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Surnames: Zink Braun Bury Buri
Classification: Query
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Does anyone know more about this Veronica Zink?
The marriage records for New York City show on 10 Mar 1901 Frank Bury married Veronica
Zink, and these records state that Frank was born in Germany the son of Ferdinand Bury and
Anna Scherer, and Veronica the daughter of Bernhard Zink and Theresia Braun. What is
confusing?
21 years earlier, the 1880 Census for New York, NY shows Frank Bury, clerk in custom
house, 33, was living with wife Veronika, 33, and Annie, 5. The child was born in New
York, and the parents and their parents in Baden [Germany]. This Census record is an exact
match in age for the Frank Bury baptized 6 Aug 1846 in Donaueschingen, Baden-Württemberg,
whose parents were Ferdinand Bury and Anna Scherer. We have other evidence that this 1880
record is the same Frank Bury son of Ferdinand.
It gives the appearance the couple did not marry until 26 years after Annie was born,
unless there were two Veronicas, or they had a second marriage ceremony in the US.
Do you have the birth records for a Veronica, the daughter of Bernhard Zink and Theresia
Braun?