Family:Matthias Link and Agnes Mueller (1)

Part of the April 1847 emigration. In the second group who came via Quebec.

1850 US Census: Roulette, Potter, Pennsylvania, page 3: (enumerated immediately after another Link family – Jacob and Mary Link; Matthias had a brother Jakob married to Maria Majer)

• Mathew Link, 31, farmer
• Agnes, 32
• Mary, 11
• Catherine, 5
• Agnes, 4
• Jacob, 1, b PA

1860 US Census: Roulette, Potter, PA, page 6

• Matthias Link, 46, farmer
• Agnes, 42
• Agnes, 14
• Jacob, 11
• Christian, 9
• Frederica, 6
• George, 4
• Sally, 2

Abt 1869, they moved to NY (probably with Jacob Link)

1870 US Census: Dunkirk, Chautaqua, NY , p 142

• Link, Mathis, 53, laborer
• Agnes, 52
• Christian, 19
• Frederike 16
• George, 14
• Salome, 11
• Dora, 9, b PA
• Emilie, 6, b NY

Later on this page is a Jacob and Mary Wurthner, perhaps another Schwenningen couple? See entry for Andreas Wurthner, below, who had a son Jacob, right age for he of Dunkirk.

Sometime before 1880, Agnes died. In 1880 census, Matthias is with „wife 2d“

1880 US Census, Dunkirk, Chataqua, NY, district 049, p 9:

• Link, Mathias, 60, waterman

1. ↑ 1658745, Marriages 1840, in Evangelische Kirche Schwenningen (OA. Rottweil). Kirchenbuch, 1651-1875. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1989)
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