Update to the Brick Wall of Johann Stumpf

I busted a brick wall!!

Background

In my third blog post, "This Side of the Brick Wall of Johann Stumpf," I lay out my journey to the brick wall of who are Johann Stumpf's parents.  I list my sources of information and what they tell me and lament the missing records that could solve my mystery.  I conclude with my best guess as to who are the parents of Johann Stumpf.

New Access to Archival Records

Snippet of map used to navigate to villages and their archive holdings in the Presentation of Church Register of the Archives of Vojvodina. Displayed in Cyrillic Serbian, lower left is Zrenjanin (Großbetschkerek); Klek is to the northeast, then Ravni Topolovac (Kathreinfeld) and Žitište (St. Georgen am Bega).

The Archives of Vojvodina has digitized the church books of the Vojvodina region, including Serbian Banat, and made them available online in their Presentation of Church Registers web portal.  You need to register to use the site and search the images, but it’s free to do so.  Also, currently, it is necessary to use their Cyrillic Serbian version, but Google Translate will put the page into English.  Oh, and I needed to turn off my touch screen capabilities in order to zoom in on the images.  The gap years still exist, but I am able to view all the pages myself and can gather all the Stumpf entries for my Database of Stumpfs in Kathreinfeld and Klek in the Banat.

Method for my Madness

In order to add Stumpf individuals to my RootsMagic database from St. Georgen, I went through all the Catholic church books available for the village, first the marriages, then the baptisms, then the deaths.  The years available for this village were roughly 1862 to 1895, with 1868-1869 and 1874-1880 missing.  I kept notes in Microsoft’s OneNote note taking program for each year I searched and the result.  I was able to construct a few families, add missing children, and connect children I had with their parents in my database.  I was also able to find the parents for Michael Rager who made an appearance in Benjamin Moore's book The Names of John Gergen (see post "A Book Review, Mike Rager & St. Louis Stumpfs").  I was pleased with myself and better understood how to navigate the website and the church books.

Getting Results

Then I moved on to Klek.  But instead of starting at 1850 and going through the books like I did for St. Georgen, I jumped to 1862 to see what was there.  I am looking for my Michael Stumpf, the son of Johann Stumpf and Katharina Hoffman, who was born around 1862 or 1863 as well as his parent’s marriage.  Katharina was from Klek, and Michael was born in Klek, but Johann is from Kathreinfeld as are Michael’s siblings, so the family settled there.  I have had researchers in Serbia look at the books a few years ago and they didn’t find him.  The solution was that Johann and Katharina must have been married and Michael born in Klek in the 1858-1861 gap years in which the church books are missing.

Well, I found no marriage in Klek for the couple in 1862 or 1863.  Jumping over to the baptisms - lo and behold, I find Michael, illegitimate son of Catharina Hoffman, born in 1863!  There he is right there!

Katharina and Johann weren’t married yet when Michael was born!!  Well, that explains why he wasn't found as the son of Johann Stumpf.

Now I’m excited and no way am I waiting.  I jump over to the Kathreinfeld church books, go to the marriage book for 1863, and bam! There they are.  And their parents are listed!!  Oh happy day!

So who are the parents of Johann Stumpf and Katarina Hoffman?  I made guesses, I looked at the families available and the known Johanns and Katarinas in the villages to puzzle out which ones were mine. 

But no, Johann’s parents listed in the marriage entry didn't make sense.  There was another Johann who married a Katharina Jenisch (another Katharina), who goes with these parents.  Could they have been two Johanns from that family? One after the other, or twins?  No, that doesn’t make sense.  I go to the marriage of the other Johann in the church book in the following year and find out he has been assigned to the wrong family in the Kathreinfeld family book!  Johann Stumpf who married Katharina Jenisch is the son of Johann Stumpf and Anna Maria Putz.

So there we have it.  My Johann is the son of Michael Stumpf and Margaretha Kollinger!  So now I can  track our exact lineage back to Melchior Stumpf who came to the Banat with his brother Jakob in 1764, and who came from Dörlesberg in Baden!

