19 Dec 2001
Wife: Henrietta Louise SCHROTH died at age: 80 Born: 27 May 1834 in Wurzen Germany Died: 14 Dec 1914 in Radebeul Saxony Cause of death: Asthma? 1 Father: Friedrich Christian SCHROTH Mother: Christiane Henriette FELIX Other Spouse 1
Husband: Carl Gottfried MULLER died at age: 78 Born: 23 Feb 1835 in Taucha Saxony Died: 10 Nov 1913 in Radebeul Saxony 2 Married: OCt 1863 in St Paul's Church Chemnitz Event: Transferred business to Otto & Carl 3 Occupation: Ropemaker in Chemnitz 4,5 Occupation: Scrap metal merchant 6 Father: Johann Carl August MULLER Mother: Johanne Christine SCHROPFER M Child 1: Carl Hermann MULLER died at age: 39 Born: 6 Sep 1866 in Chemnitz Saxony Died: Feb 1906 in Brandon Manitoba 7 Event: 1894 goes bankrupt 8 Spouse: Amy DINES M Child 2: Otto George MULLER died at age: 82 Born: 8 Aug 1867 in Chemnitz Saxony Died: 25 Mar 1950 in Spokane Washington Event: May 1893 returns to Germany 9 Event: 1894 Bankrupt 10 Event: 1905 Bankrupt again - in Dresden 11 Emigrated: Sep 1905 to Canada 12,13 Event: 1914 threatened with tarring & feathering 14 Occupation: 1891 Central London in financial difficulty Occupation: Metal foundry and brick manufacture 15 Occupation: 1901 - 1905 Scrap rubber and bicycles 16 Occupation: 1906 Dairyman in Brandon Canada 17 Occupation: 1920 Sign painter for Imperial Oil 18 Spouse: Emily RUSS b. 21 Nov 1872 d. 28 Jun 1929 Married: 21 Jul 1891 in England 19,20 F Child 3: Louise Marie MULLER nickname: Liesel died at age: 75 Born: 8 Aug 1871 in Chemnitz Saxony Died: 24 Jan 1947 in Dresden Spouse: Adolf BOERNER b. 23 Jan 1867 d. 28 Nov 1949 M Child 4: Fritz Walther MULLER Born: 31 Jan 1874 in Chemnitz Saxony Resided: 1940 in Radebeul Saxony Resided: Mar 1893 comes to London 21 Resided: Summer 1893 in Stockwell 22 Event: 13 Dec 1946 in Berlin Occupation: Waste rubber merchant Spouse: Frida Sidonie KILLGUSS b. 19 Feb 1877 Event (family): 1945 observed the Dresden bombing Sources: (1) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, During the last years of her life she suffered a lot from asthma and died on Dec.14.1914. My sister Liesel and myself were with her at the end. (2) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, Then my father could not help him any more as he had lost much money through Otto, Carl and a man named Lorenz who had borrowed heavy against mortgages. So all he had left was 40000 marks and a state annuity of 2400 marks annually which was just enough with the interest of the 40000 for them to live on. As my sister Liesel and myself had only had a few thousand marks and Carl had 20000 and Otto 50 or 6OOO0 my father wished to leave the rest of his fortune to us three children at his death. So all he could do was to pay the fare for Otto and family to Canada which was about 5000 marks. After that my parents lived very plain and father died Nov.9th 1913 from Apoplexy. He had just come from the garden and wished a neighbour "Good-night" when he dropped dead. (3) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, My father still had not retired but supervised the business until l888 when he transferred it to Otto and Carl and moved to the farm. Wishing to bring home to them the value of such a business he thought it right not to let them have it too cheap and so they had to pay him an annual lease of 12000 marks. Realising that this was too much he reduced this to 10000 and after another six months to 10000 or 8000. But times had altered altogether and Carl and Otto were really too young to meet all business difficulties and to see the risks clearly enough and so they sustained big money losses through some of their customers going bankrupt and they got into financial troubles themselves. My father raised 30000 Marks for them by taking a mortgage on his farm. (4) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, Carl Gottfried MULLER - my father. Had a very hard stepmother and was punished most severely for the least misbehavior and sent to bed without supper. Father had to get up at 4 a.m. to walk to Leipzig on his father's business and be back for school at 8 a.m. It was a 3 hour trip there and back. (My father told us of some of the punishment they used to hand out those days, such as kneeling on a bag of beans for hours at a time. Carl [?Karl Alfred MULLER comment]) Later on he became a rather intimate friend of Carl Russ, who was 7 years younger than father and had many fights with him in his younger days but their friendship lasted until Carl Russ died. When father had finished his school he was employed in his father's trade as an apprentice and after 4 years apprenticeship was promoted to journeyman. Before that he that he had to furnish some work called the "Gesellenstuck" by which the young craftsman showed that he has learned the trade thoroughly. My father made a roll of fine" extra strong string and I still have a good part of it in my possession and you would admire it for its accuracy and beauty of work. At that time every young man had to wander from one town to another