Aloha,

Our branch of the family's story is typical of many; working Cheshire farms for generations and then with the rise of the Industrial Revolution working the cotton mills of Lancashire. With the start of the 20th Century it's across the Atlantic for a new life in America. Many settled in and around mill towns in the US; Dover, New Hampshire, Lowell, Massachusetts and Utica, New York. This website is dedicated to their many family members everywhere.

1940 US Census – EVERS and SCHWARZ (Schletter and Ritter)

 29 Clover Ave, Floral Park, NY 11001 Peter EVERS (55) reported to the Census Enumerator that on April 1, 1940 he owned his house located in the incorporated place of Floral Park within the Town of Hempstead. It was valued at $6,500. Interestingly, Peter is recorded as 58 years old in the 1930 Census. That [...]

Descendants and Tales of Edmund Theodore Schletter and Wilhelmina

Edmund T. Schletter was born on Friday, 18 July 1851 in the Kingdom State of Saxony, Germany. He may have been the son of Carl and Christiana SCHLETTER. About 1877, when he was 25, he married Wilhelmina “Minna” LUKE(?) (c 1855, in Bergeborbeck, an area of Essen, Germany) in Saxony. She was about 22. Edmund [...]