Comments on: Great Great Aunt Irma http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/ Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: Aileen Fiese (married name) http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38721 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:27:29 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38721 Anymore information on Max Roege?

]]> By: Aileen Fiese (married name) http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38573 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:33:19 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38573 Any more information on Max Roege father of Herman and Bert?

]]> By: Aileen Fiese (married name) http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38513 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:55:06 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38513 A Max Roege was on the Davenport Police Dept. in 1900!

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38506 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:11:08 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38506 In reply to Aileen Fiese (married name).

Yes! And you are my first cousin twice removed, according to geni.com, where we have recorded our family tree. I’ll send you an invitation!

]]> By: Aileen Fiese (married name) http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38502 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:03:48 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38502 !
You must be Jean’s grandaughter

]]> By: Aileen Fiese (married name) http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38501 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:01:17 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38501 My father was the brother of Bert Roege and his daughter Jean is my cousin! I will be 90 years old on April 7th.

]]> By: kara http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38489 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:44:54 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38489 In reply to Aileen Fiese.

Oh my goodness! Mary Seamen Roege was my great-great-grandmother! (Born August 16, 1854
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) So… are you and I cousins of some kind?

]]> By: Aileen Fiese http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38488 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:19:12 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38488 May be that Grandfather Max was not really who he said that he was — interesting!

]]> By: Aileen Fiese http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-38487 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:15:02 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-38487 I know that Max Roege was with the Kaiser of his day. Why he left I do not know. He met my grandmother Mary Seamen on the way over and they married — possibly on the ship.

]]> By: Jan van Zanten http://kayray.org/2009/10/19/great-great-aunt-irma/#comment-36488 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:58:47 +0000 http://kayray.org/?p=1455#comment-36488 It would seem to me that the gentleman on the photograph is either wearing the uniform of a Wachtmeister of the policeforce during the reign of the Emperor Wilhelm, or an infantry soldier of the same era. The police uniform is the most likely, as he is wearing a side-arm. Unfortunately someone has tried to ‘pimp’ the picture with red ink and this does not help at all as the insignia of rank and corps are now disquised. The colour red is unually reserved for general officers and their uniforms generally have a number of bling-bling items and they would certainly have boots and swords! Soldiers in those days would have been proud of their spiked helmet and certainly have carried them along for the photo.
Regrettably there is quite a discussion going on in Germany about the imminent change from green to blue uniforms (and cars) sothat it is difficult to filter through all the internet posts in german at this time.

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