Jacob
Ritter
Born about in Töss, Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Caroline (Khoui) Ritter
— married
1882 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Clara Elizabeth (Ritter) Fay
Died
at about age 56
in Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Nov 2020
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Biography
- Jacob was born in 1844. (death information also shows 1846)
- Immigrated from Switzerland to US 1881
- Married a year later in 1882
- Two Children Otto and Caroline
- Died at 55, January 4, 1901
- Naturalized Oct 19, 1888 at age 45
- Carpenter on railroad (New Haven?)
- Bought property and build house at 147 Putnam. Used by several generations till 1960's
- Lutherans
Betty-Clare - get death certificate - suicide? Was he a butcher also?
Sources
- Ancestry.com
- Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
- Carol Lynn Murphy - great grand daughter
- Weona Fay Burkhardt college paper Mine, Me, and Mine in History - no date given
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jacob:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jacob:
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~6.25%
Kendall Fay
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