Hi list, I may have uncovered a monkey wrench in my Boettger family who I thought arrived in Philadelphia from Hannover and stayed put. On a recent Ancestry search I found this listing under the 1861 Canada Census (spelling as listed in the search results): *OrrlebBoettger b 1816 Johanna Boettger b 1818 *Eodore Boettger b. 1839 *Ulius Boettger b. 1841 Mary Boettger b. 1843 Charles Boettger b. 1845 Elyabeth Boettger b. 1853 *Ad* Boettger b. 1855 *H?St Boettger All are listed under "township, Wentworth, Canada West." My family are: Gottlob (sometimes Gottlieb) b. 1815 Johanna b. 1818 Theodor b. 1839 Julius b. 1841 Maria b. 1843 Carl (later Charles) b. 1844 Elisabeth b. 1852 Friedrich b. 1855 Albert b. 1858 This certainly looks like it could be my family. The mother and children except for Theodor arrived in Philadelphia in December 1855. I can't find them in the 1860 census, nor can I find an arrival for the father and oldest boy. They are in Philadelphia in 1863, where I find draft registrations for the older boys, and a death certificate for the father Gottlob. He died of "acute mania," whatever that is, and it doesn't sound good. Could someone with access to the 1861 Canada census look them up for me and give me the details? That's a lot of names and dates in common to be a coincidence. Thanks in advance. Marce Aboard s/v Escape Velocity http://escapevelocity.mobi

Hello Marce, I looked at that 1861 Census and it does match up with what you already know about the family; however, Theodore and Julius, while listed, have marks through their data and entries in the column "Members of family absent". In the column "Residence if out of limits", there is an entry for both missing males. It's difficult to read. There is a word I can't make out and underneath the word is U.C, and under that is US. I "think" that means they were members of that family but were, at that time, in the U.S. The head of the family is listed as a Teacher of Music, born in Saxony. The wife and all children except for the last one (Albert?) are listed as born in Hanover. The last one is listed as born in U.S It's unfortunate that whoever copied the Census pages didn't get all of the left side of the page showing all of the given names. Wentworth is a little over 500 miles from Philadelphia, so the family could have resided temporarily in Canada in 1861. Looking at the 1870 Census for Philadelphia, PA, there is a Joana BOETTGER, age 49, Widow; also three children, Lizzie, age 11; Frederick, age 15, and Albert, age 12. (I think the age for Lizzie is incorrect; should have been 17.) George At 7/4/2012 03:16 PM Wednesday, Marce Schulz wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >Hi list, > >I may have uncovered a monkey wrench in my Boettger family who I thought >arrived in Philadelphia from Hannover and stayed put. On a recent Ancestry >search I found this listing under the 1861 Canada Census (spelling as listed >in the search results): > >*OrrlebBoettger b 1816 >Johanna Boettger b 1818 >*Eodore Boettger b. 1839 >*Ulius Boettger b. 1841 >Mary Boettger b. 1843 >Charles Boettger b. 1845 >Elyabeth Boettger b. 1853 >*Ad* Boettger b. 1855 >*H?St Boettger > >All are listed under "township, Wentworth, Canada West." > >My family are: > >Gottlob (sometimes Gottlieb) b. 1815 >Johanna b. 1818 >Theodor b. 1839 >Julius b. 1841 >Maria b. 1843 >Carl (later Charles) b. 1844 >Elisabeth b. 1852 >Friedrich b. 1855 >Albert b. 1858 > >This certainly looks like it could be my family. The mother and children >except for Theodor arrived in Philadelphia in December 1855. I can't find >them in the 1860 census, nor can I find an arrival for the father and oldest >boy. They are in Philadelphia in 1863, where I find draft registrations for >the older boys, and a death certificate for the father Gottlob. He died of >"acute mania," whatever that is, and it doesn't sound good. > >Could someone with access to the 1861 Canada census look them up for me and >give me the details? That's a lot of names and dates in common to be a >coincidence. > >Thanks in advance. > >Marce >Aboard s/v Escape Velocity >http://escapevelocity.mobi > >===== >If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Germanna Database at Ancestry: http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/28427876/family My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html

The binding of the census is obscuring the first initals I will send you the image behind the list Eliz On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Marce Schulz <marceschulz@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > I may have uncovered a monkey wrench in my Boettger family who I thought > arrived in Philadelphia from Hannover and stayed put. On a recent Ancestry > search I found this listing under the 1861 Canada Census (spelling as listed > in the search results): > > *OrrlebBoettger b 1816 > Johanna Boettger b 1818 > *Eodore Boettger b. 1839 > *Ulius Boettger b. 1841 > Mary Boettger b. 1843 > Charles Boettger b. 1845 > Elyabeth Boettger b. 1853 > *Ad* Boettger b. 1855 > *H?St Boettger > > All are listed under "township, Wentworth, Canada West." > > My family are: > > Gottlob (sometimes Gottlieb) b. 1815 > Johanna b. 1818 > Theodor b. 1839 > Julius b. 1841 > Maria b. 1843 > Carl (later Charles) b. 1844 > Elisabeth b. 1852 > Friedrich b. 1855 > Albert b. 1858 > > This certainly looks like it could be my family. The mother and children > except for Theodor arrived in Philadelphia in December 1855. I can't find > them in the 1860 census, nor can I find an arrival for the father and oldest > boy. They are in Philadelphia in 1863, where I find draft registrations for > the older boys, and a death certificate for the father Gottlob. He died of > "acute mania," whatever that is, and it doesn't sound good. > > Could someone with access to the 1861 Canada census look them up for me and > give me the details? That's a lot of names and dates in common to be a > coincidence. > > Thanks in advance. > > Marce > Aboard s/v Escape Velocity > http://escapevelocity.mobi > > ===== > If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message