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Note: Notes for Andreas Eckl: He went by Andrew in the United States.
Andreas was born in the German State of Bayern (Bavaria in English). Bavaria is located in southeast Germany. Andreas emigrated to the U.S. in May of 1889, according to an index card containing some information from Andrew's 1906 U.S. naturalization documents. (Link below.)
No listing that would show exact emigration or immigration details can be found for Andreas in the series of books, "Germans to America". But he was in New York on or before May 11, 1889, when he married Franziska A. Scheuerer in Manhattan, the day she arrived in New York.
The <i>Aller</i> was the ship that brought Franziska Scheuerer from the port of Bremen, Germany, to New York, arriving May 11, 1889. No listing for Andreas Eckl is on the <i>Aller</i>manifest, which should have listed every passenger. Andreas hasn't been found on any other ship's manifest in any year. Either he was already in New York before May 11, 1889, or he was on the same ship with Franziska, but he wasn't listed on the manifest, or for some unknown reason, he wasn't listed using his real name.
It could have been possible that Andreas had immigrated earlier to find a job before Franziska immigrated to marry him. But he would have had to travel from to New York to Milwaukee, then later travel all the way back to New York to meet Franziska. All while letting his fiancee travel across the Atlantic ocean without him. All of those three reasons why his name wasn't on the manifest seem unlikely.
Photos of the front and back of the May 11, 1889, Andreas Eckl - Franziska Scheuerer Certificate of Marriage:
<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/1mqPogSmDQdqAEFQ9">Front</a> <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/7dwAn27orMuPYrcF9">Back</a>
One source of information about where in Bavaria the couple were born or later lived was written on the back of that Certificate of Marriage. Spaces where birthplaces could be written for the bride and groom are on that certificate. The handwriting on that certificate is pretty clear. The places were written as "Deintg" for Andreas, and "Deintz" for Franziska. But there are no such named places in Bavaria now.
But another source has been found online which shows the likely place of residence (and possibly birth) for Andreas Eckl. The name of the municipality is Teunz, which is in Landkreis (County) Schwandorf, in eastern Bavaria, Germany. Teunz is only 12 miles from the border of the Czech Republic.
That source of Teunz is a June 2, 1905, ship's manifest showing the U.S. immigration of Andreas's nephew Martin Eckl. Martin's stated place of last residence was clearly written as Teunz. Teunz, as pronounced by the German speaking Franziska, could have been misunderstood by the English speaker who wrote "Deintz" as the place of last residence for Franziska.
A second source showing Teunz is Andreas' brother John's 1905 Milwaukee marriage record. I have not seen a photo of that record. But that marriage record has been transcribed, and the results posted on familysearch.org. The transcriber looked at John's handwritten place of birth, and thought the writer write "Teung". The handwriting must have been Teunz.
Also, Schwandorf County is the county in Germany with the highest percentage of people with the surname of Eckl or with the surname of Zinnbauer, which was the maiden name of Andreas' mother Anna. Adjoining Regensburg County is the county in Germany with the highest percentage of people with the surname of Scheuerer.
The population of Teunz in 2017 is about 1,850 people, the same as it was when Andreas Eckl lived there. From 2008 through at least 2017, the mayor of Tuenz was Norbert Eckl.
A map showing the location of Teunz within Landkreis Schwandorf, and Landkreis Regensburg:
<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/9zVkWZve5iCyYSQu5">Photo</a>
At some point after getting married, Andreas/Andrew and Franziska/Frances went to Milwaukee. The couple almost certainly went straight from New York to Milwaukee, because Andrew had three older brothers (although one or two, possibly Lambert, may have been a cousin) who had already moved to Milwaukee. The three Eckls had immigrated between 1885 and 1888, and all three were listed in an 1889 Milwaukee directory.
Joseph Eckl, born in January of 1860 (in Bavaria, according to the 1920 census) was a mason. Michael Eckl, born in September of 1862, was described as a mason or a bricklayer. Lambert Eckl, born in October of 1866 (in Bavaria, according to the 1920 census) was a shoemaker. All three plus Andrew were listed living separately in the 1900 U.S. census in Milwaukee. Andrew and Frances were in Milwaukee at the latest by July of 1890, when their son Joseph was born there.
Most of the 1890 U.S. census records were accidentally burned or damaged by water in 1921. Most of the remaining records were destroyed about 1934. Those census pages would have shown where the Eckl's were in 1890, and other information.
Milwaukee city directories show Andrew and Joseph at the exact same address from 1894 through 1899. During half of those six years, Andrew was a shoemaker, which ties him to Lambert who was a shoemaker for many years. Lambert probably helped Andrew get the shoemaking job. Lambert was listed as living at the exact same address as Michael in at least the 1889, 1890, and 1891 Milwaukee city directories. Michael and Joseph were both masons.
The final fact that shows that these four Eckl's were related, is that after Andrew Eckl died in 1907, leaving Frances a widow, and after Lambert's wife Bertha died after the 1910 census, Lambert Eckl and Frances Eckl married each other. As a bonus, Frances didn't have to change her last name again.
