Amalia Laura (Peyer) Marden (1866 - 1949)

Born 28 May 1866 in Karlsbad, Bohemia, Austria

Ancestors

Wife of Charles H. Marden — married 30 Sep 1883 in St. Paul, Minnesota

Died 26 Feb 1949 at age 82 in Los Angeles, California

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Biography

Amalia, called Malie/Mollie, was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia, then in the Austrian Empire and now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. She was the younger of two daughters of Josef and Amalie Pichler Peyer. Her mother also had an older daughter before she married. Malie was born in house no. 668, delivered by the same midwife that delivered her sister Hedwig five years earlier, and baptized by the same Catholic chaplain. She also had the same godmother, Laura Heinz, and was given the middle name Laura like both of her older sisters. Although the house number is different than the house where her sister was born, the home owner, Laura Heinz' father, was the same.^[1]

Malie was about four years old when she emigrated with her mother and sisters to Minnesota.^[2] Her mother ran a boarding house in St. Paul, Minnesota for many years as Malie was growing up.

Malie married Charles Marden in St. Paul in 1883 when she was 17 years old.^[3] In 1885, she and her husband were living in the home of Herman and Louisa Weiss, also Austrian immigrants.^[4] Malie was apparently double counted in the 1885 Minnesota census as there is a listing for Mrs. C. H. Martin, in the home of Malie's sister Bertha in Brainerd, Minnesota. Malie might have been assisting her sister with her young children after the tragedy of losing two sons.^[5] Malie and her sister Hattie made at least one trip home to Karlsbad in 1888.^[6] This occurred about the time Hattie's first marriage was ending.

In 1895, Amalia and her husband had their own home at 1253 Lincoln Ave., in St. Paul, and Charles was working as a bookkeeper at a dry goods company.^[7] In 1900, Charles' son George by a prior marriage was living with them. George, then 20, had been born in New York and was working as a salesman.^[8] In 1905, Maile and Charles were again living by themselves.^[9]

Mollie and Charles' marriage appears to have ended by 1907, when Malie was living alone at 168 Aurora Street, St. Paul, and Charles had moved to Minneapolis. Malie later began working as a hairdresser at her flat in Minneapolis, 3004 Hennepin Ave.^[10] In the 1920 census, she was identified as a widow.^[11]

For a time Mollie lived in New York, and was there to see her sister Bertha off on a trip to Germany in 1928.^[12] She may be the Amelia Marden living in Queens in 1930, working as a sales lady in a dry goods store.^[13] Malie moved to Los Angeles before 1935, and in 1940 she was working as a nurse in a private home and identified as divorced.^[14]

Mollie's great-niece Mary Kay Meyers remembers Malie's life in California: "Aunt Molly lived in LA and at times moved out to the [Newhall] ranch [near Piru, California]. She would come with her birds in a cage. . . Dad would joke about the birds and Aunt Molly would tell the birds that he really didn't mean it. . . Aunt Molly died suddenly and . . . I remember Mom (Amorita Bushell) having to close her little place which I think wasn't much more than a room."

Mollie died about age 83, in Los Angeles and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Los Angeles.^[15]

Sources

1. ↑ Research by Blanka Lednická, in the State Regional Archives in Pilsen, Karlovy Vary Parish Book no. 30, p. 139.
2. ↑ Naturalization Record of Amalia Peyer, 7 Sept 1877, p. 315, Ramsey Co., Minnesota
3. ↑ Minnesota, Marriages, 1849-1950 ," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDXP-4XK : accessed 27 May 2015), C. H. Marden Or Mardeau and Amelia L. Peyer, 30 Sep 1883; citing FHL microfilm 1,314,551.
4. ↑ "Minnesota State Census, 1885," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQXG-KJN : accessed 25 May 2016), Matt [Malli] Marden in household of Herman Weis, St Paul Ward 02, Ramsey, Minnesota; citing p. 8, volume 2 Ward, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 565,750.
5. ↑ "Minnesota, State Census, 1885," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-12143-41284-52?cc=1503044 : accessed 23 December 2014), Crow Wing > Brainerd > image 17 of 95; State Library and Records Service, St. Paul.
6. ↑ Item in the Saint Paul Daily Globe, September 2, 1888, p. 12, col. 3.
7. ↑ "Minnesota, State Census, 1895," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ6H-QSQ : accessed 27 May 2015), Amelia L Marden, St. Paul city, Ward 07, Ramsey, Minnesota; citing p. , line 16, State Library and Records Service, St.Paul; FHL microfilm 565,801.
8. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M93X-19N : accessed 26 May 2017), Amelia Marden in household of Charles Marden, Election District 6 St. Paul city Ward 5, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 97, sheet 16B, family 325, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,784.
9. ↑ "Minnesota, State Census, 1905," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-159388-136277-84?cc=1503056 : accessed 27 May 2015), Ramsey > St Paul, Ward 09 > image 304 of 480; State Library and Records Service, St. Paul.
10. ↑ Minneapolis, Minnesota, City Directory, p. 1418.
11. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWYL-B9H : accessed 27 May 2015), Amelia L Marden, Minneapolis Ward 8, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States; citing sheet 5A, family 142, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,836.
12. ↑ Letter from Bertha Theviot to Nora Nolan, 17 June, 1928, original in possession of Meg McGowan.
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X45J-P6W : accessed 1 July 2012), Amelia Marden, Queens (Districts 1501-1575), Queens, New York.
14. ↑ United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K9CK-MBG : accessed 01 Apr 2013), Amelia Marden in household of Ida M Dewalt, Councilmanic District 10, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 60-831, sheet 3B, family 77, NARA digital publication T627, roll 403.
15. ↑ "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGYD-83LX : 22 August 2018), Amelia F Marden, 1949.