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Anna Margaret (Alstadt) Fuchs (1851 - 1923)

Anna Margaret Fuchs formerly Alstadt aka Koenig
Born in Saxony, Prussiamap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of [father unknown] and
Sister of [half], [half], [half], [half], [half], [half] and [half]
Wife of — married 31 Dec 1871 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohiomap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , and
Died at age 71 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United Statesmap
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Biography

Anna Margaret Allstadt was born in Saxony (per her immigration and the 1860 US census; though the 1870 census did show that she was from Bavaria, that was during the Franco-Prussian War, which may have caused some confusion about borders; alternatively, her birthplace may have been misreported by her employer). Specifically, she was probably born in Hallungen, Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, on 10 June 1851 to Johann Allstadt (or Allstaedt or Allstädt) and Catharina Magdalena Neuhauss (John Allstadt and Magdalena Newhaus on her death certificate.) (Non-anglicized German names, such as Johann and Neuhauss, and birth city of Hallungen are from an unsourced Familysearch tree and have not yet been verified.) The correct spelling of her maiden name is uncertain (see discussion below.)

Anna immigrated to the United States at age 6. Although the 1900 census listed her immigration year as 1862 (in error), 1910 and 1920 both list 1857, which is correct. Her immigration was very difficult to find, because neither of these years match up with any immigration of anyone with a similar surname matching her or either of her parents.

This is because Anna's father died when she was under the age of six, and she immigrated with her mother and her step-father's family. After her father's death, she probably never appeared under any name except Anna Koenig or Margaret Konig until 1870.

The Koenig family departed Baden and arrived in New York on 6 July 1857 aboard the ship Louisiana. Their trip could have taken anywhere from 6 to 14 weeks. They traveled in steerage and arrived with two other Koenig relatives, both named Johannes.


Johann Koenig 23
Catharine Koenig 27
Johannes Koenig 55
Johannes Koenig 15
Johannes Koenig 2 mo
Anna Koenig 6
Margarethe 2 mo

Their immigration records indicated that they came from Saxony. The 55-year-old Johannes is Anna's step-father's father (her step-grandfather); the 15-year-old was her step-father Adam's youngest brother, who was born in 1842. Her step-father was 23-year-old Adam (who appears here as Johann, since his full name was Johann Adam Koenig). 27-year-old Catharine, of course, was her mother, Catharina, and the 2-month-old twins were her half-siblings, known as Maggie and John after their immigration.


United States Germans to America Index, 1850-1897
Name: Anna Koenig
Event Type: Immigration
Event Date: 06 Jul 1857
Event Place: New York, New York, New York, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 6
Birthplace: Saxony
Occupation: Child, Youngster
Ship Name: Louisiana
Birth Year (Estimated): 1851
Departure Port: Bremen
Literacy: Unknown
Destination Place: New York
Transit or Travel Compartment: Staying in the USA [Transit]; Steerage [Travel]
Affiliate Manifest ID: 00008989
Affiliate ARC Identifier: 1746067

Anna was enumerated twice on the 1870 US census, once with her family, and once by herself under her maiden name. Perhaps she left home and began working between June 24 and July 13, 1870.

She was working as a domestic servant for the Ellen Sargent family in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Her birthplace is shown as Bavaria. The census was taken on July 13, 1870.

She was also listed as being simply from Germany, and living with her family on 24 June, 1870

This was during the Franco-Prussian War; by the end of the war (in 1871), Germany was unified, but perhaps someone had told Anna that Saxony was now part of Bavaria, or maybe her employer just made a guess at her birthplace.

She married Frederick Charles Fuchs on 31 December, 1871, in Columbus, Ohio.

Their children were:

Karl Friedrich "Charles" b. 10 September 1872 in Cincinnati, Ohio (died 26 August 1942)
Friedrich Wilhelm "William" b. 1873 or 1874 (died 12 July 1910)
Anna Maria b. 15 November 1877 in Cincinnati, Ohio (died 1 May 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio)
Frederich August b. 7 Apr 1881 (died 26 May 1951)
Nettie b. Sept 1889 (died 16 Apr 1891 in Cincinnati, Ohio)

Anna and Frederick had moved to Cincinnati, Ohio by 1877 (proved by their daughter Anna's Cincinnati birth record).

On the 1880 US census, they lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Three children are listed: Charles (8), William (5), and Anna M (3).

They lived in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1900. Two children are listed on the census: Anna M. Fuchs (Rolfes) and Frederick August Fuchs. The census also lists that they had five children, and four were still living in 1900.