There was a fifth male Eckl, John, who immigrated after Andreas/Andrew. The 1900 U.S. census shows that he was born in 1874 in Germany, and he immigrated in 1893. His occupation was written as "Masoner", which matches the occupation of two of the other Eckls. He had a wife, Anna, and sons Rudolph and Willie. The family lived at 779 23rd St. in Milwaukee, which is the same address where John's late brother Andrew's widow and her children were living 10 years later at the time of the 1910 census.
John Eckl's wife apparently died in the next few years after the 1900 census was recorded. There is a transcription of a February 21, 1905, marriage record on the internet, which contains information from when John Eckl married Theresa Schoenberger in Milwaukee. That transcription of the handwritten marriage record lists John's parents' names as John Eckl and Ann Zimbauer. That's basically a 100% match to the names Johann Baptist Eckl and Anna Zinnbauer which were stated by Andreas/Andrew Eckl for his marriage record in 1889 in New York. So John's 1900 address and occupation, plus his parents' names all prove that John was Andrew's brother.
Milwaukee directory listings for Andrew, as printed:
1894
Eckl Andrew, shoemkr, h. r. 692 9th
(h. meant house, r. meant rear [of that address])
1895
Eckl Andrew, shoemkr, h. r. 618 Lloyd
1896
Eckl Andreas, lab. h. al. r. 618 Lloyd
(lab. meant laborer, which could have meant almost anything, including laboring at the shoe factory or shop)
(al. meant alley)
1897
Eckl Andrew, shoemkr, h. r. 618 Lloyd
1898
Eckl Andrew, barkpr. h. 618 Lloyd
1899
Eckl Andrew, barkpr. h. 618 Lloyd
1900
Eckl Andrew, saloon 1326 Fond Du Lac av. h. same
(So he and his family lived above the saloon, now usually called a bar.)
The 1895 Wisconsin state census, taken June 20th, shows Andrew Eckl heading a household of three males and two females in Milwaukee. No other information was collected.
The 1900 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. The Andrew Eckl household was enumerated June seventh. The census page shows Andrew, 30; Frances, 32; and their children Joseph, 9; Margaret, 8; John, 6; and Adolph, age three. They lived at 1326 Fond Du Lac Ave., in Milwaukee. The handwritten last name on the page looks somewhat like "Ecke". It was indicated that Andrew could speak English, but Frances could not. Andrew ran a saloon at the same address, which was on the first floor, with the residence on the second floor. There were more than 1,700 saloons in Milwaukee at that time, many with the same setup; a residence on the second floor.
A photo of that 1900 census page:
<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/8pbMtAS83KCkHyN16">Photo</a>
On August 2, 1900, Andrew's three year old son Adolph died.
A photo of Andrew Eckl:
<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/ipZYigUpZGrNKUqN6">Photo</a>
The Eckl family moved four more times within Milwaukee between their 1900 census address and the address stated in Andrew's 1907 obituary. Andrew's occupation was listed during those years in Milwaukee city directories as "barkpr" or "saloon".
The 1905 Wisconsin state census, taken in June, lists Andrew, Frances, Joseph, "Maggie", and John, living at an unstated address in the 5th precinct in the 4th Ward in Milwaukee. Andrew was still a saloon keeper. (Margaret later married a man with the last name of Kujath.)
Andrew became a naturalized U.S. citizen on June 20, 1906, which was four days after his apparent brother Lambert became naturalized, six days after Andrew's brother Joseph became naturalized, and one day before Andrew's brother "Mike" became naturalized. When Andrew became naturalized, citizenship was automatically granted to his wife and children.
Here is a <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/ovC4DTrCK1a9CqfZ6">photo</a> of an index card with some of the information from Andrew's naturalization documents. A message was sent to the Milwaukee County Clerk asking if they make copies of old naturalizations, but they replied that they do "not handle naturalization documents".
Unfortunately, those four naturalizations occurred about 100 days before much more detailed naturalization documents were required by the U.S. government. Those new documents required the name of the town the person was born in, the name of the town of their last foreign residence, the name of the ship they travelled on when they immigrated, the date that ship arrived in a U.S. port, and much more information than was previously required. Although, as stated above, Andreas and his brothers were from Teunz. Maybe the remaining Eckl brother, John, filled out naturalization documents after September of 1906.
On May 21, 1907, Andrew Eckl died from alcoholism related health problems. He was only 37 years old. (Milwaukee County misspelled his last name as "Eckel" on his death certificate). The website
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org will sell a copy of that death certificate for $15.
Andrew apparently was Catholic, since he was buried at a Catholic cemetery.
Like many German-speaking immigrants, the Eckl's placed obituaries in a Milwaukee German language newspaper. Below is a link to a photo of an obituary for three year old Adolph Eckl, an obituary for Andreas/Andrew, and a "family thanks" item placed the day after Andreas' funeral, including English translations:
<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/Y4QwZr85Yu5z7sDX8">Photo</a>
Andrew's FindAGrave memorial:
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29084435">Memorial</a>
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