Partridge Family

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Need help to find parents of Elizabeth Partidge who married Louis Eperthener
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PARTRIDGE Elizabeth EPECTHENER Louis West Bromwich, All Saints Sandwell Register Office 22/11/155 1865

Surname of Louis is spelt wrong

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1880: 26th Ward, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Louis EPERTHENER 34 FRANCE Glass Blower FRA FRA
Elizabeth EPERTHENER 32 ENGLAND Keeping House ENG ENG
Louis EPERTHENER 12 ENGLAND FRANCE ENG
William EPERTHENER 10 ENG FRA ENG
John EPERTHENER 7 IN At Home FRA ENG
August EPERTHENER 3 PA At Home FRA ENG

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Yes Peterd.
Most of French Families left West Bromwich in 1870,s and 1880,s . but some remained after marrying locally and one Joseph Zeller became quite rich and son was a director of Walsall Football Club and another descendant fought in WW1 as a Captain then Major for Royal Engineers.( In France where his ancestors came from in 1915)
Pat Adams a descendant of Eperthener Family wrote following Article and is liasing with me in research and I have put most on bcc.
Louis Eperthener was born in France in the early 1800's. He later moved to England where he married Augustine Bregy. At the time of her marriage to Louis, Augustine Bregy was living with her two brothers, Hippolyte Bregy, 29, a glass maker, born in France, but a British subject; and his wife Emma, 30; born in west Bromwich; and Augustine's other brother, Louis, 24 also a glass maker. Louis Eperthener had learned the craft of glass blowing in France and it was a craft that stayed in the family for many years.
Glass blowing is a highly skilled craft. The first step in glass blowing is when the glass blower takes a gob of molten glass from a furnace and blows air into it from a blowpipe to give his piece its preliminary shape. The art of glass blowing is about 2,000 years old. The pipe the glass blower uses from four to five feet long. It is dipped into molten glass then he gently blows into the pipe unit and the glass bulges out and forms a hollow bulb. Then he proceeds to create whatever he wants by stretching, squeezing and twirling to make the shape he desires.
It is not certain where in France Louis was from, but on a document located called the Port of London Certificate of Arrival. Louis Bregy states he arrived from Calais, France, on a ship called the William Jobfex on 24 October 1839. This also may have been the area in France where Louis Eperthener was from. Calais is a city in Northern France, situated on the narrowest part of the Strait of Dover.
My cousin, Caroline (Gillespie) Hartman, told me she had heard that our Great-Grandfather, Hypolite Eperthener, was a French Huguenot. The Huguenots were French Protestants; they believed the teachings of John Calvin and belonged to the Reformed Church. Most Huguenots were craft workers or textile workers.
The history of the Huguenots shows they were the center of political and religious quarrels in France for many years. They lost their political freedom during the reign of Louis XIII when he conquered their cities; but they were still allowed freedom of worship. They did not lose this until 1685 when Louis XIV repealed the Edict of Nontes. Thousands of Huguenots fled France at this time. The ones that remained in France slowly rebuilt their church. Some of the laws against the Huguenots were relaxed shortly before the French Revolution in 1789. But the Huguenots did not get religious and political freedom until the Constituent Assembly (1789-1791) gave equal rights to Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jews.
On 18 September 1847, Louis and Augustine had a son named Hypolite Emile Eperthener. He was born on Spon Lane, in West Bromwich, Staffordshire (a suburb of Birmingham) England. Hypolite's birth certificate shows him as Hipolite Emile Eperthener, a girl, born 18 September 1847. The girl was obviously wrong. He must have decided to change the spelling of his name quite young, because his marriage certificate shows it as Hypolite. It is interesting to note that one of the witnesses at his marriage was named Aristide Schmidt. Perhaps he was a good friend, or someone Hypolite respected, as later Hypolite decided to use Aristide as his middle name. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a glass blower. Nothing else is known of his life until he marries Elizabeth Skermer in the Register Office in the District of Aston in the County of Warwich on 3 February 1871.
Hypolite's wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of John and Elizabeth Skermer. John Skermer was a very prosperous farmer of 23 acres, employing one man. John and his wife, Elizabeth had ten children. At the time of their deaths, they had three daughters living at home Ellen, Maria and Elizabeth. After their parents died the girls went to live with their father's sister, Eleanor Palmer and her husband, William Richard Palmer.
When Hypolite and Elizabeth moved to the United States in 1871 the civil war had been over for six years and Ulysses S. Grant was president of the United States. Hypolite and Elizabeth lived in Morristown, Pennsylvania; Albany, Indiana; and then in New Castle, Pennsylvania. They had six children: Elizabeth (Lizzie), Hypolite (Poole), Leanore, Augustine, John and Joseph (Dory). Elizabeth died after Joseph was born and Hypolite remarried. His second wife was named Sarah (called Sadie). They had one son named Louis (Lou). Sadie is listed as the purchaser of their family home at 206 Croton Avenue, New Castle, Pennsylvania on 5 April 1892. It has since been enlarged and is now a restaurant. Sadie died in 1913, leaving as her heirs, her husband, Hypolite, and on son, Louis. On 7 June 1916 Hypolite sold his interest in the property to his son, Louis, for $1.00 and other considerations. He lived alone after Sadie died until he was 70 years old, when he moved in with his daughter Leanore Gillespie and lived with her until his death on 1 May 1935.
Other Eperthener's found in the Census Reports in England were:
Leanore Catherine Jane, born King's Norton in 1858.
Leopoldine Louisa Emile E., born South Sheilds in 1855.
Selina, born Sunderland in 1857.
Louisa, born in the September Quarter, 1852, in West Bromwich.
Of the above, Louisa is the only definite sibling of Hypolite; but it very likely that they were all his sisters, or very close relatives, since Eperthener is a very uncommon name. It also appears that Hypolite had two brothers, Leon and Louis, although they were not found in the above census reports. Their descendants now live in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Both Louis and Hypolite were married in England and had their first children there; they both came to the U.S.A. after 1870; they both were in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania at the same time and they were both in Indiana at the same time before returning to Pennsylvania by 1880. Leon was in England as late as 1871, but it is not certain when he came to this country.
Louis Eperthener was naturalized in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. He began his naturalization process, the Declaration of Intent which was filed after two years residence in the United States, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Louis said in 1874, when he filed his declaration, that he was born in Belgium, and that he arrived at the Port of New York in October 1872. He was sponsor for his son Louis Jr's. naturalization, as Louis was an adult by the time Louis Sr. obtained his naturalization papers; and he was not eligible to be automatically naturalized when his Father became a citizen.
Hypolite's daughter, Leanore Eperthener was my Grandmother. She was born in New Albany, Indiana in 1874. Grandmother was a school teacher in New Castle from 1893 until she married William Henry Gillespie in 1901. They had four children: Imogene, Gertrude, Donald Jay and William Henry, Jr.

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