Bücklein family story-- VERY BRIEF
My husband's great-grandfather, Philipp Bucklein was born 1 July 1864 in Mannheim, Baden Germany. My husband has been searching for information on Philipp for many years. In 2010, he found the birth record listing Philipp as an illegitimate child of Anna Margaretha Bücklein and Carl Marx. Later, the family record says the father claimed Philipp as his own. I remember seeing one family record or something where Bücklein was crossed or maybe there was just a note that said it should be Marx. As far as I can tell, Philipp always used his mother's surname.
As if that wasn't enough of a puzzle, I stumbled upon a marriage record of Philipp Bücklein to Elisabetha Magdalena Englert in Mannheim Baden-Würtenberg, Deutschland. My husband never knew this wife existed because Philipp later left Germany, came to America and married my husband's great-grandmother Clara Charais 30 December 1895 in Clackamas, Oregon, USA.
His 1st wife still had other children whose birth record lists Philipp as the father. I think in one of them he is listed as the "absent father". We don't know for sure when Philipp came to America because everything he reported about his life once he was in America was a lie. He said he came from Bucksville, Germany. What a mess!
Has anyone else run into this kind of thing? Many of the German records have been indexed, but I can't help wondering if there are more details that I could glean from them?
Also-- I struggle to find the death records on these ancestors and I get confused when there are multiple children with the same first name.
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Hello Aprilyn, generally speaking it is advisable and helps the volunteers in this group if you post the original documents you are referring to (e.g. the one where Philipp is referred to as "absent father").
I did a quick search on Ancestry and found Philipp's Petition for Naturalization where it is stated that he came to the U.S. in March 1895.
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