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     Anton Siegl, son of Alois Siegl and Margaret Rieß, was * born on Tuesday, 07 November 1843 at Hüllbauer Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, Eisenstein, Boehmen Koenigreich, Austria.^1,2,3,4 On Wednesday, 09 February 1870, Anton, age 26, oo married Margarethe Mühlbauer, age 22, at St. Antonius Catholic Church, Vollmau (Folmava).^1,2,3

     Georg Adam Sigl, son of Johann Adam Sigl and Katharina (maiden name unknown), was born say 1743 at possibly in Vollmau, Bohemia, Austria. On Tuesday, 15 October 1765, Georg Adam oo married Barbara Müllbauer, age 20, at Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church, Furth im Wald.^1,2
     
Research note: Reviewing the information surrounding Vollmau, we know per tax records that the Siegl/Sigl family name was not located in Vollmau in 1727. We also know that Georg Adam was not born in Furth Im Wald. A conclusion might be that Johann Adam moved the family two km east to Vollmau probably around 1730 to 1735. In 1873 the family lived at Hausnummer 14, Vollmau (Folmava).

In an Austrian land transfer document issued on 9 January 1873 in Prague, an Adam Sigl was identified as Richter (Bürgermeister) in Vollmau.

     Joachim Bernhard Sigel, son of Georg Adam Sigl and Barbara Müllbauer, was ~ baptized on Sunday, 20 August 1780 at St. Antonius Catholic Church, Vollmau (Folmava), District of Taus, Bohemia, Austria.^1,2,3 On Wednesday, 13 January 1802, Joachim Bernhard, age 21, oo married Juliana Semmelbauer, age 22, in St. Antonius Catholic Church, Vollmau (Folmava).^4,5 On Monday, 18 October 1824, Joachim Bernhard, age 44, oo married Katharina Mühlbauer, age 32, at St. Antonius Catholic Church, Vollmau (Folmava).^1,6
      First we find Joachim at Hausnummer 14, Vollmau. Later he was found living at Hüllbauer Hausnummer 7 in Obervollmau. It looks as though in 1805 Joachim purchased the farm which was to become the Siegl family homestead.

After WWI, when Joachim's great-grandson Johann built a new house and barn, the new house became hausnummer 7 and the original house/barn became hausnummer 59. To account for this, and to keep this information tuned to the old vital records which refer to the original house/barn as #7, these records will identify 7 (59) which refers to the original house/barn and 7 which refers to the new house and barn built after WW I.

     Johann Sigl, son of Wolfgang Sigl and Catharina (maiden name unknown), was ~ baptized on Tuesday, 26 November 1669 at Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church, Furth im Wald, Oberpfalz, Bavaria.¹ Say 1693, Johann oo married Margarethe Barbara (maiden name unknown).
      Jakub Smid in November of 2006 reported the microfilms 1 - 18 containing birth records for the parish of Furth im Wald were missing. He found what exists now are index books with all names listed for these years. In that index, he found the information about the birth of Johann Siegl (born 1669, card 6, record ? 68). Unfortunately, the exact dates were missing.

     Johann Adam Sigl, son of Johann Sigl and Margarethe Barbara (maiden name unknown), was ~ baptized on Thursday, 24 September 1699 at Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church, Furth im Wald, Oberpfalz, Bavaria.¹ Say 1721, Johann Adam oo married Katharina (maiden name unknown).

     Joseph Anton Siegl, son of Joseph John Siegl and Anna Ott, was * born on Wednesday, 22 January 1908 at 2003 Pestalozzi Street, Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri, USA.^1,2,3 On Wednesday, 19 August 1931, Joseph Anton, age 23, oo married Theresa Elizabeth Martin, age 23, at St. Mary Catholic Church, Menomonee Falls.⁴ He is ± buried in St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery, Waukesha. Joseph lies at rest in the mausoleum Crypt 109, Tier C, Inside C-h, next to his wife Theresa.

