My 'home' list is Cook County IL but am now moving slowly around all the States
to try and trace descendants. While my great grandmother emigrated from Germany to New
Zealand her mother and siblings emigrated to Chicago about 1880.
Caroline BRIESCHKE b.1845 Pommern, Prussia d.Dec 1911 married Friedrick FICK b.1835 d. May
1905. Both buried Concordia Cemetery Forest Park IL The 1900 census says Caroline mother
of 8 and 4 living.Two children listed: William FICK b.Oct 1878 and Meta FICK b.May 1894.
Caroline's mother is Henriette BRIESCHKE (married name) b. Nov 1824 d.4 Mar 1903
Chicago. but do not know father's name. Henriette had 11 children and 6 still living
in 1900.
Johanna BRIESCHKE b.1852 Pommern Prussia d.Feb 1939 Chicago married 1873 August KIEPER
b.1852 Prussia d.Sep 1922 Chicago. Children:
1. Theresa KIEPER b.1874/5 d. Sep 1948 Chicago married Heinrick (Henry) WUERFFEL b.1872/3
d.1937 Chicago
2. Otto KIEPER b. 1880
3.Bertha KIEPER b.1881 d.1884
4.Reinhold KIEPER b.1883
5. Hermann Edwardus August KIEPER b.1885 d.April 1972 Mount Prospect IL
6.Edward Emil Adolph KIEPER b1888
7. Ernst Heinrick Friedrick KIEPER b.1891 d.June 1971 Cook Co.IL
8.Leo KIEPER b.& d.1895
Would love to hear from anyone connected to this family.
Bruce Lissington Perth Western Australia