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Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas

Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1878

Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas

Confirmed

Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar · born 1878

Born
20 August 1878
Parents
Julius Franz Kretschmar & Lena Kretschmar
Married
Estanislao Rojas
Sources
6

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED (index) — added 24 September 2026 from an index record that names her father; entered in the family tree the same day.

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1878
Born 20 August 1878, Leipzig, Germany; Lizzie, the eldest, in the 1900 household S228
Death1951
Named as Lizzie Rojas in her father's obituary index S296; died 11 February 1951, Bishop, Nueces County, Texas S634
Death1951
🆕 Her death certificate, no. 9437, gives her death on 11 February 1951 at Route 2, Bishop, where she had lived 31 years, of heart disease. It names her father as “Frank Kretczehmas”, born Germany, that is Julius Franz Kretschmar. Her husband, Estanislao Rojas, was the informant, and the Cage-Piper Funeral Home took her to Kingsville S634. added 26 September 2026.
Census1930
🆕 In 1930 she and Estanislao V. Rojas, 35, born Mexico, lived near Bishop in the Driscoll Ranch subdivision, Nueces County, with a daughter aged 15. Lizzie was 52, born Germany, German her mother tongue S639. The census's immigration year, 1909, cannot be right, since she was in her father's Texas household in 1900. In 1950 the couple were still in Nueces County, Estanislao 54 and Lizzie 72, with a boy of 9 listed as their son whose parents are both given as born in Mexico, so probably a grandson or foster son; that census's “born Mexico” for Lizzie is an error S640. added 26 September 2026.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
Daughter of Julius Franz Kretschmar; probably of Lena Kretschmar Probable confirm or correct → (see below); sister of Willie Frank Kretschmar
Marriage1912
🆕 Her husband was Estanislao Rojas, born in Monterrey, Mexico; they married at Austin on 21 September 1912 and had one child. She petitioned for naturalization at Corpus Christi on 17 June 1941, swearing that she had come to Baltimore on the SS America in October 1883 as “Lizze Kraetzschmar” S577. The petition's 1896 birth year for Estanislao is doubtful. added 25 September 2026.
Parents1900
🆕 Her mother: probably Lena Kretschmar Probable confirm or correct →. In 1900, read from the image, Lizzie is “dau.” of the head, Fritz, and Lena is his wife, married 21 years, with eight children born and eight living S228. What is weak: the census relationship is to the head only; her naturalization gives her birth as August 1878 S577, a little before a marriage of about 1879, so she could be Lena's stepdaughter, and no record names her mother. added 28 September 2026.

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Lizzie Kretschmar Rojas · 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. S296U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current — Franz Kretschmar. Ancestry record 6597875. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Indexed: Franz Kretschmar, born 20 Jun 1851, Germany; died about 1946; residence Elroy; children Charley, Will, Max, Lizzie Rojas, Clara Semff, Elsie Peterson, Minnie Reininger. Machine-indexed from his obituary. It independently gives the surname Semff. The daughters' married names are Probable.
  3. 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.
  4. S634Texas certificate of death, state file 9437, Nueces County, 1951 — Lizzie Rojas. Ancestry record 21533760. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Lizzie Rojas, died 11 February 1951 at Route 2, Bishop, where she had lived 31 years; married; age 71; housewife; born Germany; father Frank Kretczehmas, born Germany; mother unknown; informant Estanislao Rojas (written “Estanisto”); heart disease; removed on 12 February to Kingsville by the Cage-Piper Funeral Home. Her birth date is left blank. “Frank Kretczehmas” is Julius Franz Kretschmar.
  5. S6391930 U.S. census — Nueces County, Texas, near Bishop (Driscoll Ranch subdivision). Ancestry record 61600271. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 219: Estanislao V. Rojas, 35, born Mexico; Lizzie K., 52, born Germany, mother tongue German, 35 at first marriage; a daughter, 15. The census's immigration year, 1909, cannot be right: she was in her father's Texas household in 1900.
  6. S6401950 U.S. census — Precinct 3, Nueces County, Texas. Ancestry record 189484327. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 84: Estanislao V. Rojas, 54; Lizzie R., 72; and a boy of 9 listed as their son, whose parents are both given as born in Mexico. This census gives Lizzie's birthplace as Mexico, an error; she was born at Leipzig. The boy is not named here.

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