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GERMAN roots being researched are FULFS, PLANER, PUST, and HAMMERLI (Swiss).
€ FULFS FAMILY
Minsider E. Fulfs, his wife Folste Jonsen, one daughter, Margaret (later married Joseph Boehm), and two sons, Mins Frank and Henry, emigrated from Oldenberg, Germany c. 1849 to Palmyra (Lee County), Illinois, where two more sons, Bernard and John, were born. Today their descendants live in Illinois, Washington, and California.
€ PLANER FAMILY
Adolph G. Planer's parents (Gustave Planer and Catherine Grote) emigrated from Altenberg, Germany, then Adolph was born in New York in 1852. His brother Charles, and sister, Louise, were born in the midwest. The Planers moved to Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and, finally, California--arriving there in the 1870's. Planer descendents live from the midwest to the west coast.
€ PUST FAMILY
Christian Ferdinand Gotthilf Pust and his wife, Julianna Krause Hansdotter, emigrated from Stettin, Germany (today this is Szczecin, Poland) to Red Wing, Minnesota, where their son Festus, and daughters, Huldah, Amanda, and Frances, were born. The family then moved on to California via the Isthmus of Panama (the Canal had not yet been built) to California in the 1860's, where their last daughter, Agnes, was born in San Francisco in 1864.
€ HAMMERLI FAMILY
John Jacob Hammerli emigrated from Bern, Switzerland, in 1854. He married Carolina Scholl in Illinois in 1857. Their children were Marie Rose, Lena, Olga, Tellie, Caroline, and John. The last two childen died in childhood. John and Carolina died in Palmyra, Lee County, Illinois in the 1890's.
IRISH roots being researched are TANSEY, McDOWELL, AND DENEHY of New Jersey and California.
€ TANSEY FAMILY
John Tansey emigrated from Ireland c. 1877. He and his wife Mary Ann McDowell, lived in Jersey City, New Jersey with their five children: Mary Alice, Agnes Marie, Margaret Jane, John Henry, and Henry Joseph. The children were orphaned in 1896 when John died in May from pneumonia and Mary Ann died in September, four months after being severely burned by an overturned vat of boiling water.
€ McDOWELL FAMILY
William McDowell emigrated from Ireland c. 1850. He and his wife, Alice Denehy, had their first four children (John, Margaret J., Mary Ann, and William H.) in New York. Their last two children, Alice and James Thomas, were born in Jersey City, New Jersey. The father, William, rose from Seaman to First Mate before his death in 1862. Mary Alice later remarried a Mr. Carroll.
€ HELLAM OR HILLAM FAMILY
James Hillam, his wife, Jane James, and their children left Innistioge Kilkenny, Ireland, in the 1850's for Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Some moved later to America, including a son John, who preferred to spell his surname Hellam -- thus the alternate versions. John lived in New York and Michigan, before settling in California, followed by other siblings.
While an English WOODHULL (via Paterson, NJ and Pontiac, MI) managed to work into the mix, this is mostly a family mix of Germans and Irish -- a very common American combination.
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