Wilhelm Gaertner and Anna Siepen Relatives
Mary Diederich Ott
Contents
Introduction
In order to see the photographs on this website, click on the camera icons that appear on pages that have photographs available. If you click on the tree icon for a person, you will see the family tree for that person.
This edition of the Gaertner-Siepen family website also includes persons whose records were found in the the Graskemper family history developed by Maximilian Graskemper of Uelde, Germany. Maximilian was the grandnephew of Joseph Gottlieb Graskemper who married Clara Elisabeth Siepeh, the sister of my grandmother Anna Siepen.
It also includes the information for the Jilek and Tillman relatives of Louis (Bud) Jilek who married my aunt Angela Gaertner. This information is from the 1987 report “Jilek-Tillman” by Bud Jilek’s brother Edward Eugene Jilek, Sr.
Both Maximilian Graskemper’s information and Edward Jilek’s report were provided to me by my first cousin William Jilek, the son of Louis (Bud) Jilek and Angela Marie Gaertner.
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The Gaertner-Siepen family of Cleveland, Ohio and their relatives in the United States descended from persons living in the Sauerland, a small region of the North-Rhine Westphalia area of Germany that is primarily agricultural. This website presents information gleaned mainly from the following sources: 1) records from Catholic churches in the Sauerland that were microfilmed by the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons); 2.) family research reports from Sr. Mary Lawrence, O.S.U., daughter of Wilhelm Gaertner and Anna Siepen; 3.) information provided by other members of the family, such as August F. Gaertner, Eileen Gaertner, Angela Jilek, and Michael Jilek. I very much appreciate the contributions of information and photos that were made to this project. This site will be updated as more information is made available to me.
In many cases there are two or more names associated with a given family in these records. For example, Caspar Marianus Gaertner has the name Schracke in parentheses after the name Gaertner. The names in parentheses are known as “house names” or “farm names.” They are associated with the residence of the person-- whether a house or a farm. Farm names were very commonly used in the Sauerland. In fact, people were known by their farm names rather than their family names. A man who moved to a farm his wife had inherited would take her farm name as a hyphenated addition to his family name. If she died and he remarried and stayed at the same farm residence, his new wife would take the farm name as well. My way of dealing with this practice has been to include the farm names in parentheses and to maintain the family names.
This website is a companion to one I’ve created for my paternal ancestors: www.marydott.com/LeoDiederichMaryTernesRelatives/index.html
I also have a website devoted to my art work:
www.marydott.com/art/home.html
This edition of the Gaertner-Siepen family website also includes persons whose records were found in the the Graskemper family history developed by Maximilian Graskemper of Uelde, Germany. Maximilian was the grandnephew of Joseph Gottlieb Graskemper who married Clara Elisabeth Siepeh, the sister of my grandmother Anna Siepen.
It also includes the information for the Jilek and Tillman relatives of Louis (Bud) Jilek who married my aunt Angela Gaertner. This information is from the 1987 report “Jilek-Tillman” by Bud Jilek’s brother Edward Eugene Jilek, Sr.
Both Maximilian Graskemper’s information and Edward Jilek’s report were provided to me by my first cousin William Jilek, the son of Louis (Bud) Jilek and Angela Marie Gaertner.
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The Gaertner-Siepen family of Cleveland, Ohio and their relatives in the United States descended from persons living in the Sauerland, a small region of the North-Rhine Westphalia area of Germany that is primarily agricultural. This website presents information gleaned mainly from the following sources: 1) records from Catholic churches in the Sauerland that were microfilmed by the Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons); 2.) family research reports from Sr. Mary Lawrence, O.S.U., daughter of Wilhelm Gaertner and Anna Siepen; 3.) information provided by other members of the family, such as August F. Gaertner, Eileen Gaertner, Angela Jilek, and Michael Jilek. I very much appreciate the contributions of information and photos that were made to this project. This site will be updated as more information is made available to me.
In many cases there are two or more names associated with a given family in these records. For example, Caspar Marianus Gaertner has the name Schracke in parentheses after the name Gaertner. The names in parentheses are known as “house names” or “farm names.” They are associated with the residence of the person-- whether a house or a farm. Farm names were very commonly used in the Sauerland. In fact, people were known by their farm names rather than their family names. A man who moved to a farm his wife had inherited would take her farm name as a hyphenated addition to his family name. If she died and he remarried and stayed at the same farm residence, his new wife would take the farm name as well. My way of dealing with this practice has been to include the farm names in parentheses and to maintain the family names.
This website is a companion to one I’ve created for my paternal ancestors: www.marydott.com/LeoDiederichMaryTernesRelatives/index.html
I also have a website devoted to my art work:
www.marydott.com/art/home.html
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