The Buellesbach / Billesbach Family
(page under construction)
The Surname Buellesbach is most likely taken from the German
town name "Buellesbach", located in Hennef, across the river
Rhine from Bonn - called Bergisches Land.
1.Tobias Buellesbach: b. 1796
d. 1875 at the age of 79 yrs. & 7 months in Sauk County,
WI. * From the 3 volume book-set
"Sauk county Cemetery Inscriptions".
1860 Census of Eau Claire Co.,
WI. - Tobias Billesbach, Half Moon Village.
Married: Maria Neher
Brother: (unconfirmed) Joseph
Buellesbach/Billesbach/Bullesbach d. 1864,
Sauk Co., WI.
Maria Neher: b.
? d. ?
Children of Tobias & Maria:
2. Josephine: b. 1849, Eau Claire,
WI. d. 1943 in Sacremento, CA.
Buried: Masonic Lawn, Sacramento,
CA.
Married: Thomas B. Woods,
Nov. 14, 1885; Alameda, CA.
Maria Clara: b. ? d.
?
Christianed: Feb. 25, 1866 Eau
Claire, WI., St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
Wilhelm John: (parents
unconfirmed, but most probably Tobias & Maria).
b. Aug. 1848 Koln, Germany d.
July 1898 Milwaukee, WI.
Came to Chicago, IL. as a
3 yr. old. Occupation: Cooper & Saloon Keeper.
Buried: Calvery Cemetery.
Married:
Magdalena
Johanna Irsfeld Buellesbach: b. May
1849 in Schoenecken, Germany.
d. Aug. 1908 in Milwaukee,
WI. Buried: Calvery Cemetery. Father: Lambert
Irsfeld
Mother: Margaret
Theisges Irsfeld.
Descendents of William & Magdalena:
3.Anna Mary
Buellesbach: b. Sept. 1871, Chicago, IL. d. June 1936.
Married: Harrison Shepard
Holt b. ?
(possibly in Ellsworth, Maine)
d. ?
Married on May 27, 1895 in Milwaukee, WI.
4. Son:
Harrison Joseph
Holt b. Jan. 1897
in Milwaukee, WI.
d. May 1980 Oconomowoc, WI.
Married: Dorothy Marie Diercks
Father: John Diercks Mother: Clara
Glautiliz
5. Daughter: Susan Clare Holt. Married:
Theodore Clayton Cheney
6. Theodore
Clayton Cheney
3. William John
Buellesbach: b. April 1874, Chicago. d. Dec. 1901.
Married: Catherine
Elizabeth Baldauf b. April 1877, Milw,
WI. d. May 1970,
Milwaukee, WI.
Father: John
Baldauf Mother: Catherine
Knoernchild
Children:
4.William: b. Dec. 1898 d. July 1899 at the age of 7 mo.
Joseph: b. March 1900 d. 1986. Married:
Sylvia Hoyer b. June 1900 d. 1994
Children:
5. Richard Paul: b. June 1926 Married:
Mary Ellen Anderson
Mary Josephine: b.
May 1929 Married: Gerald
Flanagan
Jane Carolyn M.D.: b. March
1931 (Maryknoll Sisters)
3. Joseph Martin: b.
Sept. 1876 Lone Rock, WI. d.
Married: Martha
Augusta Selbo in June 1906 in Chicago,
IL.
b. Dec. 1883
d. Dec. 1969 in Madison, WI.
3. Kathryn/Catherine
Elizabeth: b. May 1879 Lone Rock, WI. d.
Married: Orra
Ernest Shult in Milwaukee, WI. b. June 1879
in Baraboo, WI.
d. Jan. 1936 in
Milwaukee, WI.
Witnesses to wedding:
Joseph Billesbach, Frank Engeln &
Carrie B. Shult
Mother: Susan
Douglas Father: Samuel Otis
Shult.
Occupation: Lineman.
3. George William:
b. 1882 d. 1882; Galena St., Milwaukee, WI.
3.Unknown Daughter: b.
1883 d. 1883; Galena St., Milwaukee, WI.
3. Theodore: b.
1884 d. within two years; Milwaukee, WI.
3.Martina Johanna: b.
July 1886 Milw.,WI. d. Nov. 1972 in Milwaukee, WI.
Married: Henry
Moritz Daute in Oct. 1909 in Milwaukee, WI.
b. Sept. 1885 in
Oshkosh or Pewaukee, WI.
Father: Moritz
Daute Mother: Hermina
Reickert
Children:
(unconfirmed)
4. Marguerite D. Daute b. 1917 d. Jan 1999, New Berlin, WI.
Buried: Highland Memorial Park Cemetery.
Married: Lawrence
Voss
Howard Daute b. Oct. 1918 d. Dec.
1996
Buried: St. Francis Borgia Cemetery, Cedarburg,
WI.
Married: Ruth M. b. 1920 on Aug. 1943
{possible siblings: Jeanette, Blanche, Verna, George,
Doris & Loraine}.
3. Mary: b.
1888 d. 1888; Vliet St., Milwaukee, WI.
3. Bernhard:
b. 1890 d. 1890 at 4 mo. old.
3. Michael: b.
Sept. 1889 d. within two years.
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