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Annie Gerken
Dates not recorded
Annie Gerken is named as the mother of Lottie Florence Mayer on her daughter's 1914 marriage record. Gerken is a Northwest German name, from Hanover and Oldenburg, and it is the strongest single indication of where this quarter of the family came from. She is a direct ancestor of Gina Cacace.
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Annie Gerken is named as the mother of Lottie Florence Mayer on her daughter's 1914 marriage record. Gerken is a Northwest German name, from Hanover and Oldenburg, and it is the strongest single indication of where this quarter of the family came from. She is a direct ancestor of Gina Cacace.
Recorded as: Mayer
How is this person related?
Andrew John Leahey’s spouse's great-great-great-grandparent (by marriage)
Gina D. Cacace’s great-great-great-grandparent
Abigail Ann Leahey’s great-great-great-great-grandparent
Marie C. Fitzgerald’s no single word covers it — connected through Andrew John Leahey, who is a child
Kevin Leahey’s no single word covers it — connected through Andrew John Leahey, who is a child
Worked out from the recorded parents and marriages. No sex is recorded for anyone in this archive, so the wording stays neutral.
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- New York City, New York
- Manhattan, New York City, New York
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What the records say
2 of 3 records transcribed.
Record exhibit
Marriage of Julius Edward Noga and Lottie Florence Mayer, Manhattan, 13 October 1914
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NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026
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Twelve couples tested by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year: no matches. Controls: surname Mayer alone returns 1,025 rows for 1922-1937, and the GGG (all-records) and City (digitised-only) indexes return identical counts for every name tested.
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NYC death index — controlled negatives for Gina Cacace's frontier ancestors, 21 August 2026
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Amelia Seelig/Selig: three deaths, ages implying births of 1881, 1859 and 1841, none fitting January 1850. Schoendorf: 54 deaths, no John of a fitting age; the nearest is Nicholas Schoendorf, 66 y, 21 September 1899, Kings, no. 16294, implying 1833 exactly but the wrong given name.
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What we still don't know
- Her birth, her arrival if she was an immigrant, and her death — all unknown.
- Her marriage to John Mayer. New York, 1880s.
- Gerken families in New York came overwhelmingly from Hanover and Oldenburg. That is a statement about the name, not about her, and it is the kind of thing this archive has been wrong about before.
- [NEGATIVE, CONTROLLED — NOT MARRIED IN NEW YORK CITY] Tested on 21 August 2026 against the New York City marriage index by intersecting both spouses' rows on county, certificate number and year. No certificate joins them. Two controls make the zero usable: the surname alone returns hundreds of rows, so the query works; and the GGG transcription of every record and the City's index of digitised records return identical counts, so this is a real absence and not a scanning gap. Within the index's coverage — five boroughs, 1866-1937 — they married somewhere else. Finding 158.
- [THE DEATH INDEX CANNOT REACH THIS PERSON, AND HERE IS WHY] `nycvitals sweep` prunes same-name rows using the index's age column, which needs a birth year to compare against. This page has none, so the age column is inert and the sweep returns a list that cannot be shortened — seventeen candidates for Susan Moore, five for Stephen Moore, hundreds for John Mayer. Nothing has been attached. Reaching this person needs a parent-naming document — a marriage, birth or death certificate belonging to one of their children — not another index sweep. Finding 161.
References
- [1] Marriage of Julius Edward Noga and Lottie Florence Mayer, Manhattan, 13 October 1914Back to citation 1
- [2] NYC marriage index, 1866-1937 — controlled sweep of twelve archive couples, 21 August 2026Back to citation 2
- [3] NYC death index — controlled negatives for Gina Cacace's frontier ancestors, 21 August 2026Back to citation 3