Friedrich Ludwig and Maria Margaretha Held Schütz’s third child was named Christian Ludwig. He was born in Langenbach on 27 June 1843. At the end of October 1845, Ludwig, Maria Margaretha and two children set sail on the ship Harriet for Texas. They arrived in Galveston at the end of December. My great-Aunt Annie Schuetz …
I recently returned from a trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City with the Genealogical Society of Kendall County. My goal was to find some of my German ancestors. The Schütz family has been on my mind because I have been filling out the application for the Daughters of the Republic of …
Friedrich Ludwig his wife, Marie Margarethe, their sons Carl and Louis left their home in Langenbach, which was located in the Province of Hachenburg in the dukedom of Nassau in the fall of 1845. Traveling with the family was Ludwig’s brother, Johann Peter Schütz. This small group traveled to Antwerp to board the ship Harriet …
Wilhelm Schuetz, the youngest child of Ludwig and Marie Margarethe Schütz, was born 24 May 1850 in New Braunfels. According to a family story Ludwig and Marie had a son, Wilhelm, who died before they came to Texas, so perhaps they were determined to have a son named Wilhelm. When my Grandma Lillie was alive …
Two years after arriving in Texas, Ludwig and Marie Margarethe Schütz’s daughter Theodore “Dora” was born on 24 July 1847 in New Braunfels. Her oldest brother, Carl, was 8 years old. At the age of nineteen, she married August Casper Pfannstiel on 31 March 1867. They had nine children: Emma, Alwina, Augusta, Thekla, Alwin, Ida, …
In 1845 Peter Schütz traveled to Texas with the Adelsverein and settled in New Braunfels, Texas. He sailed on the ship Harriet with his brother, Ludwig, and his wife, Marie Margarethe, and their two children. Great Aunt Annie Schuetz Saunders was the first one to tell me that Ludwig had a brother who traveled to Texas …
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When Connie Schneider Krause graciously shared her translation of the obituary of Maria Margarethe Hild Schuetz with me I was so excited! I knew so very little about this grandmother who came from Nassau in 1845. One time I asked my Grandma Lillie if she had any memories of her great- grandmother. She would have died when Grandma …
Every day online records are being transcribed by volunteers to help family researchers. This saves time for the researcher and is very helpful when searching for ancestors who moved around a lot. The handwriting on many of the documents is difficult to read. Looking at census records for my great-grandfather, Henry Schuetz, I found several …
In 1978 I found a voter registration receipt for my great-grandmother, Emma Bauer Schuetz. At the time, I made a copy for my files and then never really looked it again. As I was going through a folder today, I ran across the copy and read it and noticed the date was 5 July 1918. …
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