Stoldt
Family Genealogy
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Stolte |
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Stoldt surname is a variation on the name 'Stolte'—a
North German nickname derived from the Middle-Low German term stolt ('proud',
or 'magnificent'). The family was first found in Silesia,
where the name gained a significant reputation for its contribution to mediaeval
society.
Arms of Wroclaw
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early Stolte Coat of Arms, shown at right, is charged with argent (white) signifying
peacefulness and sincerity, and azure (blue), denoting strength and loyalty. The
arrow emblazoned on the shield is said to be a weapon "destined for avengement."
In the case of Polish armory, bows and arrows signify a man resolved to challenge
himself to the utmost in battle, and who is prepared to fight to the death. The
"W" was possibly a sign of allegience to senior duke Wladislaus II of
Poland (between 1100-1200 A.D.), or the Silesian capitol of Wroclaw, which has
a similar "W" on its shield (shown at left).
Most
of Silesia is now within the borders of Poland, but there is a small part in what
is now the Czech Republic, and another small region, the Görlitz area, is
now part of the German state of Saxony. Silesia is located along the upper and
middle Oder (Odra) River and along the Sudetes mountains. In a local Silesian
language or dialect it is called Ślonsk or Ślunsk.
In
the Middle Ages, Silesia was inhabited mostly by people of Slavonic ethnic background.
It belonged at first to Poland and later to Bohemia. The Protestant reformation
took hold, and most of Silesia became Lutheran.
In
the Middle Ages, Silesia was a Piast province that became a possession of the
Bohemian crown under the Holy Roman Empire (the map above shows the empire from
the years 1138-1254. Click
here to enlarge the image), and passed with that crown to the Austrian Habsburgs
in 1526. Under their rule, a significant part of the inhabitants were "germanized."
The second "Defenestrations of Prague", in 1618, sparked the Thirty
Years' War, caused by attempts of the Catholic Habsburg ruler to restore Catholicism
. After the end of the war, the Habsburgs succeeded in reconverting around sixty
percent of the population of Silesia. By 1675 the last Silesian Piast rulers had
died out.
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| Name: | | Augusta
WAGNER | | Age: | | 34 |
| Estimated
birth year: | | <1840> |
| Birthplace: | | Berlin |
| Occupation: | | Keeping
house | | Home
in 1880: | | Cleveland,
Cuyahoga, Ohio | | Year: | | 1880 |
| Father's
birthplace: | | Berlin |
| Mother's
birthplace: | | Berlin | |
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Year:
1880; Roll: T9_1008; Family History Film: 1255008; Page: 397D; Enumeration District:
40; Image: 0010. | In
1742, most of Silesia was seized by Frederick the Great of Prussia in the War
of the Austrian Succession, and only the southernmost regions of Opava and Cieszyn
remained Austrian. Silesia then became part of the German Empire when Germany
was unified (1871). A majority of the population of Lower Silesia, including its
capital, Breslau (today: Wroclaw, located in southwestern Poland, 160 km from
Germany and 120 km from the Czech Republic), was German-speaking. However, there
were areas, such as Opole county or Upper Silesia where a larger proportion or
even a majority was Polish-speaking and Roman Catholic.
Meanwhile,
our line of the Stoldt family ended up living in Germany. This lineage can be
traced back to CHARLES STOLDT of Berlin, who had a daughter named AUGUSTA STOLDT
(12/31/1845 - 3/30/1920). (The mother's name is unknown.) Augusta was born December
31, 1845, in Berlin, Germany,
and was by all accounts one of the kindest, most patient people ever born.
Augusta
married ERNST L. WAGNER (7/1/1840 - 1/7/1891), also
from Germany. After they emigrated to the United States, they moved to Cleveland
in the mid-19th Century. A possible record of their crossing lists Ernst Leonhardt
& F. Wagner from Loechgau, Besigheim—Application
Date March, 1842, to North America, file number 556835, page 212, in The Wuerttemberg
Emigration Index, Volume One).
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Census
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| Name: | | Augusta
Wagner | | Age
in 1910: | | 63 |
| Estimated
birth year: | | 1847 |
| Birthplace: | | Ohio
| | Home
in 1910: | | 2-Wd
Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio |
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Year:
1910; Series Roll: T624_673, Part 2; Page 185A. |
Augusta
Stoldt is the person depicted in one of Albert
G. Brunner's paintings (above), which shows a small, conservatively dressed
woman sitting on a bench by herself, reading a book in a courtyard between some
cottages.
Both Jeanne Brunner-Hause and Marjorie Brunner-Carlin,
Augusta's granddaughters, remember calling her "Little Grandma" because
she was small in stature. (NOTE: If Jeanne Brunner-Hause, barely 5 feet, called
someone "little," then we must be talkin g about a SERIOUS height-deficiency,
here.)
Marjorie's daughter, Marge Carlin, has a photo of
Ernst and Augusta, as well as a photograph of Augusta with her daughters, taken
in approximately 1890. These photos are in a scrapbook passed down in the Carlin
family.
