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  Hermann Johann Friedrich ROLOFF, 1873-
Mason
Viola Hartig's mother's half-brother

10 April 1873 - Born at Möllenhagen, Kreis Waren, Mecklenburg-Schwerin

4 May 1873 - Baptized at Ankershagen, Kreis Waren, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Godparents were Hermann Joahnn Friedrich Oppermann, day laborer from Möllenhagen, Friederike Jonas, day loaboer's wife from Puchow and Johann Carl Theodor Lorenz, day laborer from Möllenhagen. He was given his mother's surname of 'Glei'. But from age two, when his mother married, he used his step-father's surname.

7 February 1874 - Grandmother Maria Carolina Friedrika "Carolina" JONAS Glei Lüthke, age 59, died at Möllenhagen of Brustkrankheit (pneumonia, consumption)

14 December 1875, age 2 - Mother Louise Christine Maria GLEI, age 26, married Friedrich Johann Ludwig "Fritz" ROHLOFF, age 28, at Ankershagen

3 July 1876, age 3 - Half-sister Louise Johanna Caroline Charlotte ROHLOFF born at Möllenhagen

3 September 1876, age 3 - Half-sister Louise Johanna Caroline Charlotte ROHLOFF died there of Keuchhusten (whooping cough)

12 March 1880, age 6 - Half-sister Caroline Friederike Anna "Anna" ROHLOFF born there

November 1881, age 8 - Emigrated at Bremen, Germany. His mother Loiuse, her husband, her two children, and nephew John Gley and his wife Maria traveled together on the ship Köln.

13 November 1881, age 8 - Immigrated at Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland

27 December 1882, age 9 - Half-sister Alma Dorothea Christina ROHLOFF Hartig born at Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

16 December 1883, age 10 - Half-sister Caroline Friederike Anna "Anna" ROHLOFF, age 3, died there

Sometime before 1892 - Mother's husband Friedrich Johann Ludwig "Fritz" ROHLOFF died in Milwaukee?

27 August 1892, age 19 - Mother Louise Christine Maria GLEI, age 42, married Michael SCHäFER, age 48, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee

3 December 1892, age 19 - Wedding attendant when Carl Ernst Heinrich Matrin GLEI, age 34, married Anna BECKER, age 21, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church there

5 September 1894, age 21 - Married Bertha BORN, age 18, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsi. Attendants included August Johansen and Friedrich Johann Ludwig "Fritz" ROHLOFF

29 September 1895, age 22 - Daughter Lilly Anna Alma ROLOFF born at Milwaukee

As of sometime before June 1900 - Resided at 1210 N Pierce St there. (Old pre-1929 street numbering system.)

June 1900, age 27 - Occupation listed as brick layer

2 June 1900, age 27 - Recorded in the United States Census at Milwaukee

28 July 1900, age 27 - Half-sister Alma Dorothea Christina ROHLOFF, age 17, married Charles W "Carl" HARTIG, age 24, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church there

9 February 1901, age 27 - Son Fritz Albert August "Fred" ROLOFF born there

14 December 1902, age 29 - Godparent when Viola Louisa Hermine Sophia HARTIG Benz (his half-sister's daughter) baptized at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church there

10 February 1903, age 29 - Son Walter Carl Heinrich ROLOFF born there

18 December 1909, age 36 - Mother's husband Michael SCHäFER, age 65, died there of Krebs (cancer)

As of sometime before 1913 until sometime after 1922 - Resided at 1368 Booth there. (Pre-1929 numbering system.)

As of 1913 until 1932 - Occupation listed as mason

10 June 1922, age 49 - Son Fritz Albert August "Fred" ROLOFF, age 21, married Mabel L SCHMIDT, age 20, at Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Milwaukee

Sometime after 1930 - Mother Louise Christine Maria GLEI Rohloff Schäfer died in Milwaukee?

As of sometime before 1932 - Resided at 4158 N 14th St, Milwaukee

As of sometime before April 1940 - Resided at 2771 North 5th Street there

April 1940, age 66 - Occupation listed as masonry worker at W.P.A.

1 April 1940, age 66 - Recorded in the United States Census at Milwaukee