Have been trying for several years to track down info about my German G-Grandfather Johann Faust to no avail and am now trying a different tack hoping that info about his wife may give me a lead.
Her name is Wilhelmine Emma Olga Kaprolat b 7 Nov 1867 in Elberfeld NRW
Her father: Carl Kaprolat b 12 Mar 1834 in Kraupischehnen E. Prussia
Her mother: Clara Wilhelmina Emma Eckgold b18 Mar 1837.
My lookup request: Look at the Geburtsurkunde for W.E.O Kaprolat in the hope that someone has appended info about her marriage and death
Supplemental long-shot request: Any chance that someone could check the Elberfeld Heiratsurkunden for her marriage. I don't know that she was definitely married there, and it could have been in Gelsenkirchen. Also I have no date for the marriage but do have the following facts:
Husband: Johann Faust, milkman. No d.o.b/parents/siblings but born in Dortmund or Elberfeld and died somewhere in the USA 1904-ish.
First child (Johann Georg Friedrich Faust, my Grandfather, whose birth certificate I have) b 27 Nov 1889 Augustastraße 9, Gelsenkirchen so it seems likely that the marriage occurred within a year or two before 1889. There is a widow of Carl Kaprolat (WEO's mother) but no Johann Faust in the on-line Elberfeld address book for 1885 which is the closest to 1889 that I can find and I can't find an on-line Gelsenkirchen address book close to that date, both of which could have helped to narrow the dateline a bit.
Anyone up for the challenge? I'm keen to track down Johann Faust's origins.
