I am seeking information about my great-grandparents, Margaret Osing &
Henirich Wilhelm Kaiser. I suspect that they came from Hannover (maybe
Bremen)) because their daughter, my grandmother married Martin Erasmi who
was from a long line of Erasmis (1635 Johann Erasmi) from Meyenburg (
near Bremen) in Hannover. Heinrich ( Henry Wilhelm settled in Brooklyn ,
NY. He is buried in a family plot in Lutheran Cemetery, Brooklyn
There is a 1880 census for (Brooklyn NY) entry for a John W Kaiser who
matches Henry due to the children listed. I wonder anyone who have any
leads on that Kaiser family or the Oeters family. Thanks
Charles Erasmi
Hi Charles, You might want to write to the cemetery, if you don't already
have the data on their records. They will give you the name of the purchaser
of the plot and the date. They should be able to provide a list of
everyone buried in the plot and when each burial took place, and most
often, the age at death. Then you can obtain death certificates. Death
certificates could supply you with birth dates and possibly birth places and
parents names. That data could even lead to finding a baptism record, if
only from a lateral relative. Church records in German neighborhoods most
often followed the custom of including information on their records as to
the birth place of the parents, especially when the pastor was German.
I've gone this route more than once and have had good luck about half the
time. It's worth the try. The address is Lutheran Cemetery, (now
All-Faiths Cemetery) 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue Middle Village, NY 11379.
Lutheran Cemetery is actually in Queens County, not Brooklyn. Metropolitan
Avenue was the old trolley route from the ferry (from lower Manhattan)
through Brooklyn and into Queens. Before the bridges were built many people
stayed overnight in lodgings near the cemetery before making the return
trip.
The cemetery may send you a tax or other bill. You are under no obligation
to pay it, they just try! Any charge for the information itself probably
would be minimal, if any. Good luck, Marion