Elisa Schoenhals

1841 - 1910  (69 years)

• Documents » Slide Show		Ship's Manifest for S.S. Australia - Honolulu to San Francisco - Departing June 14, 1895 The manifest shows Bruno Weyser (age 55 yrs 6 mos), a Swiss farmer who had last been in San Francisco in 1892), his wife Elisa (age 49 yrs 7 mos), daughters Marie (age 18 yrs 9 mos, possibly crossed out), Fanny (age 9 yrs 11 mos), and Lena (age 7 yrs 10 mos). The ship left on June 14, 1895, and arrived on July 1, 1895.
  		Eliza Schoenhals Wyser - California Certificate of Death
  		Odd Fellows' Cemetery Crematory Record for Bruno Wyser Bruno died of cancer (age 54 years 9 months) at the Lane Hospital in San Francisco on 7 Dec 1895. He was cremated on 9 Dec 1895 (3:00 PM), and his ashes were collected by his widow on 29 April 1896. She was then living at 31 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA 94105.
  		Crocker-Langley City Directory, San Francisco, 1896 Eliza Wyser, a widow, is shown as living at 56 South Park, San Francisco.
  		Passenger Manifest of S.S. Arawa - Depart San Francisco 12 Jan 1895, Arrive Honolulu 19 Jan 1895 - Bruno Wyser and Family, from Switzerland, "seeking employment" Sheet 2 of the passenger manifest, for steerage passengers, shows Bruno Wyser, age 53, a tanner from Switzerland, arriving in Honolulu "seeking employment." With Bruno are wife Eliza (48) and children Mary (23), Lily (22), Bruno (10), Fanny (8), and Lena (6). [We believe Lena is Amy Winifred, daughter of Ida Alice Wyser.] Manifest courtesy of the Hawaii State Archives, Honolulu.
  		Passenger Manifest - S.S. Mariposa - Departed San Francisco, California on 30 Apr 1896, arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii 7 May 1896. Passengers Elisa [Schoenhals] Wyser and Nanny [Fanny] Wyser Passenger manifest shows Elisa Wyser, age 48, born in Germany, and her daughter Nanny [actually Fanny] Wyser, age 11, born in Australia, arriving in Honolulu, Hawaii "to visit son" of Elisa, and brother of Fanny. The arrival, on 7 May 1896, was only four days before the birth (on 11 May 1896) of Albert Wilkinson, the son of Emilia [Lily] Wyser Wilkinson. Courtesy of the Hawaii State Archives.

  
  

  Headstones

  Gravestone in Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii It is unclear if Bruno's remains are buried here: the office at the cemetery says that they are, but this is inconsistent with his obituary from the California newspaper.

  
  

• Name	Elisa Schoenhals
  Birth	20 Mar 1841	Simmersbach, Germany
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1896  [1, 2]
  	Address: 56 South Park Street San Francisco, California 94107 United States
  Residence	29 Apr 1896	San Francisco, California
  	Address shown on crematory receipt for Bruno Wiser's ashes.
  	Address: 31 Minna Street San Francisco, California 94105 United States
  Residence	19 Jul 1910	Oakland, California
  	Here for 1 year and 1 week according to Certificate of Death.
  	Address: 573 Jones Street Oakland, California United States
  Death	19 Jul 1910	573 Jones Street, Oakland, California   [3]
  Burial	20 Jul 1910	Oakland Crematory   [4]
  Person ID	I22	Walsh - Wilson Family Tree | Craig
  Last Modified	22 Aug 2008

  
  

  Father	Johannes Schoenhals,   b. 17 Feb 1806, Koddingen, Germany d. 1 Nov 1885, Simmersbach, Germany (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Elisabeth Christina Ringel,   b. 21 Aug 1810, Grunberg, Germany d. 7 Dec 1876, Simmersbach, Germany (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1832	Grunberg, Germany
  Record ID Number	MH:F53
  Family ID	F52	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bruno Albert Wiser,   b. 6 Nov 1841, Solothurn, Switzerland d. 7 Dec 1895, San Francisco, California (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	3 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Type: German-Evangelistic Church
  Marriage Witnesses	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer
  Minister	03 Feb 1869	Montevideo, Uruguay
  	Pastor Hopper
  Children	+ 1. Ida Alice Wyser,   b. 30 Oct 1867, Montevideo, Uruguay d. 16 Feb 1941, On Board S.S. Mariposa at Sea, Between Samoa and Suva, Fiji (Age 73 years) + 2. Maria Constantina Wiser,   b. 31 Dec 1871, Aarau/AG, Switzerland d. 22 Mar 1961, Merritt Hospital, Oakland, California (Age 89 years) + 3. Emilia Katharina Wyser,   b. 5 Apr 1873, Niedergosgen, Switzerland d. 21 Nov 1959, Eugene, Oregon (Age 86 years)   4. Alfred Alois Wiser,   b. 24 May 1874, Niedergosgen, Switzerland d. 21 Mar 1881, Conningham Street, Young Ward, South Australia (Age 6 years)   5. Otto Edwin Wiser,   b. 6 Oct 1875, Sao Paolo, Brazil   6. Fanny Wiser,   b. 1878   d. 29 Mar 1879, South Australia (Age 1 year)   7. Bertha Fanny Wiser,   b. 15 Mar 1880, Bailey's Garden, Adelaide, South Australia d. 09 Jan 1881, Regent Street, Young Ward, Adeliade, South Australia (Age 0 years)   8. Bruno Wiser,   b. 11 Apr 1882, Grenfell Street, Hindmarsh Ward, Adeliade, South Australia   9. Otto Wiser,   b. 08 Nov 1883, Sydney, Australia d. 01 Dec 1947, Fairmont Hospital, San Leandro, California (Age 64 years)   10. Fannie Wyser,   b. 29 Sep 1884, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia d. 28 Mar 1971, Oakland, California (Age 86 years)
  Documents » Slide Show		Bruno Wyser's Obituary - December 8 1895
  		Marriage of Bruno Wyser and Elise Schönhals - German Evangelical Church [Lutheran] - Montevideo, Uruguay First name/family name of groom: Bruno Wyser, Solothurn, Switzerland Occupation and address of father of the groom: Armoury Manager; Solothurn, Switzerland Age of groom: 27 years First name/family name of bride: Elise Schönhals, Simmersbach, Grand Duchy of Hessen [Germany] Name, address and occupation of father of the bride: Johannes Schönhals, Pastor, Simmersbach Age of bride: 25 years Date of ceremony: 3 Feb 1869 Name of pastor who performed the marriage ceremony: Pastor Hopper Witnesses: Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer German-English translation by Ingeborg Gowans.
  		Arrival of the Wyser Family in Adelaide, South Australia - 23 Jan 1877 This passenger manifest, from the collection of State Records of South Australia, shows the arrival in Adeliade on 23 Jan 1877 of: Bruno Wyser (age 35), Elisa (age 32), Ida (9), Marie [?] (4), Emilie (3), Adolph (2), and Otto (3/4). According to the Palmer List of Merchant Vessels: "The British ship EDITH BYRNE (Official No. 16216) was built by the Canada Works, Birkenhead, in 1856 (first registered, Liverpool 9 June 1857). 729.44 tons register; 165.4 x 30.2 x 19.7 ft (length x beam x depth of hold); 2 decks. "In March 1865, the EDITH BYRNE was purchased from Byrne, of Liverpool, for £8,250 by the Hamburg shipowner, Robert Miles Sloman, who renamed her HERSCHEL, after an earlier vessel that he had sold in Indonesia in 1859. Measurements (Hamburg): 333 Commerzlasten /787 tons; 50,3 x 9,1 x 5,79 meters (length x beam x depth of hold)." The master from 1875-1878 was J. J. Kammann. The vessel's voyages in the 1870's: 1871/73 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Amsterdam/Cuxhaven 1873/74 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Cardiff 1874/75 - Brisbane/intermediate ports/Greenock 1875/76 - Wellington/Peru 1876/78 - Adelaide/intermediate ports/Huanillos 1878/80 - Queensland/intermediate ports/Corinto, Nicaragua According to the South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society, Inc. fact sheet, this voyage of the Herschel originated in Hamburg. Sequence 77/6 -- see http://www.saghs.org.au/ships/shipsH.htm On On 1 June 1891 the HERSCHEL was sold to Hartvigsen, of Arendal, Norway. There is no record of her final fate. Please see: http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/com-ed.htm#edithbyrne1856 GRG35/48 – Assisted Passage – Consignment/Sub-series 1, Unit 22; Volume 22 1877 – Adolph Wyser through Elsie Wyser.
  		Birth record for Bertha Fanny Wyser (15 Mar 1880) and Bruno Wyser (11 Apr 1882) Birth records published by the South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society, 1997, page 3377. Bertha Fanny Wyser = book 234, page 456; Bruno Wyser = book 278, page 217.
  Histories		S.S. Arawa - Built for Shaw, Saville & Albion in 1884
  Family ID	F11	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - Type: German-Evangelistic Church - 3 Feb 1869 - Montevideo, Uruguay Marriage Witnesses - Louis Freyo and Leo Fugginer - 03 Feb 1869 - Montevideo, Uruguay Minister - Pastor Hopper - 03 Feb 1869 - Montevideo, Uruguay  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S4940] Nancy S. Peterson, California Genealogical Society. From 1896 San Francisco Directory. According to Nancy Peterson, this is the only mention of Elisa (Eliza) Wyser in the San Francisco or Oakland directories from 1894 - 1910. [S4941] Crocker-Langley City Directory, 1896, 1896 - Page 1659 (Reliability: 3). Wyzer, Eliza, widow, r. 56 South Park. [S56] California State Registrar, State Index 303-170, County of Alameda Local Registered 1143. Died 19 Jul 1910 from mitral regurgitation (1 year), complicated by myocarditis (1 month 3 days). [S56] California State Registrar, Certificate of Death - State Index 303-170, Local Registered 1143. Certificate of Death shows Oakland Crematory, and a date of burial 20 Jul 1910. Headstone at Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, shows her details there.