1. Louis¹ Teschek was born in Berlin, Prussia 23 or 24 of May 1853. Louis died of typhoid fever, 19 October 1900, in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.⁽⁶⁷⁴⁾ The official cause of death was listed as "intestinal perforation due to typhoid fever". He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn on October 23d.

He married Caroline Schick, 12 June 1886, in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.⁽⁶⁷⁵⁾ On the marriage certificate it said that it was the second marriage for the groom and the first marriage for the bride. It was probably the second marriage for both of them.

Caroline was born 29 November 1853, in New York, New York.⁽⁶⁷⁶⁾ Caroline was the daughter of Henry Schick and Catherine Kories. Caroline died of a pulmonary edema, 1 March 1911, in New York, New York.⁽⁶⁷⁷⁾ The official cause of death was listed as "pulmonary edema secondary to chronic myocarditis and hypertrophic cirrhosis of liver". The death certificate does not state which borough of the city she died in, only that it was at St. Mary's Hospital. She was buried in Evergreen cemetery in Brooklyn on March 4th.

According to family tradition Louis was born with the surname Gehrig. His mother had married again, either before or after his own father, a man named Teschek and had a son by that marriage. The two sons came to this country together and Louis decided to take the name Teschek like his half-brother. His granddaughter Gloria Schilter reports that there was once a letter that belonged to Louis' daughter Caroline Benz that was written in German, sent from Louis' mother back in Germany, in which she expressed her anger about the name change. At one point she supposedly wrote, "You were born a Gehrig and you should die a Gehrig." There was also a family bible that was at one time in the possession of his daughter Margaret Woessner that reportedly contained information about the name change. His parents names of Louis Teschek and Eva Carminsky are taken from his marriage certificate. Gloria also writes that Louis was born a Catholic and his wife Caroline Schick was a Protestant. The children were brought up Protestant. On his death certificate his parents names were listed as John L. and Mary J. Teschek. Research in German records must be done to establish the true names of his parents.

One intriguing family found in the LDS Church International Genealogical Index (IGI) is the family of Johann Christoph Teschek and Eva Czerwinska. Eva's name is close enough to Carminsky to be a possible match. According to various records in the IGI Johann was born about 1811 and Eva about 1815 and they were from Nakel, Posen, Prussia. They had at least two children. One was a son Johann Christoph born in Nakel on 24 August 1839. The other was a son Friedrich Wilhelm Teschek, born 2 Feb 1837 in Nakel, who married on 11 June 1865 at the Gnaden-Invaliden Kirche in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia, Johanna Marie Friederike Gusen. He was 28 and she was 27 at the time. This Friedrich's father's name on the marriage record was Johann Christoph.

Louis emigrated to this country in 1877, according to the 1900 census. Thus far it has not been possible to locate him in the 1880 census using the indexes at ancestry.com and familysearch.org and trying multiple spelling variations. In April 1887 when their daughter Caroline was born Louis was a tailor and they were living at 43 Ellery St. in Brooklyn, NY. When their son Herman was born in March 1892 Louis was a painter and they were living at 94 Sumpter St. in Brooklyn. He gave his occupation as painter again at the time of the census (June 9, 1900), and the family was living at 120 Liberty Ave. in Brooklyn. He was then a naturalized American citizen.⁽⁶⁷⁸⁾ When he died a few months later in October his occupation was given as "clerk", it said he had been in the U.S. for 40 years, and only 26 of those years in New York City. His residence was still 120 Liberty Ave. in Brooklyn. When the 1910 census was taken on April 15th, Caroline and all eight of the children were living on a street whose name is illegible in the census but begins with Br..., and may be Brentwood.⁽⁶⁷⁹⁾ According to Gloria Schilter Louis was born a Catholic, but his wife Caroline Scheik was Protestant. The children were brought up Protestant.

There is a John Teschek, woodcarver, living at 288 Vernon Ave. in Brooklyn, NY in the 1889 and 1890 city directories. Could this be the half brother? This was taken off an ancestry.com database, which didn't show Louis and his family.

The Social Security Death Index records a Rudolf Teschek, born Oct 1, 1895, dying in Wisconsin in January 1968.

