Introductions and Surnames

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Permalink Reply by Anne on July 21, 2009 at 10:46am

My parents and grandparents were all St. Louis natives. I know a bit of Maes, Mischel, Mandeville, Kalny, Ruedlinger, Vermast, and VanTourenhout in the old Dutch neighborhood around St. Anthony’s and Bevo, both of which my bricklayer great grandfather helped build. I’d love to learn more of my Edel g2grandparents who had a saloon and/or grocery on 3rd in the mid 1800s.

Permalink Reply by Karen Dickey Kleinberg on July 24, 2009 at 6:19am

My name is Karen Kleinberg and my husband Glenn & I have been searching and discovering alot about our families. We were both raised in St. Louis until moving to Farmington 31 years ago.

On my side of the family we are researching the Dickey's and Politte's from the St. Francois, Madison & Ste Genevieve counties in Missouri. My family moved into Missouri from North Carolina, Kentucky and Illinois from the late 1700-mide 1800's.

My husband's family are all from the north St. Louis area. We are researching the Kleinberg's, Dohrendorf's, Perringer/Pirringer's, and Mahlin's. Most of his family seems to have come over from Germany in the mid 1800's.

Any help with any of these names will be greatly appreciated.

Permalink Reply by Sue Lederer Geiger on July 27, 2009 at 9:49am

A branch of my Jewish Lederer family emigrated to St.Louis in the 1880's.Samuel M.Lederer had a construction company that built city hall,libraries,and other public buildings as well as a bridge across the Mississippi.He and his wife are buried in the New Mt.Sinai Cemetery which I hope to visit soon when we go to visit our son whose in school in Missouri.

Permalink Reply by Debbra Walker on July 27, 2009 at 10:40am

Hello all, I am a amateur genealogist, photo restoration artist and owner of a 4 foot long 10lb cranky iguana. I am interested in the Melcher/Melchior family from Hanover (Central) Germany. They were Potters and Creamery operators in the years 1840-1900. Anyone here ever hear of them? Thanks for starting this group, Debbra

Permalink Reply by Beth Gatlin on July 27, 2009 at 10:46am

My mother's side of the family is from St. Louis. As far as I know the first family member to arrive in St. Louis was my great-great-grandmother's brother Matthias Nagel. He immigrated from Germany around 1867 and married Mary Hill in St. Louis in 1873. By 1880 they were in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri. In 1892 his sister, my great-great-grandmother Christina (or Christine) Nagel came to St. Louis from Remagen, Germany, along with her husband, my great-great-grandfather Carl Joseph (Karl Josef) Schneider, and their six children. By then Matthias and his family had gone to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In the early 1880s another great-great-grandfather came to St. Louis. According to census records, death certificates, and a cemetery listing, his name was John Gersbacher, but my grandmother had said that his name was Joseph Gersbacher. One of his sons was named Joseph John Gersbacher, so he may have been John Joseph or Joseph John. He was from Baden, Germany (not necessarily the town Baden, maybe just the state of Baden). About a year after he immigrated, his wife, my great-great-grandmother Kunigunda Dreier, and their four children joined him. There was also a baby (sex unknown) who died on the way over and was buried at sea. One more child was born in St. Louis. Kunigunda died in 1893 and John later remarried someone named Theresa.

My great-grandfather John Schneider married my great-grandmother Paulina Gersbacher. In addition to these surnames, I'll list their sisters' marriages too, since their names changed. Anna M. Schneider married Anthony L. Wegman. Maria (or Marie) Schneider married William F. Illig. Augusta M. Gersbacher married Emil H. Glaser. When she died in Los Angeles, California in 1969, her last name was Parker, but I don't know what her husband's first name was or where she married him. My aunt told me that there was also another husband, but I don't know what his name was. She never had any children. Anna Mary (Ann) Gersbacher married Fredrick Taschner.

My grandmother Margaret Schneider married William Herbert Foerstel in October 1931, and in 1938 they were divorced. On 25 September 1939 she married my grandfather, John Boe.

John Boe was from St. Louis too. He was born on 28 April 1908. His father, also named John Boe, was previously married (and divorced), and the youngest child from his first marriage was born in Mason City, Iowa in 1905, so that should give an approximate time frame for when he arrived in St. Louis. His mother Kathleen Graham (whose birth name may have been Catherine) was probably also previously married, since she had a daughter who was born in Illinois in 1901. In the 1900 census she was not married and was living with her mother and brother, so I don't know who the father was. The daughter always used the name Boe before she got married and apparently her descendants do not even know that John Boe was not her biological father, so obviously my family was not talking about this! Kathleen's brother Garfield Graham was in St. Louis by 1910 too. So was their mother, Catherine Elizabeth Winters, who usually used her middle name. Her second husband, my great-grandmother's stepfather, was James Mapplebeck, so when she lived in St. Louis her surname was Mapplebeck. James Mapplebeck may have died before she moved there.

