{"id":2029,"date":"2026-11-02T16:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=2029"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:55:17","slug":"recent-updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=2029","title":{"rendered":"Recent Updates \u2014 Family History by Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.family-weekly{color:#30372f;line-height:1.7}.family-weekly h2,.family-weekly h3{font-family:Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif;line-height:1.25}.family-weekly section{margin:2.5rem 0;padding-top:1.5rem;border-top:2px solid #d8d2c5}.family-weekly li{margin-bottom:.9rem}.family-weekly a{overflow-wrap:anywhere;text-underline-offset:.2em}.family-weekly .week-label{color:#715d49;font-size:.9rem}.family-weekly nav,.family-weekly details{padding:1rem;background:#f6f0e5}.family-weekly summary{cursor:pointer;font-weight:600}.family-weekly details{font-size:.9rem}.family-weekly a:focus-visible{outline:3px solid #98513b;outline-offset:4px}<\/style>\n<div class=\"family-weekly\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/\">\u2190 Family history home<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1744\">Who\u2019s Who<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what\u2019s new in our family history. First, what the records tell us. Then, the connections we\u2019re still trying to prove.<\/p>\n<nav aria-label=\"Weekly updates\"><a href=\"#week-2026-11-02\">Week of 11\/02\/26<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"#week-2026-10-26\">Week of 10\/26\/26<\/a><\/nav>\n<section id=\"week-2026-11-02\">\n<p class=\"week-label\">NOVEMBER 2\u20138 \u00b7 UPDATED NOVEMBER 3, 2026<\/p>\n<h2>New information added the week of 11\/02\/26<\/h2>\n<h3>What we learned<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Martin Bickel\u2019s marriage gives his parents\u2019 names.<\/strong> The original 1905 register names J. Henry and Anna n\u00e9e Budde. The date and age differences are explained alongside the record. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1476#martin-bickel-marriage-1905\">Read Martin\u2019s story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Covington namesake is now clearly separate.<\/strong> Bernard H. Rohling\u2019s 1879 estate names his wife Louise. He cannot be Quincy Bernard, who lived until 1900. A different Cincinnati voyage account still needs its own identity check. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1486#cincinnati-bernard-namesakes\">See why the distinction matters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More of the family stories are now on the website.<\/strong> Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1476#bickel-quincy-property-1851\">the Bickels\u2019 Quincy property<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1530#coffey-ballinrumpa-records\">the Coffeys\u2019 County Mayo records<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1590#henry-bange-estate-1919\">Henry Bange\u2019s estate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1521#kunkel-allgeier-family-clues\">the Kunkel and Allgeier family clues<\/a>. Each story keeps the records separate from connections still being tested.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bernard\u2019s sons left a clear family record.<\/strong> His estate papers name John Henry and John Frank as his children, Magdalena as his widow, and August 27, 1900 as his death date. A later report calls the sons brothers and Bernard\u2019s only heirs. The inventory also identifies his Quincy property. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1483\">Read the story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bernard helped document the Wintz family.<\/strong> In sworn testimony from 1866, Barney Roling named Frank Wintz\u2019s widow and five young children. Quincy deeds show property passing between the families. Their exact relationship is still an open question.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joe was working for his father in 1917.<\/strong> Joseph Henry Roling\u2019s draft card describes him as a machinist in Salisbury, employed by \u201cFather,\u201d and married with a wife to support. It is a small contemporary glimpse of the family\u2019s working life, not a record of military service.<\/li>\n<li><strong>We can now read two Coffey baptisms in the original register.<\/strong> Kate\u2019s 1870 entry and Margaret\u2019s 1877 entry both name Thomas Coffey and Mary Jordan. They strengthen the Irish family evidence, while a different mother\u2019s surname in Bridget\u2019s 1880 record still needs explaining.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter and Bridget\u2019s wedding has a place and date.<\/strong> A church transcript records Peter Morrisroe and Bridget Coffey marrying at St Monica in Manhattan on September 22, 1907. It closely matches Delia\u2019s later account. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1530#st-monica-1907\">Read their story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joseph and Catherine Jordan were in Lynbrook by 1950.<\/strong> Their census address was 31 Watts Place. Joseph operated an elevator at a bank. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1530#jordan-lynbrook-1950\">See the household<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Bange marriage names the groom\u2019s father.<\/strong> The 1853 church entry names Bernard Henry Bange as John Bernard\u2019s father\u2014a useful clue for the search in Germany. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1604#bange-marriage-1853\">Read more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bruns family is coming into focus in Germany.<\/strong> We found a 1792 marriage, baptisms for Anna Maria Elisabeth in 1800 and Gesina Adelheid in 1810, and Maria Bange\u2019s 1871 burial naming her Bruns parents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elizabeth\u2019s notice names her daughter.<\/strong> Elizabeth Fredewest, n\u00e9e Wintz, died on October 6, 1909, aged 83. Her notice calls her Mother Stanisla\u2019s mother; the cemetery database records her burial at Calvary on October 8. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1483#eichhorn-fredewest-trail\">Read their story<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julia M. Fredewest was Mother Stanisla.