Charlotte Rupp

Charlotta Rupp was born in Freinsheim, the daughter of Conrad Rupp and Barbara Fett. She was christened on 13 Aug 1856.

According to the 1905 New York State Census, Charlotta immigrated in or about 1885.

The 1900 US Census found Charlotte living with her sister Anna Rupp Brooks and her husband Nicolaus at East 106th Street. The entire household was described as having been born in New York, which means that we don't have information on information years from this census. Also, no member of the household is listed as having an occupation.

The 1905 New York State Census is a little more satisfactory. By now the family was living at 650 East 12th Street. Charlotte was said to have immigrated in 1885, five years after Anna.

The family had moved again by the time Nicolaus died on 28 Oct 1906, as his address is given as 415 East 86th Street.

By the time of the 1910 US Census, Anna, Charlotte and Anna's son Eugene had moved to 1754 2nd Avenue. (Her older son Bruno had enlisted in the US Army the year before.) Anna and Charlotte were working as cooks in a bank. Fourteen-year-old Eugene was an errand boy in a butcher shop.

This is the last information I have on Charlotte until her death in 1935. Anna died in Manhattan on 29 Mar 1915, but I can't find Charlotte in the 1915 New York State Census or any subsequent census in the States.

Charlotte died 13 May 1935 at Fort Jay on Governor's Island. At that time Fort Jay was still an active military installation. Charlotte's nephew Bruno had become a career Army officer, but according to the 1940 US Census, he and his family were stationed in the Philippines in 1935. I don't know what Charlotte was doing at Fort Jay. Furthermore, her residence was recorded - according to the transcript I have access to - as "Jawatfield Wsg..."

One of the things I wonder is if Charlotte went back to Germany after her sister's death and then returned to the States in 1935. Her nephew Eugene was living in Queens at the time. In this hypothesis, "Jawatfield Wsg..." is a misreading of a German place name, perhaps containing the elements -feld (field) and weg (way). However, there ought to be a passenger manifest showing Charlotte's return to the States, and I can't find one.

It's also possible that Charlotte simply avoided census takers for whatever reason. This was (and is) relatively easy for a single person to do.

Charlotte was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, where her sister Anna is also buried.