Salome Carolina (Guggenmoos) Roth (1820 - 1911)

Born 20 Jan 1820 in Dürstel, Niederrhein, Frankreich

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Died 12 Aug 1911 at age 91 in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Caroline was born in 1820. She was the daughter of Sebastian Guggenmoos and Margaretha Schäfer.^[1]

She migrated with her parents to the United States in 1828.^[2] She was later married to Jacob Roth and died in Port Huron, Michigan in 1911.^[3]

Research Notes By Frank Stanley

I have connected Caroline to her parents and siblings through a combination of DNA evidence and documentation.

Looking closely at DNA matches clustered with known relatives on my great-grandfather Baxter's side, I noticed a pair of them with a common ancestor named Jacob Roth (1816-1905). Then I ran across the FindAGrave memorial for his wife, which says that her maiden name was "Cookmons".

It's funny, but I don't really know for sure the proper spelling of my gt-gt grandmother's maiden name. My branch of her family spells it "Kuckamose", but there is no such surname, and every other branch spells it differently. What we DO know is that it sounds something like "cook-a-moose". So when I saw "Cookmons", it was immediately obvious to me that the connection was to this great-great grandmother. Her surname also appears (spelled different ways) on her death certificate and a marriage record of one of her children.

To date, I have found 6 descendents of Caroline in my DNA matches: (1) 31cm (2 segments) with a 4C, a gt-grandaughter of Jacob Roth Jr; (2) 30cM (2 segments) with a 4C, a gt-grandson of Harriet (Roth) Bresett; (3) 25cM (1 segment) with a 4C, another gt-granddaughter of Jacob Roth Jr (a 1C of my first match above); (4) 20cM (1 segment) with a 4C2R, a gt-gt-gt granddaughter of Margaret (Roth) Emmrich; (5) 16cM (1 segment) with a 4C1R, son of my first match above); (6) 10cM (1 segment) with a 4C1R, a gt-gt granddaughter of Caroline (Roth) Heintz. My brother matches 5 of them, respectively: 33cM (2 segments), 21cM (3 segments), 37cM (2 segments), (no match), 16cM (1 segment), 9cM (1 segment).

My brother also had some DNA matches that I don't have: (1) 27cM (1 segment) with a 4C1R, a gt-gt grandson of Margaret (Roth) Emmrich; (2) 27cM (1 segment) with a 4C1R, brother of (1) on this list; (3) 21cM (1 segment), a descendant of Caroline (Roth) Heintz; (4) 10cM (1 segment) with a 4C, a gt-granddaughter of Caroline (Roth) Heintz, a 2C of the father of match (5) on my list.

Caroline's death certificate shows that her father's name was Sebastian, which is also the name of my gt-gt grandmother's father, so the simplest explanation is that they are sisters. Clearly they are not first cousins, which would require that her paternal grandparents had two sons with the same given name. If they were second cousins, then my DNA matches would be 6th cousins. If that were true, these matches would probably not be as strong, and there would not be as many of them. So the explanation that they are sisters is the only explanation that really works.

Sources

1. ↑ "France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912", database, FamilySearch, Salomée Caroline Guggeumoos, 1820.
2. ↑ "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957." Ancestry. Salomon Gugoney, Ship Quatre Freres, New York, 1828. The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at and Departing from Ogdensburg, New York, 5/27/1948 - 11/28/1972; microfilm M237, 1820-1897. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.
3. ↑ Michigan, Death Records, 1867-1950, Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics. Death Certificate for Caroline S Roth, died August 12, 1911, Port Huron, St Clair County, Michigan.

See also:

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51496557/caroline-s-roth: accessed 1 October 2023), memorial page for Caroline S. Cookmons Roth (20 Jan. 1820–12 Aug. 1911), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51496557, citing Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, USA; maintained by Sam Lindsay, MSgt, USMC, Retired (contributor 47203802).
• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch, Caroline S Roth in household of Jacob R Roth, 1900. 8th Ward south of Bancroft Street, Port Huron City, St. Clair County, Michigan; enumeration district (ED) 105, sheet 1B, family 23. Accessed 1 Oct. 2023.