Katharina Hoffman is the daughter of Johann Hoffman and Marianna Salmon.  I thought this might be the right family for her out of the 3 eligible Katharina Hoffmans in Klek who were about the right age.  She's listed in the Lazarfeld & Klek family book [1] in her parents' family with some siblings, but the parents' parents weren't listed.  Here is my final note as I was puzzling it out: 

This is also probably the right Katharina because no decent info is given on the parents.  She'd fit right in.  :/

What's next?

I worked with limited scraps of information to puzzle out Michael's parents for 12 years, and then 5 more years for Johann's parents!  Seventeen years!? To paraphrase Inigo Montoya [2], I've been in the research business so long, now that it's over, I don't know what to do with the rest of my life. 

Well, maybe that's an exaggeration.

My RootsMagic Stumpf database is updated, straightening out the Johanns.  I'm committed to getting the Stumpf families all sorted.  Next steps are to go through the archive's records for Klek and Kathreinfeld, scouring them for Stumpf entries.  I'll note the corrections on the CompGen wiki page for corrections to the Kathreinfeld family book as appropriate, especially the families of the two Johanns.  I'll update my Stumpfs of Kathreinfeld and Klek online database as well and perhaps some of my blog posts.

My remaining big mystery is: when and where did their son, Michael Stumpf, die? Oh, and where was he when he was in the U.S. from 1907 until either he died or returned to Europe?

Footnotes:

[1] Kühn, Josef. Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Lazarfeld im Banat : und ihrer Filialen Klel (KkL.) und Jankahid (Jhd.): 1800-1834/1852. Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany: Josef Kühn und Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veröffentlichung Banater Familienbücher, 2004.

[2] Inigo Montoya is a character in The Princess Bride. If you didn't know this, please watch the movie, it's a classic.

This Side of the Brick Wall of Johann Stumpf

For this third installment, I’d like to lay out the evidence I have for this side of my Stumpf metaphorical brick wall.

Details on the Brick Wall that Sparked the Dive into the Stumpfs in the Kathreinfeld & Klek / Zrenjanin Region

I was lucky enough to get some copies of family papers that were brought from Europe in 1951. Among those papers was a birth certificate, if that is what you would call it, of Michael Stumpf born in 1898. His parents were Michael Stumpf from Klek and Theresia Ritter from Kathreinfeld.

Snippet of a document. Preprinted form in Hungarian print and filled out in German handwriting. A dark cross is on the page, the results of photocopying a taped up document.

There are two Kathreinfed family books, but little new information was revealed. One covers much earlier years 1795 to 1841 (for births & marriages) and to 1873 (for deaths), which didn’t come near the people I knew. The other family book covers much later years starting in 1893 (for births),1895 (for marriages) and 1915 (for deaths) to 1947. Michael and Theresia were in this later book.  Actually, it correctly added a daughter, Anna (born 1894, died 1896) to Michael and Theresia’s family, but it also had some misattributed information, including a son named Franz and Michael immigrating to New Jersey. That took some time and communication with the author to untangle [1]. The immigration to New Jersey actually belonged to a different younger Michael Stumpf and Franz was actually the son of a Nikolaus, a brother to this younger Michael. Since the church books are not available online, the only option I had to get more information was to have researchers in Serbia look at records in the archives, which I eventually did. Over a few years, two different researchers and a few requests yielded some useful information [2].

The first big break was the marriage record of Michael Stumpf and Theresia Ritter [3]:

Michael Stumpf and Theresia Ritter's marriage entry. Entry from church book no. 14; 1893 28. May, Michael Stumpf and Theresia Ritter.

The parents of Theresia Ritter are David Ritter and Magdalena Janzer! With this clue, I have tracked David Ritter’s family back through Nitzydorf to Fejér, Hungary. As for help with the Stumpf side, disappointingly, Michael’s parents are not listed. However, it turns out Michael was a widower and previously married to Klara Wolf. That was new information for me.  (Klara Wolf, what an awesome name!)

Some more searching in the archives finally found Klara’s death and their two youngest kids’ baptisms in Rudolfsgnad. And happily, their third child, Johann, born in Rudolfsgnad in 1889 had a note of the couple’s marriage date! (God bless you, Rudolfsgnad priest.) They married in Lazarfeld in 1887 and the researcher was able to find the record:

Michael Stumpf and Klara Wolf's Marriage Entry. 1887 May Marriage Entry from the Lazarfeld church book with Michael Stumpf, son of Johann Stumpf and Katarina Hoffmann, marrying Clarae Wolf.

