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Traugott Ladusch

Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch

Traugott Ladusch

Probable

Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch

Sources
8

Research status

Research status: PROBABLE — accepted by Earl 28 September 2026 pending more evidence. Otto's own Social Security application, as indexed by both the Social Security Applications and Claims Index and the Numident, names his father as Traugott Ladusch, and its birth date, 30 March 1873, matches Otto's death certificate exactly S851S325. The 1945 death certificate of Pauline Wenzel, born in Germany in 1866, names her father as Traugott Ladusek and her mother as Johanna Sille S850, which fits a Ladusch family with children in Germany from 1866. What is weak: the application has been seen only as an index, with no image read; Otto's death certificate gives his parents as “no record” S325; and his Find a Grave memorial lists his children as Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch, without Otto S336 Probable confirm or correct →

Evidence: Otto's own Social Security application, indexed by both the SSACI and the Numident, names his father as Traugott Ladusch and gives the same birth date as Otto's death certificate. Weak or missing: It is an index only, with no image read; Otto's death certificate says 'no record' for his parents, and Traugott's Find a Grave child list omits Otto. Not yet confirmed. Know more? Confirm or correct this →

Life in the order the records give it

Burial1831
Dates differ between sources: 1831–1899 on FamilySearch S12, 1835–1906 in a member tree S57. His birth on 7 June 1835 in Brandenburg comes from Find a Grave only, and no record read gives his death; a 1900 census entry for an “Aaugot Ladusek”, born January 1846, may be another man
Arrival
Brandenburg → New Ulm, Austin County, Texas S12
Record1906
🆕 The Texas death index gives his death as 7 July 1906 in Fayette County, certificate 29481 Confirmed S1035. added 29 September 2026

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Parents
He is not the father of Hattie “Liessi” Ladusch; her father is Otto S327

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Probable
Probable father of Otto Paul Ladusch; husband of Johanna Sille (Selle) S850. A member tree also places him as Otto's father S57

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Traugott Ladusch · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

8 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
  2. S57Ancestry public member tree 119936132 ("Helm/Caffey Family Tree"), owned by a relative by marriage. Sixty-eight person pages were opened read-only on 14 September 2026 and their Relationships → Parents panels transcribed. NOT A RECORD. It is the source of every pre-1873 Caffey name, every pre-1890 Walker name, the whole Selland/Lone line, the Peters line above 1882, the Ladusch/Stein line above 1898 and the Landrock maiden name — and across its thirteen best-sourced ancestors, "Ancestry Family Trees" is cited on eleven of them, which is other users' trees, not documents. Everything drawn from it carries Family testimony and nothing is promoted. Nothing in it was edited; the role held is Guest, no paywall or CAPTCHA was bypassed, and the raw output is held in the private research directory. ⚠ Parent names were matched to person-IDs by link text, which resolved to the wrong person once where two people share a name — the names are reliable, any raw person-ID is not.
  3. S325Texas death certificate no. 72008 — Otto Ladusch, 1958. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23561925). Read from the image. Born 30 March 1873, Germany; died 26 December 1958, Seton Hospital, Austin, Travis County; parents “no record”; buried Oakwood Cemetery.
  4. S3271900 U.S. Federal Census — Otto Ladusch household, Austin Ward 10, Travis County, Texas. Ancestry collection 7602, record 44319545. Read from the image. Otto 26, born Germany, immigrated 1883, married 5 years; wife Emma, born March 1875, Texas, 2 children both living; daughters Frieda 3 and Elizabeth 2.
  5. S336Find a Grave memorial 259939327 — Traugott Ladusch. Read 22–23 September 2026. Wife Johanna Selle (1835–1899); children Pauline Alise Wenzel, Annamarie Ehmling, Bertha Nonnenmacher and Reinhold Gustav Ladusch. Otto is not listed.
  6. S850Texas death certificate, registered no. 9604, Floresville, Wilson County — Pauline Wenzel, 1945. Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982 (Ancestry collection 2272, record 23333461, image 40394_b062269-02225). Image examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Pauline Wenzel, widowed housewife, died 12 February 1945; born 24 February 1866, Germany; father Traugott Ladusek, born Germany; mother's maiden name Johanna Sille, born Germany; informant Max Wenzel, Floresville. A probable sister's certificate, not Otto Ladusch's; cited for the names of Traugott's wife and family.
  7. S851Social Security application of Otto Paul Ladusch — two indexes. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index (Ancestry record 613670605) and FamilySearch 1:1:6K7G-NCPT (United States Social Security Numerical Identification Files). Index entry only — no image was examined, read 28 September 2026. Probable Otto Paul Ladusch, born 30 March 1873, “Gruny”, West Germany; father Traugott Ladusch; mother “?”. Both index the same application; the SS-5 image has not been read. The birth date matches Otto's 1958 death certificate (S325), whose parents are “no record”.
  8. S1035Texas Death Index, 1903–1940, page 14850. Ancestry record 5502807. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Ladusch, Traugott, Fayette County, died 7 July 1906, certificate 29481. The only Traugott Ladusch in the index.

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