Generation No. 1

1. CRISPIN¹ NEZER was born Unknown in Montiforti, Austria (Northern Italy today).

Child of CRISPIN NEZER is:
2. i. JOSEF² NETZER, b. Unknown, Montiforti/Austria; d. February 17, 1763, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia.

Generation No. 2

2. JOSEF² NETZER (CRISPIN¹ NEZER) was born Unknown in Montiforti/Austria, and died February 17, 1763 in Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia. He married KATHARINA KIEFFER January 08, 1736/37 in Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia, daughter of NIKOLAUS KIEFFER and ANNA WEINACHT.

Notes for JOSEF NETZER:
Josef Netzer was born in Montiforti, Austria. On today's maps, there is no Montiforti Austria, but there are three of them in Italy. The Librarian told me that the Montiforti closet to Austria is the most likely one.

Children of JOSEF NETZER and KATHARINA KIEFFER are:
        i. ANGELA³ NETZER, b. May 12, 1738.
        ii. ANNA NETZER, b. June 27, 1740.
        iii. BARBARA NETZER, b. December 04, 1742.
        iv. SEBASTIAN NETZER, b. February 02, 1744/45.
        v. JOSEF NETZER, b. January 27, 1747/48.
3. vi. NIKOLAUS NETZER, b. October 04, 1750, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. February 03, 1808, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia.
        vii. JOSEF NETZER, b. January 19, 1753; m. ELISABETH THIERY.
        viii. ELISABETH NETZER, b. August 26, 1755.
        ix. MARGARET NETZER, b. July 22, 1758.

Generation No. 3

3. NIKOLAUS³ NETZER (JOSEF², CRISPIN¹ NEZER) was born October 04, 1750 in Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia, and died February 03, 1808 in Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia. He married KATHARINA WEBER January 13, 1778 in Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia, daughter of JAKOB WEBER and M. BAUR.

Children of NIKOLAUS NETZER and KATHARINA WEBER are:
        i. NIKOLAUS⁴ NETZER, b. June 18, 1778, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. January 15, 1829, St. Gervasius & Protasius, Perl, Kreis Saarburg, Prussia.

Notes for NIKOLAUS NETZER:
All of the dates and information was taken from the Freudenburg Book of Church records written by Klaus Sieren. The Perl records were from the Church book of St. Gervasius & Protasis of Perl (Nr. 5, S. 178.)

        ii. JOHANN NETZER, b. September 05, 1780, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. April 02, 1792, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia.
4. iii. MATHIAS NETZER, b. August 14, 1783, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. January 15, 1829, St. Gervasius & Protasius, in Perl, Kreis Saarburg, Prussia.
        iv. ANNA NETZER, b. March 26, 1786.
        v. BARBARA NETZER, b. August 29, 1787, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. January 21, 1861, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; m. JOHN OBERLEUKEN.
        vi. MARIA NETZER, b. November 14, 1790, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. April 06, 1792, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia.
        vii. MAGDALENA NETZER, b. October 18, 1792, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. June 24, 1799, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia.
        viii. MARIA NETZER, b. December 11, 1799, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. Unknown, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; m. ?.
        ix. ANNA NETZER, b. July 18, 1802, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. March 05, 1853, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; m. HUBERT SCHULZ.
        x. JOHANN NETZER, b. Unknown, Freudenburg, Kries Saarburg, Prussia; d. June 25, 1799, Freudenburg, Kries Saarburg, Prussia.

Generation No. 4

4. MATHIAS⁴ NETZER (NIKOLAUS³, JOSEF², CRISPIN¹ NEZER) was born August 14, 1783 in Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia, and died January 15, 1829 in St. Gervasius & Protasius, in Perl, Kreis Saarburg, Prussia. He married KATHARINA QUARI March 01, 1808 in Perl, Kreis Saarburg, Prussia, daughter of JOHANN QUARING and ANNA GRUNN.

Children of MATHIAS NETZER and KATHARINA QUARI are:
        i. BARBARA⁵ NETZER, b. December 17, 1808.
        ii. MATHIAS NETZER, b. November 28, 1817, Freudenburg, Bizerk Trier, Prussia; d. February 01, 1892, Sanglois Hotel, Milwaukee, WI; m. ELISABETH GRANDIL, November 25, 1841, St. Trinitatis Catholic Church, Freudenburg, Prussia.

Notes for MATHIAS NETZER:
Mathias Netzer was born in Freudenburg, Prussia 28 Nov. 1817, the son of Mathias Netzer and Katharina Quari. He married Elizabeth Grandil, daughter of Nikolaus Grandill and Maria Maas on the 25th of November 1841 at St. Trinitatis Catholic Church in Freudenburg. They had seven children, three of them dying in Freudenburg before they left for America.

The Mathias Netzer family left Freudenburg on the 14 of March 1857 with $400.00. They went to the port of Havre, France to board the ship 'Tornado' to go to the United States of America. This ship had 689 passengers, plus the crew, so it was a really large ship for those days. They landed at New York on the 15 April 1857. There were six of them in their family when they landed. I was never able to find the youngest one, Mathias, who was eight months old. He must have died sometime after they left the ship. It is not known where they lived until they bought their farm of 80 acres in the town of Meeme Northeast of School Hill) on 1 May 1860, for $160.00 from Edward H Janssen and wife Friederike. Then on 17 September 1867, Mathias Netzer bought the farm across the road from his farm for $800.00 from DeLorma & Lila Brooks, who were land prospectors. Mathias became a naturalized citizen on the 28 Mar. 1868 in the city of Manitowoc, WI.

In the fall of 1891, Mathias Netzer, who was a widower by then, went down to Missouri to visit his son Peter and family. He stayed there for several months. He was expected to stay there all winter, but then in January of 1892 he decided to come back to Wisconsin. On his way home, he stopped at the Wisconsin Sanglois Hotel in the 4th ward of Milwaukee to spend the night. This was close to the train station. He was 75 years of age at the time and hard of hearing. He was told to turn off the gas lights and not to blow them out like a kerosene lamp. Mathias could not have understood the hotel personal, as he blew out the lights and was gassed to death. The next day, a messenger came to the farm home on horse-back to inform John Netzer of his father's death. Only the younger girls of the family were home as the rest of the family were at the wedding of William Binversie and Regina Schuler which was on February 1, 1892. William was the youngest brother of Margaret Netzer.

The next day, John went to Milwaukee by train to identify his father and come back with his body. It cost $95.00 to prepare the body for burial which included the coffin, and $1.84 to ship the body by train from Milwaukee to Centerville - which is now called Cleveland.

At the time of Mathias' wife's death, they were both living with their daughter Magdalena Birsch and her husband who owned a saloon and hotel on the 42 near Edwards on the south end of the town of Meeme. Lots of travelers would stop over night at the Birsch's, on their way through. The Netzer's had been retired for many years by that time. Mathias was carrying a lot of money with him at the time of his death. The money he had came from either John or Peter, when they paid back their father as they were paying off their debt to their father.

The "Netzer" name had a few different spellings; "Netzler" was on Mathias' death certificate, "Natzer" is on Mathias's wife's gravestone.