<\/strong> The Ursuline Sisters\u2019 database confirms her religious name and names William Fredewest as her father. Born in Cincinnati, she entered in 1877, took her vows on August 15, 1879, and died on March 31, 1932. She was buried at Arcadia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julia appears in her father\u2019s court records.<\/strong> A Cincinnati court explicitly called her William Fredewest\u2019s minor child and heir. William had died by June 24, 1862. The original property record also corrects our earlier appraisal figure: $3,000, not $900.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A new German record describes a Wintz family leaving in 1854.<\/strong> Johann Joseph traveled with an unnamed wife and daughter; two children were already in America. We still need to identify them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What we\u2019re still investigating<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Was Elizabeth Magdalena\u2019s sister?<\/strong> That connection remains unproved. The German Elisabetha baptism names her father as Jakob, while other candidate family records say Joseph. We are also keeping Julia\/Stanisla\u2019s three conflicting birth dates open, even though the Ursuline database now confirms her religious identity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Magdalena\u2019s German home:<\/strong> the original Quincy death register supports Maikammer, but its age and years in Illinois disagree with other records. Her German parents are not yet proved.<\/li><li><strong>Henry Bickel\u2019s early years in Quincy:<\/strong> an 1851 purchase and an 1884 deed signed by John Henry and Anna concern the same parcel. That strongly connects the early purchaser with the family, although an intervening transaction means we cannot assume continuous ownership.<\/li><li><strong>Where do the Bruns connections lead?<\/strong> The German records fit together well, but they don\u2019t automatically prove the Dutch or American family links.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Was the Elizabeth living at a St Louis convent in 1900 the same woman?<\/strong> She was listed as a widowed lodger with one child still living.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two possible family voyages:<\/strong> Bernhard Rohling aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1486#lyons-1846-candidate\">Lyons in 1846<\/a>, and a Widmer group aboard the Belle Assise in 1852. Neither has yet been proved to be our family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also new: <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1572#family-ship-map\">state outlines on the map<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1483#cincinnati-courthouse-riots-1884\">the story of Cincinnati\u2019s 1884 courthouse riots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<details><summary>Sources and a few important details<\/summary>\n<p>Joe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/imageviewer\/collections\/6482\/images\/005151836_04644\">original June 5, 1917 registration<\/a>, Chariton County, draft card 63; reports birth September 21, 1894, Salisbury. \u201cFather\u201d and \u201cwife\u201d are unnamed on this card. His claim for exemption to support his wife is not evidence it was granted; \u201cNone\u201d answers prior military service, not all later service.<\/p><p>Coffey: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-CSMZ-YSLY-Y\">Kate, September 4, 1870<\/a>, DGS 7768671, frame 895; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-CSMZ-BQCC\">Margaret, September 15, 1877<\/a>, frame 924. These replace index-only access for these entries. Kate\u2019s baptism precedes the September 9 birth in the candidate civil index; that conflict remains. The 1880 Mary Burke reading remains unresolved. No new identification of Delia\u2019s sister or Mary Ireland follows.<\/p><p>Bickel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-C3QC-6SQ1-N\">July 18, 1851 purchase<\/a>, deed book 11, pages 368\u2013369, instrument 3003; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-C3QC-NQ9W-F\">January 12, 1884 quitclaim<\/a>, book 100, page 541, instrument 3517. Both concern the western half of Lot 3, Block 3, Williams Addition. The 1884 record names Anna as wife. An 1861 indexed conveyance to Hermann Brocherding is an unresolved intermediate step; continuous thirty-three-year ownership is not established. The $25 quitclaim is not a property valuation. No German parentage or passenger identification follows.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findmypast.com\/transcript?id=US%2FNY%2FCATH%2FPR%2FMAR%2F00242078%2FG\">St Monica transcript<\/a> does not name parents; its original register has not been read. Sister Adele, Ursuline Sisters Area Secretary, supplied the Julia M.\/Stanisla identification from an institutional database in correspondence on November 2, 2026\u2014not an original membership register. The database gives September 5, 1861 as her birth; Maria Julia\u2019s typed St. Anthony baptism transcription gives July 5, 1861 (baptism July 7); the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sos.mo.gov\/images\/archives\/deathcerts\/1932\/1932_00008435.PDF\">1932 certificate<\/a> gives September 7, 1862. The baptismal identification is strongly supported, but the exact birth date is not settled.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth\u2019s notice: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/571544519\/\"><em>St. Louis Globe-Democrat<\/em>, October 7, 1909, page 9<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/137657436\/\"><em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>, October 7, 1909, page 18<\/a>. These are two publications of the same wording. The Catholic Cemeteries database screenshot records burial October 8, Calvary section 21, lot 160, grave 1 (record 239333); the original register has not been acquired.<\/p>\n<p>The widow notice in the <em>Cincinnati Enquirer<\/em>, April 17, 1863, page 4, is internally dated April 2 and advertises sale free of Elizabeth\u2019s dower right. Newly read originals place her appointment as administrator on June 24, 1862 and explicitly name Julia as William\u2019s minor child and heir. Land-sale case 954 is linked to estate 7156, with distinct case numbers. The appraisal is corrected to $3,000 and the purchase reference to Book 272, page 40. