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 [...]

Broadhurst Sisters in Hemstead Long Island with Elsie Schletter

. So who is that lady on the right, does anyone recognize her? Elsie is my maternal Grandmother and Elizabeth my paternal. The lady on the right is only known as a Broadhurst sister. So here’s a guess: Mary “Mae” Broadhurst from England; one of “The Eleven.”  She never moved to America but visited in [...]

Lillian Had a Knife – A One Way Trip To a Psychiatric Hospital

While researching your family tree have you found any “forgotten” relatives tucked away in insane asylums? I found one. My maternal Great Aunt, Lillian Schletter. According to family lore, Lillian “went after her brother with a kitchen knife.” And that’s the end of the details. Her brother, my maternal Grandfather George Schletter, did visit her after her [...]

Castle Garden greets Edmund Theodore Schletter: Welcome To America

On Thursday, 11 May 1882, barely a month before this cartoon ran in Puck magazine, my maternal Great Grandfather, Edmund Theodore Schletter arrived at Castle Garden immigrant landing depot aboard the S.S. Westphalia. Caption: “Castle Garden” Source: Puck Date: June 14, 1882 Artist: Frank Opper Throughout the period of mass immigration, New York City was [...]

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 [...]