Our Family Histories

February 25th, 2016

2/25/2016

John William Poff was born about 1775 in County Kerry, Ireland and immigrated to Canada. He died in 1850 in Renfrew, Ontario.

He currently has 475 descendants in our Geni Family Tree, with more being added frequently.

The attached 7 Generation Descendants fan chart for John William Poff shows each generation in a different colour, and is more up to date that the previous chart distributed by Clayton Clement.

Click on the file shown below to open it in a new window, and adjust the size to make details readable. The Amy Isobell Poff section is at about 4:00 on the clock face, the Catherine Jane Hamilton section is at about 5:00.

Questions and comments are welcomed, as are any old photos, etc., use the Contact Form at
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Mitchel Kleinsteuber at West Lake, Prince Edward County

6/6/2015

Mitchel was my grandfather, a grandson of John Henry Lorenz Kleinsteuber who immigrated from Germany to the German Settlement in 1859. The map shows where the German Settlement was in Eastern Ontario, but also shows Prince Edward County, West Lake, the Sandbanks, and Maple Rest Farm and Resort. Other photos include a 1956 postcard showing Maple Rest (I lived in the smaller house on the left), my grandfather with his 21 pound muskellunge caught in 1950, the cottages at Maple Rest in the 1950s, and a composite taken from a screenshot at 49 seconds in the video about Prince Edward County.

The video is a 3 minute drone flyover of some of the scenic sights in Prince Edward County.

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Reid Family in Hastings County

6/5/2015

It turns out I have two connections to this large UEL family, my 1st cousin married one of the Reid descendants, and my cousin Gloria Jean Kleinsteuber also married a Reid descendant. George Frederick Reid is at about 7:00 on the clock face, and Frederick Irwin Reid is at about the 1:00 position.

Click on the file below to open in your browser window; holding the Ctrl key down and clicking the + key will increase the size of the display.

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David Moore - re William Millard in Australia

5/28/2015

For the David Moore who submitted a Contact a few days ago, if you see this please resubmit your contact; the previous email address was incorrect!

Descendants of Mary Anne Glascott - b. 1813 in India

8/21/2014

What do all these Kleinsteubers have in common?

6/25/2014

This map shows all the parishes that have been researched for our Kleinsteuber ancestors. The red stars show the location, and the size of the stars indicate where the most records have been found.

The Schwarzhausen parish is now being researched, and this could be the common ancestry location for all our family groups; Actinolite Kleinsteubers, Chilean Kleinsteubers, Wisconsin Kleinsteubers, Preston Waterloo Kleinsteubers, and Kentucky Kleinsteubers.

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Este mapa muestra todas las parroquias que se han investigado para nuestros antepasados Kleinsteuber. Las estrellas rojas muestran la ubicación y el tamaño de las estrellas indican que se han encontrado el mayor número de registros.

La parroquia Schwarzhausen ahora se está investigando, y esto podría ser la ubicación de un ancestro común para todos nuestros grupos familiares; Actinolite Kleinsteubers, Chile Kleinsteubers, Wisconsin Kleinsteubers, Preston Waterloo Kleinsteubers y Kentucky Kleinsteubers.

Chilean Kleinsteubers

6/25/2014

Historia en español después de que el Inglés.
Story in Spanish after the English.

Our Kleinsteuber cousins in Chile have an ancestry that goes back to Hans Kleinsteuber, born about 1635, and perhaps in the tiny village of Schwarzhausen, nestled in the hills at the edge of the Thuringia Forest.

They share this ancestry with the Wisconsin Kleinsteubers, and in fact one of their ancestors was also a Johann Jacob Kleinsteuber born 1699 in Seebach, Thuringia, Germany, and he was the godfather to Johann Jacob Kleinsteuber, the previously known furthest ancestor of the Wisconsin Kleinsteubers.

With all the facts we are now aware of, they lead ever more clearly to a common ancestor between all the Kleinsteubers that originated in Germany, and perhaps that common ancestor lived in Schwarzhausen.

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Nuestros primos Kleinsteuber en Chile tienen un linaje que se remonta a Hans Kleinsteuber, nacido alrededor de 1635, y tal vez en el pequeño pueblo de Schwarzhausen, enclavado en las colinas en el borde del bosque de Turingia.

Comparten esta ascendencia con el Wisconsin Kleinsteubers, y de hecho uno de sus antepasados fue también un Johann Jacob Kleinsteuber nacido 1699 en Seebach, Turingia, Alemania, y él era el padrino de Johann Jacob Kleinsteuber, el antepasado más lejano conocido previamente del Wisconsin Kleinsteubers .

Con todos los hechos que hoy conocemos, que conducen cada vez más claramente a un antepasado común entre todos los Kleinsteubers que se originó en Alemania, y quizás ese antepasado común vivió en Schwarzhausen.

Kentucky Kleinsteubers

6/25/2014

The Kentucky Kleinsteubers ancestry went back to John Herman Kleinsteuber, (an immigrant to America) and his sister Friedrika, also an immigrant to America. It was believed their father's name was William.

