The Proeger Family · Generation 5 — Kristin's great-great-grandparents

Lena Kretschmar

Wife of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1855

Lena Kretschmar

Confirmed

Wife of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1855

Born
February 1855
Married
Julius Franz Kretschmar
Children
Max W. Kretschmar
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED — added 24 September 2026 from the 1900 census, read from the image; entered in the family tree the same day.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1855
Born February 1855, Germany; in 1900, mother of eight children, all eight living S228
Arrival1883
🆕 Arrived at Baltimore on 10 October 1883 on the steamship America from Bremen, as Lina, 28, with her husband Franz and their daughters Elisabeth, Clara and Eliza S380; added 24 September 2026.
Death1967
🆕 Two of her daughters' death certificates give her maiden name: Lena Landrock (Clara, 1967) and “Lantrop” (Minnie, 1978) S473S474. added 25 September 2026.
Death1981
A third spelling, “Lena Landrum”, is on her son Max’s 1981 death certificate S1204

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1879
Wife of Julius Franz Kretschmar (“Fritz”), married about 1879; mother of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Names
Her maiden name was Landrock: two daughters' death certificates give it (see below)
Children1894
🆕 Mother of Max W. Kretschmar (1894–1981), one of her children in the 1900 household S228

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Probable
🆕 Probable mother of Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas Probable confirm or correct →. In 1900 Lizzie, born August 1879 in Germany, is “dau.” of the head, Fritz, and Lena is his wife, married 21 years, mother of eight children, all living S228. What is weak: the census relationship is to the head, not to Lena; Lizzie's naturalization puts her birth in August 1878, a little before the marriage of about 1879 S577, so she could be a stepdaughter, and no record names her mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Lena Kretschmar · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

6 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S2281900 U.S. Federal Census — Fritz Kretschmar household, Justice Precinct 6, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry record 44341807; ED 117, sheet 21B, lines 78–86 (indexed "Kutzschmer"). Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Fritz, 48, born Germany, immigrated in 1883, naturalized, married 21 years; Lena, 45, born February 1855, mother of 8 children, 8 living; Lizzie (Aug 1879), Clara (Aug 1881) and Elsie (Jan 1883), born Germany; Charlie (1886), Minnie (Mar 1888), Willie (October 1890) and Max (c.1895), born Texas. 🔑 Fritz is Julius Franz Kretschmar, born c.1851–52. ⚠ His card's 1868–1940 cannot stand against this sheet and [S230]; the card dates are under review and are not changed here.
  2. S380Baltimore passenger list — steamship America, Bremen to Baltimore, arrived 10 October 1883 (page E-7, lines 384–388). Ancestry record 1024920. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Franz Kretschman, 32, farmer, of Germany, bound for Texas, with Lina, 28, and daughters Elisab[eth], 4, Clara, 2, and Eliza, 6 months. The family and their Texas destination are read off the page; the ship, date and ports are on the manifest cover sheet and are taken from Ancestry's index.
  3. S473Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Clara Frances Semff, Cleburne, 1967 (no. 39735). Ancestry record 1020206. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Clara Frances Semff, died 17 June 1967 at Cleburne; born 5 August 1881, Germany; father Franc Kretschmar, mother Lena Landrock; of Old Betsy Road, Keene; buried Rio Vista Cemetery, 19 June.
  4. S474Texas, U.S., Death Certificates — Minnie Johanna Reininger, Austin, 1978 (no. 05706). Ancestry record 887799. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Minnie Johanna Reininger, died 18 January 1978 at Austin; born 11 March 1888, Travis County; father Frank Kretschmar, mother Lena “Lantrop” [Landrock]; informant her son Frank Reininger; buried Capital Memorial Gardens.
  5. S577Petition for Naturalization no. 746, U.S. District Court, Corpus Christi, 17 June 1941. Ancestry record 212539. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas, housewife, of Bishop, Nueces County; born Leipzig, 20 August 1878; married Estanislao Rojas at Austin on 21 September 1912; one child; she swore she arrived at Baltimore on 12 October 1883, on the SS America, as “Lizze Kraetzschmar”. The petition gives her husband's birth as Monterrey, 13 November 1896, which would make him 15 at the marriage; that year is doubtful. The passenger list dates the arrival 10 October 1883.
  6. S1204Texas death certificate no. 104446 — Max William Kretschmar, Sr., died 3 December 1981. Ancestry, “Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982”, record 40026570. Image examined, read 2 October 2026. Confirmed Born 12 January 1894, Travis County; died at Rt. 1, Del Valle; farmer; a veteran; wife Olga Jenke; father Frantz Kretschmar; mother entered as Lena Landrum; buried Salem Lutheran Cemetery; informant his son. “Landrum” is a third spelling of Lena’s maiden name, after Landrock (S473) and Lantrop (S474).

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