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

Wilhelm "William" Braun[1, 2, 3]

Male 1827 - 1914  (86 years)


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  • Name Wilhelm "William" Braun 
    Born 27 Jun 1827  , Hesse-Cassel, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
    Gender Male 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162732468 
    Name Wilhelm Braun 
    Name William Brown 
    Occupation Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    stone cutter - tombstone maker 
    Occupation 1850  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    painter 
    Occupation 1851  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    painter 
    Occupation 1852  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    painter 
    Occupation 1861  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Painter 
    Residence 1861  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Lutheran 
    Occupation 1871  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Painter 
    Residence 1871  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Lutheran 
    Occupation 1873  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Painter 
    Residence 1873  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Occupation 1881  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Painter 
    Residence 1881  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Lutheran 
    Occupation 1891  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Painter 
    Residence 1891  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Lutheran 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-245625 
    Died 23 Jan 1914  South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Buried Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Person ID I245625  Generations
    Last Modified 25 Apr 2024 

    Father Philip Brown,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Elizabeth Lenz,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F282104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Catherine Tuerk,   b. 30 Nov 1833, , Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Aug 1872, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 2 Feb 1850  Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 14
    Children 
     1. Maria Eleanor Braun,   b. Nov 1850, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Catharine Elizabeth Braun,   b. 5 Mar 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Oct 1922, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     3. Joanna Brown,   b. 1855, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Sophrina Brown,   b. 1857, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. ? Braun,   b. 1858, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 2 years)
     6. Charles A. Brown,   b. 1859, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Arthur W. Brown,   b. 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Georg Alfred Braun,   b. Sep 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jan 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     9. Agnes Brown,   b. 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Walter D. Brown,   b. 1866, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F28526  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Barbara Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Jung,   b. 17 Dec 1834, Angenroth, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1913, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Married 2 Mar 1873  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 10
    Children 
     1. William Henry Braun,   b. 19 Nov 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Nov 1952, Lethbridge, , Alberta, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years)
     2. George Alfred Braun,   b. 17 Jan 1876, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Edward Braun,   b. 18 Dec 1877, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Amsey Leander Brown,   b. Mar 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Amasa Brown,   b. 24 Mar 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified 26 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F227461  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Foundry [Ontario Street] to Queen Street- Almost the whole of this block was a spongy swamp, with willow trees along the edge. Cattle could scarcely go into it as they would sink. Up to 1850 there was no building up to Gaukel's Hotel at the corner of Queen Street. Along the street front there was an elevated sidewalk erected on cedar posts with stringers. The sidewalk was about six feet wide and high enough to enable boys to explore underneath as, of course, they used to do. About 1858, Osborne Spiers & Co., erected a three-storey brick building, later known as Spiers' Block, on the Foundry Street corner. The building contained two stores fronting on King Street, one occupied by Wm. Spiers as a grocery and wine and spirit merchant, and the other a dry goods store first occupied by Mr. Stanton and later by W. H. G. Knowles who had been clerk at Stanton's.

      The members of the first Berlin band, organized in 1855, had rooms on the third floor of the building and met there for practice, Next to Spiers Block there was for many years a vacant lot and next to that a small, one-storey frame building with gable toward King Street, ten feet back from the street line, used by Wm. Brown, the first stone cutter and tombstone maker in Berlin. He was also painter, paper-hanger, glazer, and dealer in marble and stone. Next to this, about 1856, Lelinen Brothers had a frame building one storey and a half high, occupied as tinsmith shop and store for tinware, the shop being at the rear. In 1860 this building was replaced by the Snyder Block, a narrow, three-story brick building. Frederick Snyder, who had been apprentice at Lehnen Bros., had this building. He was very industrious and in the habit of working until one and two o'clock in the morning when he came to own the business.

      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

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 13 Mar 1873.
      02 Mar 1873 By Pastor Hoelsche, in Waterloo, Wilhelm Braun of Berlin, widower, was married to Anna Barbara Elise Jacobi, widow of Waterloo.

    2. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 017134-1901.
      Henry W. Braun, 27, Occ. Furniture Finisher, No Birth Place Given, Res. Waterloo, son of William Braun and Barbara Jung married Lucinda Arendt, 20, No Birth Place Given, Res. Waterloo, daughter of William Arndt and Leonia Meyers, Witness(es): Christian Heuhs and Fred Wolfhardt both of Waterloo, 6 March 1901 in Waterloo.

    3. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, 013073-73.
      William Brown, 42, occ. Painter, b. Hessen Cassel, res. Berlin, Widower, son of Philip Brown and Elizabeth Lenz married Anna Barbara Eliza Jacobi, 38, b. Angenroth Hessen Darmst-- (Off Page, Darmstadt?)), Widow, daughter of Gustus Young and Elizabeth Hahn, witnessed by: William Reichert and Andrew Rockel (?) both of Waterloo, 2 March 1873 in Waterloo

    4. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 13.
      William BRAUN Painter Germany 24 Lutheran b. 26-Jun
      Kathrine BRAUN Ireland 19 Roman Catholic b. 30-Nov
      Maria Elliner BROWN Canada 2 Roman Catholic b. 8? November
      Philip BRAUN Painter Germany 15 Lutheran b. 1-Jun

    5. [S137] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1901, a-2 pg 11.

    6. [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library.
      William Brown aged 22, a painter of Berlin married 2 Feb 1850 Greenbush by license to Cathrine Turk aged 18, of Berlin. Witnesses: John Schwalm a painter of Waterloo, Dr. F. W. Delion of Waterloo

    7. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div. 2 Pg. 48.

    8. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 53.

    9. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 1 Page 4.

    10. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 2 Page 39.

    11. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/162732468.

    12. [S2070] Directory - Ontario Directory for 1851.

    13. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 13.

    14. [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose.
      BRAUN, William married 2 Feb 1850 To Catharina TURK. Both from Waterloo. minister Benjamin Eby newspaper date 8 Feb 1850 Pg: 6

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    Link to Google MapsOccupation - stone cutter - tombstone maker - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - painter - 1850 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 2 Feb 1850 - Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Painter - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lutheran - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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    Link to Google MapsMarried - 2 Mar 1873 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Painter - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Painter - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Lutheran - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 23 Jan 1914 - South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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