Note: there was a mistake on the 1900 census; Anna's birth year and immigration year are indexed incorrectly, because the census taker originally wrote 1851 as her birth year, and then he wrote her age as 48 or 49, then wrote either 48 or 49 over it, then thought he meant to write 1857 (which was actually her immigration year), so he wrote 42 above the superimposed 48 and 49, and then wrote in 1862 as her immigration year (probably because she reported her age at immigration, rather than her immigration year).



She died May 4, 1923, and is buried in Walnut Hills Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Although she was almost certainly raised as a Lutheran, it is possible that Anna may have had Ashkenazi heritage, because her granddaughter, Loretta Rolfes, had a garnet Star of David necklace in her jewelry box. The necklace is very well-made and contains 52 garnets. Loretta was Catholic all her life, so she would not have purchased this for herself. It seems likely that it was an heirloom, passed down from either Fuchs or Meier family (Loretta'a paternal grandmother).


From Familysearch:

  • Fact: Immigration (1857)
  • Fact: Immigration (1862)
  • Fact: Residence (1900) Precinct F Cincinnati City Ward 4, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
  • Fact: Residence (1910) Cincinnati Ward 4, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
  • Fact: Residence (1920) Cincinnati Ward 8, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
  • Fact: Residence (04 May 1923) Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
  • Fact: Residence (04 May 1923) Ohio
  • Fact: Burial (07 May 1923)

Surname

Anna's maiden name shows on some documents as Alsadt, Ollstott, or Alstapp, as well as Alstadt, Allstadt, and Alstead. I believe that Allstadt, Allstädt, or Allstaedt is the correct spelling, mainly because it actually looks like a German surname having to do with a city (Stadt being German for 'city,' and Staedt meaning 'cities'), or else the alternate spellings of an 'ae' or an 'a' are different ways of trying to compensate for the loss of the umlaut over the 'a' when the name is anglicized. It appears not to be related to Alstad, which is a very rare surname from Norway, or the Swedish surnames Allstadius or Ulfsdotter.

The English translation of the German surname Allstaedt would be, "All cities," and "Allstadt," would mean, "all city." The origin of this surname is unknown. This surname, in all variations, is extremely rare. Variations of this surname are found mainly in Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany.

Allstaedt, Allstädt, or Allstadt is probably the original form of the name (everything else is probably a misspelling).

Allstaedt is found mainly in North Rhine-Westphalia and a few other parts of Northern Germany: Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony-Anhalt, and around Berlin. At least 42 people have this surname in the United States and Germany today).

Allstadt is found in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria. At least 78 people have this surname today in the United States and Germany, with a few individuals in France and Switzerland.

Alstadt is found mainly in the United States; in Europe, it is found mostly in Westfalia, Germany and Aquitaine, France, but also found in Bavaria and in Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur, Languedoc-Roussillon, and Auvergne in France. A few individuals in Canada and the Netherlands also have this surname. At least 157 people have this surname today.

Alstad is found mainly in Norway and the United States; about 12 people have this surname today.

No one is recorded as actually having the surnames Ollstott, Alsadt, or Alstapp; those are incorrect phonetic guesses made by other individuals, such as the person filling out a marriage license or a death certificate. However, Anna does show up in records with these surnames.

Alstead is found only on her younger half-brother's death certificate, mistakenly showing as his mother's maiden name instead of Neuhauss; being a widow, it is not that surprising that this happened on one of her children's death certificates.


Find a Grave shows:

4 people with the surname Allstadt buried in Jüdischer Friedhof Mannheim in Mannheim, Stadtkreis Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, German between 1911 and 1982
1stillborn infant with the surname Alstad in Zweibrucken, Stadtkreis Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany in 1960


List of surname variations and possible variations:

Alstadt
Alstaedt
Alstädt
Allstaedt
Allstadt
Allstädt
Alsadt
Ollstott
Alstapp
Alstad
Ulfsdotter
Aulfsdotter
Alstaeteatter
Allstatter
Alstettes
Allstall
Allslott
Alstead

Maiden name as it appears on various documents:

Census (1870): Allstott
Marriage (1871): Ollstott
From her daughter's birth record: Alstall
From her death certificate and cemetery records: Allstadt
From her childrens' marriage documents: Allstall/Allstalt/Allstatt, Alstall
From her childrens' death certificates: Alstapp, Allstadt, Ollstatt
Younger half-brother's Frederick's death certificate: Alstead

Conclusions:

Her maiden name probably starts with an A rather than with an O, almost certainly followed by two L's and another A, and ends with T or DT. It may or may not also contain an E, but probably not. I.e., Allstadt, Alstädt, Allstaedt, Allstad, Alstäd, Allstaed, Allstat, Alstät, Allstaet, Allstatt, Alstätt, Allstaett.

