– John E. Reuter arrived in Belgium on the 4th of April 1850 and lived in\u00a0Li\u00e9ge (Walloon: Lidje; Dutch: Luik; German: L\u00fcttich). I don’t know if Pauline Pirotte was already living there. I estimate they were married around 1850 but I do not know the location. Their daughter, Stephanie was born on the 3rd of February 1851 in Li\u00e9ge.<\/p>\n
– In February of 1851 John Reuter came to Antwerp, Belgium from Li\u00e9ge. \u00a0(It is not clear to me if his wife and daughter came at the same time.)<\/p>\n
– On 17 April 1852 the family of three officially changed their residence from\u00a0Li\u00e9ge to Antwerp and John registered as a foreigner residing in Antwerp. Their second child, Armand (Armandus Joannes Hubertus Reuter), was born the 29th of May 1852 in Antwerp.<\/p>\n
– The birth registration for Armand lists their residence as Section 1, Number 248, which I was informed is Krabbenstraat (Crab Street) in the old part of Antwerp near the harbor and the Hotel de Ville (City Hall). (Marked in yellow on the map.)<\/p>\n
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– On the 11th of September 1853 (not certain of month) John, Pauline, and Stephanie are listed in the population register of Antwerp in Ward 1, No 1115\/17, but no address is listed for them. It appears the family may have left Antwerp on that date.<\/p>\n
– On July 5, 1857 their third child, Edmond (Eberhard Gottfried Hubert Joseph Reuter), was born in Karlsruhe, Baden. His baptismal record indicates that his father resided in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n
– At some point between 1853 and 1857 John Reuter immigrated to Montreal, Canada. I do not know the exact dates when any of the five family members left Europe and arrived in Montreal. They are all listed in Montreal on the 1861 Census of Canada.<\/a><\/p>\n – 1857-1860 Montreal city directories: Edward Reuter of Reuter Brothers & Company:\u00a0Commission merchants, importers of French calf skins, and agent for the Monteal zinc-paint works<\/em>; 267 St. Paul; 158 St. Paul; 25 Lemoine; Cadieux, Cote \u00e0 Baron (house)<\/p>\n – 1861 Canadian Census: Everhard Reuter, merchant, 38, born in Cologne; Pauline Pirotte, spouse, 35, born in Li\u00e9ge; Fanny Reuter, daughter, 10, born in Li\u00e9ge; Armand Reuter, son, 8, born in Anvers (Antwerp); Everhard Reuter, son, 4, born in Carlsruhe. Religion for all: C. R. (Roman Catholic)<\/p>\n – 1861-1862 Montreal city directories: Edward Reuter of Pirotte Brothers: Importers of French calf skins, Wine & spirit merchants<\/em>; 15 Hospital; \u00a0Cadieux, Cote \u00e0 Baron (house)<\/p>\n – 1862 Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records: Private lease contract between Jules Pirotte and Everhard Reuter<\/p>\n – 1871 Canadian Census: Edmond Reuter, merchant, 48, born in Germany; Pauline Reuter, 42, born in Belgium; Fanny Reuter, daughter, 19, born in Belgium; Armand Reuter, son, 18, born in Belgium; Edmond Reuter, son, 12, born in Germany. Religion for all: R Catholic<\/p>\n – 1880\u00a0Federal Census: Edward Reuter, 57, born in Cologne, mother & father born in Cologne; Pauline Reuter, 54, born in Belgium, mother & father born in Belgium<\/p>\n – 1893 Ogdensburg Advance The Vital Statistics: Pauline Reuter, 69, died in November, 1893<\/p>\n – 1900 Federal Census: John E. Reuter, widower, 77, born November \u00a01822 in Germany, mother & father born in Germany; arrived USA in 1880, naturalized<\/p>\n – 1909 Death Certificate, Commonwealth of Massachusetts: John E. Reuter, widowed, a merchant, 88, born Germany, mother & father born in Germany<\/p>\n – 1920\u00a0Federal Census: Armand Reuter, merchant, 67, immigrated in 1859, naturalized in 1875; Edward Reuter, cutter, 62,\u00a0immigrated in 1859, naturalized in 1888<\/p>\n – 1930\u00a0Federal Census: Fannie Reuter, 78, immigrated in 1857, alien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John E. Reuter and Pauline Pirotte are my maternal great-grandparents. They emigrated from Europe to Montreal, Canada between 1853 and 1859. They immigrated to the United States of America around 1880. This is an overview of their movements. Their Lives in Europe I found the earliest records for my maternal great-grandparents, John Reuter (Eberhard Johann … Continue reading “Reuter and Pirotte Immigration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,32],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirotte","category-reuter","tag-pirrotte","tag-reuter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/KRMurray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Their Lives in canada<\/h4>\n
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