NamePeter Laux
Birth1805, Faid, Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany9,7,1,2
Death1881, Avon, Lorain County, Ohio
BurialSt. Mary Cemetery, Avon, Lorain County, Ohio
Spouses
Birth? 6 Feb 1813, Germany9,7,1
Death16 Dec 1877, Avon, Lorain County, Ohio
BurialSt. Mary Cemetery, Avon, Lorain County, Ohio
Notes for Peter Laux
Source: MyHeritage.com—Geni World Family Tree; Ancestry.com--Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880; Nw York, Passenger LIsts, 1820-1957; and www.findagrave.com.
Geni World Family Tree gives Lenz as his mother’s maiden name.
Peter and his wife and children Johann, Joseph, Gertrude and Anna M. sailed from Antwerp, Belgium on the bark “Infatigable,” arriving in New York, New York on July 11, 1843. John P. Schneider and his family were also on board the Infatigable. They settled in Avon Township, Lorain County, Ohio. Based on information in the censuses he would have been born in about 1807.
In 1850, 1860 and 1870 he and his family lived in Avon Township. In 1870 Peter Young, a 72-year-old farm laborer from Prussia, lived with them. In 1880 he lived with the family of his daughter Gertrude and her husband Peter Bins in Avon Township.
In 1850 Adam Laux and his children Anna, Jacob and Gertrude lived near the family of Peter Laux In Avon.
Notes for Gertrude (Spouse 1)
Source: MyHeritage.com—Geni World Family Tree; and Ancestry.com—New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957.
Gertrude and her husband and four children sailed from Antwerp, Belgium on the bark “Infatigable,” arriving in New York, New York on July 11, 1843. The ship’s register recorded her age as 36.
According to Geni World Family Tree, Gertrude’s mother’s maiden name was Pfeiffer.