International Family Group Sheet for the Henri RICKERT Family *********************************************** Copyright © Gina Heffernan. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Gina Heffernan Email address: ================================================================================ Husband: Henri RICKERT (1, 2) ================================================================================ Birthdate: 12 Oct 1813 - Hamburg, Germany (3) Death date: 9 Feb 1895 - Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama (3) Buried: 1895 - Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama (3) Marriage: 1841 Place: Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama (2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Events -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Religion, Lutheran, 1813 2. Occupation, Sailor, 1825 3. Residence, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama, 1834 4. Naturalization (4) , Dutch, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama, 7 Nov 1840 5. Census (5) , Fifth Ward, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama, 15 Jun 1860 6. Occupation (5) , Clerk, 15 Jun 1860 7. Occupation (6) , Clerk, 1890 8. Occupation (7) , Timber Inspector, Between 1891 and 1892 ================================================================================ Wife: Rosina O'HAIR (1, 2) ================================================================================ Birthdate: 1817 - County Cork, Ireland (1, 2) Death date: After 1860 ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 M James Henry RICKERT (1) Birthdate: 8 Jun 1846 - Alabama (3) Death date: 4 Mar 1885 - Alabama (3) Buried: 1885 - Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 M Edward W RICKERT (1, 8) Birthdate: 23 Jul 1851 - St Emanuel St, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama (3, 9) Death date: 23 Apr 1894 - Birmingham, Jefferson Co, Alabama (3) Buried: Apr 1894 - Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama Spouse: Emma Catharine RICHARDSON (1856-1939) (8) Marr. Date: 22 Jun 1875 - Mobile, Mobile Co, Alabama (10) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 M John N RICKERT (1) Birthdate: 1855 - Alabama Death date: After 1892 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ General Notes (Husband) ================================================================================ 1860 Mobile Co, AL Census, 6/13/1860, Mobile Henry Rickert 41 M Clerk 3000 3000 Hamburg Rosina Rickert 40 F Ireland James H Rickert 14 M Alabama Edward W Rickert 8 M " John N Rickert 5 M " Mary J Cunningham 40 F Ireland 1880 Mobile Co, AL Census, 5th Ward, Mobile Name Rel Marital Gender Race Age Birth Occupation Father Mother Henry RICKERT Self M Male W 67 HAMBURG Clerk HAMBURG HAMBURG Rosina RICKERT Wife M Female W 57 IRE Keeping House IRE IRE James RICKERT Son S Male W 31 AL Book Keeper HAMB IRE John RICKERT Son S Male W 23 AL Blacksmith HAMB IRE City Directory for Mobile Alabama shows Henry and John living at 356 St Emanuel, Mobile, AL from 1890-1892. George's letter says Henri had five brothers and a sister. He became a Catholic upon his marriage to Rosina and a Methodist after her death. He built their home on St. Emanuel Street where they had five boys, no daughters. Only one of the boys married, E. W. Mobile County, AL Marriages 2080 JOHNSON, MONTIOUS LEE RICKERT, MARY C 08/10/1904 38-449 Rickart, Henry, Pvt. Corpl. Co., A, 22nd and 23rd La. Inf. En. Camp Lewis, Dec. 5, 1861. Rolls from Dec. 31, 1861, to Dec., 1862, Present. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured and Paroled Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863. List dated Enterprise, Miss., Oct. 13, 1863, Present in camp. List not dated, Forwd. Oct. 19, 1863, for exchange. Rolls from Oct., 1863, to Dec., 1863, Present. Also borne on Rolls of Co. A, 22nd (Cons.) La. Inf. as Rickert, Henry, Corpl. Rolls from Jan., 1864 to April, 1864, Present. Roll May and June, 1864. Absent, sick in Hospl., Mobile, May 22, 1864. Rolls from July, 1864, to Oct., 1864, Present. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured Spanish Fort, Ala., April 8, 1865. Recd. Ship Island, Miss., April 10, 1865. Paroled Camp Townsend, May 6, 1865. ================================================================================ General Notes (Wife) ================================================================================ another source says her surname was McGillicuddy. ================================================================================ Source Citations ================================================================================ 1. 1860 Mobile Co, AL Census. 2. Rickert, George Charles. 3. Cemetery, Magnolia , Mobile Co, AL, 353. 4. Clinton P. King & Meriem A. Barlow, Naturalization Records Mobile, Alabama (1986, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore), Bk 6, Page 55. 5. 1860 Mobile Co, AL Census, 07?. 6. City Directory, Mobile, Alabama, 1890. 7. City Directory, Mobile, Alabama, 1891. 8. Heffernan, John J. 9. 1880 Mobile Co, AL Census, 7. 10. International Genealogy Index, M593507. ====================================================================== My Notes ====================================================================== If there is no SOURCE - I have no PROOF.