Josephus Conradus Georgius Wiser

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• Record ID Number: MH:I45

Josephus married Katharina Schennker on 9 Feb 1779 in Stüsslingen, Switzerland. Katharina died on 23 Aug 1826 in Niedergosgen, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Record ID Number: MH:I160

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• Record ID Number: MH:I30

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According to Beat Hodler, "Alois Wyser spent several years abroad as a mercenary. This is not so extraordinary: many young Swiss chose that activity at that time. Later he reached a high position in the Solothurn government. He must have been an interesting personality. He wrote a humorous sketch ('Three Days'), describing his short, but shattering experience as a young school teacher in the village of Niedergösgen in the 1820's."

As a farmer's son, Alois decided upon a career in the army. As a professional soldier, he rose to the rank of colonel. He first lived in the town of Solothurn with his family, where he was elected administrator of the Quartermaster Store in 1839. He held this position until his death. He also was Quartermaster General. He died of stomach cancer on 28 Oct 1870. His estate was settled on 24 Apr 1871 (list of beneficiaries and heirs of canon Solothurn, 1870-71, Volume 82, No. 37).

Alois married Katharina Herzog on 14 May 1832 in Catholic Church of Solothurn, Switzerland. Katharina (daughter of Urs Petrus Herzog and Maria Anna Balli) was born in Solothurn, Switzerland; was christened on 17 May 1801; died on 16 Nov 1886 in Solothurn, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Record ID Number: MH:I47

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• Record ID Number: MH:I48

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• Record ID Number: MH:I49

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• Record ID Number: MH:I50

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• Record ID Number: MH:I51

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• Record ID Number: MH:I52

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• Record ID Number: MH:I53

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• Record ID Number: MH:I54

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• Record ID Number: MH:I55

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• Record ID Number: MH:I56

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• Imigration: 1877, Adelaide, South Australia; Official assisted passage passenger lists show arrival in South Australia on 23 Jan 1877 on the Herschel: Adolf (presumably Alfred) Wyser Emilie (presumably Emilia) Wyser Ida Wyser Marie Wyser Otto Wyser Bruno Wyser Elise (presumably Elisa) Wyser The voyage (sequence 77/6) apparently began in Hamburg.
• Residence: 1881, Adeliade, South Australia; From the Sands Directory; Address:
  Regent Street
  Adelaide, South Australia
• Residence: 1882, Adeliade, South Australia; Occupation in the South Australia Directory shown as tanner (page 32).; Address:
  Ifould Street
  Adelaide, South Australia
• Residence: 11 Apr 1882, Adeliade, South Australia; Residence as shown on son Bruno's birth record.; Address:
  Grenfell Street
  Hindmarsh Ward
  Adelaide, South Australia
• Occupation: 29 Sep 1884, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; Fanny Weyser's birth certificate shows Bruno Wyser is a Tanner.
• Residence: 29 Sep 1884, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; Occupation (in Sands Directory): Tanner; Address:
  14 Mitchell Street
  Glebe, NSW
  Australia
• Residence: 1886, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1886 Sands Directory: Tanner. Surname shown as Weiser; Address:
  Mayes Street
  Leichhardt
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Occupation: 20 May 1887, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; On Ida Wiser's marriage certificate, Bruno is shown as a Carpenter.; Address:
  Franklyn Place
  Glebe, N.S.W.
  Australia
• Residence: 1888, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1888 Sands Directory: Tanner; Address:
  21 Bunn Street
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Residence: 1889, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1889 Sands Directory: Tanner. Surname spelled Wycer.; Address:
  183 Elizabeth Street
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Residence: 1890, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1890 Sands Directory: Tanner; Address:
  193 Elizabeth Street
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Cremated: 9 Dec 1895, Crematory at Odd Fellows' Cemetery; Cremated (or "incinerated") at 3:00 PM on December 9, 1895. No autopsy performed. The ashes were received by Mrs E. Wyser on 29 Apr 1896.; : 54 y 9 mos; : Cancer

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According to Beat Hodler:

A Cousin of Bruno Wyser: Catharina Wyser (1826-1901): During many years, she ran the post-office in Niedergösgen. She wasn’t married. She wrote a very varied diary which is today an excellent historical source. In this diary, you find a lot of information about weather, politics, religion, prices, popular medicine and so on. There is also a poem which she dedicated to her cousin Bruno, when he left Switzerland in 1860. In this poem she remembers the good times they had spent together and she expresses also a blessing:

Dem Bruno Wyser ins Stammbuch bei seiner Abreise nach Amerika 1860:
Wenn auf dem Blatt nach langer Zeit
dein Aug einst sinnend ruhen bleibt
dann mög vor deinem Blick erscheinen
das Haus, umgeben von den Bäumen;
In dessen Schatten du einst spieltest
Nach der Scheibe mit der Armbrust zieltest,
Und manche liebe Ferienzeit
So sorglos dich mit uns erfreut

