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Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 29 Apr 2001 10:22PM GMT
Edited: 1 Feb 2002 2:39AM GMT
Looking for info on Mary Tschakert. She was married to a William or Arthur French and they resided in Breckenridge, Minnnesota, Wilken County. They had a son Harry French who was the grandfather to my husband. Harry was born in 1900. I have no dates of birth,marriage or death on William French or his wife Mary Tschakert, though I believe that Mary passed on in the 1930's. Harry French said that he was of German and Irish descent. I have found the Tschakert name was very common in Bohemia, so this could be very likely in Mary's case. Any and all info will be appreciated...thank you, Cindy

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Jennifer Tschakert (View posts)
Posted: 18 Sep 2004 10:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
I sent an email to you did you get it?

Jennifer

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 18 Sep 2004 3:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tschakert, French
Yes, received your e-mail and we have a family connection.
Will e-mail with more family information!
cindy

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 19 Nov 2007 3:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
Mary Tschakert is still alife.Her Husband past on and she remarried.Phillis tschakert her nice now is in San Diego Ca.My Husband is her nephew.He is the son of one of her brothers.
Grace Tschakert the grandmother sent me some familie name and dates.
Ulrike
My Email is ulrike@mchsi.com

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 2 Nov 2008 11:27PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: French, Tschakert, Klimple
In response to Cindy's query about Mary Tschakert:

Mary Tracy Tschakert was born in Onalaska, Wisconsin in Jun 1871. She was the daughter of Lawrence Jacob Tschakert (2 Jul 1834 - 10 Oct 1901) and Theresia Klimple (9 Jan 1841 - 27 Mar 1907). Lawrence and Theresia were both born in Bohemia and died in Codington Co., SD. They are buried in the Esterly (Saint Maurice – Blessed Sacrament) Catholic Cemetery, Codington County, SD.

Mary Tschakert married William Mortimer French, Jr. on 18 Feb. 1889 in Watertown, Codington Co. SD. They had 13 or 14 children: Sylvanus Mortimer (3 June 1890 - ?), Nellie Susan (10 Jan 1892 - 25 Jan 1910), William L. (29 Apr 1893 - 8 Jan 1921), Agnes (17 Nov 1894 - 24 Jan 1895), Rosa Lena (14 Dec 1895 - 25 Feb 1910), Ruth Leola (5 Nov 1897 - 11 Dec 1983), Chancey (12 May 1899 - Jun 1981), Harry Arthur (8 May 1900 - 7 Jan 1989), Pearl (4 July 1903 - 5 Dec 1998), Ralph (21 Aug 1905 - 18 Nov 1983), Annie (10 March 1907 - 20 Apr 1908), Violet A (3 Jan 1909 - ?), Wallace A (20 Apr 1911 - abt. 1935). (Harry's wife told me that there was another daughter who died soon after birth and had no name.)All of the children except Wallace were born in Codington Co., SD. (Wallace was born near Kent, Wilkin Co., MN.)

Mary (Tschakert) and William French moved often, looking for relief from William's allergies. They lived in Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, and finally ended up in Maricopa County, Arizona, where William found relief from his allergies.

William died on 10 Apr 1935; Mary died 1 Apr 1959. They are buried at Glendale Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, Maricopa Co, AZ.

Although Harry did say that he was of Irish descent, I have found no evidence to support this.


Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 2:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
Question. How did Lawrence Jacob Tschakert get into the country? He should have come through Castle Garden - where I can find no record for him. (Granted online records can be sketchy - and perhaps he did not come through New York). Looking at those records for all Tschakerts (excluding my Tschakerts)

I see:
Surname Given Age Gdr Arrival Place of last residence
TSCHAKERT VINCENZ 39 M 5 Oct 1863 MEILERLIEBICH
TSCHAKERT EMIL 4 M 9 Apr 1887 U
TSCHAKERT FRANZ 3 M 9 Apr 1887 U
TSCHAKERT MARIA 28 F 9 Apr 1887 U

Obviously Maria is mother to Emil and Franz.

It's a rare name and I'm trying to find the link. I guess that's this weekends mission.

What is intriguing is the timing, Lawrence and Theresia must have come over about the same time as my Tschakerts (1861). That they were both born in Bohemia points to a potential marriage there. Theresia would have been 20 in 1861, Mary is born 10 years later.

What brings Tschakerts from Bohemia to America within a ~25 year time span? Is it really 4-5 separate families, or is there a connection?

Do you know where they went after they first immigrated? Mine went to the Chicago environs - where there was evidently a German community.

Castle Garden site is:
http://castlegarden.org/searcher.php
They pre-date Ellis island starting in 1820 up through 1913.

Interestingly enough, the only place that Google finds "MEILERLIEBICH" is the above entry for Vincenz. It may be a proper name "Meiler Liebich"

Jack Parker

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 3:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tschakert
Jack, I found a New York passenger manifest dated 12 Sep 1863 -- ship named Republik -- that lists Lorenz Scheckert (age 29, a bookmaker), Theresia Scheckert (age 22) and Laurenz Scheckert (age 1 month). Not sure if this link will work, but give it a try: http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid...

Take a look and let me know what you think. The details seem to fit this family (although I don't know whether our Lawrence was a bookmaker before coming to the US).

Lawrence and Theresia Tschakert lived in Onalaska, LaCrosse Co. Wisconsin by 1870. I don't know whether they went directly there after immigrating. By 1878 they lived near Florence, Codington Co, South Dakota. Lawrence and Theresia are buried at Esterly Cemetery near there, and many Tschakerts still live in that area.

