Frederick Knutz?

[eknuths]

Hi, I'm new here, and relatively unseasoned with genealogy. I live in The States, and I can trace almost everything back perfectly within the US, and I found it easy to do things with some of the immigrants when they come over from Europe, but I'm having tremendous (as in me wasting away maybe 20-30 hours browsing/researching) my paternal GGG-Grandfather. I've checked quite a few census records, some emigration things, and know more about Schleswig-Holstein's geography than I ever thought I would. Any help, particularly useful help, would be infinitely appreciated.

I'll give you the information I have (which isn't a ton):

• His name in America was Frederick Knuths, although most people I've talked to believe this was either Knutz or Knutzen over in Europe.
• He was from either extreme Northern Germany or from Southern Denmark. Speculation as to where (on the census report it says Mecklenburg, everyone else seems to think it was Schleswig-Holstein. So I think we can probably be confident it was one of those two.
• He was born in the 1830's, 1832 most likely.
• He married a Sarah/Dorathea K (Klocker/Klochor/Klaco/Klaca) and had somewhere in the realm of nine children with her.
• He came to the USA circa 1860, and settled first Illinois, and then Iowa.
• He died in 1880 in Iowa (I'll attach the census from a decade before he died at the bottom of the page.)
• His name may have been Knutz, Knutzen, Knutsen, Knutson, Knudsen, Knut, Knudt, Knuth, etc., and there are so many in the North-Germany/Scandinavia region that it's difficult to put a precise name to him, especially when I'm so fresh at this.

If anyone had any tips for me, or can somehow find something out about him, I would be as indebted to you as anyone can be to someone they've never met. If you do find some stuff out, please explain to me how, so I can learn to follow that method myself.

Thanks, awaiting your reply,
Elliot

P.S. The census record is here: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDK7-YCH

[suehorne58]

Elliot,
Found the following which I hope may be of some help:
Frederick Knuths b 1832 Macklenburg,Germany, marr Sarah unknown (b 1841 Macklenburg,Germany) 1859 Wisconsin,USA known children:
1) Emma Knuths b1859 Wisconsin
2) Frank H Knuths b July 1860 Wisconsin, died 11/04/1923,Marion,Oregon,USA
3)Henry Knuths b1863 Wisconsin, died 02/03/1929 Plainview,Linn,Oregon,USA
4) Matilda Knuths b1865 Iowa
5) Irving J Knuths b 1869 Iowa
6)Robert W Knuths b Feb 1871 Iowa
7)Dora b 1885 Iowa

Henry Knuths b1863 marr Mary Ann Peterson(b 1873 Iowa, died 07/05/1940 Marion,Oregon,USA) 1905,Linn,Oregon,USA
Child of Henry/Mary
1) William Harold Knuths b1908 Centre,Linn,Oregon,USA, died 17/04/1961, Shedd,Linn,Oregon USA,buried Albany, Linn,Oregon,USA

Irving J Knuths b1869 marr Laura unknown(b1880 Illinois) 1900 Iowa
Children of Irving/Laura
1) Jay Knuths b 30/11/1900 Wright,Iowa,USA,died Dec 1974 Wight,Iowa
2)Dale Knuths b16/05/1912 Wright,Iowa,died July 1973 Iowa

Robert W Knuths b 1885 marr Augusta H Schroder(b Mar 1873 Wisconsin) 1893 Franklin,Iowa
Children Robert/Augusta:
1) Ralph C Knuth b Mar 1895 Franklin,Iowa, died 11/01/1965,Terry,Prarie,Montana
2) Ruth L Knuths b Aug 1899 Franklin,Iowa

Ralph C Knuths b1895 marr Hallie T Goshon(b 04/06/1894 Indiana, died 29/08/1980 Terry,Prarie,Montana)) on 13/11/1922 Fall River,South Dakota.

The primary source I used on this occasion was www.familysearch.org which is very useful for finding information before 1837 which is when the English records first started.

Sue

[eknuths]

Hi!

Thank you so much for the time you put in. I did know most of this already, and I'm primarily looking for surname origins and the family back in Europe, but you gave me some new information about his siblings to go by. I think it should be helpful.
Thanks a lot for your help,
Elliot

[suehorne58]

Elliot,
You're quite welcome.
Sue