Born: June 30, 1886, Pennsylvania
Died: March, 12, 1934, Morris County, New Jersey
Relation to Author: Great Grandfather
Margaret (Margarite) Williams
Born: November 4, 1887, Neath(?), Pennsylvania
Died: March 4, 1972, Succasunna, Morris County, New Jersey
Relation to Author: Great Grandmother
Updated with New Information!!!
I found the 1900 Census for the Williams family, which allows me to add some missing information.
My great grandfather, Frederick Paulus, was the son of German immigrants. My great grandmother, Margaret Williams, was the daughter of Welsh immigrants. Frederick and Margaret married in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where both families lived.
Since starting this project, I've wondered where in Scranton the two families lived and how Margaret and Frederick met. Census records tell us which wards in Scranton the families lived in and the map at bottom shows us where this was.
The Paulus family - father Christian Paulus, mother Charlotte Paulus, and 5 children - lived in ward 19 (bottom left - purple-ish color) in 1900 and 1910.
The Williams family - father Robert Williams, mother Elizabeth Thomas (married name Williams) and 7 children* lived in ward 1 (right - green) in 1900 and ward 2 (upper right - same purple-ish color) in 1910.
With the Paulus family on the south of the city and the Williams family in the north, it makes you wonder how two people, with different family histories and living in different neighborhoods (and probably not of the same religion) would have met, fell in love, and married.
So we don't know why or how they met, but we do know when the married. Margaret and Frederick married on May 31, 1910 (now over 103 years ago) in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They were married by R.J. Rees - Minister of the Gospel - and witnessed by August Engel and Louise Schneider.
The notes I have on the marriage say that Frederick was living in Wharton, New Jersey at the time and Margaret was still living in Scranton, Pennsylvania (1910 census records confirm this). So apparently Frederick had gone ahead to New Jersey to work.
By 1920, Frederick and Margaret had moved from Wharton to Roxbury / Kenvil, NJ and they had four children - Edna, Frederick, Alvin, and Elizabeth.
* Among other changes, the previous post said the Williams family had 4 children. After finding the 1900 Williams family in the census, it turns out there were 7 children living with the family at the time. By 1910, three are only four listed in the census - and the three missing names would have been 19 or older in 1910 so I assume they moved away.
