What I really would like to find, is where Georg Guth and Catherina Gitz Guth are buried. From the information I gathered on them, they came from Alsace-Lorraine in the 1850s and landed or settled in Manhattan, living on Willett. They appeared to have three children, Amelie, Maria Louise, and Georg Wilhelm, who later was called, George William. The original spelling of the last name was Gut. The 'h' was an addition sometime when they moved here.
George William was christened, it looks like, right after he was born. They were part of "The First German Presbyterian Church of Rivington Street, in NYC. Around the 1890s, this family moved to Orange (or perhaps East Orange) NJ, and lived on Cone Street (which is probably Day Street today). After that, I have no idea where George and Catherina lived or died. I have no idea what happened to Amelie, except that she married a Wallace (I think William Wallace). Maria Louise became 'Aunt Mary' and lived on a farm in Califon, NJ. She married Herman Ringer (or Henry Ringer) who came from a German family. She and Herman/Henry are buried in a cemetery in West Orange, NJ., in the Ringer family plot, I believe. I can't think of the name of the cemetery, but it was off Eagle Rock Avenue, I believe. In fact, the pictures on this page were taken from that cemetery plot.
George William and Mary joined a church in East Orange, NJ, when George was around 19 or so. He only stayed for a short while, and we find him back in NY, living in Brooklyn as a hat maker around the 1890s, when my grandfather, George Guth, was born. He live in a couple of different places in Brooklyn but finally made the move to NJ in the early 1900s, and settled in East Orange as well. He was married to Capitola Grinlinton, who supposedly is from NY. Her father was Robert Grinlinton, and the only information I have on him is that he was a mechanic, and he may have been involved in fighting and murdering a couple of people in NYC. After I read the newspaper articles on those events, I decided that he might not be the ancestor I am looking for! Nevertheless, I have no other information on him or his wife, except that he may have been Scotch.
If anyone interested in this family has the time to research them, I would love to find where George Guth and Catherina Gitz Guth are buried, as well as Robert Grinlinton and his wife, whoever she may have been. I speculate that Capitola's mother's family may have been from the Bronx. The reason I think this could be is because some Grinlintons are found in the Bronx, and they married into Italian families. As you can tell, Capitola seems to be an Italian name, so, there must have been a reason for her being called that. Capitola's first name though, was Georgianna, I believe. She probably called herself 'Capitola' (possibly a middle name?) because of the fact that she married George Guth and didn't want to be called Georgianna if her husband was George. But there are others with the last name of Grinlinton in the Bronx, although they are dying off. Also though, my grandfather, George Guth (probably the 3rd?) was really into baseball, and for the NY teams. Seems like there was some kind of connection with the Bronx there too. I was in contact with a man who was from the Bronx, whose last name was Grinlinton, who was into baseball. I wrote back some questions, but never heard back from him. Possibly, he passed away. I will never know if he was related or not.
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Did you know the meaning of the German word 'Gut' is good? It could mean good, in the sense of value, but it more probably has to do with occupation, like a dealer in goods, for example, a store clerk.
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