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Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Gerry Stewart (View posts)
Posted: 17 Feb 2006 2:21PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Nightingale, Nachtigall, Taube, Ristau
Looking for info on two lines of Taube family that came from Prussia to Coal Valley, Illinois. They are probably related, but I don't know how.

Gustav Fredrich Taube and his wife Wilhelmina Ristau came to CV in 1885 with their children, including Mathilda, on the boat Rhaetia from Germany. Gustav was born in 1848 in Schwetz, West Prussia. Gustav's parents were Johann (1817) and Caroline (1816) Taube and his grandparents were Peter and Anna Taube.

Eduard Nachtigall (changed to Nightingale) came to CV with his wife Anna W Taube (born 1850) in 1875 on the boat Herder from Germany. They are West Prussian, but I don't know from where.

Eduard's son Amel married Gustav's daughter Mathilda. Amel's sister Anna married Mathilda's brother Ernst, so I believe there must be some family relation, from the same town, ect.

Does anyone have any info to connect the two lines or more details about their lives in Prussia?

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 2 Sep 2008 12:50AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Taube, Ristau
Welcome relative probable relative. A Gustav and Wilhelmina Taube ended up in Geneseo, Illinois. I believe they ended up having a family of seven boys and several girls. Gustav became a railroad worker and died of pneumonia contracted while working on Christmas day.

My father, Arnold M. Taube, wrote a family history in the 1980s that contains some of the same information you list. I have photographs of them, digitized, as well as an electronic copy of my father's draft of a Taube family history.

My personal email address is: Taube@Geneseo.net. Send me your email address and I will forward a copy of my father's family history.

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 11:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
Do you show a johanna taube?

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 29 Oct 2011 6:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
i have taube family from coal valley. there is an older book someone in the family made with several ancestors information, which my grandmother joyce taube has. her father was ernest taube who passed around 1981 ish . i kno most of the family came from coal valley area. many of her (my g-ma) cousins are schmidt of coal valley their mother was a margaret taube

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 30 Oct 2011 6:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
I think you mean Arnold Taube's book. I have since been in touch with him and gotten a copy of this and it has some very useful information. Thanks.

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 2 Nov 2011 3:43PM GMT
Classification: Query
very possible it is the same book, i have asked my g-ma to locate it so i can add some information. my g-ma alsi said there was a taube who had a meat
market in geneseo. also she remembers her g-ma was ann marie nightengale i believe

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 4 Nov 2011 5:35PM GMT
Classification: Query
Was your Ernest Taube, Ernst Edward Taube married to Mabel Edith? If so it looks like the same line and I could send you a copy of the book.

It's a very interesting and informative read.

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 4 Nov 2011 10:01PM GMT
Classification: Query
YES ERNEST AND MABEL WERE MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS, HE DIED WHEN I WAS AROUND 2 YRS OLD AND SHE DIED IN I BELIEVE IT WAS 1998. I SURE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN A COPY. JUST INCASE MY G-MA DOESN'T FIND HERS. SO ARE YOU LOCALIN QC? AND WHAT RELATION TO MY G-MA ??? I KNOW THERE IS A TEACHER AT EAGLE RIDGE ELEMENTARY IN CARBON CLIFF WHO IS ALSO A TAUBE, IS SHE A RELATIVE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF??

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 5 Nov 2011 6:51AM GMT
Classification: Query
No, not really local to the QC anymore. I'm in Finland, though my family is all still there.
My gg-grandmother was Mathilda Taube Nightingale, sister of Ernest.
If you message me your email address I can send the book to you, I have a PDF version. I don't have any of the photos, which I'm trying to get from Arnold, but the file was too big to send to me originally.

Re: Taube - Prussia to Illinois.

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 2:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
JONESCREW@LIVE.COM IS MY E-MAIL. MY G-MA HAS MANY REALLY OLD PICTURES OF FAMILY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY,SHE HAS MACULAR DEGENERATION, SO KNOWING WHO IS IN THE PICS IS PRETTY MUCH A LOSS FOR US, BUT A COPY OF THE BOOK WOULD BE GREAT... AND IF THERE IS ANYONE IN THE Q-C AREA THAT MAY KNO WHO THE PEOPLE IN THE PICTURES ARE PLEASE E-MAIL PENNY @ JONESCREW@LIVE.COM..
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