Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
Bill’s Family - Person Sheet
NameAntonie Pauline Fabisch 
112, Grandmother, F120, 1148, F
112, Grandmother, F120, 1148, FBirth19 Jun 1875, Laurahutte, Schlesien, Preussen, Germany108
Memofrom Petition for citizenship
Memo27 Sep 1966 frm Bible probably incorrect
MemoSec U, Row 47, Grave 44
ReligionRoman Catholic
FlagsLived in Schlesien, Lived in US, Pictures, Research Complete, have dDoc, have mDoc
Cause of deathComa, Pulmonary Edema, Cartical Atrophy108
Immigration15 Jun 1890, New York, NY, US113 Age: 14
Memoss Gellert Petition for citizenship says “Wilhelm der Grosse” but it was not built till 1897
Census 19006 Jun 1900, SF, SF, CA, US23 Age: 24
Memo1036 Sacramento st.
Census 19101910, San Francisco, SF Co, CA, US68 Age: 34
Memo1710 Noe
Census 19203 Jan 1920, San Francisco, SF Co, CA, US114 Age: 44
Memo567 Moultrie St.
Citizenship6 Mar 1933, SF, SF, CA, US115 Age: 57
Memo143 de Montford
FatherIgnatz Fabisch , 1146, M (~1824-~1884)
MotherHedwig Francisca Ligensa , 1200, F (1845-1936)
Misc. Notes
Antonie Pauline was born in a small village in what is now Poland. When she was born, it was part of Selecia which was part of the German Empire. She came to America on 15 Jun 1890 when she 15. She travelled with her older sister Olga who was 16 and her brother Bruno who was 11. On her petition for Citizenship, she stated that she had come on board the Steamship "Wilhelm der Grosse" from Hamburg, Germany to New York City, but that ship was not built until 1897. I found them on the passenger manifest of the ship “SS Gellert”.
Laurahutte is now called Siemianowice and is just outside of Gliwice, Poland
(also near Kattowitz)
27 Sep 1966 death date from Bible probably incorrect since the name was listed as Antoinette Josephine.
According to the 1920 U.S. Census Antonie was from Poland and spoke German. In all of the other documents we’ve found other people have declared she was from Germany.
Living at 143 de Montfort at time of death.
Attended by Dr. William J. FitzGerald M.D. 1810 Ulloa st.
Full cause of Death listed as:
Coma, Pulmonary Edema, Cartical Atrophy
- Cerebral Thrombosis (Multiple)
- Generalized Arteriosclerosis
- Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease
Laurahutte is now called Siemianowice and is just outside of Gliwice, Poland
(also near Kattowitz)
27 Sep 1966 death date from Bible probably incorrect since the name was listed as Antoinette Josephine.
According to the 1920 U.S. Census Antonie was from Poland and spoke German. In all of the other documents we’ve found other people have declared she was from Germany.
Living at 143 de Montfort at time of death.
Attended by Dr. William J. FitzGerald M.D. 1810 Ulloa st.
Full cause of Death listed as:
Coma, Pulmonary Edema, Cartical Atrophy
- Cerebral Thrombosis (Multiple)
- Generalized Arteriosclerosis
- Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease
Misc. Notes
GELLERT
The SS GELLERT was built in 1874 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Linthouse, Glasgow, for the Deutsche Transatlantische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft (Adler Line). 3,533 tons; 114,41 meters (375.4 feet) long x 12,20 meters (40 feet) broad; straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 13 knots; passenger accommodation: 90 1st-, 100 2nd-, and 800 3rd-class passengers.
25 November 1874, launched.
10 February 1875, certificate.
2 voyages, Hamburg-New York.
13 May 1875, taken over by the Hamburg American Line.
26 May 1875, first voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York.
1881 rebuilt (2 funnels).
22 October 1893, caught fire in mid-Atlantic; fire subdued.
November 1893, first voyage, Naples-New York.
11 March 1894, last voyage, Hamburg-New York.
18 August 1894, last voyage, Naples-New York (4 return voyages).
9 May 1895, sold to Lieder, for Hamburg-Shanghai service.
March 1897, sold; scrapped
[Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd. ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications, 1975-1980), vol. 1, p. 391]. Pictured, in its original (pre-1881) configuration, in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 108, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970
[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 13 August 1997]
The SS GELLERT was built in 1874 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Linthouse, Glasgow, for the Deutsche Transatlantische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft (Adler Line). 3,533 tons; 114,41 meters (375.4 feet) long x 12,20 meters (40 feet) broad; straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 13 knots; passenger accommodation: 90 1st-, 100 2nd-, and 800 3rd-class passengers.
