This file contains information (some of it important) that I picked up from different locations. Unfortunately, it also contains conclusions to which I was all too happy to jump to: whether they were right or wrong. I tried to discriminate between the two BUT TRAVEL AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE 1: Damian Dieringer was married at least twice. He had married Magdalena Reich about 1870. They had no children(?) and she died shortly after the marriage. He then married Aloisia Zahradnik in 1874. Which brings is to Beata Till - the god-mother of his older children. I found in about 2006 that Beata�s maiden name was Reich. I suspect Magdalena and Beata were sisters or at least cousins. According to the Priest who researched this for Oscar Dieringer(?), Daniel and Aloysia Dieringer (married 4/26/1874) had their children baptized as follows: child�s name parents godparents Amalia: Daniel D. & Aloysia Zaradnick Ferdinand Zahradnik & Beata Till John: Damina & Aloysia � � � � Albert: Daniel & Alvina Zahradnik � � � � Emilia: Daniel & Aloisia Zahradnick � � � � Emma: Damian & Zahradnik � � � � Ferdinand: Daniel & Aloysia Zahradnik Ferdinand Berger & Theresa Winkler Aloisa: Daniel & Aloysia Zahradnik � � � � Franz Joseph: Daniel & Aloisia Gartner � � � � Pauline & Maria: Daniel & Aloisia Gaertner � � � � (twins) --------- NOTE 2: On September 20, 1882, the ship �Salier� arrived from Bremen with 725 passengers. Among those passengers were Amalie Dieringer(age 44) along with (her children?) Anna(13), Catharine(9), Franziska(15), Jacob(17), Johann(11), and Severin(6). I think these are the Dieringers that settled in DeWitt County. While I can no longer find Amalie in 1900(I still need to check the daughters), I was able to find John and Severin. I also found a Joe Dieringer whose birth year coincides with Jacob�s. I suspect Jacob(a clerical error) and Joe are the same person. I used to think John and Severin were Daniel�s brothers, but due to the ages I now suspect they were Daniel�s nephews. Add to this the fact that Daniel opened his black- smith shop as �Dueringer and Brother�, I suspect Daniel gave or sold half his business to his brother�s (Amalie�s husband) family. --------- NOTE 3: The Galveston Immigrant Database lists the Fiedlers as having arrived there on December 15, 1849 from Hamburg, Prussia aboard the Hamburg-Knollton. They were headed for Fayette Co. They were listed as: Georg(age 34)(a mason by profession) & Wilhemine(23) + (children) Amelie(5), and Frederick(2). --------- NOTE 4: This is to correct some faulty information I�ve put out!!!!!!!!! When the �bird flu� was making its rounds in the 1918 to early 1920s period, its effects were just as devastating in Fayette County as anywhere else. As one can tell by Josef Roeder�s letters, his father, Ferdinand, never fully recovered from it. Especially hard hit were the Carl and Theresa (nee Winkler) family. Theresa lost her husband, a daughter (Mathilda) and two grandchildren (Mathilda Holub and Mary Dieringer�s children - one of which was probably pre-mature as it�s buried in a shoe box) in a short period of time. The two babies are buried with �Tillie�. Afterward, Theresa raised two of Mathilda�s children: Emil and Herbert Holub. --------- NOTE 5: On October 11, 1871, the ship �Koln� arrived at the port of New Orleans. Among its passengers were Rosina Roeder(age 64) and (her daughters?) Theresia(31), Caroline(20) [who went on to marry Gerhard Kloesel], and Auguste(5) [this may be Rosina�s grand-daughter]. They�re listed as having come from Moravia. I think Rosina was the wife of a Joseph Roeder and that her maiden name was Zahradnik. I also suspect Rosina had another daughter, Magdalena, who married Franz Billeck. Magdalena�s daughter, Ludmilla, married the Josef Roeder listed in note 6. Rosina is buried in the High Hill Catholic Cemetery. --------- NOTE 6: On January 22, 1900, the Roeder family arrived at Galveston aboard the ship �Maria Rickmers�. They had hailed from Moravia and had left the port of Bremen on December 24, 1899. They were: Ferdinand(age 50) & his wife Anna(48) [nee Krecmer] + (children) Josef(18), Rudolph(15), Reinhold(14), Franz??(9), Aloisie(8), Christine(7) and Anna(4). Josef went on to work on the Joe Heinrich place, while the rest of the family temporarily housed with Steven & Caroline Schwartz. I suspect Anna and Caroline were sisters. PRESS BROWSER 'BACK' BUTTON TO RETURN