Theresia Bauer

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Name - "official" name and what they were known as Theresia Bauer, sometimes spelt Therese.
Date and place of birth 10 Mar 1821 Oberkreuzberg, Grafenau, Bavaria, Germany
Names of parents Franz Bauer and Maria Anna Dörringer
Date and place of baptism - if applicable 11 Mar 1823 Oberkreuzberg, Bavaria, Germany
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any To Josef Friedrich, 17 Aug 1843 Oberkreuzberg, Grafenau, Bavaria, Germany
Occupation(s) - if any Housewife
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
1843 - Neuhutten, Oberkreuzberg, Grafenau, Bavaria, Germany
1853 - Listen, parish of Klingenbrunn, Bavaria, Germany
Emigrated to America Sep-Oct 1882 on the SS Switzerland from Antwerp to Philadelphia, age 62. She is said to be living in America on son Carl's marriage cert in 1883
Listed at Tacoma, Washington, in city directories for 1893-6 but not in the Tacoma deaths.
Date, place and cause of death Not found
Date and place of burial. Not found
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable Not found
Memorial inscription - if any Not found

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Oh, for goodness' sake! I have just realised that Theresia's baptism is in the "Geburts Register der unehelichen Kinder"! Meaning she was illegitimate! I knew she was in a separate book from the main one, but I had always assumed it was for a separate chapel or similar. She had a brother four years older and another one seven years younger than her, with the same parents, and I was wondering what that word was next to the younger brother's name. Finally realised! It seemed weird that her father's address was different from her mother's, but then it was the same for all the entries on the page... At last I looked at page 1 and all was revealed. I suppose I can stop looking for her parents' marriage now!

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But, it turns out her parents did get married - in 1840! It says ledig, i.e. single, for both, so I wonder why they left it so long? He was 52 and she was 45.