Identification: Two Hadeler sisters and family.
Back row (standing)
Louise (Wegener) Mayer, Henry Wegener, Friedrich J. W. Bursch, Dina
(Wegener) Wegener
Middle row (seated)
Gottfried J. B. Wegener, Elisabeth “Lisette” (Hadeler) Wegener, Anna
(Hadeler) Bursch, John Mayer
Front row (seated on ground)
Henry J. Wegener, Alice Wegener
Notes: Lisette and Anna (seated together) were sisters.
Anna was married to Friedrich Bursch. Lisette was married to Gottfried
J. B. Wegener. One of their children, Louise, was married to John
Mayer, and with them is their son Peter (probably taking the picture).
Another of the Wegener children was Henry, who married his cousin,
Dina Wegener. They had two children, Alice and Henry.
See detail below of Gottfried J. B. Wegener and Elisabeth “Lisette”
(Hadeler) Wegener.
Date: circa 1906-1908, based on estimated ages of youngest children. (One of the children, Henry, died in 1911.)
Repository: Photograph was owned by Alice Wegener; disposition of the original after her death in 1981 is not known. Black and white negatives and color slides held by Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Missouri.
Size of original: Not known.
Number: W-PHO-0003.
Retrieve: Larger image (jpg - 1,831k).
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Aunt Louise Mayer [Louise Wegener Mayer]
My father - Uncle Henry Wegener [Henry Wegener]
(Uncle) Fred Bursch - Grossmama's brother-in-law [Frederick J. W. Bursch]
My mother - Aunt Dinah Wegener [Gerhardine "Dina" Wegener Wegener]
Middle row (seated)
Grosspapa [Gottfried J. B. Wegener]
Grossmama [Elisabeth "Lisette" Hadeler Wegener]
Aunt Bursch - Sister of Grossmama [Anna Hadeler Bursch]
Uncle John Mayer [John Mayer]
Last [front] row (seated)
My brother Henry [Henry J. Wegener]
"Me" Alice [Alice Wegener]
Gottfried J. B. Wegener and Elisabeth “Lisette” (Hadeler) Wegener
