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  FATHER
Christoph Friedrich Bissinger
  MOTHER
Catharina Schud
 
  Christoph Frederick Bissinger  
BIRTH: Mar 1836, Baden, Germany
BAPTISM:
IMMIGRATION:
NATURALIZATION: 07 Sep 1868, New York, NY
DEATH: 10 Mar 1910, Manhattan, NY
BURIAL:

SPOUSE: Catharina Klecher, b. 1835-1836, NY
MARRIAGE: abt. 1861, probably New York City

SPOUSE: Katherine Schepple, b. Jan 1838, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany
MARRIAGE: 1879, NY

BISSINGER DESCENDANT CHART
 
           Children

Barbara Bissinger
Friedrich
George Bissinger
Caroline Bissinger
William Bissinger
SOURCES
Census

1870 Frederick Bissinger, New York City, Ward 11, NY
1880 Fredk Bissinger, Manhattan, NY, ED272
1900 Christ. F. Bessinger, Manhattan, NY, ED232 [Frederick C. Bissinger]
1900 George Bissinger, Bronx, NY, ED 1015 [William Bissinger]
1900 Mary Bissinger, Bronx, NY, ED 1017 [widow of Friedrich George Bissinger]
1910 Katie Bissinger, Manhattan, Ward 17, NY, ED915(?) [widow of Frederick C. Bissinger]

Birth / Christening
22 May 1867, Friedrich [George] Bissinger, Christening: 12 Aug 1867 First German Presbyterian Church, Rivington St., NY; parents: Friedrich Bissinger and Catharina Klecher

NYC Births
Henry G. Bissinger 13 Dec 1892 207 Births Reported in Jan., 1893. [probably George Bissinger, son of George and Mary Bissinger]
Louisa Bissinger 31 Jan 1896 6156 Births Reported in February, 1896. [possibly daughter of George and Mary Bissinger]

Marriages
1879, Christoph F. Bissinger and Catherine Schoepples, Manhattan, New York, NY, Certificate No.  6221
18 Oct 1879, Christoph Friedrich Bissinger and Catharina Fischer Scholpplis, Manhattan, New York, NY, [familysearch.org]

01 May 1892, [Friedrich] George Bissinger and Mary Nehse; Manhattan, NY; Parents: Fred. Bissinger and Katie Schepple

18 FEB 1806 CHRISTOPH BISSINGER  & ANNA CATHARINA SCHAD, Evangelisch, Kurnbach, Karlsruhe, Baden [may be the marriage of Friedrich's parents.]

Death
14 Mar 1910, Bissinger, Christopher, Manhattan, Certificate: 8630
29 Jan 1900, [Friedrich] George Bissinger; Age: 32 y; Certificate: 1877 [son of Frederick C. Bissinger]
17 Mar 1923, Fredricka Bissinger, age 85 yrs, Manhattan, Cerficiate #8691

Directory
1890, New York City
Bissinger Christian, shoes, 264 W. 35th
Bissinger Frederick C. shoemkr. h 521 Sixth
Bissinger George, h 203 Forsyth

Naturalization:
Frederick Bissinger
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BIOGRAPHY
Frederick C. Bissinger was born in Baden, Germany, and stated he immigrated in 1861, but he probably came earlier as this was the year he married Catharina Klecher, the mother of his four children. She must have died in the 1870s as he married second, in 1879, Catherine Schepple / Schoepples.

The names of Friedrich's parents comes from this marriage record sited on familysearch.org.

Frederick went by various combinations of names. His second marriage record gives his name as Christoph F. Bissinger. The 1870 and 1880 censuses lists him as Frederick, and in 1900 he is Christ F. Bissinger. There is no doubt these are all the same man, especially as they lived on the same block of 6th Street in both 1880 at 521 6th St., in 1900 at 524 6th St., and in 1910 his widow "Katherina" was still living at this address.  Also, in all censuses he is a shoe maker. Frederick's second wife Katherine was probably Frederica Catherine as in 1900 she is enumerated as Frederick C. Bissinger, and we have a death record for a Fredrick Bissinger that matches her birth year.

Frederick Bissinger and Catherina Klecher had four children, Barbara Bissinger b. abt. 1864, Frederick George Bissinger, b. 22 May 1867, Caroline Bissinger b. abt. 1868, and William Bissinger. It would appear from the 1900 census that only two of the children were still living.

Friedrich's son George Bissinger was born 22 May 1867, and was christened as "Friedrich Bissinger" in the First German Presbyterian Church on Rivington St. He married Mary Nehse [possibly Nehes] May 1, 1892. He lived in the Bronx and passed away January 29, 1900, leaving his widow Mary with two children, a son George b. Dec. 1892, and a daughter born January or June 1896. Mary Nehse may have been the daughter of Frederic and Margaret Nehls / Nehes found in the 1880 census in Manhattan. Frederic Nehls was a cabinet maker, born in Mecklenburg.
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