> Hi Gerhard, Thank you for your information. I will investigate this Rausch family. I access ancestry.com at the family history library. I will try to find them on Wednesday. Jackie > From: "Gerhard Wenzel" <pgwenzel@web.de> > Date: May 2, 2005 7:26:04 AM EDT > To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BAVARIA] Re: RAUSCH > > > Hi Jackie > Reading your mail last week I was sure the place can only be Bad > Brueckenau in the diocese of Wuerzburg. What I found in the archives > there was this: > Caspar Rausch, son of Nicolaus Rausch and Caecilia Moeller was born > May 8, 1793, in Brueckenau and got married at least three times. He > was a landlord running a sort of restaurant in Brueckenau Nr. 102. > His first wife was Theresia Ebert. He must have had at least one child > with her. On January 6, 1838 he married Josepha Schmitt (sine corona), > a carpenters daughter;who had a child with him before marriage > (because of this "sine corona", married without veil), Barbara Amalia, > born 15 January 1836, who was legitimized by subsequent mariage. The > next child, Maria Theresia was born January 14, 1939 and is the second > child (girl) in second mariage. (So it is written.) "Anonyma" was born > 2nd January 1842 was baptized in extremis by the midwife. If she > survived this might be Elisabeth, but written is anonyma. The mother > was Margaretha Theresia Halbleib and this must be his third mariage. > (written: first child first girl from third marriage) > Augusta Theresa Friederike was baptized around 1845 and Georg Anton > 1847. > I have not found any Elisabeth. But going to USA, Maria Theresia, for > example, can have changed her first name. This was not unusual. For > sure she did not emigrate on her own being only 7 years of age. Can > you not find any of these other names on the ship when they emigrated? > I hope this helps. This man, Caspar Rausch, is the only one with this > name in that place for centuries. Even later the name is not found any > more. So I am quite sure he is the father of Elisabeth. > Take care > Gerhard > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Reiss" <tomjack@copper.net> > To: <BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:22 PM > Subject: [BAVARIA] Re: RAUSCH > > >> > >> Hi Beth and list, >> Rausch was her maiden name. According to her death certificate >> (1898), she was in the US for 51 years and in the city of Brooklyn >> for 28 years. I know that she was living in New York City (Manhattan) >> in the mid 1860s because she married Emmerick Reiss around 1863 and >> they had children born in 1864 and 1866. Only the male child born in >> 1866 survived into adulthood. In the mid-1860s, she and her husband >> were living at 232 E. 11th Street, Manhattan. I checked city >> directories for the Rausch name. One, John C. Rausch was living at >> the same address as Mary Elisabeth and her husband in 1865. >> >> The 1860 census has only two Bavarian Rausch families enumerated in >> Manhattan: Frederick, age 51, in the 11th Ward and Elizabeth, age 50, >> in the 17th Ward. I believe that these are related. Frederick's son >> is a jeweller app. There is no Mary Elisabeth in that family, but the >> man who married Mary Elisabeth was a jeweller at that time. Elizabeth >> has a daughter, age 19, named Elizabeth. I think that daughter may be >> our Mary Elisabeth. >> >> By 1870, M.E. and her husband and son were living at 156 Hope Street, >> Brooklyn. She died in Brooklyn at the home of her son, Francis J. >> "Frank" Reiss. I have no info on parents or siblings. She has >> descendants through her son's children, Mary Elisabeth, Charles >> Francis and Louis Frank, born between 1891 and 1894. There is a >> picture of Mary Elisabeth with her three grandchildren on my website >> if anyone would like to see them. >> http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/tomjackfl >> >> This is the extent of my knowledge of the Rausch family. I would like >> to learn more. >> Jackie