On actual documents, her maiden name is spelled the following ways:

Ollstott
Ollstatt
Allstott
Allstadt
Alstead
Alstall
Alstapp
Allstall/Allstalt/Allstatt (it looks like it was meant to be LT, but the T is not crossed)


The only actual German surname among these (used on at least two sources) is:

Allstadt


It is, therefore, most likely that her original surname was Alstadt/Allstadt or Alstädt/Allstädt, with Alstaedt/Allstaedt being an alternative spelling when written without an umlaut. Ultimately, more research is needed.

While some of the other names (both on documents related to Anna and her family, and on US census records near where the Koenig family settled in Ohio) have been used as surnames, these are almost exclusively used in the United States (with some being very rare in the United Kingdom and France, and others being very rare in places like Belarus and Belgium), which indicates that the spelling was probably changed after immigration, probably due to similar misspellings.


Census Records

United States Census, 1860
Name: Margaret Konig
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1860
Event Place: 5th Ward Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 9
Race: White
Race: [Blank]
Birth Year (Estimated): 1851
Birthplace: Saxony
Page: 85
Household:
Adam Konig Male 24 Saxony
Catharine Konig Female 29 Saxony
Margaret Konig Female 9 Saxony
John Konig Male 3 Saxony
Margaret Konig Female 3 Saxony
Frederick Konig Male 0 Ohio
John Konig Male 60 Saxony


United States Census, 1870
Name: Anna Koenig
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1870
Event Place: Ohio, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Race: White
Race: W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1850-1851
Birthplace: Germany
Page Number: 29
Household:
Adam Koenig Male 36 Germany
Cathrine Koenig Female 39 Germany
Anna Koenig Female 19 Germany
Margaret Koenig Female 13 Germany
John Koenig Male 13 Germany
Fredrick Koenig Male 10 Ohio
Elzabeth Koenig Female 9 Ohio
Henry Koenig Male 7 Ohio
Kate Koenig Female 5 Ohio
Adam Koenig Male 1 Ohio


United States Census, 1870
Name Anna Allstott
Event Type Census
Event Year 1870
Event Place Ohio, United States
Gender Female
Age 19
Race White
Race W
Birth Year (Estimated) 1850-1851
Birthplace Bavaria
Page Number 20
Household:
Ellen P Sargent F 44 Massachusetts
Ellen Sargent F 41 Canada
Cora A Sargent F 12 Massachusetts
Carrie Sargent F 3 Ohio
Jane Baird F 75 Canada
Anna Allstott F 19 Bavaria


United States Census, 1880
Name: Anna M Tucks
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: Cincinnati, :Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 29
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race: W
Occupation: House Keeping
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Relationship to Head of :Household: Wife
Birth Year (Estimated): 1851
Birthplace: Germany
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Sheet Letter: C
Sheet Number: 86
Person Number: 1
Volume: 1
Household:
Frederick Tucks Self Male 31 Germany
Anna M Tucks Wife Female 29 Germany
Charles Tucks Son Male 8 Ohio, United States
William Tucks Son Male 5 Ohio, United States
Anna M Tucks Daughter Female 3 Ohio, United States


United States Census, 1900
Name: Anna Fuchs
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1900
Event Place: Precinct F Cincinnati City Ward 4, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 43
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race: W
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Number of Living Children: 4
Years Married: 28
Birth Date: Jun 1857
Birthplace: Germany
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1872
Immigration Year: 1857
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Mother of how many children: 5
Household:
Frederick Fuchs Head Male 60 Germany
Anna Fuchs Wife Female 43 Germany
Anna M Fuchs Daughter Female 23 Ohio
Frederick ? Fuchs Son Male 19 Ohio


United States Census, 1910
Name: Anna W Fuchs
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1910
Event Place: Cincinnati Ward 4, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Birth Year (Estimated): 1851
Birthplace: Germany
Immigration Year: 1857
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 4
Household:
Fred A Fuchs Head Male 70 Germany
Anna W Fuchs Wife Female 59 Germany


United States Census, 1920
Name: Anna Fuchs
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1920
Event Place: Cincinnati Ward 8, Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 68
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Birth Year (Estimated): 1852
Birthplace: Germany
Immigration Year: 1862
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Sheet Letter: B
Sheet Number: 1


