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1. Faupel / Vaupel
2. Linkages of Niederjossa Vaupels and Grossenenglis Schaumburgs
3. Schaumburg

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Tips and a trick for dealing with the German language: Do I speak German? No. I studied German for two years in college, and I can stumble around through it fairly well. But I am not at all fluent -- nor anything near fluent -- in the language. You will learn that once you get the hang of the place names and the words used for vital records and relationships, you can understand quite a bit that is on genealogically-relevant German web sites.

And if you are really frustrated by a German web site, try this trick. Note down the URL of the web site. Then use your browser to copy some of the words from the web page, words that appear to be fairly unique to the web site. Then go to www.google.com, and paste these words into the text search field and click "Google Search". If the words you copied were unique, then the German web site will be at or near the top of the web site list that Google gives you. To the right of each web page, it says "[Translate this page]". Click on this, and you will get a rough translation into English. What is nice about it is that it continues translating the German pages that you jump to from links on the first German page.

"Vaupel" and "Faupel" are variant German spellings of the same name, and both spellings may show up in the German records for the same person. They are both pronounced the same as the English pronunciation of "Faupel", although the accents may vary from the first to the second syllable. Another close variant, which actually shows up on some records of these lines is Vaubel / Faubel. And you can probably imagine a lot of other close variants as well. The name for any given individual in the 1700's was likely to be spelled in many different ways in the records that accumulated over the course of a lifetime. (It didn't stop with the 1700's: my surname of Johnston is very often mis-spelled as Johnson in the records of my own lifetime -- though not by me.) The Faupel family to which I am related on the US side of the pond originated in Niederjossa in Hesse-Kassel. However, there are a number of Vaupel families in the area south of Kassel, so that they are probably all related at some point, both to each other and to my direct Schaumburg ancestors, who originated only about 18 miles (30 kilometers) away from Niederjossa at Grossenenglis (Großenenglis). Click here for a map of Niederjossa (red star). If you zoom out one level, you will see Borken and Fritzlar: Grossenenglis is between them but not shown at this level of detail. Then click "Re-center" below the map and click on Borken, and you will see Niederjossa, Borken-Fritzlar (i.e. Grossenenglis) and Kassel all on the same map. Contents of the Faupel Section (Click on an underlined section to go directly there.) Sites Specific to Justus Faupel's Descendants and Ancestors and Siblings' Descendants Justus Faupel's Descendants (settled mostly in Martinton, Illinois; Hazen, Arkansas; Fallon, Nevada) Justus Faupel's Ancestors Justus Faupel's Siblings and their Descendants Vaupel / Faupel Family Trees of Unknown Relationship to Our Line Research Discussion Boards Broad Genealogy Web Site Searches Various Niederjossa-Related Web Sites

• Sites Specific to Justus Faupel's Descendants and Ancestors and Siblings' Descendants
  On his line, Justus was the one who made the move from Germany to America and also the one whose name was changed (either by him or by an immigration official??) from the German Vaupel to the Anglicized Faupel. I do not know yet if this happened in Canada or in the United States.
  • Justus Faupel's Descendants (settled mostly in Martinton, Illinois; Hazen, Arkansas; Fallon, Nevada)
    • About 1861? - Washington, Illinois:
      

      Why did the family move where it did? Justus Faupel and his son Henry traveled a great deal. Even Henry's sons moved a good distance, though not at all as much as Justus and Henry. When they moved to a specific place, there was a reason, at both ends: the old place was no longer sufficiently satisfactory somehow, and the new place offered greater satisfaction in some ways. But of all the places that they could have moved to did they choose the places that they did choose? Justus Faupel (born 1842) left Niederjossa at age 14 and worked on the Waterloo, Ontario farm of his cousin Adam Diebel. So we know how he wound up in Waterloo, Ontario. So how did Justus then wind up in Washington, Illinois four years later? It appears from a discussion board query that there may have been others from the Niederjossa area who had settled in Washington, Illinois. (Note that Iris Rohrbach, who wrote this linked query, is a direct descendant of Justus' brother Peter, who stayed in Niederjossa, making her the 4th Cousin of the generation of Justus' descendants born roughly 1945-1970 -- in Fallon, Nevada these are the grandchildren of Justin Faupel.) So then, for Justus, why move to(in 1874) Martinton, Illinois and why (in 1902) Hazen, Arkansas? I don't know yet. And then for Justus' son Henry, why after his 1898 Spanish-American War service (see below) took him to New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Cuba, and New York did he wind up in Colorado Springs, Colorado (where son Justin was born 1901) and in Centralia, Washington (where son Leonard was born 1904)? Don't know. But Henry's move to Raton, New Mexico (where sons Milton 1906 and Gene 1909 were born) seems to be directly related to Henry's Spanish-American War service, which seems to have been directly related to his being a railroad man. (see below) And then for Henry's son Justin Faupel, why Hermosa Beach, California and why (in 1925) Fallon, Nevada? I don't know those yet either, though Fallon did experience an "oil boom" in the 1920's.

