Schoen, Wilhelmina
| Birth Name | Schoen, Wilhelmina |
| Gramps ID | I3450 |
| Gender | female |
Events
| Event | Date | Place | Description |
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| Sources | Notes | ||
| Birth | 1834 | Preuβen | |
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Parents
| Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Father | Schoen, Carl Friedrich [I1469] | 1810-06-01 | 1889-11-04 | |
| Mother | Kretke, Charlotte Louise [I1470] | 1808-05-25 | 1899-02-17 | |
| Schoen, Wilhelmina [I3450] | 1834 | |||
| Sister | Schoen, Augusta D. [I0183] | 1836-04-06 | 1913-10-09 | |
| Brother | Schoen, Charles F. Sr. [I1471] | 1841-08-04 | 1932-07-11 | |
| Brother | Schoen, John [I1472] | 1844-09-09 | 1919-05-01 | |
| Sister | Schoen, Marie [I3933] | 1847-06-30 | 1858-02-26 |
Narrative
Note: Wilhelmina Schoen, daughter of Carl and Charlotte Schoen
The only record found thus far for Wilhelmina Schoen has been the passenger manifest for the ship Mary Phillips, in which Wilhelmina is listed as the ten-year-old daughter of "Frederick" (Carl Friedrich) and "Charlote" (Charlotte) "Shoen." The family arrived in the Port of New York on 9th Sep 1844, having departed from Hamburg some months prior. Wilhelmina boarded the ship, but it is not known what happened to her after leaving Hamburg. It is presumed that she survived the journey (though possible that she did not); no mention of her was made in the various obituaries found so far for her siblings or parents. The family had relocated as a whole to Wisconsin by 1849, when Wilhelmina would have in her late teens. The Wisconsin State Census of 1855 for Carl Schoen's household (noted as "Charles Schön") in Ixonia, Jefferson Cty, Wisconsin is noted as consisting of five people (four of them foreign-born), which would indicate that Wilhelmina was not part of his household at that time.
Assuming she survived the journey, she would quite likely have been married by the time of the 1855 Wisconsin State Census, or she may even have remained in Buffalo, Erie Cty, New York, where the family first settled after arriving in America - as a teenager, she would have been old enough to be working and boarding elsewhere, or possibly even married. It's also possible that she survived to arrive in New York, but died sometime before the family came to Wisconsin.
Further research will need to be done to determine her fate.