We now know that William was Johann Christian Wilhelm Kleinsteuber, born 1819 in Ruhla, Thuringia Region, Germany.
Their direct ancestry now goes back another 4 generations to Christian, believed to have been born around 1664, and perhaps in the village of Schwarzhausen (a tiny village nestled in the hills at the edge of the Thuringia Forest)..

Wisconsin Kleinsteubers

6/25/2014

The Wisconsin Kleinsteubers have always believed their furthermost ancestor was Johann Jacob Kleinsteuber, born 1731 in the village of Thal, Thuringia Region, Germany. Several of his grandchildren immigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1852 and began new lives in America.

We now know that Johann Jacob was born in Wutha-Farnroda, and the family ancestry now goes back to Hans Kleinsteuber, born about 1635, and possibly in Shwarzhausen.

Notably, Charles Kleinsteuber, one of the immigrants to Wisconsin, owned a brass foundry and machine shop in Milwaukee (see photo), and this is where the typewriter was invented.

Preston Waterloo Kleinsteubers

6/25/2014

We were able to determine the patriarch of the Preston-Waterloo Kleinsteuber family, Carl Kleinsteuber, was actually Carl Friedrich Bernhard Kleinsteuber, born in 1826 (not 1831 as had always been believed by the family).

His grandfather was Johann Christoph Kleinsteuber, believed to have been born about 1756 in Schwarzhausen, a tiny village in the hills at the edge of the Thuringia Forest.

This is significant because Schwarzhausen is also believed to be the origin of the Kentucky Kleinsteubers and the Actinolite Kleinsteubers as well.

The images below show the Geni Profile for Carl Kleinsteuber, his baptism/christening translated record, and a current photo of the small village of Schwarzhausen.

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1937 & 1936 Kleinsteuber Picnic - Photos

2/5/2014

First photo is the name tagged 1937 Picnic, second is the original 1937, third is the 1936 original.

Click on Download, when the photo pops up, right click and click on Save Image as...... the full file name will pop up, pick the folder you want to download it to on your computer, and click Save. It will download at full size.

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Theodor Kleinsteuber - 1804 - 1866

1/30/2014

These files are available for Download to your computer, first is a 3 generation descendants family tree (14 pages that can be printed and taped together), second is a 9 page text document outline for 4 generations of his descendants.

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Anna Therese (Rosa) Kleinsteuber - Bio

10/17/2013

Anna Therese (Rosa) Kleinsteuber - Biography

Anna Therese (Rosa) Kleinsteuber – 1854 – 1930

Anna Therese Kleinsteuber was born on April 15, 1854, a fraternal twin to Hugo Kleinsteuber. They were the last of the 15 children born to Johann Theodor Wendel Kleinsteuber and Anna Margaretha Dorothea Heym.

They were both christened on June 30th, 1854, in the Augustinkirche in Gotha, Germany. A photo of the church is shown, as well as a model of the church complex. The parish record is also attached, both in full page and in an extracted section. The translation of the christening record is as follows;

Church Book Gotha, Baptism of
twin Anna Therese Kleinsteuber
No. 70, Page 54, 1854
Child’s Name: Anna Therese
13. thirteenth child,
7. seventh daughter
Child’s Father: Johann Theodor Wendel Kleinsteuber
local master shoemaker
Child’s Mother: Anna Dorothee née Heÿm
Date of Birth: April 15. fifteenth, 2:30 two thirty AM
Date of Baptism: April 30. thirtieth at church,
by Mr. Pfitzner, deacon
Godparents: 1. Eduard Schenk, local master butcher
2. Gustav Rostock, manager of a farm
3. Joh. Christian Friedrich Müller,
local master baker
4. Caspar Kaiser, leaseholder and
innkeeper of the Lion Inn
1. Mrs. Antonie Mälzer née Buddeus, wife
of the town’s scribe
2. Mrs. Emilie Rochser née Binder, house
manager’s wife
3. Mrs. Emilie Catterfeld née Reinhardt,
rifle maker’s wife
Translator’s Remark: Either the godparents were recorded in reverse order,
with Anna Therese’s record actually listing Hugo’s godparents, and vice
versa - or both children may have shared the same male and female
godparents.

Theodor died of cholera in 1866, and in June 1867 Dorothea, Ernst, Amanda, and the twins sailed to New York on the ss Allemania, a relatively new combination steam/sail vessel. Nonetheless, they were in steerage, along with about 600 other passengers, who all shared one small galley kitchen and one small latrine. When weather was good, passengers were usually allowed to spend one hour each day on deck.

Anna Therese was known almost all her life as Rosa, though we don't know exactly why. She was registered as Therese on the ship manifest (she and Hugo were 13 at the time). We suspect she was feisty and afraid of nothing, and the rest of her life seems to indicate that. She also obviously believed she was born in 1855, and her headstone (see photo) reflects that.

