Monday 10 August 2015

Time for you to get a cup of coffee/tea and make yourself comfortable. We are moving onto Mary Louise Brown's grandmother Maria Woerner Moeckel. who remarried when she came to Barkerville. She married a John Christian Hagarman on 14 Mar 1882, in Barkerville. The marriage certificate provides us with her father and mother's names as, Johanas Warner and Anna Elizabeth Petzerner, both surnames are misspelled. The should be either Woerner or Werner and Petzinger.

 
Source: "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDDH-Z4L : accessed 11 August 2015), John Christian Hagarman and Maria Katharina Mockel, 14 Mar 1882; citing , British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Archives film number B11387, Vital Statistics Agency, Victoria; FHL microfilm 1,984,108.
 Maria died in Barkerville on July 23, 1889. So cousins, you have another ancestor buried in the Barkerville cemetery, that would make two generations.

 
Source: British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLKX-ZY4 : accessed 11 August 2015), Mary Catherine Hageman, 23 Jul 1889; citing , British Columbia, Canada; British Columbia Archives film number B13114, Division of Vital Statistics, Victoria; FHL microfilm 1,927,142.

I always wonder why our ancestors decided to travel all the way to the West Coast of Canada. Maria Moeckel (Mockel) in looking for her husband's death I came across a number of Moeckels living in Washington State.

I'm still hunting for Henry Nicholas Brown's origins. I'm also trying to find where Maria Moeckel's husband Johanas Moeckel died and when.