Title: Miriam Rowell Hauer: Hauer, Croatt, and Perry Genealogical Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1680-1982

Creator:

• Hauer, Miriam Rowell

Call Number: Milwaukee Micro 46; Micro 958

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

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Abstract:

Microfilm copy of papers compiled by Miriam Rowell Hauer recording primarily the history of the Croatt family who settled at Belgium, Wisconsin after emigrating from Luxembourg in 1847; including lineage charts; photographs; birth, marriage and death certificates; correspondence; and miscellaneous genealogical material.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0958

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On April 14, 1847, Victor and Elizabeth (Fauss or Fouss) Croatt, along with their children, left their home at Attert, Luxembourg and sailed for the United States. After spending 35 days at sea, they landed at Milwaukee and shortly thereafter Victor Croatt traveled 35 miles north and claimed 30 acres of land near what is now Belgium, Wisconsin.

Their seventh child, Jean (John) Nicholas, born March 31, 1833 in Attert, Luxembourg, married Catherine Perry (Pierri) on April 24, 1861 in Belgium. This union produced two children before Jean Nicholas' untimely death in 1864. Catherine later married Joseph Lusson and by 1880 they made their home at St. Lucas, Iowa. Nicholas, a son from her first marriage, wed Katherine Kramer of St. Lucas and their third child, Cecilia married John B. Hauer. Their son, Urban Hauer, is the husband of Miriam Rowell Hauer, the compiler of this genealogy.

The Hauer, Croatt, and Perry Genealogy primarily records the history of the Croatt family that emigrated from Luxembourg in 1847 and settled at Belgium, Wisconsin prior to 1849. The microfilm copy maintains the order found in the original volume. The genealogy includes lineage charts; photographs; birth, marriage, and death certificates; correspondence; histories; articles; and an essay on Belgian forename traditions. The Croatt family history is filed before the Perry family genealogy. No detailed information on the Hauer family prior to John B. Hauer's father, Conradus Hauer, is included.

Other information on these families is in microfilm held by the Genealogical Society of Utah: No. 1035505, the Hauer and Dustin families; and No. 1035569, the Rowell-Degendorf-Weinziel-Fay families.

Acquisition Information

Originals loaned for microfilming by Mrs. Miriam Rowell Hauer in 1983. Accession Number: M83-154

Processing Information

Prepared for microfilming by Vivian Laflame, October 1983.