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FELS, SCHWANTES

Posted By: Tanja Abbotts (email)
Date: 11/26/2010 at 07:00:46

My maiden name is FELS. My family back in Germany asked me to do some research, about the people listed below.

They gave me a lot of information, so it would be easier for me to find them.

On your webpage I found information about Martin G. Fels.
His father wasn't born in Cologne, but in Millingen (just a few miles from the border of the Netherlands).

I will give you the information which they gave me out of our family tree book:

gustav fels
came 1849 to wisconsin...aubborn...
was born 8.2.1817 in millingen
was married twice
died 4.4.1858 in dubuque

2nd wife:
henrietta schwantes von regenwalde/pommern
died in aubborn, Iowa

5 children

john henry fels
born 13.1.1861
married 18.11.1891 hattie linder von menard
died 19.12.1897

gustav william fels
born 17.1.1863 dubuque
died 2.3.1883 aubborn

Emil hermann fels
born 27.3.1865 aubborn
died 6.4.1867

anna emilia fels
born 29.6.1886 aubborn

martin gustav fels
born 1.2.1859 dubuque
died 16.9.1918 in westunion, Iowa
married 24.11.1884 Harriet addie Soward, which was born 18.2.1861 in Fayette County

- children

henry gustav
born 2.10.1885 in aubborn
died 22.9.1898

ernest paul
born 26.12.1886
died 10.03.1893

carl emil
born 4.2.1891
married 11.2.1915 in aubborn

- children

henry ray 29.4.1916
charles martin 2.4.1918
irene 18.9.1919
vera 29.12.1921
dolores 5.11.1932

ray steward 12.4.1894

adopted
fergil elisabeth 10.4.1901

The spelling of the last name of Martin's wife is a little bit different, too.

If you could give me more information about this part of my family, me and my family would really appreciate it.

Thanks