25 November 1874, launched.
10 February 1875, certificate.
2 voyages, Hamburg-New York.
13 May 1875, taken over by the Hamburg American Line.
26 May 1875, first voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York.
1881 rebuilt (2 funnels).
22 October 1893, caught fire in mid-Atlantic; fire subdued.
November 1893, first voyage, Naples-New York.
11 March 1894, last voyage, Hamburg-New York.
18 August 1894, last voyage, Naples-New York (4 return voyages).
9 May 1895, sold to Lieder, for Hamburg-Shanghai service.
March 1897, sold; scrapped
[Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd. ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications, 1975-1980), vol. 1, p. 391]. Pictured, in its original (pre-1881) configuration, in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 108, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970
[Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 13 August 1997]
Misc. Notes
ss Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
The first of the fourteen four-stackers ever built, Norddeutscher Lloyd's Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was built by Vulkan of Stettin. Launched in 1897, she made her maiden voyage on 19 September of that year, from Bremerhaven to New York.
In November 1897, she set an eastbound crossing record from Sandy Hook to the Needles and four months later she captured the westbound Blue Riband. She held these records until Hapag's Deutschland took the eastbound record in July 1900 and the westbound one in September 1903.
The ship narrowly escaped a massive fire at NDL's Hoboken, NJ, piers in June 1900, which badly damaged her running mates, Main, Bremen and Saale and killed 161 crewmen on those ships. Six years later, in November 1906, she was struck broadside while trying to cross in front of Royal Mail's Orinoco; five passengers on Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse were killed by the impact and a hole 70 feet (21m) wide by 26 feet (8m) high was made in her hull. An Admiralty Court found the accident to be 100% attributable to Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
In August 1914 the ship was taken over by the German Navy as an auxiliary cruiser, assigned to commerce raiding off the Canary Islands. After sparing two passenger ships since they were carrying women passengers, she sank two freighters before she herself sank on 26 August after being attacked by HMS Highflyer. (British sources insisted that Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sank because of the damage inflicted by Highflyer. German authorities claimed she had been scuttled by her crew to avoid capture when she exhausted her munitions.) Whatever the cause, she earned the dubious distinction of being the first passenger ship sunk during World War I.
Sources: Shaum and Flayhart's Majesty at Sea; Kludas' Great Passenger Ships of the World; Williams' Wartime Disasters at Sea.
The first of the fourteen four-stackers ever built, Norddeutscher Lloyd's Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was built by Vulkan of Stettin. Launched in 1897, she made her maiden voyage on 19 September of that year, from Bremerhaven to New York.
In November 1897, she set an eastbound crossing record from Sandy Hook to the Needles and four months later she captured the westbound Blue Riband. She held these records until Hapag's Deutschland took the eastbound record in July 1900 and the westbound one in September 1903.
The ship narrowly escaped a massive fire at NDL's Hoboken, NJ, piers in June 1900, which badly damaged her running mates, Main, Bremen and Saale and killed 161 crewmen on those ships. Six years later, in November 1906, she was struck broadside while trying to cross in front of Royal Mail's Orinoco; five passengers on Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse were killed by the impact and a hole 70 feet (21m) wide by 26 feet (8m) high was made in her hull. An Admiralty Court found the accident to be 100% attributable to Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
In August 1914 the ship was taken over by the German Navy as an auxiliary cruiser, assigned to commerce raiding off the Canary Islands. After sparing two passenger ships since they were carrying women passengers, she sank two freighters before she herself sank on 26 August after being attacked by HMS Highflyer. (British sources insisted that Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse sank because of the damage inflicted by Highflyer. German authorities claimed she had been scuttled by her crew to avoid capture when she exhausted her munitions.) Whatever the cause, she earned the dubious distinction of being the first passenger ship sunk during World War I.
Sources: Shaum and Flayhart's Majesty at Sea; Kludas' Great Passenger Ships of the World; Williams' Wartime Disasters at Sea.
Spouses
1Otto Frederick Husler 30,112,116,117, Grandfather, H246, 1159, M
30,112,116,117, Grandfather, H246, 1159, MFatherJosef “Josephus Romanus” Huesler , 3002, M (1840-1925)
MotherMaria Catherina Haefliger , 3003, F (1841->1870)
ChildrenOtto Joseph , 1157, M (1903-1984)
UNNAMED (Died as Infant), 2921, M (1905-<1910)
William Bruno , 1165, M (1906-1976)
Antoniette C. , 142, F (1909-1957)
Hedwig Olga “Hetty” , 1151, F (1910-1993)
Walter G. (Died as Infant), 1290, M (1914-1914)
James John , 1152, M (1915-1994)
Helen H. , 1150, F (1918-1978)