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| Marriage record of Otto and Ettie or according to the record, Olls Salska & Ettie Eust...(click on image to enlarge) |
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Otto's Kin
Finding records for Otto Schelske was a challange from the beginning. In finding records with his name badly mangled and on occaision spelled correctly. I found them easy enough in census reports but the marriage record below took some imagination and took over a year to find.
On Otto and Ettie's marriage record, Otto's parents names are listed as father: L. Salska and Millie Decamp? The bit of information that made me know this was for sure the family I was looking for was a witness, listed as Delilah Irish, Ettie's mother. Later was found another bit of infomation by searching for Otto's uncle Fred's death certificate. Informant on uncle Fred's certificate was his son Albert. He said that Fred's father's name was Ludwig Schelske, and mom's name was Wilemina Hickof or possibly Dickof or Aickof. My guess is that Otto's, father's name was Ludwig, after his father. So the known pedegree for my Schelske line is Ludwig, Ludwig, Otto, Delilah (my grandma), Doris (mom) , and then me...
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Colleen, looking at Fred's death certificate, I read his mother's maiden name as "Dickof" rather than "Hickof", which seems to me to suspiciously similar to Otto's mother's maiden name, which can be read as "Decoup" instead of "Decamp". Unfortunately, I have no idea of where to go from here, just think this is something to keep in mind. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThe more I look at those two names the more I have been thinking that Otto's uncle Fred was actually his brother. In looking for records on Fred I began to think that myself.
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