Sunday, September 9, 2007

My Gutmann family news

I have been so lucky lately with my Gutmann family. The Gutmann family name comes into play with my Great Grandmother. She was Luise Mary Gutmann who was born on 21st. Feb. 1866 in Breisach, Freiburg, Baden Germany, & Christened on the 4th of March 1866 at St. Stephens Catholic Church where she was born. Her parents were Gervasious 'Gervas' Gutmann and Catharina Lui/Luy, there were 11 children born including Luise (Louise), & also included were 2 sets of twins! The names of their children were:
1. Agatha Gutmann, b. 18 Jan. 1943, Chr. 19th Jan. 1943 & m: 30 March 1869 to Leopold Marbach, all at St. Stephens Catholic Church, Breisach, Freiburg Baden. Agatha Gutmann & Leopold Marbach had 8 known chldren.
2. Albertina Gutmann was Chr. 10 Dec. 1844 St. Stephens Catholic Church, Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany
3. Maria Gutmann, b. 30th May 1846, Chr: 01 June 1846 St. Stephen Cath. Ch. Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany. Maria came to the U.S. in the year 1881 and brought along her youngest sister, Louise Gutmann who was 15 yrs. of age at the time. Maria and Louise were said to have gotten off the boat in New York and went directly to Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH. where Maria married Joseph Haury. For more on Louise Gutmann see child #12. Maria and Joe had 5 known children all born & raised in the Cincinnati and Louisille, KY area, where Maria d. 27 Oct. 1926 and Joseph Haury d. and was buried in 1910, both are buried at St. Michael Cemetery in Louisville along with their children
4. Anna Gutmann (twin to Maria Gutmann above) was also b. 30 May 1846, Chr. 01 June 1846, & d. 03 Aug. 1846 all took place at St. Stephens Catholic Ch. Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany.
5. August Gutmann, Chr. 20 Aug. 1848 St. Stephens Cath. Chr., Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany.
6. Stephan Gutmann, Chr. 22 Dec. 1850, d. 28 Dec. 1858 St. Stephens Cath. Chr. Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany.
7. Josephus Prothasius 'Prothas' Gutmann (Prothas and his father Gervasius, were both named after the Parton Saints of the town of Breisach, which are St. Gervasius and St. Prothasius) Chr. 13 June 1852 St. Stephan Cath. Chr. Breisach, Freiburg Baden, m1st. Genovefa Kollhofer on 31 Jan. 1876 St. Stephan Cath. Chr. he then m.2nd. to Emma Figlestahler (d/o Mathias Figlestahler and Anna Maria Franz) on 14 Oct. 1878 St. Stephan Cath. Chr. Emma was b. 30 Mar. 1856 & Chr. same date at St. Stephan Cath. Chr., Breisach, Freiburg, Baden Germany.
8. Georg Aldalbert Gutmann, (Georg is a twin to Albertine #9) Chr. 27 April 1856 St. Stephan Cath. Chr. Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany. m. Sophia Baumann 17 Feb. 1880 Dompfarrei-Catholic Chr. Freiburg Baden Germany, at the time Georg was 24 yrs. of age and Sophia was 23, the d/o Josef Baumann & Anna Burkhard. Georg d. in 1920, he and Sophia Baumann Gutmann are both buried in Stuttgart 'in the old Church graveyard, along with the parents of Georg Gutmann. Georg Aldalbert and Sophia Baumann Gutmann had 3 daughters, Mina, Frieda Luise and Olga Gutmann.
Olga Gutmann married a Mr. Schaubeck about 1908, and was the oldest child of Georg and Sophia Gutmann. Mina was married two times, first to an unknown gentleman, and second to Hilding M. Rosier in about 1922, they owned a nursery in Solidago Roegle, Sweden (near Helsingborg) where they made and sold wreaths for the Christmas season of 1928.
Mina Gutmann was a dress maker/seamstress & had a sewing school, as she had taken the 'master exam' but because of the War everything went down, that is when she started helping her husband in the nursery business. According to one of the letters written to Aunt Luise, Mina states that when she married, she took her parents (then deceased) household furniture which cost at the time 3000 marks to transport from Germany to Sweden.
Frieda Luise Gutmann was born 28 Feb. 1886 on Sept. 19, 1927 Frieda says that she is 41 years of age, and living in the household of her sister Mina in Solidago Roegle Sweden. Frieda had been engaged to be married but her fiance was killed during the War in France, per a letter written to Aunt Luise on 3 Feb. 1921. Frieda had been a very sick woman for many years, with complaints of stomach cramps,and pain in her kidney's.
9. Albertine Gutmann, Chr. 27 April 1856 in St. Stephan, Breisach am Rhein.
10. Katharina Gutmann, b. 17 Nov. 1860, Chr. 25 Nov. 1860 St. Stephan Cath. Chr. Breisach, Freiburg, Baden. Albertine m. Peter Flugel s/o Lorenz Flugel and Franziska Waldkircher 30 June 1879 St. Stephan Cath. Chr. Breisach, Freiburg Baden Germany.
11. Luise (Louise) Gutmann, b. 21 Feb. 1866, Chr. 4 Mar 1866 in St. Stephan Cath. Chr. Breisach am Rhein, Frieburg, Baden Germany. Louise emmigrated to the U.S. in the year 1881 along with her older sister Marie. Luise m. William Julius Fleig in Louisville, KY. in about 1883. Louise Gutmann Fleig d. 4th May 1937 in Louisville, Ky. and he husband, William J. Fleig d. 30 April 1935 also in Louisville, both are buried at Evergreen Cemetery, on Preston Hwy. in Louisville. William and Louise Gutmann Fleig had 6 children, two whose names were unknown, the others were William, George Albert and Julius William & Clarence Henry Francis Fleig.

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My Great, Great Grandfather

My Great, Great Grandfather
Gervasious "Gervas" Gutmann