     Joseph John Siegl, son of Anton Siegl and Margarethe Mühlbauer, was * born on Saturday, 23 April 1887 at Hüllbauer Hausnummer 7 (59), Obervollmau, District of Taus, Bohemia, Austria.^1,2,3,4,5 In 1907, Joseph John oo married Anna Ott at St. Agatha Catholic Church, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.^6,7 He is buried in St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery, Goldendale, Washington County, Wisconsin, USA.^5,4 He chose a burial location next to his wife Anna in Section C, Row 5, Plot 29-A1.
     Joseph, at the age of 15, emigrated from Vollmau (Folmava), Bohemia, departing Bremen on 20 September 1902 arriving New York on 1 October in that same year and on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where his brother Anthony was living. The ship on which he traveled was the Friederick der Grosse. It is said that he and his brother Anthony were each given $200 in which to make their trip. Anthony preceded Joseph by say 15 years. The Ellis Island Internet database identified Joseph as Josef Sigl, 15 years from Tollman arriving New York on 1 October 1902. The ship's manifest identifies Josef as the fifth passenger, in possession of more than $30.00, and with a ticket to Milwaukee. He paid for his own passage. It looks as though he may have traveled alone.^8,9 In 1914, Joseph and his brother Anthony visited the family in Vollmau this based on a picture taken there at the time. Missing on the picture was his brother Karl, who had died at age 19 in Vienna in 1897, and his sister Maria, who had died at the age of 34 in 1909.

Joe was a brewer and proud of his work. Along came prohibition and he was required to make beer but without the alcohol. This was not to his liking. Joe left his job in St. Louis and moved the family to Milwaukee at 3234 North 36th Street. This was the home of Anna's parents George and Mary Ott.

Family hearsay has Joe wanting to be a chicken farmer. One of their neighbor's friend was a realtor who heard of a farm available in the South Germantown area. One day the family and the realtor took a car ride and went to look at the farm. Details of the farm are not remembered but what is remembered is that Anna became very sick. The sickness was blamed on the chickens and that was the last time anyone mentioned a chicken farm. Some time went by and Joe and Anna attended a dance at the Beuscher's Inn. They liked the place, bought it from Phillip Beuscher for one dollar and other valuable considerations, and the family moved to South Germantown.

On 4 November 1921, Joseph and Anna and their son Joseph and daughter Anna arrived at the now Siegl Hotel, Beverage Parlor, Dance Hall, and Park on Main Street. They were owner and proprietor. Specialities were chicken and squab dinners at all hours and dressed squab to take home. Art Roskopf was one of several in the area who raised squabs, he in the barn at the Roskopf homestead near Dheinsville.

On 11 March 1927, South Germantown became the Village of Germantown. Eleven citizens of South Germantown had petitioned the Washington County Circuit Court for incorporation of a one square mile area. The petitioners were: Father Banholzer, Adam Diefenthaler, Benn C. Duerrwaechter, Alvin Gronemeyer, Edward Rintelman, Joe Rosecky, Arthur Schmidt, Charles A. Schuster, John A. Schwalbach, Joseph J. Siegl, and Aaron Walterlin. Population of South Germantown, now Germantown, was 243.

It was reported in the Wisconsin News, Wall Street Closing Addition of Saturday, 23 March 1935: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Siegl had been beaten and robbed of $500 in their Germantown hotel tavern the previous night, by four unmasked men identified as Elroy Schickert age 27 former resident of Germantown, Dominic Guarniere age 24, Mike Farina age 21, and Thomas Konczal age 23 all of Milwaukee. At the point of a gun, Mr. and Mrs. Siegl were bound and gagged. Cash was taken and the foursome sped to Milwaukee on highway 55 later in the century to be called 145. The bandits were captured within 12 hours due to the vigilance of Harold Kannenberg, a Germantown auto mechanic, who obtained the license number. He had noticed the car loitering around town the previous several days and became suspicious. Published in the West Bend News weeks later, four men pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison.

