Walter Robert Reinhardt Buchner

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-134293
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-130628
• Residence: 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Button Dyer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Robert married Anna Bachman 30 Jun 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Anna (daughter of Heinrich "Henry" Bachman and Susannah Schroeder) was born 1862, Conestogo, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Buchner
• Eby ID Number: 00105-6428.4
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-131943

Joh. — Wilma Romeis. Wilma was born Abt 1833, of, Barmen, Prussia, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Wilma Buchner
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-131944

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• Name: Henry Bachman
• Eby ID Number: 00105-6428.1
• Immigration: 1852, , Canada
• Occupation: 1854, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ploughmaker
• Naturalization: 1857
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; artist
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Artist
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mail Carrier
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mail Carrier
• Occupation: 1905, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; mail carrier

Notes:

King Street, South Side

About 1858 or '59 a frame house with a gable towards King Street and a little porch in front stood on the site adjoining the present Collegiate Institute. This was occupied by Mr. Henry Bachman, photographer. His gallery was on Queen Street South where the Franklin Hotel was located. The house was later moved to Braun Street at the rear of Shanley Street, and the gallery to the third floor of the Canadian Block.


REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

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King Street, Kitchener

Next, well back and at the bottom of a slope from King Street, was the back of Gaukel's Hotel, extending back to Hall's Lane.

Gaukel's was the first considerable Hotel in Berlin. Frederick Gaukel, who had come from Pennsylvania in 1820, purchased a tract of lots in 1833 from Joseph Schneider on the westerly corner of Queen and King Streets, the site formerly occupied by Phineas Vemum's blacksmith shop, and thereon erected a two story frame building with a wide Colonial style veranda. Candidates at election spoke from this veranda to the crowd on the street, and it had other like uses. The little house standing in the rear, which Phineas Varnum had used for a tavern, was used as a kitchen. The hotel woodshed came next. It was a frame building.

When judges came to Berlin for County Court they stayed at this hotel and Henry Stroh would be asked to forage for speckled trout and partridge, Mr. Gaukel wishing to place something special before his distinguished guests. In 1851 Gaukel had a bear tied by a chain to a post in the barnyard on King Street. There was a cross board on top of the post to which the bear could climb and become a public exhibition. In the early years Indians, wrapped in their government blankets, were in the habit of calling at the house for something to eat. The woods along the Conestoga River abounded in butternuts and these, gathered in the fall, served to entertain the guests on Sunday afternoons. Henry Bachman was an early bartender at the hotel.

Frederick Gaukel died in 1853. His son George thereafter had the hotel for one year, paying $140.00 rent to the Estate. James Potter, who came from Bridgeport, then bought the place and changed its name to The Great Western Hotel. He took down the heavy colonial veranda and replaced it with a new one of iron posts and iron railings. The veranda continued to be a rostrum for political orators. Hon. Michael Hamilton Foley, Post Master General, and Mr. I. E. Bowman, for many years Member of Parliament for North Waterloo, spoke from it. Potter had a large swinging sign on a post at the corner facing King Street. On a windy day 'the squeak of the swinging sign could be heard throughout the village. On the sign were the proprietor's name, the name of the hotel and a picture of The Great Eastern Steamship, by far the largest ship of its time.

REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

Heinrich married Susannah Schroeder 23 Jul 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Susannah (daughter of John Schroeder and Mary Haus) was born 11 Sep 1836, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 30 Oct 1836, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Bef 1901. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Susannah Bachman
• Name: Susy Schroder
• Eby ID Number: 00105-6428
• Residence: 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Susannah Schroder, "is married to Henry Bachman. They reside in the town of Berlin where he is engaged as mail collector. Their family consists of four children".


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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• Eby ID Number: 00105-6428.6
• Occupation: 1852, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; labourer
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

John Schroder, "The family by this name are all descendants of John Schroder, a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1802. About the year 1836 he emigrated to Canada and settled in Berlin, Ontario, where he was widely known by all parties. He was married to Mary, daughter of John and Polly (Heckedon) Haus. She was born a few miles west of Waterloo in 1818 and died in Berlin, at their old home on Queen Street East, November 14th, 1888. He died May 10th, 1887. To them was born a family of eight children. "


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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He had lived for 65 years in Berlin before it came into being

John — Mary Haus. Mary (daughter of Johannes "John" Haus and Maria "Mary" "Polly" Heckendorn) was born 1 Sep 1818, Near Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 14 Nov 1888, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Schroeder
• Eby ID Number: 00105-6428.7
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran