Individual Details

Marie Albertina Ottilie ROEDELBRONN

(8 Aug 1896 - 16 Dec 1979)

Following the death of her first husband, Heinrich Voekler, Marie emigrated to the United States in 1922. Although the ship's manifest tells us her final destination was Baltimore, Maryland to join her aunt Marie Sauer, Marie (Voekler) filed her Declaration of Intention the following year at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was residing at that time at 541 Lexington Avenue. By the time of the 1925 New York State Census, Marie was employed as a parlor maid by the Lowenstein family at 24 West 74th St. When the 1930 Census was taken, she was employed as a servant in the household of financier Ralph H. Ishan, of Old Brookville, Nassau, New York just five miles from Old Westbury, Nassau, New York where it appears her future husband, Michael, was working at the time. It therefore appears the couple met in New York before settling in Greenwich, Connecticut (they married there in December 1931).

I am told by Diane Molnar, a great-granddaughter of a Gustav Roedelbronn who emigrated from Germany in 1895, that Roedelbronn is a very unusual name in the U.S., although there are many Rodels and Roeds, which could possibly be the result of name-shortening. Diane, whose Roedelbronn family settled in New Jersey, is not aware of any connection between her family and Marie's, but she does know of a Roedelbronn family (possibly related to her) who settled in Wisconsin; and in the 1880 census of the United States she found information on two Roedelbronn households (unrelated to her, as far as she knows) who had settled in Massachusetts. Their details are as follows:

Name: Charles Roedelbronn
Home in 1880: Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts
Age: 33
Estimated birth year: abt 1847
Birthplace: Prussia
Spouse's name: Susan M. (born Connecticut)
Father's birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Mother's birthplace: Hesse Darmstadt
Occupation: Shoe factory worker
Marital Status: Married

Name: Frank Roedelbronn
Home in 1880: Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts
Age: 69
Estimated birth year: abt 1811
Birthplace: Hesse, Germany
Spouse's name: Christine (aged 69)
Father's birthplace: Hesse, Germany
Mother's birthplace: Hesse, Germany
Occupation: Woollen factory worker

It is possible that Charles was Frank's son.

    Events

    Birth8 Aug 1896Frankfurt, Germany
    Marriage8 Dec 1915Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany - Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm VOEKLER
    Marriage16 Dec 1931Greenwich, Connecticut - Michael Joseph O'SULLIVAN
    Death16 Dec 1979Greenwich, Connecticut

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