1868 - 1916

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• Birth	May 1868	Oberammergau, Bavaria   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Emigration	1887	Ship "Weser" - Bremen to Baltimore - arr. 2/23/1887   [4, 5]
  Buried	Dec 1916	New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.   [6]
  Died	1 Dec 1916	St. Agnes Hosp., Baltimore, Md.   [7, 8]
  Person ID	I13	Welcomer and Poor Relatives
  Last Modified	05 Apr 2011 02:12:25
  Father	FOERSTER, b. ? , Germany
  Mother	?, b. ? , Germany
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet
  Family	WILLIAM BURNS THISTLETHWAITE, b. 17 Feb 1859, Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire, England
  Married	Abt 1894	Michigan   [9]
  Children	1. John Austin Thistlethwaite, b. 27 Mar 1895, Pioneer, Missaukee, Michigan > 2. MARY ANNA (G.) THISTLETHWAITE, b. 4 Feb 1899, Baltimore, Md.
  Photos	Foerster beer notebook back from the brrewery that Anna is probably connected to in some way.
  	Foerster beer notebook front from the brrewery that Anna is probably connected to in some way.
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  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet

• Photos	Margaret Forster
  Headstones		Headstone of the Thistlethwaite family, father William Burns Thistlethwaite, mother Anna Foerster and son John Austin Thistlethwaite. Status: Located.

• Notes

  Played Mary at the famous Passion Play in Oberammergau. Friends ofCardinal Gibbons - enrolled Mary and Austin at St. Charles CathedralConvent School in Baltimore,Md. Possibly spelled Foerster - Mom spelled Foster on her daughter's birth cert. Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed VirginMary is at corner of Cathedral and Mulberry - probably T's church --------------------------------------------------------------------- Buried in NEW CATHEDRAL CEMETERY 4300 OLD FREDERICK RD. - gate on this road c 21229 phone: 410-566-7770 fax: 410-566-0709 with husband William and son John lot #514 section MM gave age as 49, would have meant she was born in 1867 instead of 1868 asshe stated on the 1900 census buried in single grave section in 1916 then moved on same day as husbandWilliam in 1918 funeral director was John Cowan just the 3 of them, mother, father and son ------------------------------------------------------ John Forster in Detroit Ward 10, 1870, 51 Photographer Bavaria also Anna, 19 Keeping house " Catherine, 19 At Home " Carl 12 At School Michigan William 10 " " Henry 8 " " Joseph Forster Detroit, City Of Detroit Ward 4 712-713 202 Age 47Bricklayer etc. born in Bavaria Jacobina 47 Keeping house Bavaria Bertha 7 MI Lillie 11 MI Lizzie 13 MI Michael Forster Saginaw Kochville 701-702 285R (Same county as onlyThistlethwaite in census) 69 Farmer Bavaria Barbara 60 Keeping house, Bavaria Johann 25 Laborer, Bavaria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ADAM FOERSTER, proprietor of Foerster's Brewery, which is situated atthe foot of Madison Street, Lansing, Ingham County on the banks of theGrand River, was born in Canada, at Heidleberg, Waterloo County, February22, 1848. His father, Louis Foerster, was a native of Baden, Germany, hisnatal year being 1803. He had two brothers in the Napoleonic wars whowere killed and left on the field at Moscow. He was a lock and gunsmithin Germany, and came to the New World in 1835, after his marriage, andlocated at Heidleberg, Canada. He took a farm in the woods and settledupon it five miles from any neighbor, and beginning life here in a barkshanty, worked his way up to a comfortable competency. He still residesupon this old homestead. He is conservative in his views and is a memberof the Lutheran Church. The mother of our subject bore the maiden name ofMary Ziegler, and she was born in Baden, Germany, and died in 1855,leaving ten children. Until he reached the age of eighteen years our subject lived uponthe farm with his parents and attended the common district school. He wasthen apprenticed for two years to the brewer's business at Preston, andin 1866, went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and was for four years in the employof a brewer there as a salesman. In 1870, he came to Ypsilanti, Mich.,and in partnership with his brother, Louis G., he purchased a brewery andoperated it until 1876, when he went to Ligonier, Ind., and there renteda brewery which he carried on until 1877, when he came to Lansing. Our subject was married in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1868, being then unitedwith Miss Catherine Spaeth, a native of Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio,and a daughter of Mr. John Spaeth, who was born in Bavaria, Germany, andbecame all early settler in Ohio, where he carries on his trade as atailor in Hamilton. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- History of the brewery on Grove St. in Ypsilanti (1866-????) MI-287a H. Lee (????-1870) MI-287b H. Lee & Co. *********************************** (1870-1875) MI-287c Adam Foerster & Bros. (1875-1884) MI-287d L. Z. Foerster & Co. Grove Brewery Grove St. (1884-1893) MI-287e Louis Z. Foerster 414 South Grove St (1893-1914) MI-287f L. Z. Foerster Brewing Co. ************************************ (1914-1916) MI-287g Hoch Brewing Co. Prohibition n/a Closed (1933-1934) MI-287h Liberty Brewing Co. (1934-1935) MI-287i Ypsilanti Brewing Co. (1935-1941) MI-287j Christ Vogt, dba Ypsilanti Brewing Co. (1941-1943) MI-287k Dawes Brewing Co. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Anna Foerster City: Ypsilanti State: MI Year: 1888, 1889 Location 2: boards 112 Grove ----------------------------------- 1910 census says she immigrated in 1887 but doesn't say whether she isnaturalized or alien 1900 says that Wm is alien but nothing by her name Died: Breast Cancer

• Sources

  [S463] Birth Certificate - John Austin Thistlethwaite, gives Germany place of birth [S101] Margaret Welcomer - verbal to Paul Welcomer, gave Oberammergau as birthplace, Margaret Welcomer, Verbal to Paul Welcomer, gave Oberammergau as birthplace [S500] Census - 1900 - Maryland, gives date and Germany [S80] Germans to America - 1887 Volume [S143] Census - 1900 - Maryland - Baltimore City - E.D. 182, gives immigration year [S342] New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., NEW CATHEDRAL CEMETERY, 4300 OLD FREDERICK RD., BALTIMORE, MD 21229, phone: 410-566-7770, fax: 410-566-0709 [S113] Mary Anna Thistlethwaite document appoints attorney for father's estate [S342] New Cathedral Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., gave place of death [S500] Census - 1900 - Maryland, married 6 yrs. in 1900 - location extrapolated