Family tree of Michael Alan Stecker
notes:
1. My maternal Weiss great grandmother
(lower left, above) is apparently Leibe-Hannah
Weiss (written on her her
gravestone). However, she is listed as Louisa Weiss in the
1900 NYC Census.
2. My maternal great grandfather is
Solomon Weiss (had over 10 children).
3. My paternal grandfather is
Marcus Stecher
(later changed to Stecker):
Born, Mordche Stecher, in Sambor, Galicia, birth year of
1875. Apparently his given name Mordche was anglizied
to Marcus. His mother was Feige (Fannie, anglicized) and father's
name was Itzig (Isaac, anglicized) Stecher.
Marcus (Mordche)
Stecher's mother, Feige,
died in 1879
at age 50 when he
was only four years old.
4.
1900
marriage
of Marcus Stecker: Marcus Stecher married Sadie Albert on
December 23, 1900 in Manhatten, NYC. Marcus
Stecher's father was
listed as Isac (aka: Isaac) Stecher and mother as Feige (aka: Fannie)
Markel. Marcus' bride, Sadie
Albert, father was listed as Samuel
Albert and her mother as Chane (aka: Hannah) Gacher.
5.
Sadie Weiss
(grand aunt) was listed as Sarah Weiss (age 14) on the
1900 NYC Census.
6. My biologic maternal grand parents are
Mary Leonard (Weiss) and
Harry B. Weiss. Harry and Sadie
(Sarah?) Weiss are brother & sister.
7. Mary
Leonard or more correctly Lehner,
my biologic maternal grandmother (wife of Harry Weiss)
died
September 26, 1915
in Worcester, MA when my
mother Minnie Weiss (later Shelly Weiss Stecker) was a young child of 19
months. Apparently,
Mary Lehner Weiss was buried in the Hebrew Cemetery in
Auburn, MA.
8. My mother's maternal family were the Lehners of Massachusetts.
Max Lehner, originally from Russia,
was the father.
9. Brothers and sisters of my maternal grandmother Mary Leonard or
Lehner family were aunts and uncles of my
mother Minnie Weiss (later after marriage: Shelly Stecker).
They were
in 1934:
Uncle Louis Lehner (Bloomsdale St, Chelsea, MA). He had 5
sons (three married).
Uncle Israel Lehner (Mt. Vernon St., Worcester, MA). He
had 5 girls (three married) and 1 boy.
Uncle John (Johnny) Lehner (2527 W.
Ave 34, Los Angeles). He had twin girls, 2 y.o. in 1934.
Aunt Sarah (Lehner?) Epstein
(1569 40th St., Brooklyn, NY). She had 2 girls, one
married.
Aunt Tillie (Lehner?) who wrote the
1934 letter to Minnie L.
Weiss, and Uncle Sol ( Dorchester, MA).
She had one 8 y.o. girl in 1934.
10. My mother Minnie Weiss' baby book
had as the Mother's Autograph: "Mary Leonard Weiss".
Hence there is confusion regarding the family name
which is probably Lehner instead of Leonard.
11. My mother, Minnie Weiss, was raised by Sadie (Weiss) Bergold and
Frank Bergold with Frank & Sadie's
son, Henry, at 134 Keap Street, Brooklyn, NY. Minnie's father,
Harry Weiss, lived alone in Houston, Texas
during the 1930s and died in Texas (Beaumont ?).
