Christoph Friederiche Christian SCHMILL ^2,3,4

  General Notes:

CHRISTOPH FRIEDERICHE CHRISTIAN SCHMILL WAS BORN IN 1828, IN MECHLENBURG, SCHWERIN, GERMANY. APPROX 1850, HE MARRIED MARIA ELIZABETH KRULL. MARIA, WAS ALSO BORN IN MECHLENBURG, SCHWERIN. THEY LEFT FROM HAMBURG, GERMANY, TAKING SIX WEEKS TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC. CHRISTOPH'S SISTER (NAME UNKNOWN) STARTED WITH HIM, BUT DIED ON SHIPBOARD. SHE WAS BURIED AT SEA.
CHRISTOPH LANDED IN BALTIMORE MARYLAND IN 1851, THEN MOVED TO BUFFALO, N.Y. (DATE UNKNOWN). HE WORKED AS A SHOEMAKER BY TRADE. UPON SETTLING IN BUFFALO, HE AND MARIA LIVED AT MICHIGAN STREET BELOW GOODELL STREET.

ON JANUARY 21, 1854 A DAUGHTER, FREDERICKE MARIE WAS BORN. SHE WAS BAPTISED AT ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH (CORNER OF HICKORY & GENESEE STREETS) ON FEBRUARY 17, 1854. HER GODPARENTS WERE JOHANN MACHMER AND AUGUSTE STEINECKE. FREDERICKE DIED ON AUGUST 7, 1854 AT THE AGE OF 6 MONTHS 17 DAYS. IT IS UNKNOWN WHERE SHE WAS BURIED.

JUNE 12, 1855 A SECOND DAUGHTER WAS BORN, IDA. SHE WAS BAPTISED AT ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH ON JUNE 15, 1855. HER GODPARENTS WERE MARIA FREDERICHE, MARIA BALL AND WILHELM MITTAG. IDA DIED ON AUGUST 12, 1855, AT THE AGE OF 2 MONTHS 10 DAYS. HER PLACE OF BURIAL IS ALSO UNKNOWN.

ON AUGUST 4, 1856 CHRISTOPH FILED PAPERS FOR THE INTENT TO BECOM A CITIZEN. ALSO IN 1856, THE SCHMILL FAMILY MOVED TO TUPPER STREET NEAR OAK STREET.

HELENE, THE THIRD DAUGHTER OF CHRISTOPH AND MARIA WAS BORN MARCH 15, 1857. THERE IS NO DOCUMENTATION OF HER BEING BAPTISED, BUT SHE WAS THE ONLY CHILD TO LIVE TO ADULTHOOD. AN ONLY SON WAS BORN AUGUST 6 1858, RUDOLPH. HE WAS BAPTISED AT TRINITY OLD LUTHERN CHURCH (CORNER OF MAPLE STREET AND GOODELL STREET), ON AUGUST 10, 1858. HIS GODPARENTS WERE CARL BRUGGEMANN AND MARIA ELIZABETH HOPF. RUDOLPH DIED AUGUST 12, 1858 AT THE AGE OF 6 DAYS. IT IS BELIEVED HE IS BURIED AT HOLY REST CEMETERY IN CHEEKTOWAGA, NY. HOLY REST CEMETERY IS ADMINISTRATED BY TRINITY OLD LUTHERN CHURCH.

CHRISTOPH BECAME A CITIZEN ON OCTOBER 17, 1859. HIS SPONSERS WERE JOHN DEUS AND CASPER PFEIFFER. MARIA ELIZABETH KRULL SCHMILL DIED ON NOV 10, 1859. SHE WAS BURIED ON NOVEMBER 12, 1859. IT IS BELIVED SHE IS BURIED AT HOLY REST CEMETERY.

ON JANUARY 15, 1860 CHRISTOPH MARRIED MARGARETHA BOELL. WITNESS' TO THEIRE MARRIAGE WERE FREDERICH MUELLER AND FRIEDERICH HONECKER. THEY WERE MARRIED AT ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH. IT IS BELIVED THAT MARGARETHE CAME TO AMERICA AROUND 1858. WHERE SHE LIVED PRIOR TO HER MARRIAGE IS UNKNOWN, BUT IS IS SPECULATED THAT THERE WAS A CONNECTION TO THE SCHMILL'S PRIOR TO THE MARRIAGE.

AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE CHRISTOPH, MARGARETHE AND HELENE (CHRISTOPH'S DAUGHTER FROM HIS FIRST MARRIAGE), MOVED TO 134 GENESEE STREET. ON DECEMBER 7, 1860, A DAUGHTER, MARGARETHE WAS BORN. SHE WAS BAPTISED AT TRINITY OLD LUTHERN CHURCH ON DECEMBER 16, 1860. HER GODPARENTS WERE ...........................

ADAM, WAS BORN IN 1862.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Fact 1 (2), 1828, Born Mechlenburg, Schwerin, Germany.

• Fact 2 (2), Abt 1852, Married Marie Eliz Krull In Germany.

• Fact 3 (2), Abt 1852, Immigrated To U.S. Via Baltimore, MD. To Buffalo, NY.

• Fact 4 (2), 1854, Lived On Michigan St Below Goodell.

• Fact 5 (2), 1856, Moved To Tupper Near Oak Sts.

• Fact 6 (2), 4 Aug 1856, Filed Intent To Become Citizen Papers.

• Fact 7 (2), 10 Nov 1859, Maria Eliz Krull Schmill Dies.

• Fact 8 (2), 15 Jan 1860, Married Margaret Boll.

• Fact 9 (2), 1860, Moved To 134 Genesee St.

• Fact 10 (2), 1864, Moved To Brant\Farnham NY.

• Fact 11 (2), 1865, Bought A House In N. Collins, NY.

• Fact 12 (2), 4 May 1883, Dies In N. Collins NY.

Christoph married Maria Christina KROLL, daughter of KROLL, in 1851 in Mechlenburg Schwerin, Germany. (Maria Christina KROLL was born on 31 May 1828 in Mechlenburg Schwerin, Germany and died on 15 Nov 1859 in Buffalo, Erie, New York.)

Christoph next married Anna Margaretha BOLL, daughter of Michael BOLL and Margaret SCHUCK, on 15 Jan 1860 in St Peter Ev Luthern Church, Buffalo, Erie, New York. (Anna Margaretha BOLL was born on 27 Dec 1833 in Stadecken, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany and died on 9 Jul 1900 in N. Collins, NY.)