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 3 Jul 2010 8:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Tschakert
How silly of me to forget the alternate spellings. Thank you.

(a rather meandering post here - sorry)

With that in mind I re-visited Castle Garden and came up with the following:

SCHECKERT LAURENZ 1 m M 12 Sep 1863
SCHECKERT LORENZ 29 M 12 Sep 1863
SCHECKERT THERESIA 22 F 12 Sep 1863

Boot and Shoemaker, ship Republic, from Bohemia via Bremen Dest Wisconsin. These appear to be yours, looking at the record carefully - it does look more like Boot Maker than BookMaker. Which would actually make more sense, I would not expect a Bookmaker to head for the frontier.

TSCHAKERT FRANZ 30 M 28 Sep 1861 Farmer
TSCHAKERT FRANZISKA 24 M 28 Sep 1861
TSCHAKERT MARIA 9 F 28 Sep 1861
TSCHAKERT ROSALIE 52 F 28 Sep 1861
TSCHAKERT WENZEL 18 M 28 Sep 1861 Farmer
TSCHAKERT WENZEL 51 M 28 Sep 1861 Farmer
Dest Chicago, From Germany, Bremen

(Rosalie and Wenzel married in the presence of Anton Tschakert in Czeska Lipa, profession there noted as "Teamster", Czeska Lipa is about an hour north of Prague)

These are mine. Franziska is actually female (note no profession) but is recorded as male.

I also come up with:

TSCHAKERT VINCENZ 39 M 5 Oct 1863 MEILERLIEBICH, Ship Washington, No Dest.

TSCHAKERT EMIL 4 M 9 Apr 1887
TSCHAKERT FRANZ 3 M 9 Apr 1887
TSCHAKERT MARIA 28 F 9 Apr 1887 Ship Weser,

This looks like a mother come to join a family.

SCHAKERT JOHANN U M 16 May 1854 BORN-AT-SEA
SCHAKERT MARIA 28 F 16 May 1854
Ship PETER HATTRICK, Germany Antwerp

pregnant girl fleeing the consequences?

SCHAKERT AUGUSTA 7 F 31 May 1870
SCHAKERT FRANCES 36 F 31 May 1870
SCHAKERT JONAH 40 M 31 May 1870 Germany via Liverpool and Queenstown

SCHACKERT WILHELM 24 M 27 Oct 1857
SERVANT, GENTLEMAN'S SERVANT Germany, Antwerp, Ship Viking

The entire passenger list of this entry indicate "Servant"

SCHACKERT ANTON 35 M 13 Nov 1881 Farmer
SCHACKERT MARIE 32 F 13 Nov 1881
BAVARIA, Bremen, Ship Koeln, Farmer, Dest. Ohio

SCHACKERT NICOLAUS U M 14 Jan 1850 F
Ship BUENA VISTA, Germany, Havre, Farmer

SCHACKERT CAROL. 43 F 12 Sep 1873
BREMEN & SOUTHAMPTON, Ship Unknown

SCHACKERT NICOLAUS 19 M 31 Jul 1880
Barber, Germany, Rotterdam, Ship AMSTERDAM

SCHEKERT WILHELM 18 M 12 Sep 1895
Smith, Bremen and Southhampton, Ship Spree, New York,

He is a member of the crew, doesn't look like an immigrant.

I also tried a suffix of ART with the same prefix combinations - none of those yielded results. (e.g. Tschakart)

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All of these have 'U'nknown as place of origin, most are coming through Germany.

I can't find any of them once they are in country, but an generic Ancestry search for Tschakert yields abt 180 hits, many of which are around your Mary. There were too many to go through each carefully and try to stitch them together.

Destinations are interesting, where listed (and not "New York"), they appear to be headed for the frontier. Who told them where it was? Not all members of the passenger list have the same destination - so it doesn't sound like a shipboard thing.

Are they settling in ethnic communities? - Franz Tschakert enlists in Co. G. 82nd Regt. of Illinois Inf. - which is noted as made up of German immigrants.

I find a few phone book entries for Tschakerts in German phone books.

According to a relative the Tschakerts were teachers and as such were wiped out in the holocaust. I did find a Babette Tschakert, born in Prague, who survived a concentration camp and headed off to Austria.

It would be nice to be able to search the Czech side of this puzzle.

No answers, just more questions.

Regards,
Jack Parker

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 12:04AM GMT
Classification: Query
Any chance my last name Tschacher, is the same family My great great grandparents were Mary and Andreas (ANDREW) originated from Austria, most from Austia/Hungary SE of the Vienna area around Lake Neusiedler. Immigrated to the US in 1875 (NY) and moved west to Iowa then to Nebraska to farm. Wondering if the TSCHAKERT and Tschacher are of the same family once?

Re: Mary Tschakert of Minnesota

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 2:24AM GMT
Classification: Query
I would say that the odds are good. The problem we are sll having is that it's "odds" and not facts. We have limited connections with the old country. I intend to head there in the next couple of years and would be interested to see where our stories align.

In my mind this ties in with a migration from the Swiss Jaccards (French Jacquard) through Austria/Bohemia and up to Germany, but there is nothing but similarity between names and occasional geographical references to validate this.

There are people today with the name Tschakert, googling for the name I found a college professor who in a YouTube clip pronounced her name the same way we pronounce our "personal" derivation of it - Jaccard. She has not responded to my email. (don't blame her).

Regards,
Jack Parker
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