The Great-grandmother who never existed......Raak/Bergman/Bergmann
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The Great-grandmother who never existed......Raak/Bergman/Bergmann
 jwsmith619
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Posted: 7 Mar 2007 4:49AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bergman, Bergmann, Raak, Rache
I am at my wits end after a year of searching for my great grandmother, Louise Raak Bergman.
I have not been able to find any birth record, death certificate, marriage license nor any other information about this woman....but I have her photo along with my mother's and aunt's recollections of her. I know she existed but after hundreds of hours of searching, I am no closer than I was when I started.
SUPPOSED info:
Born: Louisa Raak
Country of birth: Germany
Approx year of birth 1864
Immigrated into the U.S, arriving into the port of Galveston, Texas.
Marriage 1879 to Frederick Bergman (have marriage photo but date was written on back many years later).
CERTAIN info:
Gave birth to my grandfather,Herman August Bergman in Cuero, Texas, December 1888. Other children were Sophie, Mary, Clara, Emily, William and Robert.
Louise/Luisa was not a good parent and my grandfather was removed from her care and raised by his grandmother, Sophie Bergman. (I'm told her maiden name was Halbe but who knows).
Family LORE:
Louise was supposedly so mean and hated by all that she was cast out by family and buried in the negro slaves cemetery (please forgive me for even posting this hateful info but I'm just passing along what all my great-aunts tell me). I know that did not raise her own children. My great-aunts also corroborate this information.
I cannot pinpoint the year of her death but her husband, my great-grandfather(Frederich/Fred/Fritz Bergman, who was just about as mean as she was), lists himself as widowed (and remarried)in 1910 Houston, Texas census.
Sources searced:
ancestry.com
rootsweb.com
galveston immigration records
texas cemetery/burial records
birth/death/census records for the period
dewitt county birth/death records
Sorry for long post but my mother, who is 79 years old, is anxious for me to solve this puzzle and I don't know where else to turn.
Thank you in advance.
Rebecca
I have not been able to find any birth record, death certificate, marriage license nor any other information about this woman....but I have her photo along with my mother's and aunt's recollections of her. I know she existed but after hundreds of hours of searching, I am no closer than I was when I started.
SUPPOSED info:
Born: Louisa Raak
Country of birth: Germany
Approx year of birth 1864
Immigrated into the U.S, arriving into the port of Galveston, Texas.
Marriage 1879 to Frederick Bergman (have marriage photo but date was written on back many years later).
CERTAIN info:
Gave birth to my grandfather,Herman August Bergman in Cuero, Texas, December 1888. Other children were Sophie, Mary, Clara, Emily, William and Robert.
Louise/Luisa was not a good parent and my grandfather was removed from her care and raised by his grandmother, Sophie Bergman. (I'm told her maiden name was Halbe but who knows).
Family LORE:
Louise was supposedly so mean and hated by all that she was cast out by family and buried in the negro slaves cemetery (please forgive me for even posting this hateful info but I'm just passing along what all my great-aunts tell me). I know that did not raise her own children. My great-aunts also corroborate this information.
I cannot pinpoint the year of her death but her husband, my great-grandfather(Frederich/Fred/Fritz Bergman, who was just about as mean as she was), lists himself as widowed (and remarried)in 1910 Houston, Texas census.
Sources searced:
ancestry.com
rootsweb.com
galveston immigration records
texas cemetery/burial records
birth/death/census records for the period
dewitt county birth/death records
Sorry for long post but my mother, who is 79 years old, is anxious for me to solve this puzzle and I don't know where else to turn.
Thank you in advance.
Rebecca