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Dorothea Maria WULF

Female 1801 - 1886


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  • Born  25 Jul 1801  Probsthagen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Female 
    Died  9 Jun 1886  Southside, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried  11 Jun 1886  St. Paul's Cem., Mt. Oliver, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Penn. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I658  Johnson Hindin Tree
    Last Modified  13 May 2018 

    Father  Johann Heinrich Christian WULFF 
    Mother  Engel Marie GLADE 
    Family ID  F232  Group Sheet

    Family  Johann Heinrich ("Friedrich") STOLTE,   b. 11 Jan 1801, Wendthagen, Shaumberg-Lippe, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Dec 1843, Wendthagen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  12 Dec 1824  Sulbeck No. 3, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Sophia Dorothea STOLTE,   b. 31 Jan 1825, Wendthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jun 1915, Mt. Washington, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Friedrich Wilhelm STOLTE,   b. 2 Aug 1827, Wendthagen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Nov 1829
     3. Wilhemine Dorothea STOLTE,   b. 24 May 1830, Wendthagen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Marie Eleanor Julianne STOLTE,   b. 23 Oct 1832, Wendthagen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Friedrich Wilhelm (Frederick) STOLTE,   b. 4 Mar 1835, Wendthagen, Schaumburgh-Lippe, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1895, Marion Station, Pittsburgh (23rd Ward), PA Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Caroline Dorothea Philippine STOLTE,   b. 21 Oct 1837, Wendthagen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Friedrich Wilhelm August STOLTE,   b. Oct 1840, Wendthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Dec 1904, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Adolf (Adolph) STOLTE,   b. 18 Jun 1843, Wendthagen, Schaumburg-Lippe, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1918, Carrick (Pittsburgh), PA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F151  Group Sheet

  • Notes 
    • Dorothea's surname is also spelled "Wulff" and "Wolf(e)".

      Dorothea came to the United States 1856, departing Bremen on the bark "Suwa" on September 12, 1856 and arriving in Baltimore, Maryland on November 19, 1856. She is listed on the ship manifest as "Ernestine" (age 54). Also on the ship are: Adolph (age 13), August (age 16), Caroline (age 19) and Wilhelm (age 24). Mrs. Jaworski's review of the passenger list shows that a Fritz (age 21) was also on the ship. According to a letter dated February 16, 1988, from Niedersaechsisches Staatsarchiv in Bueckeburg to Mary Jean Stolte Jaworski, at the time of her departure, Dorothea was a widow, peasant woman living at Wendthagen, No. 55, near Stadthagen in Schaumberg-Lippe. She traveled with three sons: Friedrich Wilhelm (age 21), a second son (age 15) and a third son (age 12), and two daughers. (Mrs. Jaworski believes that Friedrich Wilhelm was not Dorothea's son and that the second daughter did not survive the trip.)

      Dorothea was preceded to America in 1848 by her daughter Sophia and one other daughter.

      According to Jordan, John W., "A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People," v. III, Lewis Publishing Company (1908), Dorothea and her children arrived in Baltimore, Maryland after a voyage of six weeks and three days. They proceeded immediately to the home of Dorothea's brother in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They settled in what is now the Southside of Pittsburgh. Dorothea lived with Sophia at 2300 Carson St., South Side, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and she died there.

      The obituary published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on June 11, 1886 reads as follows:

      Stolte--On Wednesday June 9, 1886, Dorethea Stolte, mother of Mrs. Ernst Rohrkaste in her 85th year. Funeral from her residence, Twenty-third and Carson sts., South Side this afternoon at two o'clock. Friends of the family respectfully invited.