Dublin's German pork butchers database

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The vast majority of information in the database below has been compiled courtesy of Karl-Heinz Wüstner [KHW] to whom I am most grateful. He informs me that the vast majority of the butchers cited below originally came from southern Germany's Hohenlohe region. He kindly pointed me to the rootschat.com database which is comprehensive and reliable. Some additional info has been provded by myself {hidden-dublin.com).

Karl-Heinz writes: “They all came to Ireland before its independence and several of them were interned in war camps during WW I. Some of them became really successful entrepreneurs in meat processing and sausage manufacturing like the Hafners, Olhausens (originally Olnhausen), Lang and the Mogerleys (Mögerle). Others left Dublin after the Great War for America e.g. the Speidels, the Youkstetters (Jauchstetter), the Horlachers (of whom a son played football in the Irish national team), the Kramers and the Bakers. They were Protestant when they arrived in Ireland. You must know that not the whole of southern Germany was Catholic. Especially those who left Dublin for America were influenced by the Latter Day Saints Church and acquired Mormon beliefs. They gathered again in an outskirt of Los Angeles, namely in Huntingdon Park. The Herterich families still own butcher shops all over Ireland (google: Herterich butcher shops)

I have contacts with descendants of the Speidel and Youkstetter families in the USA and they sent me lots of material on the reorganization of the Mormon Church in Dublin in 1901, especially with the help of the German pork butcher members."

On Monday 9 October 2017 at 8.15pm, Karl-Heinz gave a talk for the Clontarf Historical Society with Derek Bauer entitled "The legacy of 19th century German Immigrant Pork Butchers".

"The vibrant history of German pork butchers who came to live and work in Dublin by the end of the 19th century is the subject of the talk. It will explore why these German immigrants left their homes in the small southern region of Hohenlohe and how they all found promising professions in the pork butcher trade. As a result German sausages, pork pies, jellied brawn, rissoles and trotters made their appearance in the shops that they founded in Ireland's capital. These shopkeepers were well-respected until the outbreak of the 1914-18 War in which they were regarded as suspects by the British. Only a few of these businesses managed to survive, although there are still names such as Hafner, Olhausen, Seezer, Horlacher, Youkstetter and Mogerley that are well remembered and were part of Dublin's glorious past."

These shopkeepers were well-respected until the outbreak of the 1914-18 War in which they were regarded as suspects by the British. Only a few of these businesses managed to survive, although there are still names such as Hafner, Olhausen, Seezer, Horlacher, Youkstetter and Mogerley that are remembered and which bear witness to this aspect of Dublin’s past.”

Other speakers were Jim Herlihy – Tracing Ancestors in the Irish Police; Ruth Mathewson - Finding the Irish in Scotland and Claire Bradley demoed the new features of the IGRS website, Aileen Wynne talks about DNA testing and Rosaleen Underwood talks about church records.