In another newspaper article written about 1942: The Siegl Hotel is one place in Germantown where one may go and enjoy an excellent meal among attractive and comfortable surroundings. There, good food and all legal beverages are offered at modest prices. The hotel makes a speciality of chicken and squab dinners as well as moderately priced plate lunches. The Siegl Hotel which was originally built some 65 years ago [1875] has been recently remodeled in attractive knotty pine by the present owner. It has a sound proof ceiling, new bar and back bar, moderately illuminated, and by means of transparent tubes, people may actually see beer flowing from the cellar to the tap. The owner and manager, Mr. Joseph Siegl, has directed this establishment for 21 years.

     Wolfgang Sigl was * born say 1625. Before 1664, Wolfgang oo married Catharina (maiden name unknown).
      Note: The earliest generations of the Sigl family (Wolfgang married Katharina before 1664, Johann married Margarethe Barbara say 1693, and Johann Adam married Katharina say 1721) had their origins in Furth im Wald, Bavaria, Germanic Lands. Suspect Johann Adam moved the family two km east from Furth im Wald to Vollmau, Bohemia, Austria between 1730 and 1735. The grandson of Johann Adam, Joachim Bernhard, came into possession of Hüllbauer Hausnummer 7, now known to the family as the "Siegl homestead," in say 1805.

The “Siegl homestead" ceased to exist after the Sudetenland expulsion in 1945. First the barn and connecting building were removed. By the 1980s, the house building had deteriorated to a great degree and in the 1990s it was removed. In 2006, no vestiges of the buildings nor their foundations, and the surrounding trees could not be found. In that year a bulldozer had cleared the area.

Research Note: If the early families are to be filled out, research concentration will need to be made in Furth im Wald, the Catholic church records of Maria Himmelfahrt, and more importantly, the civil vital records.

Maria Himmelfahrt Catholic Church of Furth im Wald, Bavaria was established in 1664. Any records identifying family members before 1664 will need to be obtained from civil records.

What we can say is the Sigl family arrived in the Furth im Wald, Bavaria probably before 1664 and in Vollmau, Bohemia around 1730. In 1945, family members were expelled from the Sudetenland and by 1990 the homestead buildings in Vollmau (Folmava, Czech Republic) no longer existed.

     Emil Srnka, son of Lester Edward Srnka and Margaret Anna Ott, was * born on Wednesday, 29 January 1947 at 09:50 in the morning at Milwaukee Hospital, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA.¹

     Lester Edward Srnka was * born on Thursday, 24 August 1905 in Cooperstown, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.^1,2 On Wednesday, 24 August 1938, Lester Edward, age 33, oo married Margaret Anna Ott, age 29, at St. Anne Catholic Church, Milwaukee.^3,4 He was buried in Spalding Township Cemetery, Spalding, Menominee County, Michigan, USA.

     (?) Sternberg was * born say 1894. Say 1917, (?) oo married Isabelle Bast.¹

     Agnes Clara Stuesse was * born on Wednesday, 23 February 1898 in Town of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2,3,4 On Sunday, 02 December 1923, Agnes Clara, age 25, oo married George Ott, age 32, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.³ Agnes + died, at the age of 92 years, on Saturday, 08 September 1990.^4,5 She is ± buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA.⁵ The burial location is Block 4, Section B, Lot 154, Grave 11.

     Anna Gertrude Stuesser, daughter of Franz Joseph Stuesser and Elisabeth Thomas, was * born on Tuesday, 31 January 1832.¹ On Sunday, 02 June 1850, Anna Gertrude, age 18, oo married Joseph Peter Doll Sr., age 25.² [identified as 10 October 1848 by Betty Wulff] She was buried in St. Lawrence Catholic Cemetery, St. Lawrence, Washington County, Wisconsin, USA.³

     Antonii Stuesser was * born say 1730. Say 1755, Antonii oo married Anna Catharina Merzenichs.