Cemetery Records

Name: ANNA MARGARET FUCHS
Address: 965 HILL ST. CINCINNATI
Born: GERMANY
Date of Death: May 4, 1923
Age: 71
Reason: ARTERIO SCLEROSIS
Marital Status: W
Spouse:
Parents: JOHN & MAGDALENA ALLSTADT
Nearest Relative: CHAS. FUCHS (SON)
Relative Address:
Interment Number:
Interment Date: May 7, 1923
Cemetery Location: Section: 16NH Lot: 159 Grave: C Row:
Marker:
Funeral Director: J.J.RADEL CO.
Remarks: LOT OWNER-F.C.FUCHS

Research Notes

The family was probably Lutheran, because Anna's mother and step-father are buried in a Lutheran cemetery, so looking at Catholic records from Germany would probably not be useful.

Frederick Fuchs was likely raised Catholic, because their grandchildren were Catholic.

Several place names in Saxony appear in the unsourced references on Familysearch. These place names are Hallungen, Pferdsdorf, Erfurt, and Creuzburg, all of which are quite close together. Lutheran church records and civil records from these towns need to be examined in order to verify this information.

Possible relatives found near the area where the Koenig family settled after immigration:

Michael Allstatter and Mary Hartke and Thomas:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6KZ-3M3
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6LH-2FQ
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8PQ-QZ8
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X85P-LY1

Alstettes:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8LZ-GLS

Edwin Alstaeteatter:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3AMichael~%20%2Bsurname%3AAllstatter~%20%2Bresidence_place%3AOhio~%20%2Bresidence_year%3A1870-1870~


George Alstadt:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X875-DTH



Several immigration records for a Johannes Allstaedt/Alstadt may apply to a cousin or other male relative. Zimmerman, Gary J and Marion Wolfort's book, "German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, with Places of Origin," Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1988 includes the records of:

Joh. H. Allstaedt, age 27, from Duttleben, who arrived in New York aboard the ship Geestemuende on 2 Oct 1865 (film 256). (Joh. is an abbreviation for Johannes.)
Joh. Alstadt, age 24, from Creuznach, who arrived in New York aboard the ship Hansa 27 Oct 1865 (film 257).
Johannes Alstadt, 18, from Schlotzen, who arrived in New York aboard the ship America 9 Oct 1866 (film 272).



An Anna Allstädt was born on 10 June, 1850 to Johann Christoph Allstädt and Martha Dorothea Allstädt and was baptized in Tottleben, Sachsen, Germany on 16 June, 1850, however, this was probably a different person with the same first and last name who shared her birthday.

The following record may be Anna's baptism, although the birth date is exactly one year off (to the day), and neither Anna's middle name nor her mother's name match other records. She is also alleged to have been born and christened in Hallungen, not in Tottleben. We would expect her mother to be either Magdalena Catharina or Catharina Magdalena, and Anna's middle name to be Margaret. (The following record was contributed by King-21644 via G2G):

Name: Anna Marie Allstädt
Record Type: Taufe (Baptism)
Birth Date: 10 Jun 1850
Baptism Date: 16 Jun 1850
Baptism Place: Tottleben, Sachsen (Saxony), Deutschland (Germany)
Father: Johann Christoph Allstädt
Mother: Martha Dorothea Allstädt
Legitimacy: Ehelich
Author: Evangelische Kirche Tottleben (Kr. Langensalza)
City or District: Henschleben, Kr, Langensalza, Tottleben u. Tunzenhausen
Parish as it Appears: Tottleben

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Saxony and Thuringia, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1591-1875[database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

An 1842 baptismal record from Deutschland Geburten und Taufen, 1558-1898, for an Anna Maria Alistach, who might be related: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N8C5-64S


Sources


1900 census for the Fuchs family in Cincinnati, Ohio:

Frederick M 60 Md Head b. 28 Jul 1840 Germany md 1872 imm. 1865
Anna F 43 Md Wife b. 4 28 Jun 1857 Germany md 1872 imm. 1857
Anna M. F 23 S Daughter b. Nov 1877 Ohio
Frederick M 19 S Son b. Apr 1881 Ohio
(Anna's year of birth mistakenly shows as 1857 instead of 1851 on this census.)
( https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DKY3-MV3?mode=g&i=13&cc=1325221 )
  • Sources for surname data:
http://www.namespedia.com/details/Allstaedt
http://www.namespedia.com/details/Allstadt
http://www.namespedia.com/details/Alstadt
http://www.namespedia.com/details/Alstad
http://www.namespedia.com/details/Allstadius




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