Louis Teschek had the following child:

2 i. Margaret² Teschek was born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 22 February 1881. Birth info is taken from her death certificate. Margaret died 17 September 1963, at the Queens General Hospital, in Queens, Queens County, New York.⁽⁶⁸⁰⁾ According to her death certificate she died of "natural causes", but her niece Gloria Schilter in a letter dated Sept. 25, 1995 states that this is incorrect, and that she had high blood pressure, which led to a stroke, from which she died several weeks later. She was buried in Evergreen cemetery in Brooklyn on September 20th. She married Jacob Woessner, by 1920. When the 1920 census was taken on January 10th Jacob and Margaret were listed as husband and wife. When the 1930 census was taken it stated that Margaret was 40 when she first married, which would have the marriage taking place around 1919. That census gave her age as 50, when it would actually have been 51, but that would imply a marriage in 1920. It seems likely that they married not long before the 1920 census was taken.

Jack was born about 1877/78, in New York. He was age 2 in the census taken on 14 June 1880. His parents' names comes from that census, and also the fact that they were born in Württemberg, which is now part of Germany.⁽⁶⁸¹⁾ Jack was the son of George Woessner and Sofia.

Jack died in 1952.

When the 1900 census was taken she was living with her parents in Brooklyn and working as a tailoress.⁽⁶⁸²⁾. Ten years later the same was true. It further stated that she was a tailoress for a "merchant tailor".⁽⁶⁸³⁾ By 1920 she was married to Jacob "Jack" Woessner and on January 10th when the census taker came they were living at 174 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn with his son Walter and his mother Sophie. Jacob was employed as a chauffeur at the time. It stated that his mother emigrated to this country in 1860.⁽⁶⁸⁴⁾ When the 1930 census was taken on April 3d, the Jacob, Margaret, Walter and Margaret's brother John Teschek were living on 101st Avenue in Richmond Hill, Queens. Jacob was employed as a mechanic in a milk depot and Walter was a serviceman for a scale company.⁽⁶⁸⁵⁾ She and Jack had no children, although Jack did have a son Walter D. Woessner from a previous marriage. Walter was the informant on his step-mother's death certificate in 1963. He was living at 490 Atlantic Ave. in East Rockaway, NY at the time. Margaret was living at 132-08 101st Ave. in Richmond Hill in the borough of Queens when she died. She had lived in the city all her life.

Louis Teschek and Caroline Schick had the following children:

3 ii. Caroline Teschek was born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 19 April 1887.⁽⁶⁸⁶⁾ Birth site: at home, 43 Ellery St.. At the time of her birth her parents were living at 43 Ellery St. in Brooklyn. Caroline died 28 May 1953, in Farmingdale, Nassau County, New York. She had a stroke two years before her death that eventually led to her death. She was buried in St. Charles cemetery in Farmingdale, NY. She married Anthony Benz, about 1907.

Anthony was born 7 April 1889?, in New York. (SSDI)

Anthony died September 1969?, in Queens, Queens County, New York. (SSDI)

(See Anthony Benz for the continuation of this line.)

When the 1910 census was taken she was living with her mother and siblings in Brooklyn and working as a shipping clerk in a "silk-house".⁽⁶⁸⁷⁾ By 1920 she was married to Anthony Benz and when the census was taken on January 3d they were living at 226 Logan St. in Brooklyn with their three children. Anthony worked as a printer in a printing shop.⁽⁶⁸⁸⁾ Ten years later on April 10, 1930 they were at the same address and Anthony's job was described as a printer with a publishing company.⁽⁶⁸⁹⁾

4 iii. Louis Teschek was born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York in April 1888. Louis died about 1932. He died choking after eating a doughnut at Bickford's Restaurant. He always had digestive problems.

When the 1910 census was taken he was living with his mother and siblings in Brooklyn and was employed as a lithographer in a printing house.⁽⁶⁹⁰⁾ He probably was married but had no children.

+ 5 iv. John Teschek was born in May 1889.

6 v. Henry Teschek was born in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York in November 1891. Henry died of a heart attack, about 1932. He was buried in Evergreen cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. He married Bertha.

Bertha was born about 1892.

When the 1910 census was taken he was living with his mother and siblings in Brooklyn and was employed as an optician in an optical firm.⁽⁶⁹¹⁾ Henry and Bertha had no children.

+ 7 vi. Herman Teschek was born 8 March 1892. Birth site: at home, 94 Sumpter St..

+ 8 vii. Arthur Teschek was born in June 1894.

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