Michael’s parents were Johann Stumpf and Katharina Hoffmann! 

Note that in both records, Michael’s birth place is Klek and his residence is Kathreinfeld.

The researchers in Serbia have not been able to find a marriage entry for Johann and Katharina in Kathreinfeld nor in Klek church books in the archives. Their marriage most likely took place in Klek. There is a gap in the Klek records for just about the time they’d be getting married and baptizing their son Michael. 

Mind the Gap

There are gaps in coverage of the family books for Lazarfeld, Kathreinfeld, and Klek. The mid 1800s are just missing from the compiled family books. Sadly, there are also gaps in the records in the archives. The Klek church books have been searched from 1862 to 1864, but there is a gap in the Klek records prior to that timeframe:1858 to 1862. Surely the gap records would include the marriage entry and Michael's baptism. The missing marriage entry is likely the only place the couple's parents are listed, so will I ever know Johann's parents’ names?  Finding a Johann Stumpf born about the right time definitely won’t be a slam dunk.

Honestly, I don’t understand the gap. Were the sacramental entries recorded and then destroyed or lost? For just those 5 years? It seems like that would be less than its own volume. Or was the church without a priest and a neighboring priest performed the sacraments either in Klek or in his home church? Would they then be recorded in the neighboring church? Or a visiting priest took the records with him? It’d be interesting to assess the church books in the archives with these questions in mind.  Sometimes I wonder what would be involved in volunteering to help compile a family book for Kathreinfeld!

Compiling the Family Groups

What I have concluded is that Johann and Katharina’s first son Michael was born in Klek (1861 to 1862, or maybe 1863) and then the family moved to Kathreinfeld and had more kids. With the help of the researchers, the entries for the rest of Johann and Katharina’s kids have been found in Kathreinfeld. I then found the couple and a few of their kids in the Großbetschkerek family book. It seems at some point the family moved from the village of Kathreinfeld to the city of Großbetschkerek.

This is the family group I have reconstructed for Johann STUMPF and Katharina HOFFMANN [4,5]:

STUMPF Johann 
  *abt 1838 Kathreinfeld                      †11 Dec 1919 Großbetschkerek 
  ꝏ 
  HOFFMANN Katharina 
  *abt 1843 Klek                              †21 May 1910 Großbetschkerek 
    1. Michael    *   abt 1862 Klek
    2. Barbara    *25 May 1865 Kathreinfeld    †16 Feb 1867 Kathreinfeld
    3. Margaretha *05 Feb 1867 Kathreinfeld
    4. Jakob      *26 Sep 1869 Kathreinfeld    †24 Jun 1879 Kathreinfeld
    5. Anna       *30 Aug 1871 Kathreinfeld    †02 Jan 1942 Großbetschkerek

    6. Michael    *06 Aug 1878 Kathreinfeld    †01 Mar 1923 Großbetschkerek

Here is the family group I have assembled for Michael, again with lots of help from local researchers [6]:

STUMPF Michael     Sv. Johann S. & Katharina HOFFMANN 
  *abt 1862 Klek 
  1.ꝏ 09 May 1887 Lazarfeld 
  WOLF Klara         Tv. Nikolaus W. & Elisabeth Eck 
   *abt 1865 Lazarfeld                         †19 Oct 1892 Rudolfsgnad
    1. Josef      *   abt 1887 ?Lazarfeld
    2. Eva        *10 Feb 1888 ?Elisenhain     †28 Nov 1918 Großbeschkerek
                                or Torntalvarsarhely
    3. Johann     *25 Dec 1889 Rudolfsgnad
    4. Marianna   *11 Jul 1892 Rudolfsgnad     †22 Aug 1892 Rudolfsgnad 
  2.ꝏ 28 May 1893 Kathreinfeld 
  RITTER Theresia    Tv. David R. & Magdalena JANZER 
  *02 Sep 1868 Kathreinfeld
    1. Anna       *24 Sep 1894 Kathreinfeld    †02 Nov 1896 Kathreinfeld

