Michigan Bohemian Families, do you know us?

Michigan Bohemian Families, do you know us?



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Circa 1874 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. The dark haired man on the left end of the middle row was Josef Andersch. His half-sister Anna Maria Andersch was married to Alois Rasch of Wright Township and the original photo belongs to descendants of that family. Josef Andersch was married to Marie Anna Riemer and several of their family were very musical. Two sons ran GR music schools and played in symphonies in Vienna part of the year.  Noted on the photo is blond-haired Eduard Andersch, Josef's brother who died in 1875.

The older man in the middle is Valentine Richter, a hotelier who owned the Ohio House in GR. He also was an investor in several Bohemian owned businesses in town. Valentine was married to Bertha Riemer, the older half-sister to Josef Riemer and Marie Riemer Andersch.

The man in the right end of the top row is Josef Riemer who was married to Anna Theressa Schitky. He was brother-in-law to both Valentine Richter and Josef Andersch. He was our contributor’s 2^nd Great grandfather who died in 1876. All these named men have this in common..... they came from German-speaking Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire. Some came after the Revolt of 1848, while others came during the next 25-30 years. They were all from Kratzau, Bohemia, now known as Chrastava, Czech Republic. That leaves me with no names for the other men. Our contributor suspects they were from other known Kratzau families who came to the Grand Rapids area. Some families moved between GR, Grand Traverse County, and Chicago. Families from Kratzau and environs included: Alger, Andersch, Ansorge, Arnold, Blumrich, Breuer, Betz, Elger, Friedrich, Frohberg, Froebel, Greilick, Greulich, Herkner, Hanisch, Jantsch, Lichtner, Leitelt, Leutelt, Neumann, Pettersch, Riemer, Richter, Schitky, Schutky, Schindler, Scholz, Schwertner, Siebeneicher, Siegel, Sitte, Simon, Sommer, Urich, Worm, and Werner.

 

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