Margaretha Rupp was born in November 1865 in the Alsace-Lorraine (Lotharingen) region of France/Germany. She immigrated to America in the early 1880s arriving in New York Harbor.
Margaretha married Louis Kratzke on November 11, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York when she was 18 years old. They had six children together. Louis died in Brooklyn on 7 April 1901.
Margaret married Albert Walter some time between 1901 and 1904. She had one son and one daughter with Albert.
In 1910 Margaret was living with her second husband and children from her first marriage. According to the 1910 census seven of Margaret's eight children were living...was Lottie dead?
Margaret died between 1925 and 1930 in Brooklyn.
Residence
1900
Brooklyn Ward 27, Kings, New York, USA
1902
Brooklyn, New York, USA
1905
318 Melrose Street, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA
1910
1496 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA
1920
Brooklyn Assembly District 20, Kings, New York, USA
1925
Queens, New York, United States
Sources
U.S. City Directories, 1822-1989 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
1900 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Note: Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900
New York, State Census, 1925 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Note: State population census schedules, 1925
1920 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
1910 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
New York, State Census, 1905 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
"New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDRQ-9YT : accessed 4 May 2016), Maggie Rupp Kratzke in entry for Ernst Kratzke, 03 Nov 1892; citing Brooklyn, Kings, New York, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,324,412.
"New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W7V-SH9 : accessed 4 May 2016), Maggie Rupp Kratzke in entry for Kratzke, 09 May 1897; citing Birth, Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archives, New York; FHL microfilm 1,324,433.
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