RAUCH, Wilmer (Rouch) ¹

  General Notes:

This Wilmer Rauch (or Rouch) and Isabella his wife are listed in the 1860 census for Philadelphia, PA, Ward 14, on the 10th July 1860, roll 1164. He is listed as an engineer at age 30 with a personal estate of $200.00. They were all born in Pennsylvania (F-240)

One E-mail correspondent of mine, Tom A. Foreman, has an ancestor that is of the right age to be a sister or cousin to this Wilmer. His ancestor, Sarah Ann Rauch was born on Apr. 1, 1840 in Fleetwood, Berks Co., Pennsylvania She was confirmed in St. James Lutheran Church, Reading, PA in 1859. She died in 1894 in Reading as the mother of five children, named Albert Daniel, George Bowman, Ella Elizabeth, Adam and Solomon. Her possible fathers were Abraham, Daniel and David. It is still a long shot that they are close relatives as there were many Rau(s)ch's in Pennsylvania at the time. (F-403, 484)

Wilmer married Isabella E. CONLEY about 1853. (Isabella E. CONLEY was born in 1836-1840 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA and died after 1870 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA ².)