848
     Place:   Biwer, Biwer, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg

Individual Note:
     EMIGRATION: In 1861 Barbara Schweitzer came to the United States with her parents and siblings and probably traveled to the Belgian port of Antwerp by coach from Biwer, Luxembourg. The transportation mode was very uncomfortable and probably took many days and 60 hours of travel because of the layovers and interruptions as horses had to be changed regularly.

Once they arrived at the harbor of Antwerp, it was rare that the passengers could board right away and then leave. There were always repairs and loading and scheduling so they usually had to stay one or two nights before boarding. Some immigration agents had some boardinghouses under contract.

Reason for Emigration: These were essentially economical. The great duchy was a poor underdeveloped farming country where day laborers, village craftsman and small landowners hardly could make a living. A series of bad harvests only increased unavailability of land, high taxes, political discrimination against the lower classes and military draft increased the rampant poverty.

Emigration was particularly high in the area of the Moselle River Valley, where in the 1840s and 1850s a series of bad wine harvests pushed the indebted winegrowers into bankruptcy.

Even though most emigrants had little property, they usually had a small house, some domestic animals and some furniture to sell in order to have some money to pay for the fare and a new beginning in the United States.

The trip across the Atlantic took from three weeks to two months depending on the weather and wind because they were on sailing ships.

Several first contact destinations were possible on the North American Continent. One method was to go by way of Canada and the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes. Another method was landing on Manhattan and taking a boat up the Hudson River and then the Eire Canal west to Buffalo and going through the Great Lakes. The final possibility was to travel by railroad from New York City to Chicago and then further west.

CENSUS: 1865, Rollingstone, Winona, MN, family no. 7, Barbara Swetzer?, FHL film no. 565716.

MARRIAGE: Marriage licence and certificate record, Winona Co., MN, filed May 27, 1869 in Book C, page 76, the witnesses were Barbara's brother, Mathias and her father, Anton. Her brother, Peter Schweitzer, Justice of the Peace, performed the ceremony. Record held by the Winona Historical Society, Winona, MN.

CENSUS: 1870, MN, Fillmore, Rushford, page 2 (522), line 35, family number 12, Barbara Kieffer, age 28, LUX, GER, FHL film no. 888978.

CENSUS: 1880, MN, Blue Earth, Lake Crystal, E.D. 12, page 16, line 50, Barbara Kieffer, age 40 (error), Baden (error) Baden (error) Baden (error?), FHL film no. 1254615.

CENSUS: 1900, MN, Blue Earth, Mankato, E.D. 19, sheet 11A, line 39, 227 S. 5th, Barbara Kiefer?, born Feb 1852, age 48 (52), to US 1861, FHL film no. 1240758.
CENSUS: 1910, MN, Ramsey, St. Paul, Ward 2, E.D. 36, sheet 11B, line 62, Barbara K. Kieffer, age 58 (62), Wd, GER GER GER, to U.S. in 1862 (1861), FHL film no. 1374729.

CENSUS: 1920, MN, Ramsey, St. Paul, Ward 11, E.D. 131, sheet 3B, line 86, 1698 Ashland Ave., Barbara Kieffer, age 65 (72), Wd, MN LUX UNK, to U.S. in 1862 (1861), FHL film no. 1820856.

CENSUS: 1930, MN, Ramsey, St. Paul, Ward 11, E.D. 62-148, sheet 22B, line 54, Barbara Kieffer, age 75 (82), Wd, married at 21?, LUX LUX LUX, to U.S. in 1870 (1861), FHL film no. 2340856.

SOURCE: "In A Large Circle of Relatives: A Genealogical Guide to the Early Community of Rollingstone, Minnesota", by Mary E. Nilles, 1989, pages 137 252 and 306. FHL Call no. 977.612/R1 D2n.

SOURCE: Death - Rene Breeuwer, Delft, Netherlands, breeuwer@club.tip.nl

DEATH: MN death index, Barbara Kieffer, D 7/4/1939, Stearns.