    2. Michael    *27 Dec 1898 Kathreinfeld    †21 Feb 1936 Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Michael and Klara's first two kids, Josef and Eva, are listed in the 100-year anniversary book for Rudolfsgnad as being born in Lazarfeld in 1883 and 1885, respectively. The book listed residents by house in 1891. However, no baptismal record was found in Lazarfeld and these dates seem too early. On Eva’s marriage record in Großbetschkerek, apparently her birth date is listed and her birth location is listed as Torntalvarsarhely or Elisenhain. I haven't seen the original church records for her marriage nor been successful in finding records for these two villages in the right time frame.  I haven’t found Josef anywhere other than the Rudolfsgnad anniversary book. Therefore these birth dates and locations are not confirmed.

I did find  Michael and Klara's third child, Johann, in Budapest as a barber.  His godfather was a barber, so that must have led to an apprenticeship.  Johann was in the marriage records in Budapest and named in the deaths of his daughter and first wife.

Thus My Brick Wall

The brick wall I am stuck with: the parents of the elder Johann Stumpf as well as the parents of Katharina Hoffman. You can see, dear reader, the seemingly small hurdle I needed to overcome that led me to start the collection of all the Stumpf families discussed in the first and second installment of this blog.

Based on the results of the accumulation of Stumpf families, I assume I connect with Melchior Stumpf, whose descendants went to Kathreinfeld.

The only promising candidate to come out of this project is a Johann who was born in 1841 to Johann [Michael] Stumpf and Anna Maria Putz. Other possibilities are that Johann was actually born after 1841, which is outside the coverage of the Kathreinfeld family book and church records available through FamilySearch, or he was baptized elsewhere.

After all this extensive research, can I declare I have met the Genealogical Proof Standard of reasonably exhaustive search and declare this candidate Johann born in 1841 as the Johann with estimated birth of 1838 who married Katharina Hoffman? I still feel like I don’t have a strong enough linchpin to connect the two sides.  What more do I need to feel confident?

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Footnotes

[1] I recently reviewed my correspondence from 2006 with the author of the Kathreinfeld family book, Roswitha Egert.  In one of her e-mails, she gave me a rough outline of the origins of the Stumpf surname in this area and introduced me to the idea of several villages full of Stumpfs (my words).

[2] The two researchers in Serbia were Marta Istvan and Staša Cvetković.

[3] Michael Stumpf and Theresia Ritter are my 2xgreat-grandparents, in case you’re wondering.

[4] I'm using the format used in the family books, including the German abbreviation Sv for "Son of" and Tv for "Daughter of"; * is birth; ꝏ is marriage; † is death.  I am using the abbreviation "abt." for about instead of the German "um."

[5] Sources for Johann’s family:

1. Marco Leitl and Rudolph Müller, compilers, Familienbuch der katholischen pfarrgemeinde der stadt Gross Betschkerek im Banat: 1753-1945, 2 volumes (Munich: M. Leitl, 2016), v. 2, p. 1965. 

2. Katalinfalvai Registry District, (Austria-Hungary), Mihaly Stumpf birth certificate (1898 birth), issued 1910, citing no. 89;, photocopy of the original taken 2003. Certificate form in Hungarian and filled out by hand. 

3. Engber, Friedrich, translator, Katalinfalvai Registry District, (Austria-Hungary), Michael Stumpf birth certificate (1898 birth), issued 1910, citing no. 89; translated into German in 1940, photocopy of the original taken 2003. 

4. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), Marriages, vol. unknown, p. 91, no. 14, Michael Stumpf & Theresia Ritter, Marriage (1893); Historic Archive of Zrenjanin, Zrenjanin, Serbia. 

5. Hans Repp, Familienbuch der Gemeinde Lazarfeld im Banat: ungarisch - Lázárföld, serbisch - Lazarevo. (Villingen-Schwenningen: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veröffentlichung Banater Familienbücher, 2008), 462. 

6. Philipp Lung, Familienbuch der Gemeinden Deutsch-Etschka, Sigmundfeld, Rudolfsgnad im Banat: mit Geschichte de Besiedlung von Reiner Schlotthauer (1999), CD-ROM, Familienbuch Rudolfsgnad im Banat: CD A (Villingen-Schwenningen: P. Lung, 2001), Entry #1822. 

