5. Sophie Klovis
Notes for Adam Roehm:
My Roehm's (Von R�hm in Hesse Homberg, Bremen Germany) arrived in the port at Baltimore, Maryland the 1st of May 1831, then removed to Philadelphia, PA in 1837. On Oct 10, 1837 Adam declared his intent to change his Country of allegiance from Germany to the United States of America in the Court of Common Pleas. On Sep 19, 1840 Adam Roehm made his Oath of Allegiance at Court of Common Pleas to the US. He was a piano maker. His sons by his first wife Elizabeth were Adam b:~1832 in Westphalia, Germany, Charles b:Feb. 1836 in Maryland, Joseph b:~1839 Philadelphia, and Gilbert b: 1844 Phila. Adam lost his wife Elizabeth and remarried between June 1850 and 1854. His second wife's first name was Sophie Klovis or possibly Catharine. Children of Adam's second marriage were William b: Oct. 1855, Jacob b: Sept. 1857 and possibly John. There was also a daughter Elizabeth born about 1856. Some of the brothers started a tailor shop called Roehm Brother's Trinkets and Trim and his grandson Charles (Jacob's son by his 1st marriage) stared a box factory. By the 1880s most of the family moved to Camden, NJ, but still owned the tailor shop in Philadelphia. By 1900 it looks like the some of the brothers retired and a younger generation of the family was operating the tailor shop and most of the family was living either in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, or around Norris Town, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index - First edition - Volume 3 O-Z
Edited by P. William Filby with Mary K. Meyer
Roehm, Adam no age listed; Philadelphia, Pa., 1837 9307 page 131
9290-9314 UNITED STATES. Works Projects Administration. Index to Records of Aliens' Declarations of Intention and/or Oaths of Allegiance, 1789-1880, in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia. 11 volumes. Compiled by W.P.A. Project Number 20837. Sponsored by Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1940(?) (Lancour 188)
9290 Volume 1: Letter A, pp 1-79
9291 Volume 1: Letter B, pp 1-345
9292 Volume 2: Letter C, pp 1-297
9293 Volume 3: Letter D, pp 1-248
9294-9306 Volumes 3-9: Letter E-Q,
9307 Volume 9: Letter R, pp 1-191
9308-9314 Volumes 10-11: Letter S-Z
From Family Tree CD #258. Naturalization Records: Philadelphia, 1789 - 1880.
lookup done by William Sibiski Sr
Document Name: Adam Roehm
Country of Former Allegiance: Germany
Date of Declaration of Intent: Oct 10, 1837
Court of Declaration of Intent: Common Pleas
Date of Oath of Allegiance: Sep 19, 1840
Court of Oath of Allegiance: Common Pleas
McElroy's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City Directory for 1860.
Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1860
Roehm, Adam Summer - (This is Adam, Jr. found in the 1860 Census)
Roehm, Adam St. Steven's Place (Still searching for this household in the 1860 Census)
More About Adam Roehm:
Immigration: May 31, 1834, arrived at the port of Baltimore, Maryland on the Ship Sophie out of Bremen, Germany
Residence: 1860, St. Steven's Place, Philadelphia, PA
More About Adam Roehm and Sophie Klovis:
Marriage: Aft. 1850
Children of Adam Roehm and Sophie Klovis are:
i. William Roehm, born October 1855 in Pennsylvania; married Kem Abt. 1885; born August 1863 in Germany.
Notes for William Roehm:
Gopsil's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania General & Business Directory for 1885
Philadelphia: James Gopsill's Sons, 1885.
Roehm Bros. (Joseph and William) tailors trimmings 18 N 4th
William (Roehm Brros) Camden
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Gopsil's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania General & Business Directory for 1890
Philadelphia: James Gopsill's Sons, 1890.
Roehm Bros. (Joseph, William, Lewis C. Thomas and Jacob) tailors trimmings 18 N 4th
William (Roehm Brros) Norristown
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Gopsil's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania General & Business Directory for 1900
Philadelphia: James Gopsill's Sons, 1900.
Roehm Bros. (William, Elizabeth and Jacob) 1013 Filbert - special trimmings
William (Roehm Brros) Norristown
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Boyd's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania General & Business Directory for 1910.
Philadelphia: Boyd's, 1910.
Roehm Bros. (William, Jacob, Joseph and Robert D. Fulton) 1013 Filbert - special trimmings
William (Roehm Brros) Norristown
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Database: Norristown, Pennsylvania Directories, 1888-93
Name Business Name Occupation Location 1 Location 2 City State Year
William Roehm merchant 21 W Airy Norristown PA 1888, 1889, 1890
William Roehm merchant 521 Stanbridge Norristown PA 1890, 1891
William Roehm mechanic 521 Stanbridge Norristown PA 1892, 1893
More About William Roehm:
Occupation: Tailor
Residence: June 04, 1900, 521 Stanbridge St, Norris Town, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
More About William Roehm and Kem:
Marriage: Abt. 1885
ii. Elizabeth Roehm, born Abt. 1856; married Lewis C. Thomas.
