Stuck on the Stuckis

I have been blogging mostly about my father's side of my family. I also have been working on the maternal side as well. This post will be about a document that I have had in my possession for quite a number of years. I initially tried to enter the data into a PAF file, but did not understand the relationships, so I put it aside. The document concerned the distribution of money to heirs of a widow in Switzerland. My mother and her siblings received a small amount of money. Thus the document was found in my parents file cabinet and came into my possession.

Since my great grandfather was dead as well as my grandfather Stucki, the inheritance fell to my mother and her living siblings as the remaining heirs.

Eliza Stucki, my great grandfather Stucki's sister and her son were also named in the document.

Eliza and her son Fred (Frederick) have a history in the book John Ulrich Stucki and his descendants. The birth dates were the same in both documents so I knew we had the same people. I added the history of Elisa and Fred as stories to their records.

Fred was born to an unmarried mother in Colmar Alsace Loraine and was later sealed to his grandparents posthumously.  In his patriarchal blessing the name of his biological father was named.  In Family Tree this name is missing and his grandparents are listed as his parents. This needs to be changed to reflect the real parents. I added the following as a discussion on Fred’s record.

This is a duplicate of K2HJ-Q8M and cannot be merged at this time. He was the illegitimate son of Elise Stucki and came to America with his mother. He was in the war and suffered "shell shock" and was hospitalized in the Veterans Hospital in American Lake, Washington and died there. He never married as far as I am aware.

I also added the following as discussion: Fred, her son, was born February 14, 1890, in Colmar, Alsace Lorraine, France/Germany[1]. Eliza never married, Fred's Patriarchal Blessing given in Paris, Idaho, December 23, 1898, by Patriarch Hugh Findaly lists his birthplace as Colmar, Alsace Lorraine, Germany, and his father as Jacob Thorni Stucki.

I also found Fred in the 1910, 1930 and 1940 US census and added these as sources to his record.

I need to remove the marriage of Maria Elisa Stucki to Hans Konrad Lichti since this was only a sealing and occurred after the death of Hans and before the death of Elisa.  This will then open up the parentage of Fred to allow Jacob Thorni Stucki to be added as his father with the explanation that the parents were never married.

In looking for a logical match for Jacob/Jakob Stucki there was a Jakob Stucki born 17 May 1859 in Neunforn, Thurgau, Switzerland.  This will require a lot of research to determine if this is the correct Jakob.  This Jakob is not listed as having any spouse and the date of death is not found.

I do have poor photos of Elisa and Fred that I will add to Family Tree.  I hope that someone can come up with some better ones.

Fred has two records, which can only be merged by Family Search.  This is my next project.

There are many more records which can be edited and families combined with the information found in the document from the bank in Switzerland now that I know how to read it.

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[1]  From Wikipedia:”Under the German Empire of 1871-1918, the territory constituted the Reichsland or Imperial Province of Elsass-Lothringen. The area was administered directly by the imperial government in Berlin and was granted some measure of autonomy in 1911. This included its constitution and state assembly, its own flag, and the Elsässisches Fahnenlied as its anthem.”

The region is now (2013) in France and has been since it was taken away from Germany after they lost World War II.