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Nancy Held GREEFF

Nancy Held GREEFF

Female 1929 -  (95 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Nancy Held GREEFF was born on 29 Apr 1929 (daughter of Ernest Charles Frederick GREEFF and Katharine TWYFORD).

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Ernest Charles Frederick GREEFF was born on 11 Mar 1895 (son of Ernst GREEFF and Helen SCHMIDT).

    Notes:

    Businessman in New York

    Ernest married Katharine TWYFORD on 25 Feb 1922. Katharine was born on 7 Feb 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Katharine TWYFORD was born on 7 Feb 1897.
    Children:
    1. Ernest Twyford GREEFF was born on 29 May 1924.
    2. 1. Nancy Held GREEFF was born on 29 Apr 1929.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Ernst GREEFF was born on 27 Jan 1862 in Hoboken, New York, USA (son of Emil Ernst GREEFF and Johanna BETTELHAUSER, son of Emil Ernst GREEFF and Friederike (Frieda) BETTELHAUSER); died on 16 Feb 1921.

    Notes:

    He spent his youth in Barmen, joined the Concordia in 1880, served in the Hessean Leib-Dragoner Regiment no.24 and qualified as officer. then he went to New York as a partner in "Greeff & Comp"

    Ernst married Helen SCHMIDT on 24 Apr 1894. Helen was born on 9 Oct 1873; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Helen SCHMIDT was born on 9 Oct 1873; and died.
    Children:
    1. 2. Ernest Charles Frederick GREEFF was born on 11 Mar 1895.
    2. Charles Alfred GREEFF was born on 8 Jun 1897; and died.
    3. Herbert Bernard GREEFF was born on 8 Oct 1900.
    4. Helen Erna Marguerite GREEFF was born on 26 Dec 1909.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Emil Ernst GREEFF was born on 1 Sep 1831 in Barmen (son of Joh Peter GREEFF and Sophie Emilie BREDT); died on 3 May 1917 in Frankfurt Am Main.

    Notes:

    "Er begrundete die firma 'Greeff @ Comp' in Hoboken (bei New York), ...."
    "Auf grund seiner erfahrungen im Deutch-Amerikanischen handelsverkehr und seines grossenanfehens wurde Ernst Greeff Amerikanischer Bizekonsul."
    And much more: J V Bredt (1941:66)
    After his commercial training he served in the infantry in Koln for one year together with his brother Julius.

    He started the firm "Greeff& Comp" In Hoboken (by New York), settled his first household there and obtained American citizenship.
    His parents-in-law in Germany suffered keenly from the separation from their favourite daughter and since Ernst also found the ocean journey very arduous he moved back to Mainz in 1865. There he regained German citizenship, in order to afford his sons the possibility to satisfy the requirements for militarytraining at a later stage.
    He then acquired a house in Haspeler street, Unterbarten where he took upresidence.
    This house was sold after the death of his first wife in 1873; the Paulskirche was built in the garden.
    With his second wife Ernst remained living in Barmen at first, but later moved with his family to Frankfurt am Main.
    In 1893 he acquired the castle Moosburg, Guttingen, canton of Thurgau in Switzserland, but used itonly as a summer residence for the time being.
    Because of his experience in German-American commerce and because of the esteem in which he was held Ernst Greeff became American Vice-Consul. The German government also acknowledged his work by conferring on him the order of the Red Eagle IV.
    As a keen hunter he had undertaken hunts at Brilon, Honningen am Rhein, Taunus and in Hungary. Blessed with great hardiness by nature, he was able to shoot several stags in the Carpathian mountains at the age of 85. On his 80th birthday he still danced the waltz and eye witnesses report that at his age he still ran after a moving tram and jumped aboard

    Emil married Johanna BETTELHAUSER on 5 Dec 1859 in Mainz, Germany. Johanna was born on 20 Feb 1837 in Mainz, Germany; died on 1 May 1873 in Barmen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Johanna BETTELHAUSER was born on 20 Feb 1837 in Mainz, Germany; died on 1 May 1873 in Barmen.
    Children:
    1. 4. Ernst GREEFF was born on 27 Jan 1862 in Hoboken, New York, USA; died on 16 Feb 1921.
    2. Friedrich GREEFF was born on 16 Nov 1878 in Barmen, Germany; and died.


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