WHO was Johann Otremba's wife?
Johann was born in 1831 in Schleisen (Poland).(See his obit, below) He married Anna Rosina there when he was 24 and she was 22. They traveled to America in 1873.Fast forward to the 1900 census in Buh township (Pierz) where they'd retired. It says they'd been married 45 years now, and had 10 kids with 8 still living. They were 68 and 67. She died 3 years later, and he died 9 years later.
When I found this page ► at the Weyerhauser Museum in Little Falls, I already 'knew' about Anna Rosina, and the note written there confirmed it--she was a Hesch! But...where did she fit? As far as we knew, the Hesch clan was from southern Bohemia, 250 miles southwest of Opole, Poland. HOW would they have met? But that was a question for later--we had other stuff to discover. Still, Larry and I've come back to this Q over and over.......
Yesterday, Larry had a brainstorm--
Q: WHERE could we find a woman's maiden name?
A: On the death certificates of her children, if they were lucky enough to die in Minnesota!
He looked up three of their kids, and there's our answer:
Name Frank Otremba
Gender Male
Burial Date
Burial Place
Death Date 11 Feb 1926
Death Place Saint Cloud, Stearns, Minnesota
Age 65
Birth Date 1861
Birthplace
Occupation
Race
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Rose Otremba
Father's Name John Otremba
Father's Birthplace
Mother's Name Rose Schultz
Mother's Birthplace
Indexing Project (Batch) Number B07186-0
System Origin Minnesota-EASy
Source Film Number 2218722
Name August Otremba
Gender Male
Burial Date
Burial Place
Death Date 31 Jul 1927
Death Place Pierz, Morrison, Minnesota
Age 62
Birth Date 1865
Birthplace
Occupation
Race
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Anna Otremba
Father's Name John Otremba
Father's Birthplace
Mother's Name Anna Rae Scholtz
Mother's Birthplace
Indexing Project (Batch) Number B02493-4
System Origin Minnesota-EASy
Source Film Number 2223131
Reference Number 8262
Mary Rose Otremba
Name Mrs. Theo John Stumpf
Gender Female
Burial Date
Burial Place
Death Date 20 Mar 1937
Death Place Little Falls, Morrison, Minnesota, Us
Age 70
Birth Date 1867
Birthplace
Occupation
Race
Marital Status Married
Spouse's Name Theo John Stumpf
Father's Name John Otremba
Father's Birthplace
Mother's Name Rose Anna Schultz
Mother's Birthplace
Indexing Project (Batch) Number I09899-6
System Origin Minnesota-EASy
Source Film Number 2243105
Reference Number 8820
SO....since the least weird answer is often the best answer, for now we're going with
ANNA ROSINA SCHULTZ.
Heaps more thanks to Larry ☺
When I look at the death certificates I look for the first sibling that died and I figured the ones that were left would know the real name of their mother.
ReplyDeleteI have found that usually the women remembered more than the men. I have been searching for the maiden name of my Bohemian ggrandmother. Her name was Katharine T Rauscher and her son put unknown. The sisters would have known.