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Giegler, Graham, Risch, Dean
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Updated 17 Sep 2005

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Giegler | Graham | Risch | Dean
Unknown Names | Date Estimating | GEDCOM file

The database centers around the familiy of
Graham Lawrence Giegler (son of Lawrence Giegler and Amy Graham)
and his wife
Kathleen Blanche Risch (daughter of Herman Risch and Emma Dean)
farmers near and later retired in
Howell, Livingston Co., MI, USA.

The Family Record database is currently maintained by Frank Giegler.
(address below)


The Giegler family records include the descendants and collateral families of Johann Carl Friedrich Giegler and his wife Caroline Friedrike Amelia Kutz. Other known spellings Giegeler, Gigler, Gegler, Geigler.

The Genealogy Files of Walter Scott contain his original research of the Giegler Family in the late 30's and early 40's, his continued research and other papers. He used the information in these files to compile the 1940 and 1941 editions of the Giegler Family Record. In 1979 and again in 1991 it was updated by Edith (Giegler) Long using Walter’s files and other information.

The database contains information from Walter’s files as well as information compiled by his daughter, Marie (Scott) Standifer, on her research trips to Germany in 1992 and 1994, and research in Germany by her daughter Elizabeth Standifer in 1985. Also information from the 1982 and 1991 Giegler Family Record by Edith (Giegler) Long, information from family members and sources on the Internet are included.

Additional information on the descendants of Frank Henry Geigler (eighth child of Friedrich August Adolph Giegler, the brother of Johann Carl), provided by the Frank Donald Geigler family is included.

Johann Carl Friedrich Giegler has a half brother and three half sisters (from his mothers first marriage to Christian Friedrich Peters). The Peters Family (including the Gates Family) is included.

The parents and probable grand parents of Johann Carl Friedrich Giegler are known. The information on their families is not complete, what is known is included.

Four probable uncles of Johann Carl (probable brothers of his father) are also known, the descendants of these probable uncles are included.

Additional information on the descendants of (Georg) Daniel Friedrich Giegler, (probable uncle of Johann Carl), was provided by the Wolf Family and the Mittge Family.

The parents, two sisters and a brother of Johann Carl Friedrich Giegler?s wife, Caroline Friedrike Amelia Kutz, are known, as well as some information on their families. The Kutz Family is included.

Marie Standifer, during her visit to Germany in October 1994, met with a Giegler family living in Templin, Germany. There may be a connection to the family of Herbert Giegler and his sister Hannelore (Giegler) Gestindorfer, but it has not yet been verified. The information on this family is included in the Collateral Families Report.

Still little is known about the early Gieglers in Germany. Unfortunately Official Records may have been destroyed during WWII however some Church Records did survive -- the search continues.

The Graham family records include the descendants of James Graham, his wife Sarah Wilson (daughter of Robert Wilson) and his brother John Graham, his wife Ellen Kellough and his wife Ellen Mc Coughrun (daughter of Thomas Mc Augham and Jennie). John's second wife's maiden name spelled McCaughren on her obituary, McCangharm on John's obituary. It's also found spelled McCoughrun, McAugharm, and MacCathery.

The database contains information from the book Decendants of JAMES and SARAH GRAHAM (Grandma Lockwood) by Edith Long, Roger Hunt, Nancy Hays Marian Giegler, Frank Giegler and Others, published for the 1995 Graham Reunion and the book The John Graham Family by Lenore Putman Schram, published for the 1985 Graham Reunion. Also information from family members and sources on the Internet are included.

Little is known about the parents and siblings of James and John Graham, it is logical to assume that there were other children in the family.

Both James and John were born in Ireland, John in County Antrum, Ireland.

James and his wife Sarah immigrated about 1850

John Graham and Ellen Kellough immigrated in 1858 to West Troy, NY. Following the death of his first wife, John returned to Ireland and married Ellen Mc Coughrun in 1871. She immigrated to Oakland Co. MI in 1871.

It is not known if their father James came to this country or when their mother Mary immigrated. It is known that their mother Mary moved, with John and his wife Ellen Kellough, from Troy, NY to Oakland Co., MI. in 1870.

The Risch family records include the descendants of Charles Risch and his wife Lena Siefvert.

Charles, his wife Lena and their sons Herman, Johann and Friederich immigrated to Howell, MI from Mecklenburg, Germany in 1871. William McPherson paid for the passage of Charles, his wife and three sons. In return Charles worked on the McPherson Farm for about seven years. Charles then purchased farmland in Leroy Twp., Ingham Co., MI where the Risch family became prominent farmers.

Herman married Emma Dean (daughter of Samuel Dean and Jerusha Young).

The Dean family records include the descendants of Samuel Dean, son of Amasa Dean and Sarah Placeway, and his wife Jerusha Young, daughter of Zenith Young and Betsy Jacobs.

A number of Wilcox families, who are descendants of Samuel's sister Sarah Ann (Dean) Wilcox, are also included. (Some of the entries have not yet been documented.)

Samuel's parents originally from VT moved to NY state in the mid 1820's, then came to Livingston Co., MI in the mid 1830's. Amasa purchased a 'Land Patent' for 77.64 acres in Oceola Twp. in 1887.

The Dean Family has been traced back, through Hiram, William and John Dean of MA, to Wiliam Diane and his wife Martha Bateman born in the mid 1650's.



The text in the family records is computer generated from raw data in the family database. and has not been edited for sentence structure or grammar.

The database is incomplete and errors do exist.
Complete names including maiden names and spouse's parents and spouse's siblings are needed. Also birth, marriage, and death dates and locations as well as cemetery and location are needed.
Please e-mail Additions, Corrections, Comments or GEDCOM Requests

Send Mail to:
Frank L. Giegler
1901 Erlanger Dr.
Baton Rouge, LA 70813

phone
225.275.5864



Unknown Names

There are numerous cases where the complete name is not known.
Unknown Names are indicated by ?_relationship_?.
?_c. = child, ?_sb.= Sibling, ?_sp.= Spouse, ?_mo. = Mother, ?_fa. = Father



Date Estimating

There are a number of missing and ambiguous dates in the FAMILY RECORD. To facilitate search and updating, an attempt was made to estimate missing and ambiguous dates, using one or more known dates of related events. These dates are shown as
bef.= before, bet.= between, aft.= after, abt.= about and or = conflicting information.

The following estimating criteria was used:

BIRTH    aft parents marriage, bef parents divorce, bef mothers death, maximum of 9 months aft fathers death, minimum of 1 year between siblings, spouses ± 10 yr.

DEATH    aft marriage, aft last child born, aft divorce, bef age 105.

MARRIAGE    aft age 15, aft previous marriage/divorce, bef birth of child.

DIVORCE    aft marriage, aft last child's birth, bef next marriage.

Estimated dates will usually show only a year, bet. 1910 and 1930.

In cases where a month and year or a day, month and year are recorded, the date is most likely known but the year is in question, bet 29 Apr 1928 and 1948.

In most cases abt. is used to organize events and does not represent an actual date.

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