Alois Guenther (abt. 1867 - abt. 1953)

Born about Apr 1867 in Austria

Ancestors

Husband of Helen Brautigam — married 28 Nov 1894 in Webster, MA

Descendants

Died about 1953 at about age 85 in Webster, MA

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Biography

Alois Guenther was born in Austria around 1867. His siblings were Richard and Tonio, although he may have had another relative in Webster, Ferdinand Guenther, born 1869 and came from Austria, whose citizenship application he was a witness to. He immigrated to the USA along with his whole family and became a naturalized citizen of the USA on October 12, 1896. He lived at 132 Main Street in Webster, MA. He worked in a ladies shoestore in 1900, and may have been a painter before that. He had eight children, seven boys and a girl. One of the boys died in infancy and another died in World War I. He died in 1953 at the age of about 86.

Possible immigration

There is a ship record^[1] of an "Alois Guenther", born around the same time, who immigrated to the USA in 1890 and came from Bohemia (modern day Western Czech Republic). Since Bohemia was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it could very well be the same Alois.

Sources

1. ↑ "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVRS-Y36V : 15 April 2015), Alois Gunther, 1890; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm .

• "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FX4R-4YF : 1 March 2016), Louis R. Guenther, 1902.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF9T-RXL : 14 December 2015), Alois Guenther, Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 1B, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,820,749.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9B4-L4T : 6 March 2015), Louis Guenther, Webster town (northeast part), Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 1A, family 9, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,695.

"United States, New England Petitions for Naturalization Index, 1791-1906," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VXR7-NYV : 3 December 2014), Alois Guenther, 1896; citing , NARA microfilm publication M1299 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 72; FHL microfilm 1,429,742.

Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGY-TZ13 : 13 December 2015), Alois Guenther, ; Burial, Webster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Mount Zion Cemetery; citing record ID 134134307, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.