Category Archives: Family

Meissner Family

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Meissner Family   Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 02/19/2015 also see Helen May Jeffery Meissner Meissner family buys back Sussex farm eyed for commercial development By Kelly Smith Posted Living Sussex Sun, Jan. 29, 2013  Village of Sussex – The nearly 400-acre Meissner Farm – a landmark property at the corner of Silver Spring Road and Highway… Read more »

Melville, Peter (son Alexander)

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  Peter Melville Family   Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 11/25/200 Descendants of Peter Melville Generation No. 1 1. P ETER1 MELVILLE was born 1801 in Scotland. He married EMELIA”MILLY” BRUCE (Source: 1850 Federal Census, Lists her as “Milly” age 49.) 18 Dec 1829 in St. Martins, Kilspindle, Perth, Scotland (Source: LDS familysearch.org.). She was born Abt…. Read more »

Mayhew Family History / Genealogy

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Mayhew Family   Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 12/01/2005 Memories of an Octogenarian Tells of Early Day Experiences in Coming to New West From Old Bay State in 1844 Present Day Readers Will Find Much to Interest Them inFollowing Records Merton, Wis., May 3, 1915. Freeman readers, and especially those who haveresided in Waukesha County, will find… Read more »

Moyes, John – Scotland / Wife Elizabeth Rodgers

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John Moyes Family   Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 09/16/2007 Descendants of John Moyes Generation No. 1 1. J OHN1 MOYES was born Abt. 1810 in Scotland, and died Bef. 1850 in Town of Lisbon, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, USA (Source: 1850 Federal Census, Not listed in 1850 Census, wife is head of house and a farmer.). He… Read more »

Elisha Pearl Family

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Elisha Pearl Family Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 03/17/2005 Descendants of Elisha Pearl Generation No. 1 1.ELISHA2 PEARL (RUFUS1) was born 07 Mar 1819in Ashford, Windham, Connecticut, and died 20 Nov 1896 in Town of Lisbon,Waukesha, Wisconsin. He married SARAH TROWBRIDGE Abt. 1841. She was born Abt.1820 in Ashton, Windham, Connecticut, and died 03 Feb 1896… Read more »

Pendergast aka Prendergast Family

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Michael H. Pendergast, a member of the Irish community that settled in the Lannon area and along Town Line Road in Lisbon, once owned the land where Willow Springs Mobile Home Court stands today on McLaughlin Road, 1½ blocks west of Town Line Road and Highway 74. According to the “Waukesha County 1894 Portrait and Biographical Record,” Michael was the… Read more »

Paul Pichler, Foreign-born Town of Lisbon Chairman

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Paul Pichler, a foreign-born former Lisbon Town Chairman Paul Pichler was born in Vienna, the capitol of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1895. He was already 60 years old when he was elected as Lisbon Town Chairman in April 1955 and 66 when he was voted out of the seat in 1961. He beat the longest ever serving Lisbon chairman, William… Read more »

Magnusson, John; aka Magnussen

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John Magnusson Family   Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly Last Revised 06/05/2005 Descendants of John Magnusson Generation No. 1 1.JOHN2 MAGNUSSON (AUGUST1) was born 26 Nov1876 in Sweden (Source: Retrospect, Sussex Sun, Fred Keller, Issue: Wednesday,May 25, 2005, page 16.), and died 01 Jan 1937 in Sussex, Waukesha, Wisconsin. Hemarried HILDA ELIZABETH ANDERSON (Source: Retrospect, Sussex Sun, Fred Keller,Issue:… Read more »

Manke – Stier Families

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Retrospect: Manke-Stier family played big role creating today’s Sussex-Lisbon By Fred Keller Sussex Sun, Posted: June 11, 2008 The Manke-Stier family were giants in the Sussex-Lisbon community of the 20th century. Their political contributions included time on the Lisbon, Sussex and school district boards and the 59 years the Manke trio of Art, Curt and Dick spent on the Waukesha… Read more »

Joe Marchese and Marchese Danceland

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Community icon Joe Marchese dies at 84 Former county supervisor, Lisbon firefighter By PETER ABBOTT Posted: Living Sussex Sun, Aug. 31, 2010 Town of Lisbon — Veteran civic activist and local businessman Joseph “Joe” Marchese of Lisbon, 84, died last Wednesday, Aug. 18. Marchese served on the Waukesha County Board for 26 years, from 1982-2008, and owned Marchese Danceland in… Read more »