Permalink Reply by Ellen Naliboff on August 1, 2009 at 12:17pm

I am Ellen (Clark) Naliboff researching my family history in St Louis and Ireland. The surnames are CRINNION, KELLY, HUNT, MULDERIG, CLARK. The CRINNIONs were stone masons, etc. as early as 1850 and owned a quarry. The HUNTS were relocated from Roscommon, Ireland becasue the eldest son was a witness of the prosecution in the murder of Major Mahon. The MULDERIGs and CLARKs emigrated from neighboring parishes in Co Mayo about 1880. They lived in Kerry Patch and attended St Bridget's. All are buried at Calvary Cemetery. I have data to share.

Permalink Reply by Patricia T. Hefferon on August 19, 2009 at 3:26pm

Hi Ellen,

I recognize your name from some help you gave me in the past. I was Patricia Trecker from WI at that time. I am now Patricia Hefferon. My oldest relative was John (Thomas) King. His wife died with the birth of his 2nd son, Martin, my Great Great Grandfather. He left the children with relatives in Galway and came into St. Louis. The older son, Edward (Jerome) came first. Martin came at age 15 as a stowaway about 1851. Don't know where the father lived but they were Irish and lived in St. Louis. Martin was sent back to Ireland as the Civil War was brewing. He returned in abt. 1855 and I believe he worked on the railroad in Iowa. It is said that his marriage to Catherine Curran (Sligo) took place in St. Louis in 1869 or 1871. Son Thomas was born in Missouri about 1871 or 1872. Any help you could give me on tracing this family in "Irish" St. Louis. I particularly would like to find the marriage record and have been told by the State that it doesn't exist. Good to re-connect with you. Pat

Permalink Reply by Patricia T. Hefferon on September 3, 2009 at 8:36pm

I am looking for KING, John or Thomas abt. 18366-1880--Came to US from Co. Galway, Ireland after his wife died in childbirth with Martin, my GGrandfather. Martin, born 1836, came to St. Louis as a stowaway but Father sent him back because of upcoming Civil War. Came again when he was 19. Martin married Katherine Curran in 1869 9r 1871. She, too, was from Ireland. So I am looking for CURRANs as well. It is said that she was a twin. Her father was Patrick CURRAN from Co.Sligo.

Permalink Reply by Dorothy Norland on October 17, 2009 at 11:01am

My St. Louis surnames are: Gage, Gonde, Keene, Melzer, McHugh, Sabo, Szabo, Tobin, Walsh. I have lived in St. Louis all my life and have been doing genealogy for 25+ years. I speak and read a little Hungarian

Permalink Reply by Erin Murphy on November 7, 2009 at 10:48pm

Most of my family lines begin in St. Louis in the 1850's. I have the Irish side: Britton, Connell, Halloran (Holloran), Hand, Moriarty, Murphy, O'Connell. Pretty much all of them lived in North St. Louis from the 1850's on. I have been systematically going through Catholic church records looking for anything on these family names. I have a database of births and marriages. If you share any of these surnames, email me and I will look in my database for information.

My German side includes the following surnames: Bassmann, Herrnleben, Ott and Zimmerman.

Permalink Reply by Meredith Sellers on January 18, 2010 at 9:53am

My name is Meredith and I'm researching my 2x and 3xgreat grandparents on my father's side who settled in St. Louis after arriving in the US from Russia.

Specifically, I am interested in the Cohn, Fisher, Lasky, and Schultz families. Benjamin and Sarah Cohn, Abraham and Sarah Fisher, and Samuel and Kate/Gertrude Lasky all came over in the 1880s - 1890s.

Permalink Reply by Carol Hailey Crow on April 17, 2010 at 3:25pm

My name is Carol Hailey Crow. I was born in St. Louis but have been on the West Coast since 1956. My families have been in St. Louis since the 1850's and lived in Old North SL.. The Irish lines are Sullivan (John & Margaret Crimmins), and O'Hare (Frank & Kate Quinn). The German lines are Hilbert (Valentin & Barbara Bachelm), Jaworsky and Temme.

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