{"id":22,"date":"2007-09-28T00:53:04","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T07:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pulskamp.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/the-mystery-of-katherine-solved-at-last\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:52:58","slug":"the-mystery-of-katherine-solved-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pulskamp.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/the-mystery-of-katherine-solved-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Katherine: Solved at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been two books written about Pulskamp family history, that I know of. Leona Pulskamp Doll published her book about the descendants of the middle son around 1980 and Mary Elizabeth Ryan Pulskamp published her book about the descendants of the youngest son around 1987. Both books have been marvelous resources for us. (We wish that there was a similar book about the family of the oldest son, but maybe that could still happen.)<\/p>\n

Both books have errors in them. Some errors are just mistakes, some where made on purpose to protect someone from unpleasant information. I am not going to deal with those issues in this post, but there is one piece of misinformation that appears in both books that I am going to deal with now.<\/p>\n

Both Leona and Mary Elizabeth reported that a daughter, Maria Katherine Pulskamp, was left behind in Germany when the family came to America. I had always wondered about that story, since Katherine would have been only about eleven years old at the time. If she had been older, I might have thought she had married or was engaged to be married, so the family reluctantly agreed to leave her behind. We now know that was not the case. Both books also report on the name of her husband, Anton Dickmann, and the names of their children.<\/p>\n

\"Katherine<\/a>In response to an email from me, cousin David Schuman wrote: “You mention the supposed marriage between Catherine Pulskamp and Anton Dickman. I can tell you that it is more than supposed. … information I found about their marriage from an index in the Cincinnati library.” With that information I was able to find a copy of their marriage and baptismal records of their older children.<\/p>\n

So how did this false story get started? We can only guess. Was it just a clerical error on the part of the parish priest at the time or was it a transcription error later? I doubt I will ever know. I have seen a record from Germany in which the church records from Merzen indicate that five Pulskamp children emigrated to America in 1845, while two of the children’s names are missing that notation – Herman Heinrich, the oldest son, and Maria Katherine, the middle girl. Of course, we always knew that Herman Heinrich came because we are aware of his descendants, but with a girl it is a little more difficult, because a woman gives up her name with marriage. But we did know the name of her husband and her seven children.<\/p>\n

With a bit more research, I found Anton and Katherine in Federal Census reports. Eventually I was able to trace her family down to current descendants living in Missouri and Indiana. I am hoping that some of them will attend our World Wide Gathering of the Pulskamps.<\/p>\n

So then, what of the other two girls? Two new mysteries!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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