Notes for Elizabeth Roehm:
Database: Pennsylvania 1910 Census Miracode Index
Lizzie Thomas
Age: 54 State: PA
Color: W Enumeration District: 0967
Birth Place: Pennsylvania Visit: 0269
County: Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Son Lewis G 32, Pennsylvania
Daughter Gertrude C 26, Pennsylvania
Son Harry D 14, Pennsylvania
Son William C 20, Pennsylvania
Notes for Lewis C. Thomas:
Philadelphia City Directory, 1890
NAME PROFESSION ADDRESS
Roehm Bros. (Joseph & William Roehm, Lewis C. Thomas & Jacob Roehm) tailors' trimmings 18 N 4th
Thomas Lewis C. (Roehm Bros.) h 606 S 10th
2 iii. Jacob Klovis Roehm, born September 1857 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; married (1) Unknown; married (2) Amy Peters Sewall Bet. June 01, 1900 - March 01, 1901.
6. Charles Chauncey Sewall II, born May 15, 1834 in Danvers, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died Aft. 1900. He was the son of 12. Charles Chauncey Sewall and 13. Amy Peters. He married 7. Mary F. Fairbanks November 25, 1859 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
7. Mary F. Fairbanks, born October 10, 1833 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died Aft. 1910. She was the daughter of 14. Nathaniel Fairbanks and 15. Sarah H. Woods.
Notes for Charles Chauncey Sewall II:
Attending school marked on 1850 census at age 16
New York Census, 1790-1890 Year Surname Given Name (s) County State Page Township or Other Info Record Type Database ID#
1870 SEWALL CHARLES C. Kings County NY 685 22 W. Brooklyn Federal Population Schedule NY 1870 Federal Census Index NY311122320
Enumerated on the 8th day of August 1870 by Leonard M Bergen
Household No.: 1061 Family: 1356
Sewall, Charles C. 36 M W Clerk Straw Goods 4,800 Mass - citizen of US
" Mary F. 36 F W Keeping House Mass
" Frank 8 M W N. Y. - attending School
" Amy 5 F W N. Y.
" Mary 2 F W N. Y.
Charles C. Sewell found in:
Family Archive #912 Census Microfilm Records: Connecticut, Rhode Island, 1900
Lived in: Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut
Series: T623 Microfilm: 150 Book: 2 Page: 66
Emumerated: June 5, 1900
Listed in household are Charles C. as head; Mary F. as wife and daughters Amy and Mary. Mary is listed as giving birth to 4 children and that 3 are living as of June 1, 1900.
More About Charles Chauncey Sewall II:
Occupation: 1870, Clerk Straw Goods - Real Estate value 4,800
Residence: Bet. 1835 - 1859, Medfield, Massachusetts
Notes for Mary F. Fairbanks:
Pennsylvania 1910 Census Miracode Index
Mary F Sewall
Age: 76 State: PA
Color: W Enumeration District: 0064
Birth Place: Massachussetts Visit: 0484
County: Montgomery
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Daughter Mary W 42, New York
Children of Charles Sewall and Mary Fairbanks are:
i. Lily Sewall, born about 1860; died young in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
ii. Frank Sewall, born June 10, 1862 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; died Bef. 1910 probably in Connecticut.
More About Frank Sewall:
Education: 1870, Attending School
3 iii. Amy Peters Sewall, born August 20, 1865 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; died October 27, 1947 in Los Angeles, California; married Jacob Klovis Roehm Bet. June 05, 1900 - March 01, 1901.
iv. Mary Warren (May) Sewall, born January 31, 1868 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; died November 07, 1944 in Los Angeles, California. Never Married.
Notes for Frank Sewall:
Frank Sewall found in: (The age is exactly 10 years off, but the rest of the facts match. So this my or may not be my GG-uncle)
Family Archive #912 Census Microfilm Records: Connecticut, Rhode Island, 1900
Lived in: Putnam, Windham County, Connecticut
Series: T623 Microfilm: 152 Book: 1 Page: 14
Supervisors's District No.: 26 Sheet No.: 14B
Enumeration District No.: 523 Ward No.: 4
Enumerated on the 12th day of June 1900 by Patrick O'Leary
Household: 227 - Family: 331
Address: Gamel or Camel Street
Sewall, Frank Head W M June 1872 age 27; Single; b: New York; Father b: Mass.; Mother b: Mass.; Occupation: Overseerer(sic) Saw Mill; 0 months unemployed; can read, write and speak English: Rents house
