Antoinette's Children

Picking up from yesterday's post, I'm following the family of Antoinette Halter Vollrath Kern. The New Orleans records keep revealing interesting connections and travels as I extend down this side of the tree.

Antoinette's first son, Philip Vollrath, married Mary Agnes Cary in 1897. He worked as a dairyman and laborer, and died on 16 May 1918. Antoinette's second son, Henry Vollrath, had an unexpected connection to Francois Halter (my wife's 4th-great-grandfather, and Henry's uncle). Henry married Catherine Myers in New Orleans on 4 October 1876. Francois witnessed the marriage, signing the license as Franz Halter (and also written by the Justice of the Peace as Frank Halter). The license was also witnessed by Filippo Ciofalo, first husband of Magdalene Vollrath, Henry's sister.

New Orleans Marriage Records, 1876.

Antoinette's first daughter, Magdalena Vollrath, married Sicilian immigrant Filippo Ciofalo on 17 November 1874. He worked for many years as a barber, but died without children on 1 March 1888. Magdalena remarried on 5 June 1893 to Charles Huber, a Swiss immigrant and sugar maker.

Charles appears in several travel records. He visited in Havana, Cuba in 1903. 

In 1911, Charles, Magdalena and Josephine Kern Zengel (Magdalena's step-sister) took a trip to Europe to visit Charles' ancestral home in Switzerland. The departed Le Havre on 30 September 1911, and arrived in New York on the S.S. Chicago on 10 October 1911. Josephine had married Frank Zengel on 16 September 1902. He was a prominent lawyer in New Orleans. He died on 22 October 1909.

S.S. Chicago arrival into NY, 10 Oct 1911

S.S. Chicago, 10 Oct 1911

Josephine's Swiss Emigration Form shows that she visited Altdorf in the Canton of Shaffhausen, Switzerland, along the Swiss-German border. Magdalena and Charles' Swiss Emigration Forms shows that they visited the village of Wynau in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland.

Frank and Josephine visited Havana, Cuba in February 1905. They appear on the ship manifest arriving into New Orleans on 2 March 1905.

Josephine married Henry Otto Smith on 12 October 1915 in New Orleans. I will have more on their travels in another post.

Magdalena died on 29 August 1939 in New Orleans without children of her own. Josephine died on 6 August 1940.