Life History
6th Sep 1813 |
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between 1823 and 1850 |
Resident (Neufilzen was last residence, previous info unavailable) in Neufilzen, Prussia.1 |
16th May 1848 |
Birth of son Peter THOMAS in Alsace-Lorraine, Prussian Empire.4,3,5,6,2,7 |
between 1850 and 1865 |
Residence2 in Wheelock, Brazos, Texas.3 |
about 1852 |
Birth of daughter Catherine THOMAS in Brazos County, Texas.8,3 |
about 1853 |
Birth of daughter Laura Margaret THOMAS in Brazos County, Texas.9,2,3 |
Feb 1855 |
Birth of daughter Mary Elizabeth THOMAS in Benham, Texas.10,4,11,3 |
about 1857 |
Birth of daughter Anna M THOMAS in Brazos County, Texas.3 |
Sep 1860 |
Birth of son Lewis N THOMAS in Brazos County, Texas.4,12,13 |
about 1863 |
Birth of son J THOMAS in Brazos County, Texas.4 |
31st Oct 1868 |
Died in Brazos County, Texas.4,2 Last child born 1863 |
after 31st Oct 1868 |
Buried in Schultze Cemetery, Brazos County, Texas.2 |
BET JAN AND JUN 1850 |
Birth of son Joseph THOMAS in Prussia.4,3,2 |
Other facts
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Married Mary Ann KIEFER |
Notes
- Nicholas Thomas came to the US in 1850 from Prussia, the leading German state at that time. (It was Prussia, which had absorbed all the German states except Austria, against whom the British and their allies fought in World War I.) A descendant, Donna Thomas Mondier, found the information on the Thomas family's move to the US. Nicholas is listed in the passengers sailing from Bremen to Galveston, Texas.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Primary Immigrant: Thomas, Nic, from Neufilzen; family of 4. The ship's name was Estafette, Captain Heyen, departure of Sept 19, 1850 from Bremen to Galveston arriving in Nov of 1850
-- Originally published in a weekly newspaper of Rudolfstadt, Thuringia, Allgemein Auswanderungs-Zeitung (General Emigration Newspaper), vol. 4 (1850).
-- From Bremen to America in 1850: Fourteen Rare Emigrant Ship Lists by Clifford Neal Smith (German-American Genealogical Research Monograph, 22, McNeal, AZ: Westland Publications, 1987. 35p.), pp 17 and 18
More details about the family are found in the Notes for his daughter Mary Elizabeth Thomas, who married Thomas Lewis/Louis Terry in Brazos County, Texas, where the Thomases settled.
1860 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas, 23 July, PO Wheelock, page 75, Hse/Fam #544
Nicholas Thomas 47 M Farmer $1216 Real Estate $112 Personal b Prusia [sic] [b Abt. 1813]
Mary A Thomas 38 F Housewife b Prusia [b Abt. 1822]
Peter Thomas 12 M Prussia
Joseph Thomas 10 M b Prussia
Thomas, Cathrine 8 F b Texas
Thomas, Laurie 6 F b Texas
Thomas, Elizabeth 5 F b Texas
Thomas, Anna M 3 F b Texas
A researcher on the Zerbst side of this family found a listing in a publication with information about the death and burial of Nicholas.
"I have come across information that lists Nicholas Thomas (9/6/1813-10/31/1868) as being buried in the Schultze Cemetery in Brazos County. It is not information listed on Find-A-Grave. It was in a book at the Carnegie Library in Bryan, TX. I am trying to research this cemetery because I believe my GGG grandparents, Carl and Henrietta Zerbst (Catherine Thomas Zerbst in-laws) may be buried there."
-- Kristen Eixmann, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 24 Juen 2011
Sources
- 1. From Bremen to America in 1850: Fourteen Rare Emigrant Ship Lists by Clifford Neal Smith, pp 17 and 18
- 2. Email Sources
- 3. 1860 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
- 23 July, PO Wheelock, page 75, Hse/Fam #544
- 4. 1870 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
- 16 June, PO Bryan, page 2, Hse/Fam #11
- 5. 1880 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
- 8 June, District 2/16, page 14B, Hse/Fam #131
- 6. 1920 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
- 10 February, Precinct 3, District 5, page 11A, Hse #207, Fam #208
- 7. Cemetery Registries
- 8. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index
- Name: Name: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.; Date: 1999;;
- ID#: MRT198_384354
- 9. 1870 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
- 16 June, PO Bryan, page 2, Hse/Fam #10
- 10. 1900 Federal Census, Tom Green County, Texas
- 14 June, San Angelo, District 156, page 14B, Hse #268, Fam #276
- 11. 1880 Federal Census, Milam County, Texas
- 24 June, District 103, District 103, page 46, Hse/Family #233
- 12. 1900 Federal Census, Bell County, Texas
- 5 June, Rogers, District 22, page 5B, Hse #96, Fam #99
- 13. 1880 Federal Census, Brazos County, Texas
- 8 June, District 2/16, page 14B, Hse/Fam #130