asking craftsmasters if they had any work for them and so they had to wander for some years before they were allowed to return home and be promoted to mastership. I still have my father's "wandering book". In this book every one of his masters had written down a testimonial saying how long my father had stayed and that he done his work to the master's satisfaction. The book also contains entries from the burgomaster or police chief by which he was allowed to move to the next town. The name of the town was mentioned and also the time allowed to get there and the young fellows had to do a good big march every day in order to get to the town named by the allotted time. Unless they could prove that they had been ill they were punished severely and it was presumed that they idled on the way. My father's wandering had all been to Bavaria and his favorite place had been Markbreit, near Wurzberg and he always returned to his old master there when he had been at neighbouring towns. So that a real friendship sprang up between them and the master's children and one of them, Margaret, came to visit my father in 1905 40 years after. I met her. A very fine lady. In 1863 my father was again wandering from Bavaria to Taucha in order to see his own folks and when he passed through Chemnitz he read in the paper that an old ropemaker in Frankenberg wished to sell his outfit. So father set out the same day, for Frankenberg. About 4 hours walk and saw the old ropemaker but found the price too high, he having only 2 Thaler(6 shillings)above what he must have for food for a couple of days. Father was very sorry he could not make the deal as the outfit was in very good shape. As he was about to leave the old ropemaker turned to him and said "I like you and have confidence in you and so I will let you have the outfit and you will see God's blessing will be with you." And so my father returned to Chemnitz happy for having the outfit but not knowing where money wou1d come from to live and buy hemp until he could expect returns from his work. However some good people lent him some money as they had faith in him and he began his ropemaking business on a street called "Sonnenberg"in Chemnitz and was very succesful. Later on he made the acquaintance of my mother, who was a widow. Her name was Mrs.Lessig then and she was about 30 years of age. They were married and moved to a village named Gablentz near Chemnitz. There my father bought a little grocery business in addition to his ropemaking and this business too was a good one. One night my father came home from a little party where some drinking had been indulged in and my mother told him that a cask in the basement was leaking (spirits)and as he lit a match on his way down she tried to stop him but the whole place immediately burst into flames and everything including the house burned to the ground. Father's beard was burned right off and he was lucky to escape alive. Next day when he realized that this would not have happened had he been sober he swore never to touch liquor again and kept that oath until his death. Later on he bought a piece of land at #7 Neue Dresdner Str at Chemnitz in order to continue his ropemaking business and was very successful there. He built a fine home and when it was nearly completed it collapsed one night; the cost had been 100,000 Marks. Again he was ruined in one night. He brought suit against the contractor in court but it was proved that my father had given the foreman a sum of money in order to hurry the job up and be able to move in sooner and the verdict went against him and he had to pay the costs of the lawsuit as we1l (That is the house I was born in. Carl). He raised enough money through friends to enable him to finish the house and continue his ropemaking business. (5) DK, "Carl Russ's good friend Carl Muller, a ropemaker seven years his senior, did just that [travelled], wandering from the town of Taucha, six miles north-east of Leipzig, in Saxony, all the way down to Bavaria and back.", 9. (6) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, His house was situated near a Jewish scrap metal merchant and he observed that this man, named Joachimthal, grew very rich. So my father took up this line as well as his ropemaking business and the scrap metal business was a big success and in 1878 my father bought a large garden on the outskirts of Chemnitz and built a fine country residence there. Later on he gave up ropemaking entirely and transferred the scrap business to the new location at 41 Ausere Dresdner Str. Later he build a smelter there(for pig iron) and done a good business with English customers. In 1884 he tired of business as he was nearly 50 years old, and bought a farm near Gablentz near Chemnitz. As my brothers Otto and Carl were too young to run the business my mother attended to that very eagerly. (7) Carl Godfrey Muller, Autobiographical notes (1973), 'Uncle Carl was taken to hospital after Xmas and died in January that first year[1906] that we were there, leaving his widow and eight children and no money. There was also a daughter of a few months who died about that time leaving Aunt Amy with three boys and 5 girls to support'. (8) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'Carl was older than Otto by about a year but was too complaisant and whatever Otto thought right he carried to the point and heeded not others opinions. And so in 1894 they went bankrupt.'