Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Jacob Roos[1, 2, 3, 4]

Male 1813 - 1898  (85 years)


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  • Name Jacob Roos 
    Born 1813  Dettwiller, Alsace Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
    Gender Male 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210781904 
    Occupation 1861  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Cooper 
    Residence 1861  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Lutheran 
    Occupation 1871  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Cooper 
    Residence 1871  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Lutheran 
    Occupation 1876  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    cooper 
    Occupation 1881  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Cooper 
    Residence 1881  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Lutheran 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-134271 
    Died 24 Aug 1898  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10, 11
    Buried New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11
    Person ID I134271  Generations
    Last Modified 7 Nov 2024 

    Father Johannes "John" Roos,   b. 1777, , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 6 Jun 1870  (Age < 93 years) 
    Mother Elisabeth,   b. 6 Nov 1783, , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jun 1870, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Family ID F230776  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Johanna Carolina "Caroline" Boehmer,   b. 29 Apr 1819, Obermiesau, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Dec 1875, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 1836  [8
    Children 
     1. Johann J. C. "John" Roos,   b. 22 Jan 1837, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Catherine Roos,   b. 13 Apr 1839, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1899, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
     3. Katharina Roos,   b. 21 Mar 1841, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Carolina Roos,   b. 1843,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Jacob Roos,   b. 8 Sep 1843, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. August Roos,   b. 12 Sep 1844, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Nov 1872, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)
     7. Edward Roos,   b. May 1847, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 1911, Caledonia, Haldimand Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 64 years)
     8. Leah Roos,   b. 1849, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Magdalena "Lena" Roos,   b. 1850, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Maria "Mary" Roos,   b. 1 Apr 1850, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Aug 1933, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years)
     11. Magdalene Roos,   b. 1852, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     12. Jacob Roos,   b. 28 Sep 1852, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 1908, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
     13. Margaret Roos,   b. 31 Jul 1854, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Aug 1928, Gaylord, Otsego, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     14. Charles Roos,   b. 1858, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     15. Caroline "Carrie" Roos,   b. 9 Apr 1863, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Oct 1941, Gaylord, Otsego, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     16. Cyrus Roos,   b. 1864, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2024 
    Family ID F33190  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elizabeth Walsh,   b. Aug 1830, , Alsace Lorraine, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Oct 1923, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 93 years) 
    Married 17 Sep 1876  Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Last Modified 12 Nov 2024 
    Family ID F8714  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Jacob Roos, an Alsatian, worked at his trade of Cooper in a shop John Erb operated in connection with his grist mill at Preston from the early thirties until 1845 when he came to New Hope and opened a cooper shop at the extreme west end of the Hamlet, on the south side of the front road to Galt, in a building which many will remember as the "Log Cabin".

      Here Mr. Roos made both types of barrels, the flour barrels for some of the mills around, and tight barrels for some of the numerous distilleries then to be found hereabouts.

      Richard Gowling worked for him making loose barrels from 1866 till 1887 and his son, Nelson, worked with him in 1866 and 1867 and another son, Richard Gowling Jr., in 1867.

      Mr. Roos taught the coopering to Conrad Sachs, whose brother, John, was married to a daughter of Mr. Roos. My first record of Conrad is July 19th, 1854, the last, 1862, when he appears to have gone to Buffalo where some of his descendents still reside. As my record comes from Hespeler's books it looks as if Conrad first learned the trade with Mr. Roos and then went to work in Hespeler's Cooperage.

      Mr. Roos Sr. taught both trades to his son, Jacob Roos, who appears to have taken over the shop about 1871 and he continued to operate it until he died in 1907.

      He made chiefly flour barrels which he delivered with a one-horse waggon fitted with a rack which held 65 barrels. Old timers will remember seeing these loads of barrels passing along Queen Street on the way to Kribs' Mill.

      Another son, Edward Roos, learned Coopering with his father and apparently upon completion of his apprenticeship which must have included the tight barrel making he went in 1871 (when young Jake took over the shop) to work for Mr. Hespeler where he remained till 1876. Mr. Ed. Sachs, born 1868, nephew of Edward Roos, told me his Uncle Ed. was in charge of the shop for Hespeler.

      Mr. Hespeler's Cooper Shop was in the stone building, which with additions made subsequently, is now The Hydro-Electric Power Station.

      Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

  • Sources 
    1. [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register.
      Barbara Erb Born: Waterloo Res: Waterloo Age: 23 Father: Peter Born: 1838 Spouse: John H. Roos Age: 23 born: Preston Res: Hespeler Born: 1838 Father: Jacob Mother: Carolien Bohmes married 2 Jul 1861

    2. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 16 Dec 1875.
      Died 9 Dec 1875 In Hespeler, Caroline Roos, nee Boehmer, wife of Jakob Roos, died after a one year illness of dropsy at the age of 56 years, 7 months, 10 days. She had 8 children die before her. She leaves behind a husband, 9 children and 14 grandchildren.

    3. [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 010988-77.
      Jacob Roos, 24, occ. Cooper, b. Waterloo Twp, res. Hespeler, S/O Jacob & Caroline Married Maria Albrecht, 25, b. Waterloo Twp, res. Waterloo Twp, D/O Frederic & Maria, Witn Charles Wilson & Lena Roos Both Of Hespeler, 19 June 1877 In Waterloo Twp.

    4. [S3002] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 010994-77.
      Charles Wilson, 27, occ. Laborer, b. Canada, res. Galt, S/O William & Laura (?) Married Lena Roos, 24, b. Canada, res. Hespeler, D/O Jacob & Caroline, Witn Charles Roos Of Hespeler & Maggie Roos Of Preston, 29 August 1877 In Waterloo Twp.

    5. [S604] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1871, Div. 2, Pg. 4.

    6. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration.
      Jacob Roos cooper of Waterloo Twp., b. Dettweiter Elsas Prussia Age: 62 born abt 1814 father: John Roos mother: Elizabeth Roos married Elisabeth Hirschnviller Age:: 46 born abt 1830 b. Elsas Prussia father: John Walch mother: Barbara Walch married 17 Sep 1876 Marriage Place: Waterloo, Hespeler

    7. [S178] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1881, Waterloo S. Twp. 1881 Div 2 Page 23.

    8. [S894] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1861, Sect. 10 Page 71.

    9. [S116] Vit - ON - Death Registration.
      Name:Jacob Roos
      Gender:Male
      Age:84
      Birth Date:abt 1814
      Birth Place:Alsace
      Death Date:24 Aug 1898
      Death Place:Waterloo Twp Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
      Religion:Lutheran
      Cause of Death:Old Age

    10. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210781904.

    11. [S237] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - New Hope CC#4498 Internet Link .
      [South] Jacob ROOS/ died Aug. 24, 1898/ ROOS/
      [East] In memory of/ August/ son of/ Jacob & Caroline/ ROOS/ who died/ Nov. 18, 1872/ aged 28 yrs. 2 mos./ & 16 days/
      [North] Caroline/ beloved wife of/ Jacob ROOS/ who died Dec. 9, 1875/ aged/ 56 yrs. 7 mos. & 12 days/

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1813 - Dettwiller, Alsace Lorraine, France Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Cooper - 1861 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lutheran - 1861 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Cooper - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lutheran - 1871 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - cooper - 1876 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 17 Sep 1876 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Cooper - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lutheran - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 24 Aug 1898 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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