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A Geneology Collection by Debbie Mills
Appelonia Gietzen
Born: Sept 15, 1850, Prussia
Parents: John and Anna unknown
Siblings: Joseph (1835), Barbara (1840), Susannah
Emigration:
NY Passenger List Dec 1857, ship “Catherine and Cumbria”, port of departure Antwerp, Belgium: Johan Joseph Getzen, age 44, farmer, family from Germany, Anna, cannot decipher age ?2
Joseph 22
Susanna 12
Appolonia 7
Barbara 13 (born circa 1844)
Marriage: circa 1869 WI
Children: Anna G (1870-1832), Joseph C. (1872-?), John M. (1873-1876), Michael (1875, died at birth), John Jacob(1876-1849) Joseph Charles (1879-?), Frank (1881-1897), George (1883), Mary (1887), Lorenz (1888), Rose (1891), Doras (1893), Louis (1896)
A Dutch custom was to name next child after deceased sibling of the same sex, so it is not unusual to see the same name repeated in the family.
Death: 1 Oct 1917, Waupaca Co, WI. Buried St. Mary’s cemetery, Bear Creek
Census:
1910 US Census, WI, Waupaca, Bear Creek
John Mares, 64, 1st marriage, married 41 years, b Holland, farmer
Apluney, wife, age 59, 13 children born, 9 alive
Sorence, 21 (son), farm laborer
Doris, 16 (son)
Mary M., 23
Rose H., 18
Louis A, 13
1900 US Census, Waupaca Co, Bear Creek
John Maers, b Oct. 1845, age 54, married 31 years, b Holland, emmigrated 1853, farmer
Akloma, b Sept. 1850, age 49, 12 children born, 9 alive, b Germany, emmigrated 1857
Anna, daughter, 30, b April 1870 WI
Jacob, son, 23, b Dec. 1876
Charly, 20, b July 1879
George, 16, b July 1883
Mary, 13, b Jan. 1887
Lorenz, 11, b Dec. 1888
Rose, 8, b July 1891
Doras (son), 7, b Jan. 1893
Louis, 3, b June 1896
1895 WI state census
John Mares: 7 white males, 5 white females, 9 born in US, 3 born Germany
1880 US census, WI, Waupaca Co, Bear Creek
John Meres, 45, married, farmer, b Holland, parents b Holland
Plona, 30, wife, born Prussia
John J., 3, b WI
Anna, 10, b WI
Joseph C. 9 months, born Sept. 1879 WI
1870 US Census, WI, Waupaca, Bear Creek
Joh Marez, 25, farmer, b Holland, cannot read or write
Pluny, 20, b Prussia, cannot write
Anna, 3 months, b WI
Misc:
Note from granddaughter Hilda Mares O’Brien: Grandpa (John) felled the logs and hewed them to make the log cabin. He carried the cook stove on his back from the train in Appleton or Oshkosh. They had no other way. They had no horses or anything. They just started out from scratch. May have been married in Cedarburg, WI.
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