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Descendants of the Wetta Family

Direct ancestors are in bold

SURNAMES:  WETTA, BUCHLER, MULLER, DECKELMAN, BRESNAHAN, DYER, RICKER

Franciscus Wetta bn: 1786 Baden-Baden, Germany d: 1866 Germany
married  Marie Ann Buchler

Their child (records indicate they only had the one who immigrated to U.S.)

Notes on Antoine H. Wetta, only son of Franciscus and Marie Ann:  Arrived in the New Orleans from Germany in December 1839 at age 20.  Married Josephine Muller in 1849 at St. Mary's Assumption Church in New Orleans, LA. Many of the children that appear in records may not have survived to adulthood, therefore,there are a few with no biographical information.

1.  Antoine Henry Wetta bn: 15 May 1819 Baden-Baden, Germany d: 24 March 1887 New Orleans, LA
   +  Josephine Muller bn: 1832 Hafleur, Alsace Lorraine, France d:  26 June 1912 New Orleans, LA
      2.  Mary Evangilst Wetta (was a nun in Ohio at the time of Emma Wetta's death)
      2.  Thomas Wetta
      2.  Veronica Wetta
      2.  Elizabeth Wetta bn: 1849 New Orleans, LA
      2.  Edward Wetta bn: 1850 New Orleans, LA
      2.  Josephine Wetta bn: 1853 New Orleans, LA
      2.  Marguerite (Maggie) Wetta bn:  1857 NO, LA 
         + Mr. Deckelman
           3.  Louis Deckelman bn:  1882 NO, LA
           3.  Benjamin Deckelman bn:  1885 NO, LA  
      2.  William Wetta bn:  1858 New Orleans, LA
          + Anna Mack married in 1885
      2.  Catherine Jane Wetta bn: 1860 NO, LA d:  6 Dec 1927 NO, LA
      2.  Joseph Jefferson Wetta bn:  1863 New Orleans, LA
         + Margaret Bresnahan bn:  April 1865 Kerry, Ireland (arrived in 1877) marriage 1884 d: 1933 New Orleans, LA
            3.  Francis (Frank) J. Wetta bn: Nov 1886
            3.  Joseph Wetta bn: Jan 1889 NO, LA
            3.  John Wetta bn:  Sept 1892 NO, LA
            3.  James Wetta bn:  Dec 1893 NO, LA
            3.  Veronica Wetta bn:  April 1895 NO, LA
            3.  Margaret Wetta bn:  Sept 1897 NO, LA
            3.  Mary Wetta bn:  Sept 1899 NO, LA
      2.  Emma Gertrude Wetta bn: Nov 1865 Louisiana d:  1938 New Orleans, LA
         +James Louis Dyer (see Dyer Family Descendants)
            3. Robert James Dyer 1884-1963
            3.  Thomas Anthony Dyer 1885
            3.  James William Dyer 1888-1929
            3.  George Dyer 1890-1937
            3.  Mary Catherine Dyer 1893-1966
            3.  Henry Joseph Dyer 1894
            3.  William Louis Dyer 1894-1953
          + Frederick Ricker (second husband) married 1900
            3.  Frederick J Ricker bn: 1906 New Orleans LA

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