Ocke Meinert Rolufs, was born on the island of Föhr, Denmark in 1846 to Friedrich Rolufs and Inckey Boysen Ocken. Isle Föhr is the second largest island in the North Sea on the coast of Germany, and is now a major tourist destination with wide sandy beaches and a moderate climate, however it belonged to Denmark for over 500 years until the Second Schleswig War in 1864 when it was ceded to Prussia. Apart from Danish and German, a dialect of the North Frisian language, Fering, was frequently spoken on Föhr. Several authors and poets have also written in Fering. This change of "ownership" may have prompted some of the immigration to other countries that occurred, however, these Rolufs immigrated to Canada in 1859, and reported themselves as Danish at that time, as well as on the 1861 Census.
Information link to Föhr, Denmark - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%B6hr

The Rolufs family included brothers Ocke Meinert Rolufs, Roluf Meinert Rolufs (who lived to be 92 and died in Mount Forest, Ontario), and Lawrence Rolufs who also migrated to Handsworth, Saskatchewan. The family lived near Kaladar, Ontario, 23 kilometers east of Actinolite (and the Kleinsteuber homestead), a distance requiring a 5 hour walk through bug infested marshes and rocky outcroppings, and perhaps a rudimentary and rutted wagon road.

Rosa and Ocke were married in Hastings County on December 31, 1875. We don't know how they met, but Rosa's older sister Amanda also married in 1875 and lived near Kaladar (in Plevna). It's possible a connection was made there.

In any event, Rosa and Ocke lived near Kaladar, Fred was born in 1876, Albert in 1877, Isabella in 1880, Otto Sherman in 1882, and we don't have dates for the births of Vera or Howard.

In the 1891 Census, the family were still living near Kaladar, and Rosa's mother Dorothea was also living with them.

In the 1901 Census, sister Amanda was living with them near Kaladar, as was Ocke's mother Inckey. An interesting note here was that Inckey was declared a widow and living alone in the 1891 Census, but Freidrich's death was recorded in 1902 (at the age of 91), and reported by Ocke as being accidentally shot. A puzzle, to be sure.

In a 1906 Saskatchewan Census, Fred Rolufs, 22 and single, is living in Saskatchewan, and in the 1911 Census, Rosa (now 57) and Ocke and Sherman are living in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. In 1916, Rosa, now 62, and Ocke aged 70 are living in a home in Hazlewood, Assiniboia, Saskatchewan.

Rosa died in 1930 in Handsworth, Saskatchewan, at the age of 76. Ocke outlived her and died in 1946 at the age of 99.

Rosa and Ocke have 33 descendants in our Geni.com family tree (among them are Mary Kradovill, Randy Rolufs, Neil Rolufs, I think Johnny Storms is, and perhaps 1 or 2 others).

The attached photos are Ocke & Rosa at their cabin in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan tagged as being 1910. Note, another photo tagged as about 1910 and has not been vetted by the Rolufs family, but is believed to be Fred (34), Albert (33), Rosa (55), Ocke (64), Isabella (30), and Sherman (18), another photo is the same family, plus 10 years (so Rosa would be 65), and the last photo is of the extended Rolufs family, likely taken at the same time. The last 2 photos were taken at the same cabin as the first, and these are the only known photos of Anna Therese (Rosa) Kleinsteuber. The island is Föhr, Germany (previously Denmark). The Augustinkirche in Gotha is where Rosa was christened. And the Descendant fan chart is for Friedrich Rolufs as known at this time.

A remarkable life and a story that would likely make an interesting book.

Rosa Kleinsteuber Rolufs - Gallery
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Julius Kleinsteuber 1847 - 1904 - Descendants Fan Chart

5/13/2013

Florence Irene Kleinsteuber 1897 - 1983

5/5/2013

My maternal grandmother, Florence Irene Foshay was born in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County in 1897. She married Mitchel Julius Kleinsteuber in 1921, after being widowed from her first husband who died at the age of 27.

Florence's mother was Effie Caroline Orser, wife of George Bartlett Foshay, and both of his parents were descended from UEL families, however we never knew her mother's full name or her parents family backgrounds.... until this past week.

Effie's mother was Mary Jane Demill who was born in 1837 to Anthony Demill and Sarah Schuler Demill in Sophiasburgh Township, both of whom also came from UEL families and settled in Prince Edward County. Her father was John Brown Orser born in 1817 to Elijah Orser and Rachel Brown. The Orser family were also UEL and settled in the Kingston and Prince Edward County area.

In 1919, the recently widowed Florence Sprung was working at the historic Lakeshore Hotel in Prince Edward County at the SW corner of Lake Ontario and the Sandbanks.... which is when she met my grandfather, Mitchel, who was living with his parents on a farm just across the Sandbanks on the West Lake shoreline. This photo was taken at the Lakeshore Hotel in 1919.

The background parentage has been found thanks to some sleuthing and some assistance from a Demill family genealogist, Laurie Demill, and from an Orser family genealogist, Debby Worden. Many thanks to both!

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