*Family name and forename*	*Date of birth*	*Place of birth*	*Married*	*Address in Ireland*	*Sources*
Baker, Frederick (Böger) sister: Barbara (Babette) Boeger	Billingsbach	married Wilhelmina Speidel			relative's information to KHW
Bauer, Gustav Heinrich		Hermuthausen		Salford, England, later in Dublin and in Mullingar, Ireland	Derek Bauer’s book
Brenner, Georg	emigr. 1908	Nesselbach		80 Pearse Street	hidden-dublin
Brenner, Heinrich	emigr. 1897	Nesselbach		80 Pearse Street?	hidden-dublin
Dimler, Friedrich			moved to Salt Lake City
Hachtel,??		Künzelsau		Dublin, went back to Künzelsau in ?	Kraut, belebte Zimmer
Haffner (Häffner?)		Morsbach?	Rebecca, 53, widow	50 George’s Street, South Great, Dublin	Harry Bauer 1911 census
Haffner, Charles, Haffner, Fred Haffner, Nellie Haffner, Florence	1886 1887 1890 1897	Dublin?	child child child child	50 South Great Georges Street and 5 Post Office Buildings, Henry Street, Shrewsbury Road	relative's information to KHW 01.02.09 hidden-dublin
Heinle, Heinric h (Harry)
Herterich
Horlacher, August		stayed in Ireland		Blackrock, 2c Main Street	hidden-dublin
Horlacher, Charles (Karl)	1872-1932, buried in Inglewood cemetery	Belsenberg		went to Los Angeles in 1923 and lived near Huntington Park	relative's information to KHW
Horlacher, Johann Friedrich		Rüblingen		Dublin, went to Salt Lake City	relative's information to KHW
Horlacher, Hermann Heinrich			were members of the Mormon Church	premises at 72 Lower George's Street and 59 Upper George's Street	hidden-dublin
Kramer (Krämer), Frederick		Künzelsau	married Magdalena Speidel		relative's information to KHW
Lang, Frederick	14 July 1874	Ingelfingen	arrived in 1891, married to an Irish woman	39 Wexford Street, Dublin, Ireland	Gib, p. 42
Mögerle, Johann Heinrich (Mogerley) daughter: Maura Mogerley	came to Ireland in 1908	Neufels	he was a Mormon some members went to the USA and are now in Nevada	62 South Circular Road, Portobello	relative's information to KHW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portobello,_Dublin
Olhausen, Wilhelm (Olnhausen) Olhausen Phyllis Olhausen Gladys		Olhausen Phyllis Olhausen Gladys	joined the Mormon Church in Los Angeles	Camden Street and 72 Talbot Street, had property on Strand Road, Sandymount and on Mount Merrion Avenue in leafy Blackrock.	relative's information to KHW hidden-dublin
Ott		Künzelsau (1951)			Lydia
Reinhardt		Ingelfingen? Hohebach? Künzelsau?
Reitz, Johann Georg (also: Retz)			married Barbara (Babette) Boeger (Baker)	Leonard’s Corner, South Circular Road, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland Camden Street	Sue Gibbons,p. 42, hidden-dublin Come here to me! Dublin life & Culture: When Dublin mobs attacked German pork butchers, August 1914. March 18, 2014 by dfallon
Rutsch, Henry		Oberregenbach		63 Lower Camden Street	hidden-dublin
Seezer, Charles Son? Neddy	emigr. 1895/1900	Ingelfingen	Interview with Neddy Seezer on YouTube.at 4:40 mins.	Dublin, 40 Thomas Street, photo exists	relative's information to KHW p. 43, hidden- dublin Irene Nachreiner
Speidel, John sisters: Magdalena Wilhelmina and Marie Speidel also Louisa son of John S.: Joseph, son of the latter: Eric		Niedernhall Worked for his relative, Kuhnle family butcher, Lancaster, UK, before moving to ireland as a result of anti-German feeling int he UK before/during WW1. Eric moved to the USA in the 1950s. He did not join the Mormon Church	had formerly been in Lancaster Louisa went to Salt Lake City and married a man from Wyoming the other Speidels followed to Los Angeles	Talbot Street, 21 North Strand Road, 62 and 71 Phibsborough Road and 12 Marino Mart	relative's information to KHW relative's information to hidden-dublin
Stein, Georg and sons				139 Capel Street and 54 Parnell Street	relative's information to KHW hidden-dublin
Strecker, William	*25th May 1884, +30th Dec. 1944, buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, Part 2 NOS. 152 - 300		married Caroline Hammel of Dörrenzimmern		relative's information to KHW
Stumpf, Wilhelm		Dörzbach?		197 Emmet Road	hidden-dublin
Weber, Johann Heinrich (John Henry)	DOB: 27th Dec. 1873, he emigrated to England in 1891, DOD: 21st Jan. 1915 in South Africa	Ingelfingen	John W. came to Dublin some time before 1898. He married Lizzie Freney in 1898 and had two sons.	In 1901 he left wife and children and was registered in Keighley, England, working for the butcher George Schneider at 10 Church Street, of whom also his sister Rosina was employed. Sometime between 1902 and 1908 he emigrated to South Africa, it is said he worked in a gold mine.	relative's information to KHW
Yaag (Jaag)		Kocherstetten			relative's information to KHW
Youkstetter (Jauchstetter), Wilhelm Gottlieb, son: Bill Youkstetter	1874-1947, buried in Inglewood cemetery	Kesselfeld Was apprenticed at a butcher in Neuenstein, in England he was first employed by a butcher in Nelson and later by butcher Happold in Penny Street, Lancaster	married Marie Speidel Bill Y. married Phyllis Olhausen	Dublin Photo of the butcher’s shop exists. Digital photo of the shop front of 2006 exists	relative's information to KHW

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