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| Amalie Neumann Haizinger 1845 |
The documents that I had related to Carlos Neumann provided some additional clues. First, a letter of recommendation in the consular documents from the Prussian State Archives noted that Carlos was said to have a sister in Bremen and a brother who was an "...adjutant to Imperial-Royal Landwehr Feld Marshall Radetsky"1. Second, both the article in the economics journal described in that post2 and several of the consular documents noted the destruction of Carlos Neumann's business by the Spanish during the occupation of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Restoration War (1863-65)3. Finally, another note from Carlos to the foreign office in January 1868 indicated that he was in Germany at that time for his health, and could be reached at the address of Anton Haizinger in Karlsruhe4. Corroboration of these items would indicate that they were in fact the same person.
As I said in my last post, in addition to having three children by her first husband, Amelie and Anton Haizinger did have a son together, Anton Ludwig Paul Sigmund Haizinger (known as Anton, or Toni). Toni did join the army and is listed in 1840 as a Rittmeister II Class or Staff Captain in the cavalry. In 1870 he was listed as a Commandant des Dragoons5. The article Memories of the Gabillon couple and Amalie Haizinger discussed chats with Amalie in 1860 where they said "She told us about her son, her Toni, the young cavalry officer in Vienna, the great Radetzky's adjutant."6 I can't confirm the part about his connection to the hero Joseph Radetzky von Radetz who died in 1858 in Milan, but young Anton did have a distinguished military career being listed as Unangestellte Titular-Feldmarschall-Lieutenante ( Retired titular Lieutenant Field Marshal) in 18857.
The final confirmation is found in the autobiography written in the form of a letter to her children by Amalie's daughter, Louise, Countess Schönfeld -Neumann. 9 By 1860 when Louise wrote the letter mentioning her siblings, Amalie's daughter Adolphine had died8, but Louise, Karl Neumann's sister, had married Karl, Graf Schönfeld, and did live in Bremen. In addition, in the autobiography, Louise wrote nearly a page about a visit from her brother Karl, who she had not seen for the past fifteen years and who was now the Austrian and Prussian consul in Puerto Plata. This portion of her narrative is noted as occurring in 1851, but I believe that she conflated several visits of his as she mentions not only his health problems but also the destruction of his business by the Spanish during the war that didn't take place until 1863-65, and his death which didn't occur until1873. His last visit mentioned was to "...Karlsruhe, where he stayed for the same reason he usually stayed in Europe." while also visiting various spas over the years in an attempt to regain his health.
By tying all of these various documents together, I was able to show that Carlos Luis Neumann of Puerto Plata Dominican Republic was the Carl Ludwig Neumann, son of Carl Ludwig Neumann (1786-1923) and Amalie Morstadt (1799-1884) of Karlsruhe, Baden Wurtemberg. I could also push the family tree back two generations! Carl Ludwig (Sr.) was the son of Carl Ludwig Neumann (b. abt 1756) and Charlotte Wilhelmine Sophia Epien (b. abt. 1760)10. Amelie was the daughter of Georg Michael Morstadt (1763-1842) and Fredricka Jacobina Fastert (sp?) (1774-1822)11.
Hooray for following up on unusual sources!
1. Letter in Royal Prussian Archives: Bremen 24 June 1853 from Fredtd Uelm, the Royal Prussian Consul, to The Royal Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, translated by Nina Gafni.
2. "Donation de Capital de la Sociedad Rural Dominicana en el Siglo XIX Segunda Parte” by Manfred Wilckens. Ciencia Y Sociedad, Voumen XXVII, Numero 2 Abril-Junio 2002. Portions translated by Yanire Brana.
3. Geheimes Staatsarchiv PreuBischer Kulturbesitz. Zentrales Staatsarchiv Hist. Abt. 11 2.4.1. Abt. II Nr. 642 Vol. II vom Sep. 1845 bis December 1862. May 3, 1854. Translated by Nina Gafni
4. Letter January 1868 Carl Neumann. Geheimes Staatsarchiv PreuBischer Kulturbesitz. Zentrales Staatsarchiv Hist. Abt. 11 2.4.1. Abt. II Nr. 642 Vol. II vom Sep. 1845 bis December 1862. May 3, 1854. Translated by Nina Gafni5. Ancestry.com, Germany & Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers, 1600-1918 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Ancestry.com, Record for Anton Haizinger 1861
Rittmeister 1. Classe Haizinger Anton PSGO-R. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60667&h=3637639&indiv=try.
6. Anton Bettelheim, Viennese biographers. Vienna Literary Institute Vienna Leipzig 1921 “Memories of the Gabillon couple and Amalie Haizinger.” By Auguste Wilbrandt Baudius. https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/bettelhe/wienerbi/chap012.html Accessed 11/27/2022
7. Ancestry.com, Germany & Austria, Directories of Military and Marine Officers, 1600-1918 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Ancestry.com, Record for Anton Haizinger. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60667&h=3868268&indiv=try.
8. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfine_Neumann
9. Bettelheim-Gabillon Helene and Schönfeld Luise Neumann. Amalie Haizinger Gräfin Louise Schönfeld-Neumann: Biographische Blätter. C. Konegen (E. Stülpnagel) 1906. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/11390508.html. Accessed 20 June. 2022. Original from Harvard University. Translated by Nina Gafni
10. Ancestry.com, Germany, Select Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.com, Birth Record for Carl Ludwig Neumann, 1786, Berlin. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N6CF-R5S.
11. Ancestry.com, Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), Ancestry.com, Marriage Record for Georg Michael Morstedt. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61060&h=5512271&indiv=try.