Du willst nun in die Fremde gehen
Wir werden lange dich nicht mehr sehn.
Möge nun in deinem Leben,
Gott viel Glück und Heil dir geben
Und dein guter Engel mit dir gehn

Translated (by Ingeborg Gowans) into English:

For Bruno Wyser : at his departure to America in 1860:

When, after many years, you will return to this page
and recall old times
may you remember the house nestled among the shadegiving trees,
where you used to play, trying bow and arrow,
where you spent many a day, enjoying carefree hours with us..

Now you are off to foreign lands
And we shall not see you anymore
May God grant you good health and wellbeing in your life
May your Guardian Angel walk before you.



According to Beat Hodler:

"I still don't know why Bruno actually travelled to Montevideo, but I guess that his emigration had something to do with the Bally enterprise. His family was related to the Bally family. Bally was at that time one of the very big European shoe producers. Around 1870, Bally tended to expand to South America, whith some difficulties at the beginning and quite a good success in the long run. In the 1870's Bruno Wyser returned to Niedergösgen, where he spent some years before emigrating again (as you know already). In 1873, Elisa Schönhals and Bruno Wyser had a child in Niedergösgen, whose godmother was Emilia Balli. (source: Kirchenbuch Niedergösgen).

Name:
Also known as Bruno Weyser and Bruno Wyser

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According to the Crematory records from the Odd Fellows' Cemetery (sheet 62), Bruno Wyser died from cancer on 7 Dec 1895 at Lane Hospital, San Francisco. His attending physician was L. C. Lane, and there was no autopsy. Bruno Wyser was 54 years 9 months old. His remains were received by the crematory on 9 Dec 1895 and were "incinerated" at 3:00 PM. The witness to the incineration was James W. Mallady. The arrangements were handled by Union Undertaking Company, and the ashes were "delivered to Mrs. Wyser 29 April 1896." She signed a receipt as "Mrs. E. Wyser, 31 Minna Street."

We have received the cremation record from the California Genealogical Society, with special thanks to Nancy Peterson.

Died:
Cause of death: Cancer. Died at the Lane Hospital in San Francisco, California, attended by Dr L C Lane (Levi C Lane).

Bruno married Elisa Schoenhals on 3 Feb 1869 (German-Evangelistic Church) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Elisa (daughter of Johannes Schoenhals and Elisabeth Christina Ringel) was born on 20 Mar 1841 in Simmersbach, Germany; died on 19 Jul 1910 in 573 Jones Street, Oakland, California; was buried on 20 Jul 1910 in Oakland Crematory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Record ID Number: MH:I32

Alfred married Maria Helena Mueller on 14 Nov 1864 in Gersau/SZ, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: A businessman in Aarau and later became a manufaturer in Schoenenwerd/SO; Address:
  Switzerland
• Record ID Number: MH:I34

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• Death: 23 Sep 1835, Solothurn, Switzerland; Died of typhus

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• Record ID Number: MH:I36

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Died:
Died in infancy.

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• Newspaper Article: 28 Feb 1941, Sydney, Australia; Sydney Morning Herald Friday, 28 February 1941 FUNERALS BOYD. - The Relatives and Friends of Mr. TOM BOYD (Honolulu) are kindly invited to attend a Requiem Mass for the Repose of the Soul of his dearly beloved WIFE, Edith, which will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst, THIS FRIDAY, at 7 a.m. CHARLES KINSELA, PTY. LTD. A.F.D.A. A.F.D.A. = Australian Funeral Directors Association. Courtesy of Martin (melliget) at the Ships Nostalgia website: http://www.shipsnostalgia.com
• Biography: 26 Jul 2004; From an interview with Loretta Mary O'Berg (daughter of Gilbert Charles Burns) on 26 Jul 2004 - kindly provided by Cathy Key: "[The Wyser sisters] were Actresses dancing in Australia. Edith [Ida Alice Wyser Boyd - known as Aunt Edie] use to reminisce about their days in Australia. And how they were actresses I believe dancing in Australia. "Uncle Tom [Joseph Thompson Boyd] put her on a ship to Australia and she died in route. They brought her remains back to Hawaii. [Death certificate shows she was cremated in Australia, but ashes could have been returned to Hawaii.] "We lived in a cottage on their estate for about six months. Their house was a mansion. They had 200 dogs - Pekingese - they were all over the house. Aunt Edith had very long hair and she used to let me comb it. "Aunt Ida was very wealthy she had the money before she married Tom Boyd. Tom inherited her money but died shortly after her death. He left everything to the Masonic Order. He was not a nice man, he hated the sisters and didn't want any of the family around. He made the sisters feel very unwelcome and under any circumstance they were not allowed to stay. "Aunt Ida had a room full of beautiful dolls. Uncle Tom would not let me touch the dolls. One day Aunt Edith said go upstairs to the attic and I could chose a doll to have but not to let Uncle Tom know and take it home. "Gilbert [Gilbert Charles Burns] insisted she was trying to smuggle money out to him. Edith and Gilbert were very very close, Tom tried to keep them apart. Daddy wanted to crack the head but my mother wouldn't let him and she undid the stitching but there was no money in the doll."