     Franz Joseph Stuesser, son of Johann Stuesser and Anna Catharina Antweilers, was ~ baptized on Saturday, 10 July 1790 at Rheinbach, Rheinland, Germanic Lands.^1,2 On Wednesday, 28 October 1818, Franz Joseph, age 28, oo married Elizabeth Roberz in Rheinbach, Rheinland, Prussia.^3,1 On Thursday, 19 October 1826, Franz Joseph, age 36, oo married Elisabeth Thomas in Rheinbach, Rheinland, Prussia.³ Franz + died, at the age of 77 years, on Sunday, 22 December 1867.¹

     Johann Stuesser, son of Antonii Stuesser and Anna Catharina Merzenichs, was ~ baptized on Saturday, 20 February 1751 at Rheinbach, Rheinland, Germanic Lands.¹ On Monday, 26 February 1781, Johann, age 30, oo married Anna Catharina Antweilers in Rheinbach, Rheinland, Germanic Lands.²

     Anna Katharina Tempels, daughter of Johann Tempels and Mar. Katharina Velters, was * born on Sunday, 27 March 1735.¹ On Tuesday, 09 September 1755, Anna Katharina, age 20, oo married Johann Wilhelm Wichterich.¹

     Johann Tempels was * born say 1705. Say 1730, Johann oo married Mar. Katharina Velters.

     Elisabeth Thomas, daughter of Urban Thomas and Margaretha Schumacher, was * born say 1798 in Palmersheim, Rheinland, Germanic Lands.² On Thursday, 19 October 1826, Elisabeth oo married Franz Joseph Stuesser, age 36, in Rheinbach, Rheinland, Prussia.² Elisabeth + died on Sunday, 11 December 1870.³

     Urban Thomas was * born say 1768. Say 1793, Urban oo married Margaretha Schumacher.

     Charles Elmer Thrall was * born on Sunday, 27 November 1881 in Dudley, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, USA.¹ In August 1914, Charles Elmer, age 32, oo married Lillie Tremmel, age 21, in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin.² He is ± buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Milwaukee.^3,1 The burial location is Block 29, Lot 266-m, Grave 1.

     Howard Thrall, son of Charles Elmer Thrall and Lillie Tremmel, was * born on Monday, 08 April 1918.¹ Say 1950, Howard oo married Velva Jo Butler. Howard + died, at the age of 85 years, on Saturday, 13 March 2004.²

     Kenneth Thrall, son of Charles Elmer Thrall and Lillie Tremmel, was * born on Monday, 05 December 1921.^1,2 Kenneth + died, at the age of 80 years, on Saturday, 23 November 2002.²

     Clarence Tiber was * born in 1900.¹ On Saturday, 20 September 1930, Clarence oo married Rose Henseler, age 28.¹ Clarence + died in 1960.¹

     Joseph Tolles was * born say 1791. Before 10 July 1816, Joseph oo married Catherine Zehnpfenning.

     Elenore Margaret Tremmel, daughter of Joseph Tremmel and Barbara Margarethe Ott, was * born on Thursday, 29 January 1891 in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2 On Tuesday, 16 October 1906, Elenore Margaret, age 15, oo married Herman Christ Witt, age 18, in Marshfield, Wood County.³

     Ervin Earl Tremmel, son of Joseph Tremmel and Barbara Margarethe Ott, was * born on Thursday, 23 November 1893 in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA.^1,2 On Sunday, 14 April 1918, Ervin Earl, age 24, oo married Ruth Marie Anderson, age 21, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.³ Ervin + died, at the age of 80 years, on Tuesday, 18 December 1973.^1,4,5 He is ± buried in Ft. Snelling National Cemetery, South Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.⁴ The burial location is Section N, Site 4378.

     Joseph Tremmel was * born in July 1856 in Bavaria.¹ On Monday, 16 September 1889, Joseph, age 33, oo married Barbara Margarethe Ott, age 37, at The Catholic Church, Bakerville, Wood County, Wisconsin.² Joseph + died in 1895 at probably in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin.¹

     Lillie Tremmel, daughter of Joseph Tremmel and Barbara Margarethe Ott, was * born on Saturday, 08 October 1892 in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, USA.¹ In August 1914, Lillie, age 21, oo married Charles Elmer Thrall, age 32, in Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin.² She is ± buried in Austin.³

     Thomas Tremmel, son of Ervin Earl Tremmel and Ruth Marie Anderson, was * born on Wednesday, 16 March 1921.¹ Thomas + died, at the age of 70 years, in June 1991.²