Today is the birthday of my mother-in-law, Gertrude Augusta (Trude) Koch. She was born 22 May 1911 in Landstuhl, Germany, daughter of Ludolph Koch (dutch link) and Caecilia Mayer. She died in 1998 at age 87. Her parents and two siblings emigrated to Argentina around 1938. I am not sure whether Trude …
Martha Mayer (dutch link) was born 2 Apr 1882 in Schifferstadt in the Pfalz, 8th child of Leopold Mayer and Henriette Julia Wolff. She is my husband’s grand-aunt on his mother’s side. As I realized that I had only secondary sources for her and her siblings’ birth dates, I spent the …
Johanna Mayer was born 21 Feb 1833 in Schifferstadt, Germany, daughter of Abraham Mayer (dutch link) and Amalia Wolff. She is my husband’s maternal great-grandaunt. Was yesterday’s story one of lots of intermarrying, today’s is even more so. The Jewish community in the Pfalz was strongly interconnected, and the same surnames …
Esther was born 12 Jan 1824 in Kirrweiler, Germany, the daughter of Michael Süß and Gudel Moyses. Her parent’s address was Schloss-gasse 109 (The link goes to Schloss-Straße 109, but it looks possible that this was in an small alley off the main street). Esther is my husband’s 2nd great-grandmother on …
Gudel (Augusta/Goutel) Moyses was born 30 Nov 1788, 229 years ago in Bonfeld, Wurttemberg, Germany. She is my husband’s 3rd great-grandmother on his mother’s side. Gudel was jewish, and I found her birth certificate in the WWII file on my mother-in-law (but that is another story) She married her husband …
Caecilia Mayer (dutch link) was the seventh of ten children, four boys and six girls. She was born in 1880 in Schifferstadt, Germany, …
