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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Manchester "Beatty, Altgelt & Co."
« on: Sunday 08 August 10 04:19 BST (UK)  »
I admire your excellent and speedy work!  My own work of today resulted in the discovery of this link: www.heidermanns.net/pers/Familie/d001B/000067.html#35661
That provided the pedigree to our common ancestor, Johann Hermann Altgelt (1703-1775) who was Erster Prediger (senior minister) to the congregation in Altenkirchen, Rhineland, Prussia.  I had not previously encountered an Altgelt residing in England. 
Hermann Karl Wilhelm Altgelt was born in Aachen 3 Jully 1836.  You will find my research of the Altgelt family documented at www.sprague-datbase.org

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Manchester "Beatty, Altgelt & Co."
« on: Saturday 07 August 10 20:43 BST (UK)  »
The shipping merchant firm Beatty, Altgelt & Co. appears to have been formed in 1864 in Manchester.  The firm dealt primarily with South America. The firm was renamed Witte and Dyckhoff.  I do not know the forename of Mr. Altgelt, but he appears to be  the brother-in-law of Julius Witte from Iserlohn in Germany.  Julius married Helene Opitz from Stuttgart in 1887.  He was 32 and she was 21.  They lived in Heaton House on Palatine Road.  The Greater Manchester County Record office holds a collection of 33 photographs (Reference 1823) donated by the Witte family.  I need the details on Mr. Altgelt.  Was he a relative of Adam Carl Adolf Altgelt who emigrated to Buenos Aires in 1849?  Adam was the brother-in-law of Ernesto Carlos Tornquist (1842-1948) who was the foremost financier, banker, and industrialist in Argentina.
   

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Inverness / Alexander McDonald m Katharine Stuart 1708
« on: Monday 26 July 10 04:02 BST (UK)  »
I need info on family of Alexander McDonald who married Katharine Stuart 18 May 1708 at Cromdale and Inverallan and Advie, Inverness, Scotland.  Were they landowners? Were they Anglican? Did they have a son named Lewis?  I downloaded the marriage certificate from Scotland's People but it is almost entirely unreadable.  I am looking for the parents of Lewis McDonald 1709-1777 who was a farmer in Bedford township, Westchester county, New York.  He left an estate of over 7000 pounds. 
Gravemarker:  "Sacred to the memory of Col. Lewis McDonald Esq. and Sarah his wife being a native of North Britain borne at Strathspey 1709 and departed this life 24 July 1777"
"Province of New York, Bedford, March 9th, 1744. REV. SIR, The parish of Rye includes the large town of Rye, the town of Mamaroneck, the manor of Scarsdale, and a precinct called White Plains, besides Bedford and North Castle, in which two last places are near four hundred families, and no teacher of any sort in North Castle, but a silly Quaker- woman, and at Bedford one of the most enthusiastic Methodists. Mr. Wetmore comes amongst us but once in two months, and very few of us can go to the parish church at Rye, many living twenty miles distant, and most of us twelve or fourteen miles, so that for the most part there is very little face of religion to be seen amongst us, and our children are apt to fall in with the customs of those amongst us that have little or no religion, and spend the Lord s day in diversions and follies, which we cannot prevent tho we much dislike. Mr. Wetmore, our minister, freely consents we should endeavour to procure another as an assistant to him, and we are willing to contribute as far as we are able. Reverend Sir, Your most obed't and humble servants, LEWIS MCDONALD, DANIEL SMITH, ARTHUR SMITH."*

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Inverness / Col. Lewis McDonald 1709-1777
« on: Sunday 25 July 10 17:10 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for the ancestors of Lewis McDonald born 1709 in Inverness-shire. In 1730 he emigrated to New York and became a wealthy farmer in Bedford township, Westchester county. His grave marker is inscribed: "Sacred to the memory of COL LEWIS MCDONALD ESQ and Sarah [Rumsey] his wife being a native of North Britain borne at Strathspey 1709 and departed this life 24 July 1777." He was a fervent Anglican. Throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, the Church struggled along with support of an English institution called the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1744 Lewis McDonald petitioned the Society for assistance in building a church and obtaining a minister.
In his will he left ove 5,000 pounds to his children and grandchildren. His grandson, Alexander Lewis McDonald was Commissioner of Deeds in New York City and married Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker.
Lewis must have belonged to a propertied family in Inverness in order to purchase the farm in New York.  In 1755 "William & Sarah Woolsey, executor and executrix of the will of John Woolsey, late of Bedford, Westchester Co., NY, deceased, Sold to Lewis McDonald of Bedford for 400 pounds, in the 28 year of George II - A certain tract … of land … within … Bedford."  Sarah Rumsey was born to a prominent family in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1701.  I have searched Scotland's People with no result.  Any ideas?  http://www.sprague-database.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I301783&tree=SpragueProject

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US Lookup Requests / Re: Brooklyn Ward 23
« on: Sunday 25 July 10 01:26 BST (UK)  »
You may have encountered the descendants of Carl Anton Hermann Altgelt, the younger brother of my g-g-grandfather, Ernst Hermann Altgelt. Ernst Hermann was a pioneer who was born in Dusseldorf and founded the town of Comfort, Texas about 1848. The 1860 census for Carl Anton shows him residing in the Seidensticker household in Comfort, Texas where his occupation is given as "mail carrier".
Carl Anton Hermann Altgelt b.8 Mar 1839 d. 10 Oct 1890 Brooklyn
married Maria Teresa Gilligan of Philadelphia, had issue
Hermann Franz Altgelt b. 14 Aug 1869 Philadelphia and appears in the 1880 census for Brooklyn as follows:

Extract: 1880 United States Census
Dwelling: Brooklyn
Place: Kings (Brooklyn), New York City-Greater, New York
Source: FHL Film 1254856; National Archives Film T9-0856; Page 34B
Household:
Rel Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Herman ALTGELT Self Male M W 48 BERLIN
Maria ALTGELT Wife Female M W 47 IRE
Ernest ALTGELT Son Male S W 13 NY
Antonia ALTGELT Dau Female S W 12 NY
Herman ALTGELT Son Male S W 11 NY
Otto ALTGELT Son Male S W 8 NY


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