Hello, list.
Here are the families I am researching in Porter County, Indiana. I have
divided them into Protestant and Catholic families.
Protestant:
RUHSEN (RUSHEN, RIESSEN, REASON)
WITTHOF
HESS
JOHNSON (Swedish, in Chesterton)
Allied names are listed with each family.
Catholic:
SCOTT
STRANGEWAY
KELIHER
KELEHER
BROBECK
EICHENSEHER (also seen as EICHENSAR, EICHENSCHER)
Allied names are listed with each family.
Family I:
Jurgen RUHSEN (b. 1831, Holstein, Germany), married Catharine WITTHOF (b.
1837, Holstein; is WITTHOF her maiden name?) in Valparaiso in 1866. RUHSEN
also appears in family and official records as RUSHEN, RIESSEN, eventually
as REASON. This family attended Immanuel Lutheran Church in Valparaiso.
Catharine WITTHOF RUHSEN married John HESS in Valparaiso after Jurgen's death.
Allied names: KUEHL (KUHL), REYNOLDS, STROM, MOFFIT, MIETH, FOSTER,
BRANDSTETTER, BLACK, FLOREN
Family II:
Frank JOHNSON (b. 1854, Linderas, Sweden), married (Charlotta) Mathilda
JOHNSON (b. 1853, Sweden), probably in Porter County. They attended
Bethlehem Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chesterton, possibly also
Augsburg Lutheran. Mathilda JOHNSON's parents in Sweden were probably John
JOHNSON and Mona SANDBERG.
Mathilda JOHNSON's brother was Charles A. JOHNSON (wife: Nellie PETERSON),
a prominent farmer in Porter County. Allied names: RICHARDSON, KALANDER.
Allied family names: BURK, OLSON, HUGHART
Family III:
John SCOTT and Anna STRANGEWAY (lived in Ireland, possibly Dublin), were
the parents of:
Michael Joseph SCOTT (b. 1860, Ireland, possibly County Cork).
Allied families: STEWARD, KELLY, HELMER, DEVENEY, WIENKEN
James KELIHER (b. c. 1818 Ireland), married Mary D. KELEHER (b. c. 1820
Ireland) in 1847. Marriage in Ireland or Wales, UK. They settled in or
near Valparaiso. Their daughter Katherine KELIHER (b. 1863, Wales) married
Michael J. SCOTT (see above) at St. Paul's, Valparaiso, in 1888.
Allied families: MORAN, HAYES or SIEVERS, DELWORTH, GANNON, KILDEN,
McENANY, PREMO
Family IV:
Edward BROBECK (b. 1856 Chicago) married Margaret (Margueretta) EICHENSEHER
SOMMER (or SOMMERS) sometime around 1896, in Porter or Lake County, IN.
The EICHENSEHERs attended St. Mary's Catholic Church in Crown Point, Lake
County, IN. The Brobecks attended St. Paul's Catholic Church in Valparaiso.
Allied families: HOLZAPHEL, McCOLLEY, FOLTZ, PLUMMER, KIRT, SELMAN, HURTLE
I have very little information on these allied families, and am mainly
listing them in case anyone has information on the person we have in common.
Please e-mail me if you have interests in these families.
Deb Brobeck Hunter
hunter5(a)netnitco.net