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Fred (Fredrick) Kick DOB @1890

Fred (Fredrick) Kick DOB @1890

Posted: 23 May 2012 10:24PM GMT
Classification: Query
I am looking for descendants of a great uncle, Fred Kick. He was born June 17, 1890, died June 1964.

I believe they lived in Lake or McHenry Co., IL. There was also a SW Michigan connection - I actually found a Fred Kick (his great grandson) but he wasn't interested in helping, as he had become estranged from his siblings. Sad.

Fred is the last one. I haven't been able to find anyone that has, or is willing to supply, family photos or documents regarding the family. I'm hoping his descendants will have photos or other things that document the family.

Fred's father and mother were Charles Kick (from Bavaria) and Emma Nofz (from Pomerania), both, at the time, states that became part of Germany. (German unification came in 1871.)

Re: Fred (Fredrick) Kick DOB @1890

Posted: 27 May 2012 12:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Kick, Kidd, Firnberg, Eschete,Blakeman,McIver, Girgenti
My Kick family is apparently from Hesse Darmstadt in Germany. I know that there was Warner who was a shoemaker who came with his brother and Warner's two children directly to New Orleans in time to get drafted into the Civil War as a Confederate --kind of like an air warden or civil guard during WW II. He brought his family to the US to get them away from all the wars & intrigue & persecution of the Jews.

Warner was my great-great grandfather.I wasn't able to find out much about him.

I suspect the family originally came from Poland. I saw a family whose name started with "Kick"- who were deported from France into a concentration camp on a PBS series and it is known that Immigration shortened names.

There was an Arthur Kick listed in the Hesse Darmstadt phone directory -- the only one -- but
when I wrote in English and German to the address, both my letters came back both with "Refused!" in German stamped on the, You would think they would at least be curious.

There have been Kicks in New Orleans since at least 1735. A Mrs. Thomas Kick and about 5 sons, I think but can't remember the details.They came from Alsace-Lorraine and that is apparently where my more recent Kick relatives set sail from.

Warner & his brothers and Warner's two children came to New Orleans,Louisiana. I am sure the brother may have had children & there were already Kicks there.

There was a Fred Kick in my family.

Warner's two children were Ferdinand and Caterina which is a Jewish Shepard girl's name. I have been unable to find her mother's name or anything about her.

I did learn that Ferdinand became Fred and he married in New Orleans and I think his wife & most of his family died in the 1922-1923 flu epidemic.

I can't remember all the details as 40 yrs of my genealogy research (before computers) was burned in a family probate dispute by spiteful relatives trying to burn down the family home & I have neither the time or the resources to try and do it all again. I have never had photos of the Kicks except one of my great-grandmother Caterina -- "Katie" Kick who had very bad osteoarthritis who was shown with her cane and she looked like Golda Maier without the huge eyebrows and she had a thinner face than Golda.Maybe Barnrastreisand as an aged matron? Of course,I never knew her.She had a gambling addiction and she died after a night of gambling on New Year's Eve as she had pneumonia.

Caterina married Forbes Issac Kidd, an Irish Jew from Armagh, Northern Ireland.They decided to attend the Episcopal Church but continued to observe the Sabbath in their home and other Jewish occasions. New Orleans has always been a heavily Catholic city.

Children from this marriage were Ann who never married; Forbes Issac Kidd Jr. who had a nervous breakdown after a car wreck in which his entire family was wiped out;Arthur who was a CPA and went to Hollywood to be the accountant for the film industry and about whom I know nothing more than he worked in Austin,TX briefly;Margaret who married a man with the surname of MacIver and she died of breast cancer;Ruth, my grandmother who had two sons - my father dead of diabetes & my uncle;Dorthea who married an accountant Erle Firnberg and they had two children;Naomi who married Shepard Eschete who was a shrimp boat captain;Miriam who married Curtis Blakeman and took care of Ann; and then there was Esther who married my "Sicilian uncle" Joe Girgenti.

All of these Kidd children are dead now.

There was a faction of this family who left New Orleans and went to St.Louis, Missouri. They have descendants there to this day. They never talked to or contacted the ones in New Orleans after they left until I posted an inquiry here and a descendant contacted me. We had no idea why the family split.

There are also some Kicks who contacted me from Brooklyn New York but I don't think they are related.

You would think with the rather unusual surname that it would be easy to find descendants with information but I can't find any on my direct family except by the Census.

I wish I could help you more but this is just what I remember without my notes.

I have 5 nieces and nephews but they want nothing to do with me and only one speaks to their mother. Apparently hatred & grudge holding is something in which these people excel.

I am saving up to do the DNA -- from the company "23 & Me" as seen on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. genealogy shows.

Good luck in your research!

Re: Fred (Fredrick) Kick DOB @1890

Posted: 16 Sep 2014 8:00PM GMT
Classification: Query

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
about Fred John Kick




Name:
Fred John Kick

County:
La Porte

State:
Indiana

Birthplace:
Illinois,United States of America

Birth Date:
17 Jun 1890

Race:
Caucasian (White)

Draft Board:
1

still single at that time June 1917
collector for South Shore RR





U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
about Fred John Kick




Name:
Fred John Kick

Birth Date:
17 Jun 1890

Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Race:
White

person who will know your address,,Herman Rojahn

so its possible he was not married??? but you said his grandson so guess he was

this may be him BUT says parents born IL



1930 United States Federal Census

Name:Fred Kick
[Fred Keck]

Gender:Male

Birth Year:abt 1891

Birthplace:Illinois

Race:White

Home in 1930:Chicago, Cook, Illinois

Marital Status:Married

Relation to Head of House:Head

Spouse's Name:Anna Kick

Father's Birthplace:Illinois

Mother's Birthplace:Illinois

Household Members:

Fred Kick 39
Anna Kick 38
Willeaim Kick 16
Charles Kick 13 died 1958 IL
Freddie Kick 9 died 2005 in Michigan
Evelyn Kick 8 possible mrd name Figeley
Bobby Kick 2
[2 6/12]
Francis Knudsen 10 lodger


this one married with a 6 yr old in 1920 census BUt did work for RR and lived on same street as in WW1 registration. North Porter Street

so not sure if the right guy or not


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Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920

Name:Charles Kick

Age:22

Gender:Male

Birth Year:abt 1867

Marriage Type:Marriage

Marriage Date:22 Dec 1889

Marriage Place:Chicago, Cook, Illinois

Spouse Name:Emma Nofz

Spouse Age:19

Spouse Gender:Female

FHL Film Number:1030187


1900 United States Federal Census

Name:Charles Kick

Age:31

Birth Date:Jul 1868

Birthplace:Germany

Home in 1900:Chicago Ward 12, Cook, Illinois

Race:White

Gender:Male

Immigration Year:1870

Relation to Head of House:Head

Marital Status:Married

Spouse's Name:Emma Kick

Marriage Year:1890

Years Married:10

Father's Birthplace:Germany

Mother's Birthplace:Germany

Household Members:

Charles Kick 31
Emma Kick 27
Fredrick Kick 9
Emma Kick 8
Charles Kick 5
Ethel Kick 2
Arthur Kick 0


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