Two immigrant families united in North Dakota in the early 20th century. Initially both were seeking land and attemting to escape religious persecution. The families were the German Roman Catholics from Russia and the Irish Roman Catholics from Ireland. The Germans moved from North Baden and Alsace Lorraine in the early 1800's to the Russian Crimea. They immigrated to N. Dak in 1890's.The Irish arrived in Canada in the early 1800's, then moved to Wisconsin and finally to South Dakota during the last half of the 19th century. It was in North Dakota that a lawyer named Clemens Kelsch met a teacher named Mary Margaret Roche. This is the union which resulted in the combined Kelsch and Roche family that has spread itself over the United States.

Robert C Kelsch
1277 LINCOLNSHIRE LN
ANN ARBOR, MI 48103-2354
United States
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