Rosalia Voss (dutch link) was born 10 Mar 1873 in Boslar, Kreis Julich, Germany, daughter of Joseph Voss and Bertha Lichtenstein. She is my husband’s grandmother, and seems to have been a rather remarkable woman. It is unclear how she met her husband Mar Broekman, there seems to be no …
Today’s birthday girl is Hannah Pollack, who was born 22 Jan 1900 in Rüthen, Germany, daughter of Alfred Pollack and Hedwig Neuwald. She died in Seattle, WA in 2001 at 101; a very long life. She was the wife of my husband’s first cousin once removed. She married Hugo Voss in …
It was 185 years ago today that Elisa Marx was born on 10 Dec 1832 in Korrenzig, Germany. I have not found her parents yet. She married Coopman Lichtenstein, my husband’s great-granduncle, who was born in Waldenrath. Both towns are slightly northwest of Julich, where the couple moved before 1870, …
Heinz was the only son of Bernard Voss (dutch link) and Claire Hellenthal. We don’t know much about them. We don’t know when Heinz was born, or when he died. And this picture of the dapper little boy in his white sailor’s suit does not really give an inkling of the life he …