7. Philipp Lung, Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Rudolfsgnad im Banat: ungarisch: Rezsőháza - serbisch: Knicanin (Villingen-Schwenningen: P. Lung, 2011), 600. 

8. "Passenger Record," database with images, Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation (https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ : viewed 20 April 2018), manifest, S.S. Finland, October 1907, p. 48, line 14, Michael Stumpf, age 44. 

9. Catholic Church (Lazarfeld/Lazarevo), unknown volume, page not numbered, No. 8, Michael Stumpf & Klara Wolf (1887); Arhiv Vojvodine (Archive of Vojvodina), Novi Sad, Serbia. 

10. Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kis-Kun, Budapest (X. Kerület), Házasultak [Marriages], 1924-1926, János Stumpf & Eszter Lőrinczi, 1926, no. 69; digitized microfilm images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 2 May 2020); Archiv der Stadt Budapest (Archive of the City), Hungary. 

11. Josef Queiser, compiler, Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Kathreinfeld-St. Georgen a/Bega (und ihrer Filialen): im jugoslawischen Banat 1795-1841/1873 (Sindelfingen, Germany: Arbeitskreis Donauschwäbischer Familienforscher (AKdFF), 1997), 432, Family no. 3186. 

12. Római Katólikus Egyház [Roman Catholic Church] (Katalinfalva, Torontál, Hungary), Church Books, Vol. IIa, 409, No. 15, Barbara Stumpf, 1867; digitized FHL microfilm 1190308, accessed 18 Jul 2018. 

13. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), Baptisms, unknown volume, unknown page. 

14. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), unknown volume, unknown page. 

15. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), unknown volume, p23. 

16. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), unknown volume, 49. 

17. Leitl and Müller, Familienbuch der katholischen pfarrgemeinde der stadt Gross Betschkerek im Banat, v. 2, p. 1965. 

18. Leitl and Müller, Familienbuch der katholischen pfarrgemeinde der stadt Gross Betschkerek im Banat, v. 2, p. 1686. 

19. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), unknown volume, 138.

[6] Sources for Michael’s family:

1. Katalinfalvai Registry District, (Austria-Hungary), Mihaly Stumpf birth certificate (1898 birth), issued 1910, citing no. 89; photocopy of the original taken 2003. Certificate form in Hungarian and filled out by hand. 

2. Engber, Friedrich, translator, Katalinfalvai Registry District, (Austria-Hungary), Michael Stumpf birth certificate (1898 birth), issued 1910, citing no. 89; translated into German in 1940, photocopy of the original taken 2003. 

3. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), Marriages, vol. unknown, p. 91, no. 14, Michael Stumpf & Theresia Ritter, Marriage (1893); Historic Archive of Zrenjanin, Zrenjanin, Serbia. 

4. Hans Repp, Familienbuch der Gemeinde Lazarfeld im Banat: ungarisch - Lázárföld, serbisch - Lazarevo. (Villingen-Schwenningen: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veröffentlichung Banater Familienbücher, 2008), 462. 

5. Philipp Lung, Familienbuch der Gemeinden Deutsch-Etschka, Sigmundfeld, Rudolfsgnad im Banat: mit Geschichte de Besiedlung von Reiner Schlotthauer (1999), CD-ROM, Familienbuch Rudolfsgnad im Banat: CD A (Villingen-Schwenningen: P. Lung, 2001), Entry #1822. 

6. Philipp Lung, Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Rudolfsgnad im Banat: ungarisch: Rezsőháza - serbisch: Knicanin (Villingen-Schwenningen: P. Lung, 2011), 600. 

7. "Passenger Record," database with images, Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation (https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ : viewed 20 April 2018), manifest, S.S. Finland, October 1907, p. 48, line 14, Michael Stumpf, age 44. 

8. Catholic Church (Lazarfeld/Lazarevo), unknown volume, page not numbered, No. 8, Michael Stumpf & Klara Wolf (1887); Arhiv Vojvodine (Archive of Vojvodina), Novi Sad, Serbia. 9. Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kis-Kun, Budapest (X. Kerület), Házasultak [Marriages], 1924-1926, János Stumpf & Eszter Lőrinczi, 1926, no. 69; digitized microfilm images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 2 May 2020); Archiv der Stadt Budapest (Archive of the City), Hungary. 

