Johanna Hecht (1877-1929)

[Werner52]

Hi Carl-Henry!

Thank you very much for your interesting explanation.

Further research into Johanna Hecht can therefore only begin before April 14, 1900, because after that date she probably lived under a false identity.

Geographically speaking, there are currently no further research opportunities at the presumed starting point in Weringerode or at the end point in New York.

In between lie Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg.

In Hamburg, the two probably only stayed in a hotel for a short time. There is no evidence to support this.

That leaves only Frankfurt am Main and the registration file I already mentioned. But the chances of success are certainly slim.

Thomas - it doesn't look good for the search for your Johanna Hecht.

[Werner52]

Leo was a bad boy, wasn't he?

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[Gastonian]

Hello everyone:

One important way you do genealogy in the U.S. is via the census records.

Johanna von Duehren with her daughters Elsa and Anita returned from Germany to the U.S. via Rotterdam in March 1906. At this time Johanna gave her age as 25 (i.e., born 1875/76): https://www.ancestry.de/search/colle...rds/4034775200

In the April 1910 census Johanna von Duehren is living with husband Leo (a liquor salesman!) and daughters Elsa, Anita, and Johanna in the Bronx, New York City; in this record her age is 35 (i.e., born 1874/75): https://www.ancestry.de/search/colle...ords/103340534

In the 1915 state census the family is living in Queens; here, too, Hannah says she is 35 and thus finally a year younger than her husband (i.e., born 1879/80): https://www.ancestry.de/search/colle...ecords/8846429

I have not found them in the 1920 census.

In the June 1900 census, incidentally, Leopold von Dühren, age 22, German, arrived in the U.S. 2 months ago, married 2 months, working as laborer for a cement company, is listed as resident of a boarding house in La Salle, Illinois: https://www.ancestry.de/search/collections/7602/records/981541

The records from 1906 and 1910 are in agreement with the records from 1900 as to Johanna's age, and thus support the suggestion that she was the Johanna born 1874 in Hasserode.

Regards

--Carl-Henry

[hehesani]

I am not aware how to proceed from here, but hopefully I will find a way.

Hi Thomas,

There are three things I would still be interested in finding out:

(1) Was Anita, the second von Dühren/Hecht child (or any von Dühren/Hecht child) possibly born at Hasserode or Wernigerode in the years 1902-1906?

(2) Can Johanne Hecht or Leo von Dühren be found in the "Einwohnermelderegister" (residents' register) of Berlin in the years 1895-1900?

(3) Can Johanne Hecht or Leo von Dühren be found in the "Einwohnermelderegister" of Frankfurt in the years 1895-1900?


I tried to check the address books of Berlin for those years but many first names are abbreviated and I could not find out anything definite for Johanne Hecht. Leo von Dühren is not in there at all as far as I could see. And he is not mentioned at "Lindenstrasse 111", the address he reported for his marriage to Francisca Kowaczek.
If you ever want to go down that path, you might have to be quite specific in the information you give them so they can look for the right person. For example, there was a Johanne Wilhelmine Marie Hecht, born 1860 at Wernigerode, who got married at Berlin in 1898 and she might get muddled up with our Johanne easily.

Hopefully at least the question about von Dühren children at Hasserode or Wernigerode can be found out pretty easily.

All the best,
Christine


PS: Do we know yet whether this Adolph is part of the family?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27BG-5B7?lang=en

https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/1620092

[Werner52]

So Leo had at least one more child with another woman who came from Hungary ...

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W48-2MW?lang=de

[Gastonian]

Hello:

Bad boy! The actual birth certificate of that 1904 child can be seen here: https://a860-historicalvitalrecords....v/view/1620092

Regards

--Carl-Henry

[Brinch1984]

Thank you everyone.

I am so grateful that you are throwing yourselves into this (apparent) mess. I am looking forward to the weekend, where I will be able to allocate time to catch up.

Best,

Thomas