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What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

Laura Anne (View posts)
Posted: 31 Jan 2002 8:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Knabe, Wilkens, Schlens, Brown
William Knabe (of piano fame) had two sons. Willie and Ernest. (not the Ernst from the boat) Ernest married Marie Nellie Schlens (granddaughter of William Wilkens, Wilkens Ave., for you Baltimoreans out there) had one child-Nellie Marie Knabe. She married Samuel Kennedy Brown and they had two children Anne and Kennedy (my grandpa). Feel free to ask if there's any thing else you would like to know. I'll try to find as much info as I can for anyone that's interested. We still have lots of family stuff (Wilkens and Knabe) including a piano; understandably it's not for sale. If there's anyone of these lines left in Baltimore, I'd love to hear from you!

Re: What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

Posted: 17 Mar 2002 3:38AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Knabe
Just saw your message on the Knabe message board. I found 12 or so Knabes living in Baltimore--names, addresses and phone numbers--but have not contacted any of them yet. Look up: boards.ancestry.com, then put in "Knabe". Hope this is a help.

Mary B. Matlick

Re: What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

Posted: 1 Feb 2004 5:36AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 21 Jul 2006 2:08AM GMT
Surnames: Knabe, Seidel
From the census and other documents, I find that William and Christiana also had a dtg. named Pauline who married Charles Seidel.
Also, Edward Ernest Knabe had two boys, Ernest and William whose Mother was name Laura (she is on the census in 1870 with the household) However, in 1880, Ernest is listed as a widower and his two sons are listed. Where was the daughter--Nellie Marie Knabe?

Re: What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

Laura Anne (View posts)
Posted: 3 Feb 2004 11:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Knabe, Schlens
Nellie Marie was Laura and Ernest's granddaughter (b. 1896). Marie Nellie Schlens was the daughter-in-law and mother of Nellie. Confusing, I know. There are many Laura's and Marie's in the line. Hope this helps!

Re: What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

Posted: 4 Feb 2004 4:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 21 Jul 2006 2:08AM GMT
Surnames: Knabe, Woehler, Keidel,Brown
Thanks. After really reading and doing more research I realized a generation was missing there.. I recently had our 1887 Knabe Parlor Grand restored so I was researching more on Knabe and also the name Woehler, which was written in chalk on the underside of the plate along with the date: Aug 15, '87 A.D. Everything was original to the piano. Pauline Knabe married
Charles Keidel and it seem Henry Woehler's dtg. married William Keidel. There does not seem to be a family link between these two Keidels other than the Knabe Pianos.

One interesting item in "KNABE ITEMS AND NEWS" December 1930:
"Great Grand Daughter of William Knabe First Buys Knabe Period Grand"
D.E. Ahlers Piano Company of Dayton, Ohio, have just sold a Knabe period grand to Mrs. S. Kennedy Brown, daughter of Ernest J. Knabe, Jr. , and great grand daughter of William Knabe 1st, found of the House of Knabe.

In 1930 I found where S. Kennedy Brown was the Headmaster at the Military Institute in Germantown, Montgomery Co., Ohio .

Very interesting research!

Re: What I know about Baltimore Knabe's

Posted: 21 Nov 2009 5:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
FYI....Nellie Marie Knabe is Ernest Knabe JRs. daughter...Her mothers name was Marie Nellie Schlenz Knabe who was the daughter of Henrietta Wilkens Schlenz who Married Gustav Adolf Schlenz..

Nellie Marie Knabe is/was my grandmother...my mother Anne Knabe Brown was her daughter..She also had two other children, Kennedy K. Brown and Dorothy Brown..

There are lots of descendants of Nellie Marie Knabe still alive...I am one of them..I am Alexandra Anne Brush Witt..
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