Passaic, Cliffton NJ SIEPER descendants
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I am the only one I found state side who is searching Sieper History onthe intenet. I have requested all Siepers I found in directories, by snail mail to share information with me, and I will add it also. But Iam focused on the Frederick Sieper immigrant descendant families of Passaic. Namely Lullwitz, Veech, Beech, Stauch, Devries, Hammond , Klein, Ellis, and more, (later).
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Immigrant Ancestor SIEPER Family from Rhine-Pfalz Germany and Remschied/Lennep Germanie circa 1877
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After some months, I have so far found three different immigrant family groups of ancestors of Siepers to America. One group came out France. One settled in Minnesota from Germany and my own ancestors from Remscheid and Rhine-Pfalz to Passaic NJ. This geneology is of that last group.
Notes on Frederick Sieper II Remschied Descendants
The numbering of Fredericks, i.e. I, II, III, etc are derived from a notation on the back of a 1940 calender, sent from relatives to my GGrandmother from Passaic NJ, noting that the newsboy depicted on it was of Frederick the V (Fifth) who lives now in NY City; a retired school teacher and WWII veteran.
Frederick II is who I refer to as Granpa Sieper above and is the immigrant forefather. He had a brother Albert who immigrated first to avoid conscription into the army, who I've found nothing about, and my Aunt has a letter for another unplaced relative Carl Sieper in the port of Bremen, Bremen, Germanie, and unidentified ancestors photographs from Remschied.
From recent conversations
with Edmund Sieper Jr of Cliffton NJ and cousins Warren Devries of Lakewood NJ and Fred Sieper V in NY City I have concluded that my great grandmother Elizabeth Sieper Lincoln was their grandfather's sister. So I am now adding them to what I have yet known to further complete the family charts here.
So again, Frederick II and wife Catherine immigrated from Germany to Passaic New Jersey in about 1877 with 2 children: Elizabeth 6 mos and Frederick III 6 yrs old.
i. Son: Frederick III married Emilly Lullwitz and there were four children, Frederick IV, Edmund, Elizabeth and Adelle.
ii. Daughter: Elizabeth Dorothy Sieper Lincoln married twice and moved eventually to Rotterdam Junction NY and had 3 kids by birth Dick, Jessie, and Dot, and two from a second, marriage Marion Jane Lincoln and Curtis Grey Lincoln.
I may be incorrect in some details however regarding the relationship, so far this arrangement best fits what I'm told, begining with granpa Fred Sieper II immigrant family.
Noteable Documents and Photographs:
Note: Because daughter Eliz Sieper Lincoln buried her parents she recieved most of their pictures from Gemany, etc, it appears. W Devries recieved some posessions of Fred III from Mildred Freedman, because he was the only one who attended the funeral, as the family was hurt by his divorcing first wife and taking Mildred.
Property Dot Karl Rotterdam Jct NY CC: D Van Tassel.
1. NJ Naturalization papers for Frederick Sieper Feb 5 1888
2. Sieper Family Portrait circa 1880 Passaic NJ
3. Neustadt Germany Catherine Klien & kin circa 1960 & 1875
4. Remschied Germany circa 1860
5. brother Albert and daughters of Fred Seiper III
6. A sitting portrait sketch by my brother Bill Van Tassel of Granpa Sieper smoking his three foot pipe.
7. Granpa Seper II work mug with name and loom on it.
Property Warran Devries Lakewood NJ
7. Fred Seiper WWI Flying ACE French Cluster combat awards (?), related texts, information etc. plane called Sampson
Descendant Family's Charts For 1877 immigrants Frederick and Catherine Sieper Children of Passaic NJ
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Husband: FREDERICK SIEPER II
Born:10 Sep 1842at: Lennep Prussia
Married: 1871at: Germany/Prussia
Died:02 Mar 1924at: Rotterdam Junction NY
Father:
Mother:
Res: Passaic NJ buried: Woestina Cem Rotterdam Jct NY
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Wife: CATHERINE KLEIN
pet name "Caddle" by granpa
Born: 01 Aug 1851at: Neustadt Rhine-Pfalz
Died: 10 Mar 1926at: Rotterdam Jnctn NY
Father:
mother:
Notes: Came to US with husband and 2 children
in abt 1877 Fred III and Elizabeth Dorothy
CHILDREN
14.1 FREDERICK SIEPER III
a.k.a. "Fritz"
born:1871at: Neustadt Rhineland Pfalz
Married:at:
Died:at:
Spouse: EMILY LULLWITZ
children: Frederick IV, Edmund, Elizabeth and Adelle
Buried: Ridgelawn Cemetary Cliffton-Passaic NJ
14.2/#7 ELIZABETH DOROTHY SIEPER
a.k.a. Lizzy
Born:23 Jun 1876at: Neustadt an der Wientrasse Rhine-pfalz, Germany or Ludwigshaven Rine-Pfalz
Married:5 Sep 1898at: First Presbyterian Church
Passaic NJ, "Die ERSTE DEUTCHE Presbyterianische
Gemeinde; Rev. J. Schmitt.Died:9 Mar 1945at: Rotterdam J Schen NY Spouse 1: 6 RICHARD PAUL NEWSOME Sr
children: Dick Jr., Jessie Catherine
Spouse 2:
6A GREY CURTIS LINCOLN
children: Marion, Curtis, Elizabeth Dorothy aka "Dot"
Family of Fred III, first child of Frederick SIEPER II and wife Catherine KLEIN
husband: 14.2 FREDERICK III
Born:1870at:
Married:at: Passaic NJ
Died:at:
buried: Ridgelawn Cemetery Cliffton NJ
WWI ACE Gunner and Police Commisioner of Passaic NJ
wife: 14.2a EMILY LULLWITZ
born:1871at:
died:at:
father:
mother:
buried: Ridgelawn Cemetery
Children
14.2.1 EDMUND SIEPER Sr
14.1
born:at: Passaic NJ ?
