The Census records, collected every 10 years, provide a wonderful window into the lives of our ancestors. My last post took a peek at the Rademacher family in 1880, shortly after they arrived in America. Unfortunately for all of us, the 1890 Census was destroyed by a fire in a Commerce Building in Washington, DC […]
Joseph Rademacher family – 1880’s
The Joseph Rademacher family arrived in New York on February 4, 1878 and likely traveled by train to Nebraska, where Joseph’s younger brother Frank had settled ten years prior. A little more than two years later, the 1880 Census shows the family living in the Pleasant Hill precinct. Pleasant Hill was a mostly rural area […]
Rademacher Family: Coming to America, 1878
Some ten years after Frank Rademacher settled in Crete, Nebraska and was evidently doing quite well, his older brother Joseph Rademacher left Germany with his wife, mother-in-law, and three children. I haven’t been able to nail down exactly why this family left Germany. It could have been simple economic opportunity and the news of Frank’s […]
Our first Rademacher in America
Dale’s great-great-grandfather Joseph Rademacher (born 1843 in Olpe) came to America in 1878 with his wife, mother-in-law and three children. But his younger brother Frank had emigrated to America 10 years earlier. Growing up in Germany, Joseph had four older sisters in addition to his little brother Franz (known as Frank in America). Their father, […]
Rademacher: what’s in a name?
The earliest Rademacher we can find is Johann Peter Rademacher, born about 1709 in Olpe, Germany. He was Dale’s 6th-great-grandfather. There are no surviving church records that go back farther, so I doubt we can ever trace the Rademacher family beyond Johann. But what can we surmise about earlier Rademachers, maybe just based on the […]
