Ancestry of Chris Strachwitz

compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner


The following material on the immediate ancestry of Chris Strachwitz should not be considered either exhaustive or authoritative, but rather as a first draft.





William Addams Reitwiesner

wargs@wargs.com


Ancestry of Chris Strachwitz
1 Christian Alexander Maria, Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz, b. Groß-Reichenau, Nieder-Schlesien [now Bogaczów, Poland], 1 July 1931, emigrated 1947 to California ("Chris Strachwitz"), founder of Arhoolie Records
     (in 2000 -- 10341 San Pablo Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530)
PARENTS
2 Alexander Maria Hubertus Hyacinthus, Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz, b. Groß-Reichenau 29 Nov. 1894, d. Reno, Nev., 11 July 1962
m. Berlin 24 Feb. 1927
3 Friederike Frances Adelheid von Bredow, b. Berlin 2 Nov. 1906, d. ... 29 Nov. 2003 [SSDI 530-32-4406]
GRANDPARENTS
4 - 5 See elsewhere (GHdA 2 [Gf A I (1952)]: 431-441; GHdA 94 [Gf XII (1988)]: 438-440; GHdA 123 [Gf XVI (2000)]: 511-513; Addington, Royal House of Stuart I:176).
6 Leopold Waldemar von Bredow, b. Bredow bei Nauen 31 Oct. 1875, d. Lausanne 1 Oct. 1933
m. Washington, D. C., 6 May 1905
7 Frances Newlands, b. San Francisco, Cal., 21 Nov. 1880, d. Berlin 21 Aug. 1907
GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
8 - 11 Not shown here
12 - 13 See elsewhere (GHdA 76 [Adel A XVI (1981)]: 159-161).
14 Francis Griffith Newlands, US Representative from Nevada 1893-1903, US Senator from Nevada 1903-1917, b. Natchez, Adams Co., Miss., 28 Aug. 1848, d. Washington, D. C., 24 Dec. 1917 [DAB; NCAB XIII:219; American National Biography XVI:342-343]
m. San Francisco, Cal., 19 Nov. 1874
15 Clara Adelaide Sharon, b. San Francisco, Cal., ... 1854, d. San Francisco, Cal., 17 Feb. 1882
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
16 - 27 Not shown here
28 James Birney Newlands, b. ... , Scotland, ... , d. Quincy, Ill., ... 1851
m.
29 Jessie Barland, b. ... , Scotland, ... , d. ... [liv. 1867] (remarried Ebenezer Moore, mayor of Quincy, Ill., d. Oct. 1866)
30 William Sharon, US Senator from Nevada 1875-1881, b. Smithfield, Jefferson Co., Ohio, 9 Jan. 1821, d. San Francisco, Cal., 13 Nov. 1885 [NCAB V:512]
m. San Francisco, Cal., ... 1852
31 Maria Malloy, b. ... , P, Q., ... 1832, d. San Francisco, Cal., 14 May 1875
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
32 - 55 Not shown here
60 William Sharon, b. Westmorland Co., Pa., ... 1793, d. Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, 24 Apr. 1875
m. Smithfield, Ohio, 21 Jan. 1815
61 Susan Kirk, b. Lackawanna, Cumberland Co., Pa., ... 1796, d. Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, ... 1833
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
64 - 111 Not shown here
120 William Sharon, b. ... , Pa., ... 1753, d. Jefferson, Ohio. ... 1809
m. ... [ca. 1789]
121 Sarah Smiley, b. Juniata Co., ... 1762, d. Jefferson Co., Ohio, ... 1857
122 William Kirk, b. Juniata Co., Pa., ... [ca. 1770], d. Smithfield, Ohio, ... 1814
m.
123 Rachel Jones, b. ... [ca. 1772], d. ... [ca. 1830]
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
128 - 223 Not shown here
240 James Sharon, b. ... , d. ...
m.
241 ... , b. ... , d. ...
242 George Smiley, b. ... , d. ...
m.
243 ... , b. ... , d. ...
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
256 - 447 Not shown here
480 William Sharon, b. ... , d. ... 2 March 1751
m.
481 Margaret Chambers, b. ... , d. ...
7/GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
512 - 895 Not shown here
960 William Sherran, b. ... , d. ...
m.
961 Mary ... , b. ... , d. ...
8/GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
1024 - 1791 Not shown here
9/GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
2048 - 3583 Not shown here
10/GREAT-GRANDPARENTS
4096 - 7167 Not shown here








EXTRACTS from the U.S. FEDERAL DECENNIAL CENSUS






NOTES






30 -- Sen. Sharon was claimed to have remarried a woman named Sarah Althea Hill, but he sued to have this alleged marriage cancelled. The judgement (in his favor) was rendered after his death, but the consequent legal proceedings, which included a bowie-knife fight in the courtroom of the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California and the physical beating of a Justice of the US Supreme Court (by a former Chief Judge of the California Supreme Court) and the fatal shooting of the judge by a US Marshal, both in the breakfast-room of a California railroad hotel, culminated in a landmark US Supreme Court decision in the case "In re Neagle (Cunningham v. Neagle)", on the supremacy of federal law over state law. 135 U.S. 1; 10 S. Ct. 658; 34 L. Ed. 55 (1890). For details see, for example, http://lawbooksusa.com/cconlaw/neagleinre.htm.



30 & 31 have other descendants, such as: 

William Sharon m. Maria Malloy
.Florence Emily Sharon m. Sir Thomas George Fermor-Hesketh, 7 Bt
 .THOMAS FERMOR-HESKETH, 1st Baron HESKETH (1881-1944)
















FURTHER NOTES




The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) publishes a Patriot Index, a list of persons whose honorable service in the cause of independence during the American Revolution renders their female descendants eligible for membership in the NSDAR. Several ancestors of Chris Strachwitz appear in the Patriot Index, including:


    William Sharon (number 120)

While Mr. Strachwitz is not eligible for membership in the NSDAR (by not being female), he is eligible for membership in the equivalent organization for men, the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.









SOURCES CONSULTED AND CITED


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William Addams Reitwiesner

wargs@wargs.com