My Great Great Grandmother, Caroline Sophie Carstens Hasling (c1826-1891), is the ancestor who came to mind when I read the theme for this week's Ancestor.
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My mother and my aunt started research on the Hasling family many years before I got bitten by the genealogy bug. When I continued their research I found that Caroline was most often recorded as having been born in Germany, a pretty vague place name. Other documents had her born in Hanover and Prussia. Estimating from dates given in her obituary, Caroline was born c1826 and immigrated c1846. She died 7 March 1891 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Starting with the U. S. Census records I found her in New Orleans in 1850 with her first husband, Charles Beyer, both born in Germany. They were operating a Coffee House and Grocery in Algiers, just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. Just a few blocks away was another Coffee House and Grocery operated by Caroline's sister Henrietta and her husband, John Henri Hasling.
Caroline's husband, Charles, whose German name was Carl Martin Theodore Bayer, had arrived in New Orleans on 4 January 1841 aboard the Barque Clement from Hamburg. A public tree on Family Search has his birth date as 17 May 1814 in Luneberg, Hannover. Once in New Orleans he was known as Charles Beyer.
Caroline and Charles were married c1847, estimating from the age of their first child, Caroline, listed as age 2 in the 1850 census. Son Johan Martin Theodore Beyer was born on 10 October 1850. Charles died on 1 October 1852 while Caroline was pregnant with their third child, Carl Martin Theodore Beyer, Jr., who was born 22 January 1853.
On 10 October 1853 Caroline married Adam Lorenz Hasling, brother of John Henri Hasling, who was married to Henrietta Carstens, Caroline's sister. His first wife, Mary Ann Keeling, had died on 3 June 1852. Both of Caroline's boys were baptized soon after her marriage to Hasling on 6 November 1853 at St. Anna's Episcopal Church, just a short ferry ride across the Mississippi River from their home in Algiers. Daughter Caroline had evidently died earlier.
A. L. Hasling, age 41, a merchant with $75,000 of real estate, born in Bremen
Elizabeth (which was Caroline's third given name), 39, born in Hanover
Henry Carstens, age 65, born in Hanover (Caroline's father Hillrich Heinrich Carstens)
Children: Lawrence, age 13; Agnes, age 10; John (Beyer), age 9; Charles (Beyer), age 6; Laura, age 4; Emma, age 5; Sarah, age 2 months
In 1870 the Hasling family consisted of Adam and Caroline, Lawrence, Jenny, John (Beyer), Charlie (Beyer), Laura, Sally, and Amelia (my Great Grandmother). Caroline is listed in 1870 as born in Prussia. The census was taken just a few months before Algiers was annexed into the city of New Orleans.
In October 1873 Caroline's son John Beyer died and in November 1874 son Charles died. There was no cause of death listed. Neither of her sons married so I had never done much research on them. It wasn't until I chanced to find the delayed birth certificates of Caroline and Charles' sons that I discovered where Caroline was born. The boys' births were registered in 1858 by A. L. Hasling. He states that she was born in Westerbur, Oestfriesland, Hanover. Finally I had her place of birth!
It's important to remember that place names in the census were always entered as they existed at the time of the census. Boundaries and place names changed so even a person who never moved can show up as being in many different places.
Caroline Carstens Hasling died 7 March 1891.
Adam Lawrence Hasling died 12 August 1895.
The Hasling tomb is in the Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery in New Orleans, Loisiana. Also mentioned are:
Louise Catherine Hasling
Hillrich H. Carstens
Charley Beyer
Johann Beyer
Laura Bakeler
Annie Amelia Begue
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