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| +Gertrude Seehawer 1899-1965 Athelstane, Wisconsin Oakland, Oregon |
Rudolph Seehawer 1866-1944 Neuhof, West Prussia Athelstane, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois |
Johann Seehawer 1829-1909 Pempersin, West Prussia Schmilowo, West Prussia PHOTO |
Johann Seehawer Pempersin, West Prussia DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS |
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Spencer PHOTO |
+Anna Marie Wiedenhoft Pempersin, West Prussia |
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| PHOTO OF RUDOLPH AND MARY ELLEN | +Rose Kottke
1835-1903 Wittun?, West Prussia Neuhof, West Prussia |
Paul Kottke West Prussia |
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| +Anna Elisabeth Venske West Prussia |
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| +Mary Ellen Boesen
1879-1953 Chicago, Illinois Buffalo Co., Nebraska Athelstane, Wisconsin Iron Mountain, Michigan |
Charles Boesen 1850-? Denmark/Germany Racine, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois ? |
Christopher Boesen Denmark/Germany |
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| +Alice Gormley
1857(?)-1937 Racine, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois Buffalo Co., Nebraska Athelstane, Wisconsin PHOTO |
John Gormley 1833-1884 Ireland Racine, Wisconsin Buffalo Co., Nebraska PHOTO AND DESCENDANTS |
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| +Mary Sheridan
1832-1918 Massachusetts Racine, Wisconsin Buffalo Co., Nebraska |
 This
building was
the home of Rudolph Seehawer's youth
in
Neuhof,
Zempleburg, West Prussia (now in Bydgoskie province, Poland). The photo
was taken in August 2000 by a cousin. |
MISSING
PIECES (Do you have one of them?)
 Record of Charles Boesen and Alice Gormley (Gormerly) marriage from St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Racine, Wisconsin, November 4, 1874 Alice Gormley Boesen and children in the 1880 Chicago census Left:  Right:  We're looking at the second, third, and fourth lines from the bottom. This was the only record in the 1880 census for a "Harvey B*" in Chicago. That, along with the names Alice and Mary and the birth places of everyone, have convinced me that this is Alice Gormley Boesen and her children. It also gave me the clue that they pronounced "Boesen" as "Bason." Many of us have been searching everywhere for a death record for husband Charles Boesen, who supposedly was run over by a team of horses and killed in 1978. But notice that Alice is listed as "married," not "widowed." If that's case, where is Charles? I have found a Charles Bayson in Minneapolis, a 26-year-old painter from Denmark. That man was boarding with a local family in the 1880 census and a few years later married a local girl and had a family there . . . Notice, too, that Mary is listed as a year old here, even though the birth certificate she had created in 1941 said she wasn't born until 1881. She said she was born in 1880 when she got married and in the 1900 and 1910 censuses. Now I've found Mary's original Report of Birth in Chicago for April 29, 1879--and Charles is listed on it as a carpenter, not deceased!  Rudoph Seehawer arrived in New York City Aug. 25, 1892, on the ship Havel. LINKS TO RELATED SITES Mary's photos Gertrude
Seehawer
Spencer's
papers
and
photos
ended
up at my aunt's house after Gertrude's death.
My
cousin allowed me to scan these photos. Laurelroots Amazon
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when ordering through my store: A page about John and Mary Gormley, our Irish ancestors. What
19th century provinces now belong to Poland? Johann Seehawer, Anne Wiedenhoft, and their first child, Michael, are on page 4 of the census. Current Pemperson photos Northern Wisconsin's Cutover Lands In the first few decades of the 1900s, both sets of my grandparents and some of my great-grandparents tried to develop farms on land that had been cut over by lumber companies in northern Wisconsin (Marinette County). They hoped to achieve the same kind of success as homesteaders in the Midwest in the previous century, but the odds were against them. Here are some links with more information: "1870-1940: Defining a Region" by Robert Gough "Richard T. Ely and the development of the Wisconsin cutover" by Robert Gough "Colonizing the Cutover: Wisconsin's Progressive-Era Experiments in Rural Planning" by Susan O. Haswell and Arnold R. Alanen Photos of Cutover Lands from the Wisconsin History Society Gormley
son
in
1907
Buffalo
