GERMAN ANCESTORS

US-Emigrants from Stockstadt am Main



MAXIMILIAN SCHWARZ

(1840-1891)


Variant name Max Schwarz
21 January 1840 Maximilian Schwarz is born in Stockstadt am Main,

Father: Johann Adam Schwarz
Mother: Christina Josepha Ziegler from Freudenberg (Wertheim)

Godfather: Maximilian Müller, son of the baker Stephan Müller from Obernburg
EMIGRATION

1855
Maximilian and his parents and siblings emigrate to the US.

Name of the ship: Arnold Boninger
Port: Rotterdam
Arrival: New York
Date: 31 January 1855

Family members:

Schwarz Adam, 45
Schwarz Josephine, 43
Schwarz Maria Anne, 17
Schwarz Johann Ludwig, 16
Schwarz Maximilian, 14
Schwarz Regina, 10
Schwarz Lorenz, 9
Schwarz Franz Adam, 7

Further passengers from Stockstadt am Main:

Dietz Adam, 30
Maria Josephine Dietz, 22
Anna Margaretha Dietz 3/4 (child, died in January)

Franz Adam, 50, tailor

Source: New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891
CENSUS

1860
Residence:
Ward 11, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio

Family members:

Schwarz Adam, male, 51, butcher
Schwarz Eva, female, 49
(noted as born in Baden, so it must be his wife Christina Josepha)
Schwarz Maximilian, 20
Schwarz Regina, 17
Schwarz Lewis, 15 (= Schwarz Lorenz)
Schwarz Francis, 12 (= Schwarz Franz Adam)

Source: United States Census, 1860
12 October 1862 Maximilian marries Victoria Vogt (1840-1910) from Erlach, Offenburg, Baden, in Cincinnati.
CENSUS

1880
Residence:
449 Locust Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio

Family members:

Schwarz Maximilian, head, 40
Schwarz Victoria, wife, 38
Schwarz Frank, nephew, 9
(= son of Maximilian's brother and widower Lorenz)

Source: United States Census, 1880
1890Max and Victoria live in Cincinnati, 449 Locust.

Source: Cincinnati Ohio Directory, 1890
1892In 1892, Maximilian's wife Victoria is a widow living in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Maximilian must have died in 1890 or 1891.

Source: Cincinnati Ohio, City Directory, 1892
1910In 1910, his widow Victoria lives in Ward 21, Cincinnati, in the household of Maximilian's nephew John Eichbaum, son-in-law of his brother Lorenz.

Eichbaum John, male, 40
Eichbaum Alice, female, 33
Eichbaum Lawrence, son, 12
Eichbaum Silvester, son, 10
Schwarz Lorenz, male, 64, widowed, Alice's father
Schwarz Victoria, female, 69, Alice's aunt, widowed
(= wife of Maximilian Schwarz)

Source: United States Census, 1900

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