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Susannah Gaukel

Female 1824 - 1873  (48 years)


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  • Name Susannah Gaukel 
    Born 18 Sep 1824  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Gender Female 
    Name Susannah Stroh 
    Residence 1840  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Residence 1861  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    [Member of New Jersulem Religion] 
    Residence 1871  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    [Member of New Jersulem Religion] 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-43731 
    Died 12 May 1873  Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5, 8] 
    Cause: bilious vomiting 
    Person ID I43731  Generations
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2025 

    Father Friedrich "Frederick" Gaukel,   b. 9 Jun 1784, , Wuerttemberg, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Nov 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Polly Kaufman,   b. Abt 1790, Of, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1827, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Family ID F11663  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry Stroh,   b. 5 Nov 1818, , Hessen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1901, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years) 
    Married 1 Sep 1840  Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 9] 
    Children 
     1. Catharina Stroh,   b. 7 Mar 1841, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jul 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     2. Thorodea Stroh,   b. 11 Sep 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Dorothy Stroh,   b. CALC 11 Sep 1843, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jul 1865  (Age ~ 21 years)
     4. Jacob Gaukel Stroh,   b. 25 Sep 1848, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 May 1935, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
     5. Heinrich G. "Henry" Stroh,   b. 27 Nov 1850, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Oct 1907, Moreland, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     6. Friedrich Gaukel Stroh,   b. 22 Mar 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Mar 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)
     7. John G. Stroh,   b. 27 Nov 1855, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Feb 1869  (Age 13 years)
     8. Emanuel Stroh,   b. 27 Aug 1859, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Theodore Stroh,   b. 19 Apr 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Nov 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2025 
    Family ID F11403  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and BuildingsThe first settlers in Waterloo Township had large farms, four hundred acres and over, the lot sub-divisions of the German Company Tract. Joseph Schneider settled on Queen Street South, Bishop Benjamin Eby at the south-east side , Abram Weber on the corner of King and Wilmot Streets and David Weber in the neighborhood of the later Grand Trunk Railway station. After the railway was built David Weber moved to Weber Street, named after him, to a location opposite the present Zion Church. Samuel Schneider and Elias Schneider settled in Waterloo. John Brubacher arrived from Pennsylvania in 1816 and took up his lot of the German Company Tract which was in the district of the County House of Refuge.

      Throughout the county here and there little settlements consisting of a few houses, a blacksmith shop, perhaps a tavern and probably a cooper shop and weaver shop, began to appear. Only those settlements which had possible water-powers had any hope of growing to villages or towns. Preston, Galt, Bridgeport and Waterloo were in this class.

      For a long time the vicinity of Berlin was known as the sand-hills. In the locality where the hospital and Collegiate Institute now stand were hills over which loaded wagons could hardly be drawn. On a windy day the sand would form ridges. There was a troublesome sand-hill from Queen Street eastward on Church and another one at the corner of King and Frederick Streets. This latter was cut down about eight or nine feet to the level of the cellar floors, some time after the first buildings had been erected.

      The easterly part of the settlement was known as Ben Eby's. Queen Street South was the Schneider road.

      1830 the village centre was established by Phineas Varnum who, by permission of Joseph Schneider, started a blacksmith shop on the site of the present Walper House. A moderately sized house, 35' by 25', about 40' southwest of the blacksmith shop, was used as a tavern. In the same year the first store in the settlement was opened by William, David and Frederick Miller on the site of the present Post Office,

      There were few houses in the hamlet until a number of immigrants arrived directly from Germany, after 1820. John Eby, druggist and chemist, who had his shop a little west of the present Eby Street, related that when immigrants arrived it was the custom, such was the scarcity of buildings, to form a "bee" including farmers and villagers, to erect log houses for the new-comers. A number of these primitive dwellings were in the locality of the present Post Office. It is related that after one of these bees, the company being assembled in Varnum's blacksmith shop or tavern, the proposal was made that the hamlet should be given a name and someone suggested Berlin in honor of the German immigrants. The suggestion was joyously received. Jacob Stroh's mother, adopted in 1827 by Abram Weber when she was three years old, often told Mr. Stroh of her remembrance of the day when Mr. Weber, who had assisted at the bee, came home and told how the little hamlet had that day received the name of Berlin. This occurred probably in 1833. Mr. Stroh has a document dated 1833 in which Berlin first appears as the name of the hamlet. H. W. Peterson, publisher of the "Canada Museum", the first newspaper in the county, from 1835-1840, is authority that in 1835 there were only 25 dwellings in the place.

      King Street, Queen Street and Frederick Street, being the main entrances from the surrounding country, were from the beginning the principal streets of the village. These streets are not normal with points of the compass. King Street changes direction several times. At the C.N.R. crossing its direction is about northwest, at an angle with the railway of about 45 degrees. It keeps on turning and finally in the main part of Waterloo it runs due north and south. Queen Street and Frederick Street are approximately at right angles to King Street. Conventionally King Street is called east and west from Queen Street, and Queen Street north and south from King Street. Particulars of the buildings and occupants for these streets follow:



      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. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 190.

    2. [S116] Vit - ON - Death Registration, 28629-1873 Susanna Stroh.

    3. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 4 Page 35.

    4. [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian).
      Mrs. Henry Stroh, d. 12 May 1873, aged 48y, 7m, 24t, Ps. 23. 4

    5. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 15 May 1873.
      Died 12 May 1873 In Berlin, Susanna, wife of Heinrich Stroh, died at the age of 48 years, 7 months, 24 days.

    6. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Sect. 2 Page 15.

    7. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd F. W. Bindemann, Minister of the German Evangelical Protestant Church at Greenbush Village, Waterloo Township, Halton County, Wellington District, 31 Aug. 1840 to 31 Aug. 1841.
      Henry STROH, Shoemaker, to Susanna GAUNEL, both of Waterloo. Rev. BINDEMANN. Wit. Charles H, AHRENS, Carpenter and Conrad STROH, Labourer, both of Waterloo.

    8. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 1 Page 26.

    9. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 4 Sep 1840:17.
      last Tuesday Rev Bindemann m. Joh. Heinrich Stroh to Spr Susanna Gaukel, daughter of Friederich Gaukel, innkeeper, all from the city of Berlin.

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 18 Sep 1824 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1840 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1 Sep 1840 - Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - [Member of New Jersulem Religion] - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - [Member of New Jersulem Religion] - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Cause: bilious vomiting - 12 May 1873 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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