County, Nebraska, atlas The religion known informally as "the Truth" (they say it has no formal name) is a significant part of the Seehawer family history. The "workers" (ministers) arrived in Athelstane, Wisconsin, in the late 1920s, and Mary Ellen (Boesen) Seehawer, several of her daughters (including my grandmother), and a daughter-in-law "professed" (joined). Their decisions had an impact on the family that is still seen today. There are many other sites about the religion on line; if you are interested, I urge you to search Google for words such as "workers," "profess," "truth," and "conventions," and you will be surprised at all you find. NOTES Ancestors of Johann Seehawer: The information from a German genealogy book, Altansassige deutsche Bauerngeschlechter in den Kreisen Zempleburg und Wirsitz in Westpreussen (Hans Jurgen von Wilckens, Hamburg, 1971), has been entered into an Ancestral File that can be found at the LDS Web site. To explore it, go to www.familysearch.org and search for Johann Seehawer. LATEST ON THE SEEHAWER, BOESEN, AND GORMLEY BRANCHES Jan. 30, 2010 Seehawers in Germany I had a helpful note from Jörn, a 4th cousin in Rostock, Germany, early this morning. He gave me information on the children of Daniel Seehawer and Anne Bigalke that he found in a Pempersin church register. Daniel was the brother of my great-great-grandfather Johann Seehawer and Jörn's great-great-grandfather Paul Seehawer. I have added the new information to the Seehawer descandants page. December 26, 2009 Book:Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940 My husband bought me this book for Christmas, and I have already started reading it. Alice Gormley Boesen Tappan moved to the Athelstane area before 1900 and bought land in 1904. Rudolph Seehawer moved there about the same time time and married her daughter. As far as I know, they tried to farm their land. I don't know how successful Alice was, but I know Rudolph spent a good part of his life traveling west and to Chicago to work. This book describes what they were up against in turning the cutover lands into farms. I've added some links above to articles about the cutover that you can read on line. Dec. 10, 2009 Kenda Cook Kenda passed away this morning. She was born April 12, 1961, to June (Spencer) and Robert Cook. Oct. 20, 2009 Seehawer and Gormley descendants I have updated the descendants pages for Johann and Anna Marie (Wiedenhoft) Seehawer and John and Mary (Sheridan) Gormley. Sept. 28, 2009 Kenda's book My cousin Kenda has just published a book about the adoption of her daughter. [Link removed 10/29/09 as Kenda is not able to fill orders at this time.] June 6, 2009 Mary Ellen Boesen's original birth record I've been trying to solve the puzzle of Mary Ellen's parentage for years. The first records turned up by family members made it impossible for Charles Boesen to have been her father; the "delayed" birth certificate she obtained in 1941 said she was born in 1881, and a declaration for pension completed by her mother in 1928 said Charles died in October 1878. A few years ago I found Alice, Mary Ellen, and Harvey in the 1880 Chicago census (see above), so that made the math work for Charles to be Mary Ellen's father even if he died before she was born. I have spent hours and hours trying to find Mary Ellen's original birth record. I tracked down which Catholic churches were in the neighborhood of the address she gave for her "delayed" birth certificate in 1941, ordered the microfilms through the LDS Family History Library, and went through all of them. Nothing. Last night I used the new FamilySearch Records Search to try. Nothing came up for Boesen or Basen, so I decided to try "Basey" because that was the spelling Alice used in the 1880 census. There were Alice and Charles with baby "Mamie" born April 29, 1879.  See additional notes here. May 15, 2009 George Tappan didn't die while married to Alice Gormley Boesen One of my oldest missing pieces (see above) has been, What happened to Alice's second husband, George A. Tappan? Familysearch.org has a new pilot search site for indexes of lots and lots of records. I was checking it out and tried a search for George A. Tappan because no one really knew what happened to him. All we knew was Alice was living in Athelstane with her and George's daughters and without George as early as 1900. Some said George had abandoned her; others thought he had died (she called herself a widow in at least one of the censuses); others thought they had gotten divorced. Tonight I found a wedding record for George and another woman (Harriet Lapeake Rochelle) in Grand Rapids, Mich., July 9, 1892. I'm sure it's the same person because his middle initial, year and state of birth, and parents' names match those of Alice's husband. So now we know he didn't die while married to Alice. I'd still like to know if he just took off, leaving her with the kids, or if they did get divorced. I'd also like to know when and why she moved to Athelstane and whether she came by herself. (Maybe she's the one who left him!) By the way, in looking at the original record of the Tappan-Rochelle marriage online, I see that he declares he has been married twice previously. Mar. 24, 2009 Howard Carl Seehawer, Jr. I was sorry to learn of the death of one of our generation, "Mose" Seehawer. He was born to Howard and Ethel (DeKeyser) Seehawer April 15, 1957, and died in Wisconsin about March 13, 2009, at the age of 51. CREDITS
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