Augusta and Ernst had the following children:
CHILDREN OF ERNST WAGNER AND AUGUSTA STOLDT
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ELIZA WAGNER was born in Prussia in 1870, in the 1870 census, then disappears. No further information
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GUSTAVE WAGNER was born in 1870, in Germany. Gustave was a Day Laborer and had immigrated to this country from Germany in 1892. He married PAULINA WAGNER. She was born 1870 in Germany. The 1900 Census shows Gustave Wagner and his wife, Paulina, lived with their three children in Cleveland: Raymond (b. 1893); Robert (b. 1895); and Arthur (b. 1896).
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MARY WAGNER, b. April 03, 1872, Cleveland, Ohio; d. March 09, 1925, Cleveland, Ohio. She married ALBERT A. BRUNNER, and they hd four sons, two of whom lived into adulthood and prospered. Much of the genealogy of this family has been traced through her scrapbook, in possession of the Turner family (a page is reproduced below). Mary died in 1925. The Cleveland Public Library's Necrology File (Reel #011) lists an obituary (source unknown) that reads: "Brunner-Mary (nee Wagner), beloved wife of Albert, mother of Elmer C. and Albert G., age 52 years, suddenly, Monday p.m. Funeral from late residence, 7103 Colgate Avenue, Thursday, March 12, at 2:30 p.m."
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EMMA H. WAGNER was born February 24, 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio. The midwife attending the birth was F. Mehr. She married THEODORE "PETER" H. SCHUTT (b. 30 Oct 1869 in Germany). The 1900 Census indicates Peter Schutt and Emma, his wife, resided at 318 Everton Street in Cleveland. Their children are shown as: Arthur J. (March 1893 - July 27, 1962, Lockport, New York); and Myrtle (b. March 1894). After Ernst Wagner died, Augusta was living with them at Glenville Village, Cuyahoga, Ohio (1900 census). Peter was a factory foreman, and died 26 Sep 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio. Emma died January 23, 1935.
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GEORGE WILLIAM WAGNER was born in 1877, according to the 1880 census. On 19 Dec 1901 he married ANNA KVAPIL in Cuyahoga, Ohio (Marriage Records. Ohio Marriages. Various Ohio County Courthouses, Film Number 000877935). They had three children: Raymond (b. 1902), George (b. 1905), and Mildred (b. 1907). George died on 20 Nov 1934 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
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HERMANN F WAGNER was born on 10 Feb 1879 in Cleveland to father Ernst L. Wagner and mother Agusta (sic). ("Ohio Births and Christenings, 1821-1962." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2011. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records; FHL Film Number 877902.) He appears in the 1880 Federal Census with the family, then disappears from the record.
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BERTHA AUGUSTA WAGNER was born on 11 May 1880 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. She married (1) FREDERICK JOSEPH MYERS (1876-1950) in 1900 and they had the following children: Gladys Olga (Morrison, 1902-1981) and Harry F. Myers (1904-1980). In 1928 she married (2) JOHN MINNICK in Cleveland. She died on 14 Mar 1954 in Aurora, Kane, Illinois, and is buried at Lincoln Memorial Park in Oswego, Kendall County, Illinois.
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MARTHA WAGNER was born on 08 May 1883; According to Albert G. Brunner's notes she was born April 8, 1883 but the Ohio Certificate Of Death shows a birth date of May 8, 1883. Martha married CHARLES JACOB HOMAN (6 Feb 1880 - 6 Feb 1965) on 19 Nov 1901 in Cleveland, and they had three children, Harry (b. 1904), Annie (b. 1909) and Charles. Marjorie Carlin remembers that Charles and Martha Homan were a handsome couple who had several children, including a son Charles. Martha died on 05 Nov 1946, in Fairview Village, Ohio, from breast cancer. Martha is buried at Lakewood Park Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
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OLGA AUGUSTA WAGNER was born on 5 Jun 1885 at 8 Poplar Street; Cleveland, Ohio. On 6 Nov 1906 she married WILLIAM CARL LEWIS MEIER (12 Sep 1879 - April 12, 1974) in Cleveland. Her mother, Augusta, was living with them in 1910, after Ernst Wagner died. According to Marjorie Ann Carlin, William and Olga adopted a daughter, Mildred Martha Meier (Bielfelt, 1907-1974). Olga died in February of 1980 in Cleveland, and is buried with William at Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
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GENEALOGY
CHARLES
STOLDT begat... AUGUSTA STOLDT (31 Dec 1845 - 30 Mar 1920), who married ERNST WAGNER (1 Jul 1840 - 7 Jan 1891) and begat... MARY
WAGNER (1872 - 1925), who married ALBERT A. BRUNER
(1861 - 1927) and begat... ALBERT
G. BRUNNER (1892 - 1972) who married EMMA LYNCH (1891
- 1951) and begat... JEANNE
BRUNNER (1918 - 2000) who married CARLETON MARCHANT
HAUSE, SR. (1917 - 1983) and begat... CARLETON
MARCHANT HAUSE, JR. (b. 1939) who married MARTHA
WENK (b. 1940) and begat... JEFF (who married LORI ANN DOTSON), KATHY (who married HAL
LARSEN), ERIC (who married MARY
MOONSAMMY), and MICHELE HAUSE (who married JOHN SCOTT HOUSTON). |
