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Offline aghadowey

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FELD family lost in America?
« on: Saturday 07 September 13 00:02 BST (UK) »
In the late 1800s a number of FELDs from Germany settled in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut and environs. Some of them came from the Saarbrucken (Saarland) area and were related to each other but there is one family I have been unable to locate even though the passenger manifest said they were travelling to Waterbury.

Jacob Feld (Jan.1856), miner, m. Catharine (May 1858).
Arrived New York 12 Nov.1895 from Antwerp, Belgium on Friesland with wife and children going to Waterbury, Connecticut.
1.   August Feld (Sept.1881).
2.   Catharine Feld (Jan.1885).
3.   Charlotte Feld (Apr.1887).
4.   Heinrich Feld (Apr.1891).
5.   Aletha Feld (Mar.1895).

There may have been more children born after their arrival but I can't find them anywhere as a family unit in Connecticut or elsewhere.

This is not the same Jakob Feld (born July 1859) who married 1st Rosina Kipp, 2nd Annie Hammer and had 11 children from the two marriages.

Can anyone find the family, or at least some of them, after 1895?
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Re: FELD family lost in America?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 07 September 13 00:56 BST (UK) »
Like yourself, I can find no trace of any of them in the US.

Is it possible that although they arrived as stated they were denied entry?   Either that or they changed their surname.

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Re: FELD family lost in America?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 07 September 13 07:41 BST (UK) »
I've also searched, using numerous variations of their names (including partial first names, just the surname Fel*, childrens' first names with just the mother's partial name, childrens' first names with just Jac*, the names with no place of birth, etc.).  No results.   :-\

The only thing that I found that could be close was
August Feldt.  According to the 1920 Toledo, Ohio census, he was born 1880 in Germany, immigrated in 1895. 
His WWI Draft Reg Card states he was born August 16, 1879 and his name was August Ferdinand Feldt.
His WWII Draft Reg Card states he was born in Saegensdorf-Arnswalde, Germany.
There is an immigration record for an August Feldt, born c1880, arriving 1894; perhaps it was for this man.
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Re: FELD family lost in America?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 07 September 13 09:03 BST (UK) »
Thanks you both for taking the time to search for this family. Seems it's not just me that's finding them elusive.

I don't think August Feldt is 'my' August Feld and an online tree gives mother's name as Bertha. Haven't found where Saegensdorf-Arnswalde was in Germany but it doesn't sound like anyplace where most of the other Felds were from.

Had considered (and searched for) name changes but if they had stayed in Waterbury area it was unlikely that they changed from Feld since there were quite a few other families there amongst the German settlers. My grandmother (born 1895) used to talk about growing up there and going to 'German School'- not sure what it was really called (how I wish I had asked) but classes were in German and she taught there for about a year when she was 15.
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