Ulrike was born in 1841 in Pomerania, Prussia. She married August Rucks around 1865. They immigrated to the United States in 1882 with their six children.[1] They settled in Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin.[2][3]
Ulrike died on 17 Dec 1917 in Albion[4] and she was buried in Fassett Cemetery in Edgerton.[5]
Sources
↑Emigration:Ancestry Record 1068 #4254865 Staatsarchiv Hamburg; Hamburg, Deutschland; Hamburger Passagierlisten; Volume: 373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 043 C; Page: 451; Microfilm No.: K_1727; Source Information: Staatsarchiv Hamburg. Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008.
↑1900 US Census: "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMK4-5ZC : accessed 6 September 2022), Willeamia A Rucks in household of August F Rucks, Albion town, Dane, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 29, sheet 6B, family 123, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,782.
↑1910 US Census: "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPJP-VYK : accessed 6 September 2022), Ulricke J Rucks in household of Herman H Rucks, Albion, Dane, Wisconsin, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 36, sheet 4A, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1708; FHL microfilm 1,375,721.
↑Death:
"Wisconsin, U.S., Death Records, 1959-2004"
Wisconsin Department of Health Services; Madison, Wisconsin; Wisconsin Death Records, 1907-1932 Ancestry Record 61483 #2618826 (accessed 16 January 2024)
Ulbricka Rucks death 17 Dec 1917 in Dane, Wisconsin, USA.
↑Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115159264/ulrike-rucks: accessed 06 September 2022), memorial page for Ulrike Affeldt Rucks (1841–1917), Find A Grave: Memorial #115159264, citing Fassett Cemetery, Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin, USA; Maintained by bonnie carroll (contributor 47372741) .
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ulrike by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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