10. Roman Catholic Church (Rudolfsgnad/Knićanin), Vol. 2, p. 102, no. 174, Joannes Stumpf, 1889; Istorijski Arhiv Zrenjanin (Historical Archive in Zrenjanin), Zrenjanin, Serbia. 

11. Johann Kirchner, Monographie der Gemeinde Rudolfsgnad: im Torontaler Comitate in der aufgelösten Militärgrenze (Grossbecskerek, Austria-Hungary: 1891; reprint, Villingen-Schwenningen: Heimartortsgemeinschaft (HOG) Rudolfsgnad & P. Lung, 2007), 124. 

12. Repp, Familienbuch der Gemeinde Lazarfeld im Banat, 462. 

13. Roman Catholic Church (Rudolfsgnad), Church Books, Vol. 6, p. 24. 

14. Marco Leitl and Rudolph Müller, compilers, Familienbuch der katholischen pfarrgemeinde der stadt Gross Betschkerek im Banat: 1753-1945, 2 volumes (Munich: M. Leitl, 2016), v. 2: p. 2178. 

15. Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kis-Kun, Budapest (VIII. Kerület), Házasultak [Marriages], (nov.) 1919-1920 (dec.), János Stumpf & Mária Anna Bécsi, 1919, no. 4047; digitized microfilm images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 5 January 2021); Archiv der Stadt Budapest (Archive of the City), Hungary. 

16. Roman Catholic Church (Rudolfsgnad), Church Book Vol. 2, p. 147. 

17. Lung, Familienbuch der katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Rudolfsgnad im Banat, 600. 

18. Roman Catholic Church (Rudolfsgnad), Church Books, Vol. 6, p. 22. 

19. Heiligen Antonius von Padua [St. Anthony of Padua] Catholic Church (Kathreinfeld, Torontal, Austria-Hungary), Baptisms, p. 10, no. 88. 

20. Roswitha Egert, compiler, Familienbuch der katholischen pfarrgemeinde Kathreinfeld im Banat: 1893/1895/1915-1947 (Teil 2) (Villingen-Schwennigen: Herausgegeben von der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veröffentlichung Banater Familienbücher (AVBF), 2006), 272, Family No. S 368. 

21. Bulgăruș, Timiș Torontal, Romania, birth certificate (1918), Martin Dominic Stumpf, no. 10, Issued 1937, photocopy of the original taken 2003. Certificate form in Romanian and filled out by hand accompanied by an undated translation into handwritten German. 

22. Ehre Maria Himmelfahrt [Assumption of Mary] Catholic Church (Bulgăruș,Romania), Michael Stumpf and Katharina Hof marriage certificate (1917 marriage), issued 1940, citing Vol. V, p. 52, no. 300, photocopy of the original taken 2003. Certificate form in Latin, Romanian, German, and Hungarian and filled out by hand mostly in German. 

23. California, San Diego Department of Health Services, death certificate no. 8000, 1983, Martin Dominick Stumpf, photocopy of the original taken 2003 

 24. "Passenger Lists: Quebec City (1925-1935)," digitized microfilm of manifests, Library and Archives Canada (www.bac-lac.gc.ca : accessed 31 December 2016), Manifest, S.S. Montcalm, June 1929, p. 42, line 14, Mihal Stumpf, age 30. 

25. Ewald Spang, compiler, Familienbuch der Katholischen Pfarrgemeinde Bogarosch im Banat, 1768-2008, 2 volumes (Aschaffenburg, Germany: HOG Bogarosch, 2008), 2:249. 

26. "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947," database with images, FamilySearch, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKNV-B51 : 11 December 2014), Michael Stumpf, 21 Feb 1936; citing Windsor, Essex, Ontario, 014904, Archives of Ontario, Toronto; FHL microfilm 2,425,865. 

27. "Michael Stumpf," obituary, The Windsor (Ontario, Canada) Star, 21 February 1936; digitized images, Newspapers.com (newspapers.com : accessed 6 June 2019).