ctgc genealogy

This week I am going to highlight someone who is not really related to me, but I am fascinated by the name. Maria Sara Knieriemen was the wife of my first cousin five times removed. (My computer program, TMG, figured that out for me). I had never heard of this name before, so when her marriage to David Hornef on January 7, 1845 showed up in my genealogy this week, I thought I would look into it. Like many names, Knieriemen has many variant spellings. The Knierman DNA Surname project includes these variants in their project: Knearem, Knerien, Kniereman, Knieriemen, Knierim, Knierinm, Knierman, Knireman, Nearman, Niermann. In their description of the origin they state: "The German word Knerem is defined as a shoemakers' strap or stirrup, a cobbler, Knieriemen." A search on Knieriemen also brought up the Ancestry surname page . They didn't have a meaning for Knieriemen, but they did have some other statistics. In 1920, there weren't very many Knieriemen househol...

One of my New Year's resolutions this year is to post more to this poor neglected blog. So I've decided to start a weekly post, This Week in my Genealogy, highlighting some of the people in my Conrad-Todd-Garrison-Carman database. And to show how far behind I am in updating the web version of that database, I am going to start with two people who are not even on that site, along with their brother whose information is way out of date. Georg Peter & Johannes Hornef were born December 28, 1824 in Otterberg, Germany and are one of the few pairs of twins that I have in my database. They were born to Georg Peter Hornef & Katharina Cherdron. I found them through the FamilySearch Record Search pilot. Their older brother, Jacob Hornef , was my Great-great-great grandfather who emigrated to Philadelphia in the 1840's. He was born on January 2, 1819 in Otterberg. I've already posted about my Hornef discoveries through Record Search, which is also where I found Jacob...

I came across Katharina Horneff's obituary by accident. I wasn't expecting to find it. Horneff 1 is one of the few unique surnames I have and I search it on any new database I find. In this case it was in GenealogyBank which has the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1834-1922. In my results was an obituary for Katharina Hornef from 1911. It stated that the funeral would be at her grandson, Jacob Carman's house. Seems cut and dry, but I still had to check to make sure it was my Jacob Carman since there were two of the same age in Philadelphia at the time. It took me awhile to be convinced, too, despite the unique name and the grandson being named. The truth was I thought I would never find Katharina Hornef. Indeed, I didn't even know that was her name. My grandmother's grandmother was Catherine 2 Hornef Carman and she passed away in 1913. I had no luck in finding her on the Census records 3 before she married and only her father was listed on her death certificate. ...

Civil War Pension file: Elon Carman, Private, Co. K, 5th Reg't, Penna. Cav. Abstracted and Transcribed from photocopies obtained from National Archives and Records Administration From Declaration for Pension (Act of Feb. 6, 1907) State of Penna. County of Philada. On this 24 Day of September, A.D. one thousand nine hundred and ten (1910) personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the county and State aforesaid, Elon Carman who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is 70 years of age, and a resident of Philada. county of Philada., State of Penna.; and that he is the identical person who was enrolled at Philada., Penna. under the name of Elon Carman, on the 19th day of September 1864 as a Private, in Co. K, 5th Reg't Penna. Cavly Vols. (Full service has been stated) in the service of the United States in the Civil war and was honorably discharged at Richmond, Va., on the 19th day of May 1865. ...That his personal description was as follo...

Transcribed from a photocopy obtained from the Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records. Certificate of Death Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics City: Phila. No. 1456 [E. Wilt?] St. 18 Ward Name: Catherine Carman Sex: F Color or Race: W Married Date of Birth: Not Reported Age: 69 yrs 5 mths Occupation: Housewife Birthplace: Ger. Father name: Jacob Horneff Father birthplace: Not Reported Mother name: Not reported Mother birthplace: Ger. [Informant's last name is Barrett] ... Date of death: 4 9 1913 ... Usual residence: 145[3] [E Will?] St. Place of burial: Mt. Moriah Undertaker: [last name is Barrett] [Note: transcribed from a poor quality photocopy]