Here is my
Hanratty line - the only one of a family member who did not go the way to the New World but to Germany!
Franz Hanrotty fount the
German branch of the family.
He came to Magdeburg abt./before 1840 and worked there as an clerk with the local Steam Boat Company.
1845 he is listed as a merchant, he was recorded as an
English language teacher in Magdeburg when he died there in 1856.
He was allways spelled HANROTTY - maybe they changed the name when they heared him talking his
Irish coloured
German ?
Ref. to his his death record
Franz Hanrotty was born in
Dublin, Ireland on 12th March 1812,
he died by pneumonia in the Magdeburg hospital on 15th April 1856.
With his wife Friederike nee
Volkmann he had the following children:
Franz Hanrotty b. abt.1840, this son was 16 years old when his father died in 1856, maybe he already moved with his parents to Magdeburg ?
Emil Maximilian Hanrotty b. 26.Sept.1843 in Magdeburg (descendants - me :-)
Johanna Franziska Regina Hanrotty b. 26.Juli.1845 in Magdeburg, gest. 03.08.1846
Johannes Robert
Julius Hanrotty b. 12.Feb.1848 in Magdeburg (descendants)
Alphons Hanrotty b. abt 1850 in Magdeburg (descendants)
But the descendants of
Franz are all spelling their name
Hanratty todays - just some families!
See also my Ireland site on:
http://www.members.aol.com/hgurski3/HanrattyE.htmBest wishes and happy hunting
Hanno
Gurski