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From: Ed Mc Menamin <>
Subject: [HUNGARY-L] RE: Oster, Weisgerber, Weiss
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 11:53:43 -0400


Hello list members!

I would like to run my Grandparents information by everyone, just in case
anyone comes accross these last names. This is as much as remembered or
documented:

Mathias OSTER - b 1885,6 - on ship manifest(1911)- his nearest relative,
father-Mathias OSTER, looks like "TOR" Hungary- he is listed as a lock smith
- going to brother-in-law, Andreas WEISS in Philadelphia - he was in US
before, 1904-1907 - (on Tschene (Csene) Village Emmigrant Ship Record
extractions there was a Adam Vorsek joining brother-in-law Mathias Oster in
1905 in Cincinnati Ohio)- ( He had a cousin Adam OSTER who was in Phila.
census 1910) - it says on the manifest he was from Csene Hungary. In US he
worked and retired from Sun Oil Co. - He could make anything from metal.

Margarethe WEISGERBER (Weissgerber)-b1889 - she was the goose girl for her
village and her father was the brick maker -she was Catholic but not Roman
Catholic(?) when she was 14 sent out of village to learn pastry making- (I
thought she said she was from a Transylvanian Mountain village - My Mom
thought she said that her family was originally from Jena, Germany) She did
make the best breads and pastires you ever tasted.

They both spoke a German/Hungarian dialect. I remember when little they
belonged to the German Hungarian Club in Philadelphia, Pa. It was located
off the Blvd. near Rising Sun Ave.

I just started this research when I found them on the
Ellis Island site and the 1920 Census in Phladelphia.

When asked where they were from and they give "Csene"
Hungary, would that be the Region of Csene or the Village of Csene??

This is exciting and I only wish we had more
conversations about when they were young.

Jeanne in NJ


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