    • 1880 - Martinton Township, Iroquois County, Illinois: Justus's family is listed in the 1880 census:

      Name	Relation to Head of House	Gender	Marital Status	Race	Age	Birthplace	Occupation	Father	Mother
      Justus FAUPEL	Self	Male	Married	White	37	Hesstain	Farmer	Hesstain	Hesstain
      Minnie FAUPEL	Wife	Female	Married	White	21	Illinois	Keeping House	Prussia	Prussia
      Carrie FAUPEL	Daughter	Female	Single	White	9	Illinois		Helstein	Helstein
      Henry FAUPEL	Son	Male	Single	White	7	Illinois		Helstein	Warenburg
      Willie FAUPEL	Son	Male	Single	White	5	Illinois		Helstein	Warenburg
      Frank FAUPEL	Son	Male	Single	White	1	Illinois		Helstein	Prussia
      Eliza MILLER	(not copied)	Female	Single	White	13	Illinois	House Maid	Helstein	Helstein
      John PARKER	(not copied)	Male	Single	White	16	Germany	Farm Laborer	Germany	Germany

      Justus Faupel's Three? Wives The 1880 census shows birthplaces of three different mothers for Justus' children. It may be that there really were only two mothers and that the census taker made an error in Carrie's mother's birthplace -- as he apparently did in Frank's mother's birthplace. Justus Faupel married Mary Euchner in Washington, Illinois March 10, 1870. Since Carrie is only 9 years old in the 1880 census, she was most likely born in 1871 or in the latter half of 1870 -- after Justus and Mary married. There are other possible interpretations, one of which is that Carrie's mother really was not Mary Euchner. More research on Carrie's birth is needed to clear up whether this is a census taker's error or a fact that leads to a new understanding of the family history. For the record, Justus Faupel married Mina (Minnie) Miller in Iroquois County on March 5, 1878. (Click here to go to the Illinois Marriage Index and enter Faupel for the groom. The other Iroquois County marriage you will see is that of Justus' son William Faupel to Rosa Watersradt (the index mis-spells it) on January 8, 1900.)

    • 1890 - Martinton, Illinois: Justus Faupel in the 1890 Martinton Township, Iroquois County, Illinois Tax Lists: Much of the 1890 US Census was destroyed. So the Iroquois County Genealogical Society (ICGS) has posted the 1890 Tax Lists as a substitute source. There are three entries of interest (at least, maybe someday we will see that there are more):
      1. Justus' name is mis-spelled as Justice on his entry.
      2. There is also an entry for "J. Faupel". This may also be Justus. He had no brothers whose names started with J, and his only son with a J, John, died a month after birth.
      3. A few lines above is an entry for John Euchner. Mary Euchner was Justus' first wife; she died in childbirth about 1875.
      So what are the numbers? Here is the answer from ICGS Librarian Carol Rench: "The numbers refer to the pages the name of the person appear on in the tax book of 1890 ... The information on these pages tell you whether the person owned property or if they just paid personal property tax. One little bit of extra info: if you owned a dog the tax was $1.00." (The library is at the Old Courthouse Museum at 103 West Cherry Street in Watseka, Illinois 60970-1524.)

    • 1893 - Iroquois County, Illinois: Justus Faupel's daughter Carrie (see 1880 Census above) marries George Miller (a relative of Justus' then-wife Minnie Miller?) on March 3, 1893. (Go to the Illinois Marriage Index and enter Faupel for the bride.)

    • 1898 - New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Cuba, New York - Henry Faupel's Time as a "Rough Rider": Justus Faupel's son Henry was born in Washington, Illinois (Feb. 1, 1873), just before the family moved to Martinton, Illinois. During the Spanish-American War in 1898, Henry Faupel joined the Federal troops (and thus will not show up in the Illinois volunteers' database) of the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry, better known to history as the "Rough Riders" and forever linked with Teddy Roosevelt (who later became President) and "San Juan Hill". Henry apparently had come to Mexico as a railroad man, since he joined the Rough Riders on May 3, 1898 in New Mexico and was listed as a railroad man. He must have liked New Mexico: he settled in Raton, New Mexico for a number of years before moving to Fallon, Nevada, where he died in 1960.

      Compiled military service record of Henry F. Faupel, documenting service in the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders) during the Spanish American War. The National Archives has the complete military records of Henry F. Faupel. They have 7 images of part of his records on the web. These are actual images and not just transcripts: Cover Jacket Inside Cover May 7, 1898 Muster-in Roll at Santa Fe, NM May 17, 1898 Muster-in Roll at San Antonio, TX May 31-July 31, 1898 Pay Card Sep 15, 1898 Muster-out Roll at Montauk Point, Long Island, NY Aug 21, 1898 Hospitalized for Malaria at Montauk Point, Long Island, NY If for any reason the image links stop working, click here to go to the Archives search page. Click "NAIL Digital Copies Search". Then in the search panel's "Enter Keywords" entry windows, enter "Rough Riders" in the top and "Faupel" in the bottom, and click "Submit Search". It will come back and a big red "1" will indicate there is one hit. Then click on "Display Results" to see the first thumbnail. And then click on "View All Thumbnails" to reach the page with all 7 images. Clicking on any image will give you an enlarged copy of that image. National Archives Citation of Henry Faupel's Records Control Number NWCTB-94-R&POPI17E522-1USVCAV0406 Media Textual records Descr. Level Item Record Group 94 Series R&POPI17E522 Item 1USVCAV0406 Title Compiled military service record of Henry F. Faupel, documenting service in the 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry (Rough Riders) during the Spanish American War. Coverage Dates 05/01/1898-09/30/1898 Sample Record(s) Thumbnails of online copies (with links to larger access files) Creating Org. Department of War. Adjutant General's Office. Record and Pension Office. Record Type/Genre compiled military service records General Note Note that only a portion of the items from this compiled military service record have been digitized and made available online. Variant Control# NWDT1-94-R&PO-PI17E522-1USVCAV0406 See Also Series Description> Subject Ref. Spanish-American War; Rough Riders; First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry; First United States Volunteer Cavalry; 1st U. S. Volunteer Cavalry; 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry Corporate Ref. War Department. Cuban Expeditionary Force. 1st. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Personal Ref. Faupel, Henry F. Access Unrestricted. Use Restrictions None. Items 1 item(s) Contact Old Military and Civil Records (NWCTB), National Archives Building, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20408 PHONE: 202-501-5395 FAX: 202-208-1903