Married:at:
Died:
Spouse: 14.2.1a MARY VEACH
children: i. Willam WWII, ii. Edmund Jr WWII, iii. Frederick WWII, iv. Gerald, v. Nora died young 75 Market St #2 Cliffton NJ
Name: FREDERICK IV
Born:13 Aug 1927at:
Married:at:
Died:at:
Spouse1: JEAN BEACH
children: i. Frederick V 272 1st Ave NY 100090946505212
ii. Ethyl Ellis her daughter Susan Ellis Turan SD CA
14.2.3 ElIZABETH
Born:at:
Married:at:
Died:at:
Spouse: FRED STAUCH
children: i Gladys Fritz Blairstown, ii Fred deceased
14.2.4ADELLE SIEPER
born:at: Passaic NJ
married:at:
died:at:
spouse: Mr. 14.4a _________ DEVRIES
child: Warren 203 Plymouth Rd Apt B Lakewood NJ 08701
NOTES:Frederick Sr Worked as Supervisor in a Silk Mill in Passaic, NJ. His brother left to avoid conscription and wrote to Fred about how great it was in U.S. so he left Germany with wife Catherine and two children to USA, Eliz D was 6 mo. old and son Fred "Fritz" was 5 years old.
OTHER RESEARCHERS
Germans to America, 1875-1888 Sieper, Elisabeth Age: 20 Country of Origin:Prussia Arrival Date:Oct.27, 1884 Final Destination : Unknown Ship's Name : Habsburg Occupation: Servant Gender:Female Manifest ID Number:37949 Country : Prussia Antoine VromenID: I3193 Name: Maria Catharina SIEPER Sex: F Reference Number: XM Marriage 1 Peter Johannes OBERHOF Married: 13-06-1762 in Remscheid Evangelisch
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I am a ggrandson of Elizabeth D Sieper Lincoln. I am the first person in my family to locate her brother Frderick's family. I would like to share how it was confirmed that I had found the same Frederick Sieper and his descendants. First it seemed sure as they were in the town where Elizabeth grew up, Passaic, but i needed real facts for connecting them. So while enroute to vist my Aunt, I visited Siepers in Passaic, but afterwards, still nothing was concrete. So next, while visiting Dot she told me of some German prayers Granpa Sieper taught her. One was "I am little my heart is clean, No one will live in it but Jesus alone."; and she gave more stories that fit with what I had been told by Mr Sieper in Passaic Cliffton. Then when I got home I looked up his cousins and contacted them. Now I found Frederick Sieper V, still living, and in NYC a retired School teacher and called him. I asked him what he remembered about his grandfather and in his answer, he said "When we visited grandpa he had us trample down the grapes for wine making ...and he taught me a prayer in German 'I am little my heart is clean, No one will live in it but Jesus alone.'"; that same prayer aunt Dot's grandpa taught to say. Though I point out here, Fred V's grandpa was Dot's uncle, and her grandpa his ggrandpa, one generation above him. .So well you might imagine how it was for me to hear. I did not, until that moment, hear anything as obviously relateing these two grandchildren to the group of one and the (very) same Frederick Siepers. It's not a birth record but it certainly stands on it's own, as a family link.
So now, back to Frederick Sieper II with wife Catherine and two children immigrated to Ellis Island in 1876 settling in Passaic New Jersey where he worked supervising a Silk Mill. After the two children grew up and had their children; when he got older his daughter Lizzie Sieper Lincoln's husband said "Come live with us" in Rotterdam Jct NY so they did and that's how my Grandmother and her sister Dot got to know Granpa. Granpa and Grandma Sieper and Elizabeth are all buried side by side in the Woestina Church Cemetery in Rotterdam Jct. Their son Fredeick III, "uncle Fritz" is buried in the Ridgelawn Cemetery in Cliffton Passaic NJ with wife Emily and son.
These are the families of their two kids Frederick III and Elizabeth Sieper Lincoln.
Here is the one of Granpa Sieper's prayers in Germain he taught his children to say:
Ich Bin Klein, Mein Hert ist rein. Neimand sol imnen leben, als Jesus allein.
I am little, my heart is pure.
No one will live in it but Jesus alone.
A German children's tale Granpa enjoyed repeating:
My mother bakes Cakes, and she makes them hard, then she puts them in the closet, and this does not satisfy me.
The next time she does it, I'll roll up my bundle and I'll run away - I won't go far, just over the bridge,
but I'll never come back again.
Maybe grandpa was thinking of his mother Prussia when he said this, I'm not certain.
Granpa played a trick on grandma
Before they got married while in Germany he went into the barn once at night and fashioned a box with holes for eyes and put long feathers out of the top, and draped himself in a dark colored blanket and waited for granma to come out as she would to the barn where he laid in wait for her, and that is how he liked to play jokes on Granma Si
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