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John Mayer
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John Mayer is named as the father of **Lottie Florence Mayer**, born at New York City in 1890, on her 1914 marriage record. His wife was **Annie Gerken**. He is a direct ancestor of Gina Cacace and entered this archive in August 2026; nothing else about him is known.
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John Mayer is named as the father of **Lottie Florence Mayer**, born at New York City in 1890, on her 1914 marriage record. His wife was **Annie Gerken**. He is a direct ancestor of Gina Cacace and entered this archive in August 2026; nothing else about him is known.
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
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- Manhattan, New York City, New York
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Marriage of Julius Edward Noga and Lottie Florence Mayer, Manhattan, 13 October 1914
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What we still don't know
- **Whether this family was Jewish.** Mayer is a name carried by both German Jewish and German Christian families, and his wife's name, **Gerken**, is Northwest German and not typically Jewish. This matters because his line was the leading candidate for the family's Ashkenazi ancestry — see finding 122. His daughter's birth record of 1890, or his marriage, would give his birthplace and probably answer it.
- His birth, his origins and his death are all unknown. Every record naming him is a record about his daughter.
- His marriage to Annie Gerken, in New York some time in the 1880s.
- Note without reading anything into it: Gina Cacace descends from **Mayers on both sides** — from this John Mayer on her father's, and from Michael Mayer of Manhattan on her mother's. Mayer is among the commonest German surnames and nothing connects them.
- [CANDIDATE, NOT ATTACHED] A **John C Meyer married an Anna M C Gerken at Manhattan on 4 November 1872**; his own parents are given as John C Meyer and Maria Luhning. The names fit and the surname pairing is uncommon. Against it, an 1872 marriage would make Lottie, born 1890, a child of eighteen years into the marriage — possible, and not what one would expect. Recorded in the rolodex rather than attached.