Robert Behra's relatives with roots in Alsace, Lorraine and Saarland

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The nexus of this file is my grandfather Clement Augustus Behra (1907-1990), whose father was born in southern Alsace and whose maternal grandmother was born in Lorraine. About 80% of the people in this file are connected to him by blood, the rest by marriage. The most common surnames in this file (most of which have multiple spelling variants) are: Ringenbach, Ehret, Luttringer, Arnold, Munsch, Mura, Behra, Haller, Ehlinger, Grunenwald, Walter, Negelin, Meny and Kessler.
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  • ID: I53360
  • Name: Lucien Meny 1
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 8 JAN 1810 in Fellering, Haut-Rhin, France
  • Death: OCT 1869 in Colonia Suiza, Colonia (10a sección), Uruguay
  • Occupation: contremaître <1841>, tisserand <1842, 1844-1845, 1850, 1861-1862>, contremaître de tissage <1846>, ouvrier de fabrique <1848>



    Father: Jacobus Meny b: 13 FEB 1779 in Fellering, Haut-Rhin, France c: 13 FEB 1779 in Oderen, Haut-Rhin, France
    Mother: Catherine Ecker b: abt 1780/1782 in Kruth, Haut-Rhin, France

    Marriage 1 Marie Anne Flieller b: 21 APR 1808 in Kruth, Haut-Rhin, France
    • Married: 15 NOV 1841 in Fellering, Haut-Rhin, France
    Children
    1. Has No Children Antonio Meny b: abt 1835/1836
    2. Has No Children Eustache Meny b: 8 SEP 1842 in Fellering, Haut-Rhin, France
    3. Has No Children Philomène Meny b: 10 OCT 1844 in Fellering, Haut-Rhin, France
    4. Has Children Eduardo Meny b: 16 JUL 1846 in Fellering, Haut-Rhin, France
    5. Has No Children Eugène Meny b: 28 JUL 1848 in Eloyes, Vosges, France
    6. Has Children Wenceslao Meny b: 26 MAR 1850 in Eloyes, Vosges, France
    7. Has No Children Luisa Meny

    Sources:
    1. Text: Passport delivered at Belfort 5 Apr 1862, destination Montevideo, for himself, his wife and three children (Émigrants haut-rhinois en Amérique 1800-1870 [Liste nominative des haut-rhinois ayant émigré en Amérique entre 1800 et 1870], by Dominique Dreyer, typescript at Archives Départementales du Haut-Rhin, also available online). Arrived in Nueva Helvecia, Uruguay, in July 1862, according to the 1864 and 1865 censuses of that town. See Génesis de la colonia agrícola suiza Nueva Helvecia, by Juan Carlos F. Wirth (Montevideo : Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, 1980), v. 2, p. [163], [174].
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