Transcription

The record

Document: One page of the 1900 U.S. Census, Schedule No. 1—Population, Philadelphia, Ward 31, Enumeration District 741, Sheet 2. The Wesemann household is on lines 9–11.

Language: English

Transcription conventions: on printed forms, pre-printed text is set in roman and handwritten entries in \italic\; wholly handwritten registers and lists are set in roman. Square brackets mark editorial matter: [?] follows an uncertain reading, [illegible] marks unread text, [blank] marks an unfilled field, and bracketed descriptions record stamps, marks, and annotations. Spelling, abbreviation, and capitalisation follow the original; nothing is corrected. On census and register pages that carry many unrelated entries, the page heading and the target household or entry are transcribed in full; the extent of what is and is not transcribed is stated on each page.

[Printed at top:] 7-224. TWELFTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. [Stamped, upper right:] 279 A 27-0

State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia SCHEDULE No. 1.—POPULATION. Supervisor’s District No. 1 Enumeration District No. 741 Sheet No. 2

Township or other division of county [blank] Name of Institution [blank] Name of incorporated city, town, or village, within the above-named division, [blank] Ward of city, 31

Enumerated by me on the 1st & 4th day of June, 1900, Samuel J. Wallace Jr. [?], Enumerator. [Written at right:] 3029

[Other columns blank for these lines. Numbers written by census coders in the code columns are omitted. Other households on the page are not transcribed.]

Transcriber’s notes

Fredericka’s birth is given as May 1843; her baptism (23 May 1844) and 1907 death certificate (23 May 1844) agree on 1844. Treat 1843 as an informant error.

Immigration year 1863 (37 years in the U.S.) is contradicted by the 1860 census, which shows Fredericka, age 16, in her father’s Philadelphia household. The census figure is unreliable here.

“Married 37 years” fits a marriage c. 1863, not the documented 29 July 1866. The same census year is being used as a reference point for both answers, which suggests the informant was reckoning loosely.

Five children born, four living matches the family record: William, Emma, Sophia, and George Washington are the four surviving children named in the 1880 census. The fifth is Mathilda G. Wesemann, born 2 April 1873, who died in infancy on 11 July 1873 and is buried in her grandparents' plot at German Lutheran Cemetery (Chapter 4).

The house number re-checked at zoom 2026-09-27: 2304 (the next house, line 12, is 2306); her 1907 death certificate gives 2304 E. Firth St., and the family owned the house free of mortgage.

Grade: PRIMARY.