Planting Roots: A Nuwer family history

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Planting Roots: A Nuwer family history

by Michael Nuwer
June 2020

Introduction

Part I Born in Europe

Chapter 1 The Nuwer Family in Europe
John George Nuber of Kallstadt
Chapter 2 Catherine Kieffer

Part II Leaving Home

Chapter 3 Going to America
Chapter 4 Joseph Fuchs
Chapter 5 The Voegele and Halter Families

Part III Making a Living

Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Agriculture in Western New York
Chapter 7 An Erie Road Farm
John Nuwer's Will
Immigration, Land, and Citizenship: The Nuwer Family (February 2023)

Part IV Children and Grandchildren

Chapter 8 Henry Nuwer
Chapter 9 John Nuwer, Jr.
Chapter 10 Joseph Nuwer
Chapter 11 Anthony Nuwer
Chapter 12 Four Daughters
Chapter 13 Clementine Messner
The Children of John Nuwer and Catherine Kieffer

Part V Brother and Sister

Chapter 14 Francis X Nuwer
The Children of Frank Nuwer and Catherine Bach
The family of Catherine Bach
Chapter 15 Celestine Nuwer Kieffer
The Children of Celestine Nuwer and John Kieffer
Chapter 14 was written in December 2019. That essay confused Frank X. Nuwer II and his son, Frank X. Nuwer III. The following essay looks more closely at the life of Frank X. Nuwer II and attempts to correct the earlier errors.
Francis X Nuwer II

Land Records
I wrote the bulk of the above essays (Chapters 1-15) in 2019 and the first few months of 2020. My goals were, first, to learn something about my family genealogy and, second, to better understand the process of immigration that took place before the US Civil War. After these essays were complete, I discovered the Erie County Deed Index and the digital microfilm images of the deeds. The data found in the deeds turned out to be extremely valuable, and I spent the second half of 2020 mining that archive. The following group of essays contain many of those findings.

• The farms of Anton Nuwer, Frank X. Nuwer and John Kieffer, Jr.
  
• The farms of John Nuwer
  
• The farms of Henry Nuwer
  
• The farm of Theresia Nuwer
  
• The Nichter family farms
  
• The Joseph Kissel farm
  
• The farms of Joseph Voegele and Martin Halter
  
• Three Roeschwoog farms on Schwartz Road
  

Adaptation to a New Home

• Adaptation to a New Home (An Introduction)
• The Independent Cultivator (part 1)
• A History of St Mary of the Assumption (part 2)
• The Failed Assimilation of German Immigrants in Lancaster (part 3)
• A Lancaster Fourth of July: 1880
• Family Structure and the Activities of Women
• The City, The Factory, and Industrial Work
• Merchants, Managers, and White-Collar Professionals

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