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1483#new-original-records-2026-11-03\">Read the original-record citations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:S3HT-6Q8Q-D2R\">1900 census<\/a> leaves Elizabeth\u2019s age and immigration year blank; \u201cone child living\u201d does not mean an infant. Speyer\u2019s new record is Landesarchiv Speyer, U 103, no. 725, row 73: departure April 13, 1854. It does not name the wife or children.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:33SQ-G5JZ-12P\">Widmer manifest<\/a> has age and country differences from the Swiss records; separate infant entries do not prove parentage or twins. The Lyons account keeps its reported December 26 arrival separate from the December 28 oath. The German Bange birthday was corrected to <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1597#bange-current-comparison\">March 25, 1824<\/a>; the disputed 1854 burial is still uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>The Bruns records are in Bokeloh\u2019s St Vitus registers: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.matricula-online.eu\/de\/deutschland\/osnabrueck\/bokeloh-st-vitus\/D2_004\/?pg=11\">1792 marriage<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.matricula-online.eu\/de\/deutschland\/osnabrueck\/bokeloh-st-vitus\/D1_004_1\/?pg=59\">1800 baptism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.matricula-online.eu\/de\/deutschland\/osnabrueck\/bokeloh-st-vitus\/D1_004_2\/?pg=10\">1810 baptism<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/data.matricula-online.eu\/de\/deutschland\/osnabrueck\/bokeloh-st-vitus\/D3_305\/?pg=19\">1871 burial<\/a>. The baptism dates are not separately stated birthdates. Maria\u2019s burial names Bernard Bruns and Margaretha Honigfort; her husband is not named, so it does not settle the disputed 1854 Bange death. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/ark:\/61903\/3:1:3Q9M-CSZV-FSVF-G\">1826 Elisabetha Wintz baptism<\/a> clearly reads Jacobi (Jakob), with Barbara Koser as mother. We have not proved this German child was the American Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>These additions include newly read originals and clearer readings of records already held. The story links carry the source details; older records rechecked this week are not counted as new discoveries.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"week-2026-10-26\">\n<p class=\"week-label\">OCTOBER 26\u2013NOVEMBER 1, 2026<\/p>\n<h2>New information added the week of 10\/26\/26<\/h2>\n<p>A look back at the additions published on November 1\u2014not necessarily the week each record was first found.<\/p>\n<h3>What we learned<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A newspaper helped connect Bridget\u2019s names.<\/strong> A 1968 notice identifies Bridget Morrison as Mrs. Robert Roling. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1522#bridget-morrison-identity\">Read the family connection<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Widmer family story gained more detail.<\/strong> Joseph\u2019s 1888 will names eight children who were to inherit. John\u2019s church marriages name Joseph Widmer and Anna Bog as his parents. We also added records for John Joseph\u2019s 1879 birth and Maria Schuler\u2019s death in 1884. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1592#widmer-will-and-john-family\">Explore those records<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles Widmer\u2019s two wives are now kept distinct.<\/strong> Helen Depke died in 1934. Ruth was named as his wife in his 1951 death record. We haven\u2019t found Charles and Ruth\u2019s wedding date. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1592#charles-widmer-spouses\">Read more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Family journeys became easier to follow.<\/strong> Peter and Delia\u2019s arrival accounts and the move from St Louis to Seattle gained clearer links on the <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1572#documented-family-journeys\">family map<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What we\u2019re still investigating<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Michael Morrison\u2019s Irish family:<\/strong> several records point strongly toward the Morrisroe family, but conflicting birthdays and places still need explaining. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1531#morrisroe-family-evidence-2026\">See the evidence<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seattle John\u2019s Swiss roots:<\/strong> the American records strengthen the comparison with Johann born in Switzerland in 1845. The connection still needs care. <a href=\"https:\/\/tim-roling.com\/?page_id=1593\">Follow the Swiss search<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Passenger names are only clues until we connect them.<\/strong> The 1909 John Morris arrival remained a possibility, and we did not assign Michael Morrison a ship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<details><summary>Sources and how this week was checked<\/summary>\n<p>This summary follows the saved November 1 publication record: six existing pages were updated and checked. The links above lead to their source citations. It is a selection of verified additions, not a complete daily research diary.<\/p>\n<p>The will\u2019s eight beneficiaries are not necessarily every child ever born. The St Louis\u2013Seattle map line connects known residences; it is not a known travel itinerary. Delia\u2019s voyage account came from a later personal record and remains subject to comparison with passenger lists. The Irish family identification was described as strongly probable, not certain; the separate Bockagh family was not combined with it. Later findings and corrections belong in the newer update.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Family history home \u00b7 Who\u2019s Who Here\u2019s what\u2019s new in our family history. First, what the records tell us. Then, the connections we\u2019re still trying to prove. 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