Amelia Falk

Summary

• b. 1873 Germany
• dau. of John Andrew Falk and Freidricka/Frederica ____________
• m. 1892, Baraga, Mich., Robert Wilson (1870–1928)
• children:
  1. William Wilson, 26 Apr 1894, Baraga, Mich.–1974 (never married)
  2. Warren Andrew Wilson, 1897–1995
  3. Marion Wilson, 1902, Baraga, Mich.–1930
     m. 1925, Charles Donson
  4. Roberta Wilson, 3 Aug 1905, Sault Ste. Marie, Delta Co., Mich.–
     m. 1st., 1922, Emmet Collver
     m. 2nd., 11 Dec 1942 Arthur Chateauneuf
  5. Frances Wilson, 4 Oct 1906, Baraga, Mich.–1974
     m. 1940,Eddie Roberts
  6. Robert Wilson, 25 Mar 1908, Baraga, Mich.–1977
     m. 1943, Joan Kelly
  7. Donald Wilson, 31 Dec 1914–
     m. 1st., 1936, Ann Christoph
     m. 2nd., 1950 Lillian Vasquez
• d. Sep 1915, Baraga, Mich. (buried in family plot at Baraga)

Sources

• Mrs. Robert Wilson, died 9 Sept, 1915, aged 43 yrs, 8 mo. Cause of death: Carcinoma of intestines and rectum. Vital Records of Baraga County, Michigan, Vol. 1, page 139, #8.

• U.S. Census 1910 shows in Baraga, Mich.
  • Robert Wilson, head of household, age 45, born in Canada of parents born in Canada
  • Amelia Wilson, wife, age 38, born in Germany of parents born in Germany
  • William Wilson, son, age 15
  • Warren Wilson, son, age 13
  • Marion Wilson, dau., age 9
  • Berta Wilson, dau., age 6
  • Frances Wilson, dau., age 5
  • Robert Wilson, son, age 3

• U.S. Census 1900 shows in Baraga, Mich.
  • Robert Wilson, head of household, age 33, born in Canada of parents born in Canada
  • Amelia Wilson, wife, age 28, born in Germany of parents born in Germany
  • William Wilson, son, age 6
  • Warren Wilson, son, age 3

• Official State of Michigan Record of Marriage 7 July 1893 at Baraga of Robert Wilson, age 25, son of Andrew Wilson and Hannah Rossison and Amelia Falk, age 21, daughter of John Falk and unknown mother; L.J.Jones of the Methodist Episcopal Church offiated.

• U.S. Census 1880 shows, beginning at line 23, in L'Anse, Mich.
  • John Falk, head of household, a rail road hand, age 40, born in Prussia of parents born in Prussia
  • Frederica Falk, wife, 35, born in Prussia of parents born in Prussia
  • Herman Falk, son, 12, born in Prussia of parents born in Prussia
  • Amelia Falk, dau., 8, born in Prussia of parents born in Prussia
  • Anna Falk, dau., 2, born in Michigan of parents born in Prussia
  • Mary Falk, dau., 1 mo., born May 1880 in Michigan of parents born in Prussia

Notes

• Amelia's father and mother who in the U.S. Census 1900 with daughter Bertha and grandson Herman.

• Amelia's mother shows up in the U.S. Census 1910 and the U.S. Census 1930 as a widow in Baraga, Mich.

• Excerpt from letter dated 26 July 1979 from Warren Wilson to grandson D. Trumbull–

  Robert Wilson to upper Michigan through Canada, from England. He was part English, part Scotch. He came to Baraga about 1880. He had two brothers and a sister. The two brothers stayed in Ontario, one in Redfern and one in Sault Ste. Marie, both had families. His sister traveled west and eventually became the wife of a Morman in Salt Lake City. She was one of the wives divorced and provided for the rest of her life when the Morman practice on wives became illegal. She is dead.

  At Baraga Michigan my dad met and married Amelia Falk. Now Amelia came across the Atlantic in a sail boat at a very young age. Her father John Falk and several other families chartered a boat and after crossing the Atlantic continued up the St. Lawrence River thru the Great Lakes to a spot between Baraga and L'Anse; went in land by oxen carts and eventually formed a settlement called Falk Settlement 5 miles in land from the bay. The Falks were mostly German.

• Last updated 24 August 2009 by D. Trumbull.