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The information about Ida's death aboard the S.S. Mariposa was found in Helen Wilkinson's diary by Carolyn Wikinson.

According to Melliget on the www.shipsnostalgia.com website, who kindly searched the Sydney Morning Herald website for information about the arrival of the S.S. Mariposa in Australia: "Couldn't find a mention of the arrival of Mariposa back in Sydney unfortunately (shipping news may have been restricted by that stage) but did notice the following advertisement in the same issue:

SHIPPING
MATSON LINE
S.S. MARIPOSA, S.S. MONTEREY
TO AMERICA, via. Auckland, Suva, Pago
Pago, and Honolulu. Regular Monthly
sailings. Normal conditions."



New South Wales Death Certificate (issued 3 Mar 1941) indicates place of death at sea at Latitude 14° 48" S, Longitude 172° 15" W, late of Honolulu. Death from bronchopneumonia, myocarditis with heart failure, atherosclerosis, hypertension, chronic nephritis, arthritis deformans.

Father: Bruno Wyser - Occupation: Tanner
Mother: Eliza Schoenholz
Informant: Joseph Tom Boyd, widower
Married in Oakland, California
Married 26 years, no issue
Residence: 1554 Palolo Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii
Cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium

Ida married Albert Widmer on 20 May 1887 in Glebe, Australia. Albert (son of Bonafentura Widmer and Babett Frischer) was born in CIRCA 1862 in Switzerland; died on 15 Nov 1910 in Sacramento, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joseph Thompson Boyd. Joseph (son of John Alexander Bowman Boyd and Anna Holso [?]) was born on 24 Dec 1868 in Newtown, New South Wales, Australia; died on 26 Nov 1944 in Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 23 Mar 1961, 1923 West Street, Oakland, California; Last residence address per Certificate of Death.; : 90; Address:
  1923 West Street
  Oakland, California
  United States

Family/Spouse: James Edward Burns. James was born on 12 Feb 1867 in New Jersey ; died on 29 Jan 1959 in Oakland, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emilia married James William Wilkinson on 2 Jun 1895 in St. Andrews Cathedral, Honolulu, Hawaii. James (son of Joseph Wilkinson and Ann McGuire) was born on 24 Feb 1869 in 19 Lower Albion Street, Manchester, England; was christened on 07 Mar 1869 in St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Chapel, Granby Row, Manchester, Lancashire; died on 7 Jul 1909 in Oahu Insane Asylum, Honolulu, Hawaii; was buried in Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Note indicates "7 year old child of Bruno Wyser of Adelaide." Cause of death: diptheria.

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• Record ID Number: MH:I29

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Died:
Cause of death: cholerine (a mild form of diarrhoea occurring during epidemics of cholera)

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• Occupation: 1947; Occupation on death certificate shown as Machinist, United Engineering Company
• Social Security Number: 1947; 546-20-0706
• Physical Description: 02 Dec 1947; Death certificate indicates cause of death as pulmonary tuberculosis, far advanced (duration 2 years), with an old myocardial infarction and peptic ulcer.; : 64
• Cremated: 03 Dec 1947, California Crematory

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Certificate of Death shows names as William W. Wilson

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• Emigration: Abt 1895; Immigration to the United States, per the 1920 United States Census. Naturalised in 1910.
• Residence: 1907, Alameda, California; 1907 City Directory shows Fannie Wyser, a clerk at Hale Brothers, residing at 2901 Johnson Avenue, Alameda, California 94501; Address:
  2901 Johnson Avenue
  Alameda, California 94501
  United States
• Residence: 18 Sep 1918, Oakland, California; Address from James Wilkinson's World War II draft card. Registration Location: Alameda County, California; Roll: 1531223; Draft Board: 7.; Address:
  1621 41st Avenue
  Oakland, California
  United States

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On birth certificate first name is spelled Fanny

Fannie married John Nicholas Jurgensen in Jul 1910 in Marin County, California. John (son of Johann Caspar Scharmann) was born on 23 Dec 1887 in Hawaii; died on 24 Apr 1959 in Alameida County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]