Re: Alexander & Christiana Orth in Philadelphia
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Re: Alexander & Christiana Orth in Philadelphia
Lois Hanson 8/29/03
Hi, Lois,
I am delighted to hear from you!I would have responded earlier, but the GenForum server has been down for a few days.
Your information about Alexander’s wife’s maiden name makes great sense to me.I am pretty sure that it was Bowers, not Bower, since I have a document signed by Samuel Bowers, and hislast name was used for my grandfather’s middle name.It may have derived from the German spelling Bauer, however.
I had begun to believe that Alexander married after, not before, he emigrated from Alsace.It is likely that Samuel Bowers was Christiana’s father or, perhaps, her brother and that they emigrated from Germany (Prussia) before 1817, or at least came separately from Alexander.
Since I posted the inquiry, I have been working on the Orth family in Wissembourg and have already discovered quite a lot.In addition, a friend who lives in Utah, has access to the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, and has been assisting me wrote me that he has already found Alexander’s parents’ names and those of his father’s parents and still has a lot more material to explore.I have been examining some of the same material.The records were written in French and include words not found in present dictionaries, as far as I can determine; apparently even the professional translators he has access to are having difficulty with some of the records.However, we may be able to carry the family back to the early 1600s, which is remarkable, considering that several months ago I didn’t even know Alexander’s name.I currently have identified fifty Orths in our direct family tree.
I would love to have any information you have on Henry W. Orth, his siblings, and all of his descendants, right down to the present.All I know about him is that he was born about 1833 in Philadelphia, that his wife’s name was Hannah A. Brown, and that he had four children, all born in Philadelphia: George W., born November 16, 1870; Henry W., Jr., born June 19, 1873; Charles H., born about 1876; and Mary, born about 1878.From the Philadelphia city directories I also know that he probably was a boat fitter as a young man (1850-1852), then a turner (whatever that means: lathe operator? turner of ceramic plates prior to glazing and firing?) for a couple of years, and finally a fancy paper box manufacturer after 1854 and in company with his younger brother Samuel after about 1859.There were a lot of Orths in the box manufacturing trade in Philadelphia in those years!I also know the addresses in Philadelphia at which he lived from 1850 to 1895.
If you’d like to contact me directly, please do so at [email protected] would be delighted to share any information I have that might be of interest to you.
Again, thanks for the information and best wishes,
David Nelson Orth
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Re: Alexander & Christiana Orth in Philadelphia