Biographical Documents

Civil registers
Quantity: 2 pages each, photocopies 
Scope and Content Note

Establishing certain genealogical data for Joseph Nuesse, obtained originally from registers of St. Joseph's Church, Bredenborn.

Names of maternal great-grandparents: Josephus Nussen and Maria Katharina, née Koch, and Wilhelm Rossbach, tailor, and Gertrud, née Wiechers.

Names of maternal grandparents: Hermann Johannes Josephus Nussen (1799-1866), linen-weaver, married on March 6, 1821 to Theresia Maria Carolina Rossbach (1788-1856), widow.

Record of marriage of mother, Margaretha Anne Nusse (1826-1900), to Wilhelm Heinrich Potthast (1828-1921) at Marienmunster, Kreis Hoxter, November 18, 1859.

“Aufgebotene und Getraute im Jahre 1841”
Quantity: 2 pages, photocopy 
Scope and Content Note

In the marriage register of St. Joseph's Church, Bredenborn, establishing certain genealogical data for Theresa Nuesse, née Muller.

Names of grandparents, paternally Josephus Muller, farmer, and Johanna, née Kersing, and maternally, Philipp Rossbach, day laborer, and Theresia, née Sprenger.

Record of marriage of parents, Franz Wilhelm Muller, farmer, aged 33, and Franziska Rossbach, aged 17, on February 13, 1841.

Baptismal register of St. Joseph's Church, Bredenborn, 1841
Quantity: 2 pages, photocopy 
Scope and Content Note: Recording birth of Theresia Katharina Margaretha Muller on May 12, 1841, and baptism on May 16, 1841.

Baptismal register of St. Joseph's Church, Bredenborn, 1841
Quantity: 2 pages, photocopy 
Scope and Content Note: Recording birth of Maria Magdalena Clara Mueller on March 24, 1850 to Franz Wilhelm Muller, farmer, and Catharina, née Meier, providing basis for presumption of second marriage of father of Theresia Muller after death of mother.

Certificates of birth and baptism of Joseph Nusse and Theresia Muller
Scope and Content Note: Supplied from St. Joseph's Church, Bredenborn, by G. Liuke, pastor, with correspondence between G. Liuke and C. Joseph Nuesse related to same.

Passport of Joseph Nusse, manual laborer, Minden, Kingdom of Prussia, 1865 April 12
Note: Endorsed at Hoxter, October 8, 1865; Hannover, October 10, 1865; Essen, October 29, 1866; Marienmunster, October 19, 1867; and Wattenscheid, November 19, 1867.

Quantity: Original 

Passenger list of steamship Smidt, 1869 May 6
Quantity: 3 pages, photocopy 
Scope and Content Note: Showing arrival of Joseph Nusse and Theresa Muller at Port of New York on steamship Smidt from Bremen, May 6, 1869, copied from Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby (eds.), Germans to America; Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1988-), Volume 22 (October 1868-May 1869), pp. 354, 357. Supplied by Leon J. Long.

Certificate of marriage between Joseph Nusse and Theresa Muller, 1869 June 12
Scope and Content Note: Issued by Robert F. Gulig, pastor, St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and photocopy of original entry from marriage register of St. Mary's Church, with correspondence between Earl Schuh, pastor, SS. Peter and Paul Church, Green Bay, and C. Joseph Nuesse, related to same.

Order to report for military service, issued to Joseph Nusse, Minden district, Kingdom of Prussia, 1870 December 20
Quantity: Original 

Last will and testament of Philipp Rossbach and Theresia, née Benning, of Bredenborn, drawn at Nieheim: manuscript, 1876 January 14
Quantity: Original 
Scope and Content Note: Bequeathing 150 marks to Theresia Nusse, niece.

Certificate of naturalization for Joseph Nusse as citizen of United States, issued at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 1878 July 16
Quantity: Original 

Family record: autograph manuscript
Quantity: Original 
Scope and Content Note: In hand of Joseph Nuesse giving dates, times and places of birth of his children, dated April 10, 1880 (to which same for Anna Frances Nusse, born May 16, 1883, is added, enclosed in envelope by Salome Martens Nuesse, daughter-in-law).

Parish records of minutes of first meeting of trustees of SS. Peter and Paul Congregation, Institute, Wisconsin, 1885 April 20
Note: In hand of Joseph Nuesse, secretary, distributed in monthly bulletin of SS. Peter and Paul Congregation, June 29, 1986.

Quantity: Photocopy 

Circular for “fair and festival” of SS. Peter and Paul Congregation, 1897? June 1-2
Quantity: Photocopy 
Scope and Content Note: Containing history of founding and early years of the parish, reportedly written by Joseph Nuesse, together with letter of C. Joseph Nuesse to Francis Reinke, pastor, February 26, 1985, indicating disposition of original.

Letter from Joseph Nuesse to Lorene Long, granddaughter, 1920 January 18
Quantity: Photocopy 
Scope and Content Note: Giving dates of arrival in New York and Sturgeon Bay and other information.

Official copies of last will and testament of Joseph Nuesse, 1914 June 11
Note: Includes original certificates of probate dated November 27, 1923 and May 6, 1924.

Judgment allowing final account and assignment of estate of Joseph Nuesse by County Court of Door County, Wisconsin, 1924 May 6
Quantity: Original certified copy 
Scope and Content Note: Together with letter of W.E. Wagner, attorney, to George Nuesse, executor, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, November 16, 1925, transmitting documents.

Judgment of County Court sent to Register of Deeds, Door County, Wisconsin
Note: Supplied by Leon J. Long.

Quantity: 2 pages, photocopy