Family History
Dad's Side:
Grandpa's Side
My great-great-grandpa and grandma came through Ellis Island. My great-great grandpa, Holger Andersen, came to America on April 21, 1906, from Godthaab, Greenland. He was 18 years old. He came over on a ship called Caronia that left from Liverpool, England.
My great-great-grandma, Anna (Ravn) Andersen, came to America on October 4, 1911, Vejile, Denmark. She was 24 years old. She came over on a ship called Oscar ll that left from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Holgar and Anna got married and had 3 children. One of them was my great-grandma Ila. Ila married Wallace Knudson and together they had 2 children: John and Karen. John married Patricia Rasmussen and they had 3 children. The oldest child was my dad, Rodney Knudson.
Mom's Side:
Grandma's Side
My great-great-great-grandma, Dora Muxfeldt, came over from Berg Auf Fehmarn, Germany, but she got homesick so she went back to Germany.
My great-great-grandpa, Heinrich (Henry) Muxfeldt, Dora's son, came over from berg Auf Fehmarn, Germany. Family history says that he came over in 1900 at the age of 16, but the Ellis Island says that he came over in 1909 at the age of 12. Our family thinks that he lied about his age to get cheaper passage rate.
Henry married Annie Dau. They had 4 children. The youngest was Maynard Muxfeldt. He married Marceline Dakan. They had one child: Sherrie Lee. She married John Lee and they had 3 children.
My great-great great-great grandma was Sarah Adeline Lincoln. She was called Addie. She was a partial invalid because years earlier she had been gored by a bull. This left her with a bulging rupture that she lived with for years. She died when she was 92 years old and she was a 4th cousin to Abraham Lincoln.
Grandpa's Side
My great-great-great-grandma, Mette (Rold) Howlett, was born on Sept. 2, 1935, in Fjellard, Gunderup Parish, Denmark. She came to America in 1869.
My great-great-great-grandpa, Lambert Howlett, was born on May 30, 1851, in Norfork County, Old England. He came to America in 1855.
Mette and Lambert got married and had Susan (Howlett) Lee. Susan married John Lee and they had 6 children and the oldest was Virgil. He married Alma Klindt. They had 4 children. The youngest was John. he married Sherrie Muxfeldt. They had 3 children and the middle child was Rhonda Lee who is my mom.
http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp
Family history book
Comments
A distant relative to Abe Lincoln! That explains a lot!
Be sure to always add two pictures. If you couldn't get family pictures in here, put a picture of Ellis Island or a map of where they came from.