. (9) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'Just in the beginning of that year Otto had realized that the central office in London was a failure and that he was much more needed in Germany. But he had bought a house on Cavendish Road in London. In that house May was born. It was in March 93 that Otto came to Germany and not wishing to leave his London office unguarded he sent me to London, although I was only 19 years old then. My task there was rather an ugly one. Mr Russ had lent Otto that money against Bills of acceptance and whenever one of those bills fell due and Otto could not pay them I had to intercede and these affairs upset Mr.Russ very much, also myself'. (10) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'And so in 1894 they went bankrupt.'. (11) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'So Otto came to me to help him discount them with my bankers. This went on until 1905 when Otto was forced to declare himself bankrupt for the 3rd time.'. (12) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'So all he [Carl Gottfried MULLER] could do was to pay the fare for Otto and family to Canada which was about 5000 marks'. (13) Carl Godfrey Muller, Autobiographical notes (1973), 'After about four days we arrived in Winnipeg and then Brandon at 6 am on Sept 5th (Labor Day) 1905'. (14) Carl Godfrey Muller, Autobiographical notes (1973), 'When the Lusitania was sunk he had an article in his paper saying when the news was put on the bulletin board my father stood there and clapped his hands saying "it was good for them.". There was not a bit of truth in any of that as Dad had not been in town for weeks. We only about this by chance and because a mob of angry men had organized a gang to tar and feather my dad'. (15) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'Otto was enormously industrious and fought hard to bring his business up again and people had good faith in him but again he undertook too much. He bought an iron foundry at Chemnitz and a lead works in Olderau [?] and also a brick factory at Gablenz and having his smelter and scrap business besides. He used to get up at 4 a.m. in order to call on all places of business and having developed the brick factory to a high standard through the aid of his bankers who had given him a loan of 100000 marks. These bankers wished to get hold of this plant in their own name and called the loan on short notice and Otto was unable to raise the money in the allotted time and he was declared bankrupt again. (I remember the brick-plant well. Dad modernized it and put up a factory of the latest design. Carl.)'. (16) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, 'My father gave Otto some money again and having learned from that the scrap rubber business was good he started in the same line in Dresden and later sold bicycles on a rather large scale. This was in 1901. Again he undertook too much and sold bicycles to almost anybody on credit. These were sold on notes which often were not paid when due and his bankers declined to take them above a certain amount.'. (17) Carl Godfrey Muller, Autobiographical notes (1973), 'That winter Dad bought two more cows and we are really in the Dairy business'. (18) Carl Godfrey Muller, Autobiographical notes (1973), 'Sometime later my Father also came to look for work in Regina and Bill moved out. Dad got a job with Imperial Oil as signpainter and he traveled around the province painting the storage tanks with the Imperial Oil trademark'. (19) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'married July 21st 1891 to Otto George Muller, Chemnitz second son of Carl Gottfried Muller'. (20) DK, 'Emily married Otto Muller, Carl Muller's second but more enterprising son', 18. (21) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, Just in the beginning of that year Otto had realized that the central office in London was a failure and that he was much more needed in Germany. But he had bought a house on Cavendish road in London. In that house May was born. It was in March 93 that Otto came to Germany and not wishing to leave his London office unguarded he sent me to London, although I was only 19 years old then. My task there was rather an ugly one. Mr Russ had lent Otto that money against Bills of acceptance and whenever one of those bills fell due and Otto could not pay them I had to intercede and these affairs upset Mr.Russ very much, also myself. (22) Fritz Walter MULLER, Genealogy of Muller family, I moved to Stockwell and was the only man in the office then. Otto wished me to stay there as many bills were coming due. Name Index