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| HOME SITE MAP LATEST ON THE SEEHAWER, BOESEN, AND GORMLEY BRANCHES SEEHAWER |
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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 8PHOTO |
Johann Seehawer Pempersin, West Prussia DESCENDANTS ANCESTORS |
| +Ralph Edward
Spencer 8PHOTO |
+Anna Marie Wiedenhoft Pempersin, West Prussia |
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| 8PHOTO 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
1880(?)-1953 Chicago, Illinois Buffalo Co., Nebraska Athelstane, Wisconsin Iron Mountain, Michigan |
Charles Boesen 1850(?)-1879(?) Denmark/Germany Racine, Wisconsin |
Christopher Boesen Denmark/Germany |
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| +Alice Gormley
1857(?)-1937 Racine, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois Buffalo Co., Nebraska Athelstane, Wisconsin 8PHOTO |
John Gormley 1833-1884 Ireland Racine, Wisconsin Buffalo Co., Nebraska 8PHOTO 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 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.  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. Axel's Photos These links are all off my site, so please let me know if you try them and they no longer work. Johan
Seehawer (husband of Rose Kottke) Our Irish Ancestry
What
19th century provinces now belong to Poland? Johann Seehawer, Anne Wiedenhoft, and their first child, Michael, are on page 4 of the census. 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 June 28, 2008 Oakland Pig Roast Greetings to all the cousins I saw there! Please forgive me--I am just going to repeat what I wrote about it last year because my feelings haven't changed. I am grateful to Uncle Joe
and Aunt Nita for all of their work to make this reunion happen and to
all of the relatives who made the effort to be there. My grandmother,
Gertrude, was the last of her siblings to die in 1965. Even though that
was more than 40 years ago, it has been impressive to see how close my
grandmother's, Bob's, Emil's, Marie's, and Carl's children have stayed
ever since--all the Spencer, Seehawer, and Bielenberg cousins. Lately I
have started worrying about whether the family will stay in touch when
our parents' generation is no longer able to make sure we do it.
It's time for my generation to make a commitment to keeping the family
together. I really think it's worth it, but it's one of those things
that people sometimes don't appreciate until it's gone. Hint: it should
be a lot easier for us because most of us use e-mail!
Nov. 5, 2007 Norman Mann A Seehawer cousin visited us over the weekend and informed us of the death Oct. 8 of one of our in-laws, Norman Mann. I am sorry to say I never got to know him, but I extend my sympathy to his family. You can read his obituary here (you'll have to scroll down). Aug. 22, 2007 Pempersin Connections I received an interesting note yesterday from a genealogist whose Semerau ancestors are from Pempersin. Her family tree includes Seehawers/Seehabers/Seehafers who married into her family there, and she has other names in common with ours (e.g., Rux). She has been told that anyone from Pempersin is related to everyone else in Pempersin, and I don't doubt it, although we don't know yet exactly how we're related. She is the one who provided me with the link to Pempersin page that I have just added above. CREDITS
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