Ronquete family in Louisiana

[cimbrio]

Thanks Sandra, I'm going to write a post on the other thread, see if the other user is interested, although I know very little really...

Thanks for keeping an eye open, I've actually found my blood-relationship with the deBens too!

Best regards!

[*Sandra*]

Hope your having a relaxing break from study.

If you need any other info, no problem, do come back to me.

Regards.
Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Hello Cimbrio

Think we have completed on Ronquete have we not ?

If you go to the original post you made and mark Completed in the subject line. We can always come back to it if something new turns up.

Regards
Sandra

[cimbrio]

Hello all,

I've still got a few more doubts, although the Ronquete side seems to come to an abrupt end with the childless deaths of the four Ronquete children born in New Orleans. However I'd like to know about their mother, Virginia A. Ackerman; she seems to have been born in Feb. 1867 in Louisiana; her mother was from Louisiana but the father is listed as being from Illinois I think. I haven't been able to find her parents name nor her date of death.

As for her son Ramon (1896-1971), married Lydia Potier, can we safely assume they remained childless?

Can anyone help?

Thank you so much!

[*Sandra*]

As for her son Ramon (1896-1971), married Lydia Potier, can we safely assume they remained childless?
Can anyone help?
Thank you so much!

We could'nt really assume that they had no children, we only know that in reply 6 referring to 1930 Census, they had only been married a few years.

Perhaps if you contact RAOGK volunteer in St Tammy and see if they can locate the Obituary for Ramon who died May 1971 then that may give details of any living relatives. They may also be able to help you with the marriage record for the couple or Tombstone photograph.  A couple of options which may give further information.


http://www.raogk.com/louisian.htm

Regards
Sandra

[*Sandra*]

Hello all,

I've still got a few more doubts, although the Ronquete side seems to come to an abrupt end with the childless deaths of the four Ronquete children born in New Orleans. However I'd like to know about their mother, Virginia A. Ackerman; she seems to have been born in Feb. 1867 in Louisiana; her mother was from Louisiana but the father is listed as being from Illinois I think. I haven't been able to find her parents name nor her date of death.

Can anyone help?

Thank you so much!

Just reading through the thread, it would appear Erato in reply 13 gives the birth of Virginia and her parents names. Erato also replied in 13/14/15 with what details were available for a possible scenerio for the Ackerman families. Census records can be a little "sketchy" back then but there does'nt but seem any other information to help. There are a couple of RAOGK volunteers in Orleans, perhaps they may be able to help you further.

New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Index

Given: Virginia
Surname: Ackerman
Father: Louis
Mother: Victorine Hermana
Sex: F
Color: W
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1866
Volume: 40
Page: 158


Regards Sandra 

[cimbrio]

Thank you very much Sandra!

I must have missed the other post when I re-read all of them yesterday.

Thank you for the tips, I'm going to check the website and see what I can come up with.

Just one question, on Virginia's information you've posted, on the mother's name, would Victorine Hermana mean Hermana is Victorine's maiden name, or middle name? I'd like to trace back the Ackerman line (though not related to me in fact), to find out where they came from originally (I presume a German-speaking country).

[*Sandra*]

Hermana could be either according to what I looked up - I tried searching as a surname but found nothing 

I looked up those surnames as well because if that is Virginia on the 1880 Census she was Eckerman and that would indicate "Sweden"

Surprisingly Ackerman is "English" if you read this

http://www.rootschat.com/links/09kh/

Confusing 

[cimbrio]

Yes, it is rather confusing...

I've tried to find out more about her parents but nothing; Louis Ackerman (or Eckerman) was from Illinois, but his wife Victorine was from Louisiana; I presume that since Virginia was born in Louisiana, her parents married there.

There is this older post about Virginia (it might not be her though):

1880 census - District 5, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Harris, Henry, Jr., father, 40, accountant, b. Louisiana, parents b. England
Matilda, wife, 23, keeps house, b. Louisiana, parents b. Louisiana
Eckerman, Virginia, 14, step-daughter, at home, b. Louisiana, father b. Illinois, mother b. Louisiana
Harris, Leona, daughter, 4, b. Louisiana
Harris, Isidor, son, 1, b. Louisiana

However, Henry Harris is not her father but step-father. As Matilda is positively NOT her mother, I can only presume Virginia's father died, then her mother remarried Henry Harris and when she died he married Matilda listed above. Is there any way of proving this?

(PS: The Ackermans aren't directly related to me, just Virginia's children and husband, I don't want you Sandra to waste your time on this if you don't want to; you and the other users have been terribly helpful so far!)